Quinito Henson on Japeth Aguilar and Rico Maierhofer

Quinito Henson on Japeth Aguilar and Rico Maierhofer:

But in a one-on-one duel, it’s not certain that Aguilar can make mincemeat of Maierhofer. In fact, the betting is Maierhofer won’t make it easy for Aguilar and might just win. Maierhofer is familiar with the Filipino style of play – fans like to call it “abilidad” – while Aguilar has still some catching up to do.

Riiiggghhhttt...

Suuurrreee...

Okaayyyy...

Leave me alone, Twitter bots!

I have encountered Twitter bots that have either followed me, retweeted (RT'd) my tweet, or mentioned/replied my tweet. If I correctly understand how they work, these bots search tweets for buzz words.

For example, a_transformers RT'd my tweet about a Transformers joke (the one I shared in an earlier post). It's obviously a bot: it searches and retweets every five minutes (look at the timestamps on its posts).

A couple of days ago, I posted about emailing Microsoft regarding Windows 7. Then, I immediately get followed by these accounts virtually simultaneously.



A more clever bot is shakesp. It searches the Twitterverse for the expression "To [some string] or not to [some string]".

And then there's the marketing creeps.

I could make my tweets protected but then they wouldn't show up on the sidebar. I'll just block the bots, then.

Transformers 2!

I liked the robot fighting scenes in Transformers 2. They were awesome! (Nevermind the story. It was the same way with Speed Racer: the racing scenes were exhilirating but the story itself was so-so).

Optimus Prime + Jetfire = imba! The fusion totally dominated Fallen (unimaginative name, btw), much so that it felt like cheating. It was similar to using a cheat code or a Gameshark in order to beat the final boss in a video game.

Most memorable line was: "I am directly under the enemy's scrotum." LOL

Finally, let me share a Transformers math joke c/o joshz in this post on the xkcd forums. :-)

Programming stupidity

I wrote a program in Scilab that computes the (theoretical) bond price of a bond given the required parameters. After successfully doing that, I tried writing a function to solve for ytm (bond yield daw sabi ni John Hull) using bisection method. Hindi gumagana. Ang tagal kong pinag-isipan kung ano mali. Tweak-tweak ng code. Ayaw pa rin. Nag-manual bisection method pa ako sa Scilab console. Matagal yun kasi linear lang yung convergence ng method. Huhu :-(

Tapos, ang kulang lang pala ay yung expression for root guesses:

p = 0.5*(a+b)

STUPID!

Room cleaning

Nagtambak ang papel sa kwarto ko. Four years' worth of readings. Kaya nilinis ko. Tiningnan ko kung ano yung magagamit na scratch paper: Yung walang sulat sa isang side at kasinglaki ng short bond (o mas malaki pa). Itatapon ko yung hindi pumasa sa criteria na yan.


Paper to be discarded



To be used as scratch paper

Yan pa lang yung nasa drawers ko. Meron pa sa cabinet. Hehe. Pero ok lang. Marami akong masusulatan ng math stuff.

Taylor combo

Reading about the Taylor series expansion of

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This, while listening to Taylor Swift.

A happy combination. :-)

This week: June 22-27

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen! But I might postpone viewing until the following week. There's sure to be huge crowds at the movie houses and I don't like huge crowds.

In related news, Wikipedia apparently has the plot of the movie. Don Michael gave me the link.

Our brief YM conversation:

[caption id="attachment_40" align="alignnone" width="309" caption="Don Michael sending me a link to Transformers 2 movie plot"][/caption]

Hindi ko bubuksan yan bago panoorin yung pelikula!

DLT moved our derivatives class to MWF. More screwing around with our schedule. As a result, (1) I don't get to eat free lunch at home. (2) I'll have to wait three hours between classes on MWF. Whatever.

Prof Roden David is set to lecture for a month. It's supposed to be a continuation of Prof Kaber's lectures on numerical methods in solving PDEs. So this should be fun. And I'm not being sarcastic here.

BTW, was Roden David really a former Ateneo basketball player? I haven't found out yet. I'm afraid to ask him.