Generalized conjunction, matzoh, Kidd
So today, my officemate Justin was debugging Matlab code and asked me about the boolean and operator. I explained to him that you don’t write and but rather use &&. He then asked if he could do the following “a < b && !== c", where he meant that a is less that b and a is not equal to c. "No, Justin, Matlab doesn't do conjunction reduction." Not the funniest thing I've ever said, but given the day I've had, it was a lovely moment for me.
Also: Happy Passover! I just came back from my first seder which was so so much fun. I got to ask the four questions AND I found the afikoman. I reclined and somehow managed to have the four obligatory glasses of wine.
Lastly: Celeste is blogging again!
emma :: Apr.03.2007 :: misc, linguistics, programming, nerdiness :: 6 Comments »
I hope you’ve recovered!
Mazel tov on the seder. :-)
i always used to joke with my roommate that it was called the kofi annan
yay! i’m happy you had a good time at the seder. ;)
The Kofi Annan? I like it. My (non-Jewish but trying hard) wife calls it the “Abbie Hoffman”.
Raj (one of my roommates) also calls it the Kofi Annan. He was also the one who hid it :-P