Wednesday morning
So I arrive at 9:15 having walked with ap down Union st and by around 9:45 I know the pressure is now on to actually do some work, rather than the usual procrastination I usually serve up. I go through CS 3012 filespace to notice a ex1 file and work out how to print it out.; gone are the reams of print outs with the customer long gone. You have to sent your job to the printer computer and then print it. A mulitude of problems thus ironed out. Ahh the modern way of studying.
A nice enough woman angles to get my attention but I smile and get on with my task; I note shes the same one as the other day. Thinking now, I ought to make more of an effort to return the gesture; there again, the library is meant to be a place where that doesnt need to happen. whatever.
So I start on the mini assignment (not assessed I believe) and immediately have to look up what is meant by |x|. Naturally enough I go straight down a side alley (very wide if you do hilbert spaces), interesting but inconsequential; and examine elucidian spaces; later I discover |x| is the length of the string, rather than absolute value or distance. I note the monoids in passing and check out communicativity (mn=nm) and associativity (a+(b+c) = (a+b)+c) and glance over distributivity ( a*(b+c) = a*b + a*c ). The empty string is analysed and by around 10:45 I have two answers and a third that seduces me to greater curiosity.
3. what is the relationship between |uv|, |u| and |v| ?
plus another 3 that create a sensation of puzzlement.
So, the CSD account is available, so off to the helpdesk I go and get my login details. At last. To the meston 4 room and a lecture which I had read 2 months previously during my long vacation was issued and then another, the AI introduction on the other side of the building in another very large room and I was done.
I then ate my sandwiches in the sun and began a hard suduko with a large baby seagull to feed, eager for bread. I came to a fulll stop with the hard SD and went for a 10 min lie down. I got a another coffee and came to here to do this.
First I try to play jin (freechess java client) and it tells me java is not installed, amazing since java is taught using these machines, and I consider java games, or just that site, is blocked. Maybe elsewhere will feed my addiction to chess, something that contributed to my procrastination and thus failure at sussex. I failed at surrey to boot, but I had other things then to procrastinate with.
So during this type out I drank my cappacino and feeling not so tired, not so perky but comfortable that I can be more aware of whats happened today, reflection is a good thing.
Now; how do I solve a question like:
4. State a necessary and sufficient condition on T for T* to be finite. If T* is finite, list its members.
