My Time Has Come

Finally, the purely mathematical problems will be highlighted in the next three weeks of CS 175, starting with the Algebra and Arithmetic problems. I feel fairly confident about this portion - though discussions of the problems in the book makes me believe that there is a lot more to cover than is actually in the book.

Meeting later, class even later. Later.

Confidence Building

Hmmm... it seems like a larger part of my job currently is building confidence in using techniques, especially for proving and such. I hope to focus on that in the next meeting.

Gotta remember to upload the prospective schedule.

Whoops

Hmmm... either the seatwork was harder than it looked, or I botched teaching this part. Will find out more tomorrow.

Rushing Again

Hmmm... I really don't like sweating in this shirt - it sticks to you. Have yet to do the test data for tomorrow's set of CS 175 problems. Been playing around with Yahoo! and Google toolbars (both official and fanmade), but I don't like the way that they're exclusive to their lines, eating up precious browser room. Oh, well, must think about it when I have time. I like the fact that I can have buttons for Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Briefcase and Gmail, but don't like the way that you can't remove the search bars of either (and can't resize the Yahoo! one) and that I can't put them on the same row. Grrr. Also feel foolish for having two Google search bars. Maybe I'll change the Firefox Google bar to Dictionary permanently or something. Haven't done a Yahoo! search in a while, though, so that feels pointless.

Mustn't Forget

Clarify all the stat involved in getting the average case. Clarify that $F_n = \phi^n - \hat{\phi}^n$, and $0 < \hat{\phi} < 1$, so $\hat{\phi}^n \rightarrow 0$ as $n \rightarrow 0$.

\TeX ownz me. :P

Edit: Foolish, too. Can prove this: $\displaystyle F_0 = F_1 = 1\qquad F_n = \frac{\phi^n - \hat{\phi}^n}{\sqrt{5}}.

Sorting and Searching

So... you sort and search. Although not searching so much, 'cause that's covered in other topics. And the sorting involved noodles. And pancakes.

Right.

Poor, Poor MHR

I promise to try harder to read the topics ahead of time, so that my Monday class does not suffer. I hate having to try and catch up so much on Thursday. On the other hand, I'm nearly polished on Tuesday afternoons.

Is It Too Late?

Finally, after a month of putting it off, a schedule for CS 135 has been drafted. And it may be too late already. The three exams will barely have a month in between each, and I'm planning to dedicate a week of review for each of the exams, leaves me less than 4 weeks for each set of lectures. I was sort of playing around with the idea of letting the third part be reporting to match the last two problem sets, but there may not be enough time for that.

At least I know there's enough time for everything. Not much leeway for anything else - like goofing off.

Stat!

I need to brush up on my statistics for the probabilistic analysis involved in getting the average-case analysis of algorithms. I still think that the GCF worst-case of two consecutive Fibonacci numbers is a nice touch, but I have to to tighten the arguments.

Struggling Against the Clock

With the amount of struggling going on, I'll end up being a protest leader.