I'm writing this in mozilla.. I like it a lot; but I'd like
it better if it used a native widget set, rather than their
own silly stuff. The html (is that right) dialogs are
excellent though.
Finished writing the
philosophy
essay which will count for much of my final mark in that
class. Thanks to everyone on gimpnet who helped out with
critcism and proofreading! I've got more imaginary cookies
any time you like.
Feeling better about not having time to do any
work
on fun
projects like
entity.
Got to talk to
slow
yesterday and even
if I'm not doing anything, I got to talk as though I was.
During the IRC session where I was selling my
imaginary
cookies for proofreading, I got into a talk with a guy in
#ai on EFNet who told me that real, thinking AI had been
done back in 1977 by Roger Schank in a program called SAM.
He also managed to fit in some conspiracy theories about the
government and universities hiding it from us. And, on top
of all that, he works for
Microsoft
(yes, I checked this)..
Wow. What a night. :)
After reading
Graydon's
web pages again,
I've borrowed
"Introduction to functional programming with Haskell" from
the library. Already, near page 30, my brain is fried.
Haskell (and functional languages, i suppose) are for people
who know their math. I'm going to stick it out though,
because I can see some of the advantages it has.. plus,
"Haskell" will look good on a resume when everyone else is
putting down "JavaScript". Chuckle.
So that's about it. Oh, set up MySQL and some
python
scripts
for a database for a friend. He'd been struggling for weeks
trying to get their database web-ified.. hoo boo, that guy
has got to learn to stop biting off more then he can chew..
he always bullshits himself into situations like this. Oh
well; it was fun getting used to MySQL and writing simple
brute force python scripts.
Wrote a better CSV parser than the csv module in
the
vaults
of parnassus. Will upload it if anyone reminds me to.