The derivative of e^x is just e^x again. That's kind of like giving birth to yourself, a very difficult event to achieve, and one that would get you major tabloid coverage.

I'm a bit stupid. Every now and then (by which I mean a total of two times), I take a class and I just don't get it. I'm just sitting there in class not understanding anything and it's so unnerving. I think it's just some sort of denial-based mental barrier that I develop occasionally. Thankfully, in both cases, I've managed to figure things out just in time to avoid disaster. It was worst with a Math class last year in which I actually failed a midterm, but this time my luck's been better. I managed to get my act together for this probability class and now it doesn't feel like a two hundred ton deadweight hanging over my head. I even managed to score respectably over the mean on the midterm and would've done even better if I actually knew how to do differentiation :-þ.

Anyway, this week has probably been one of the smoother, less busy ones. There's no homework due tomorrow as usual, so I'm relaxing a bit, but there is the huge - and I mean, positively gargantuan - CS project that I have to do along with three other people. Yes, it's big enough to need a team of four people, working in a very object-oriented manner with fancy shmancy stuff like CVS repositories and everything. I have to make a basic language parser and execution system by Friday night. Unfortunately, I've taken on some other stuff also - programming stuff - one for my regular job and one for a Student Initiated Courses group, and they need to be finished too. But they should all be good, practical learning experiences. Ah, programming… how I both love and hate you.

Anyway, this is a cool video to checkout, especially if you're Indian (it's not comedy or anything, more patriotic stuff):


Happy March! Oh, and also Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快乐！进步学业！

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The elephant is so good!

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To anyone who visits this place regularly, appearances might suggest that indeed, I have stopped blogging. And it would be a fair judgment. Unfortunately, it's not true. I have started that blog that I thought of starting a little while ago - the one that was anonymous and unknown to all the people I know in this world. And I have been writing detailed entries on it with the highest regularity. I'd say seven massive entries in about nine days, totaling about four thousand written words (most in English). I can tell this anonymous blog anything I like and be sure that it will not judge because, it is, after all, just a fraking blog. It's like the friend I never had. Of course, unlike a friend, it doesn't think and talk and so offers little reassurance or company, but writing out precisely what's on my mind does bring some sort of relief. It's like a pensieve - let's just put it that way. And to boot, I don't bother re-reading to fix errors because, heck, no one's reading. It's convenient.

In other news, well, there is no other news. Except that the goal towards five hundred posts might be approached with extreme slowness due to the fact that I will only be writing one of perhaps ten or twenty entries here instead of there.

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