Well, the semester has started - [knock on wood] positively…
Doing theory of computation (חישוביות), Switching Systems, OS, and the advanced gfx course this semester.
Computation is awesome, Orna is an amazing lecturer and the course text is really fun to read.
The advanced graphics course is similarly amazing - we talked about Morphing in the first lecture, and have now moved on to cloth simulation - turns out having a background in physics can be helpful in CS at times…
Apart from that, been playing around with cocoa quite a bit recently - its one of the most enjoyable programming environments I’ve encountered to date. Very elegant, very mature, and most importantly - fun to develop for…
Also, set up an Ubuntu box with on old iMac someone gave me. Thought it might not be the most hardcore h4X0r linux distribution, Ubuntu “gets the job done” - it’s up to date, stable and things just work. which is something that has been a bit lacking in other distros I’ve tried…
