{"id":1315,"date":"2013-12-31T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2013-12-31T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T01:07:00","slug":"2013-year-in-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/2013-year-in-reverse\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Year in Reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear reader, as another year comes to a close, it is perhaps wise that we should take a few moments to reflect on what we learned here at An Algorithmic Lucidity<\/em> in 2013\u2014the year that was!<\/p>\n

In the year 2013, this blog saw 103<\/em> posts and (at press time) 40<\/em> comments. Among these\u2014<\/p>\n

We heard a poem about why you should hire me<\/a>. We surveyed a few numbers between 0 and 1<\/a>. (Friend of the blog Grognor<\/a> told me that the funniest part was the explicit disclaimer that the list was non-exhaustive. I replied that not everyone knows about the diagonalization argument<\/a>\u2014but considering this blog's, um, selective<\/em> audience, maybe my readers do\u2014all five<\/em> of you!) We mentioned some hidden costs of talking about stuff<\/a>. We noted that some words have substrings which are other words<\/a>. I wrote a series about my experiences studying web development at App Academy<\/a> (9<\/a> 8<\/a> 7<\/a> 6<\/a> 5<\/a> 4<\/a> 3<\/a> 2<\/a> 1<\/a>). I pasted my first attempt at an OKCupid profile<\/a>. We observed that I'm a moron<\/a>. Books arrived in the post<\/a>. We mused on the nature of personhood<\/a> and implemented some classic algorithms: the Ford-Fulkerson technique somewhat clumsily in Ruby<\/a>, quicksort in the form of a letter to a fictional horse<\/a>, and Huffman coding in Python<\/a>. We lamented the nature of existence<\/a>, noticed the non-observance of an unusual tradition<\/a>, and heard a poem about watching a motion picture by someone you met at university<\/a>. Three problems with unsolicited advice<\/a> were discussed, as was the role of bases in the theory of vector spaces<\/a>, and the subjective indistinguishability of propaganda and other forms of instruction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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So that was 2013 in the year of our Common Era. But what, I hear you ask (both<\/em> of you who clicked through after the break), what about twenty-four<\/em>teen? Having considered the year that was, what of the year that hasn't yet? What is your faithful correspondent thinking about writing ("thinking about writing")<\/a>? Well, without giving too much away\u2014and, come to think of it, without much of a track record of successfully predicting my future behavior\u2014I'll say to expect more computer-scientific contrivances and more detailed fiction, but probably somewhat fewer overall posts (this last partially because I'm going to be busy contributing to world economic growth, and partially because I want to put more emphasis on the virtue of Quality rather than the virtue of Shipping). So don't touch that bookmark! The best is yet to come! I thank you for reading, and remain,<\/p>\n

Your faithful correspondent,
\nZack M. Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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