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Started by Yonkey, September 10, 2006, 04:54:21 PM

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Yonkey

I can explain it to you over e-mail if you like, but right now I have a bit more important things to work on as well. :)
"A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything."

Delling

 :stars: well... that was... ...something...

:idea:

:sneaky: *furtively and deftly changes the topic of his thread while no one is looking*

Delling's Q&A: myths, phys, and Latin shoppe  :P is open for business!
Anyone may ask; anyone may answer.


Or we could talk about whatever... or whatever...
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

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icarus

well If you want to talk about whatever..

what did you had for lunch/dinner?  :P
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Delling

...sadly... I haven't eaten lunch yet... I'm still thinking... pizza...
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

Delling

#44
*tries again*

Can anyone get/ see the picture? it's just my cat, but the pictures I have are giving me trouble...
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

Shades2585

Yep! Black cat with white socks.  ;D
Knight of Queen Deloria since 24-Jul-06 ;D
Duke of Lancaster of Queen Deloria since 09-Sept-06
Bestowed "Captain of Calais" on 08-Nov-06

Bestowed Kingdom of Bohemia by Queen Deloria on 06-Jan-07

Does anybody even remember who Wormy is?
Bring WORMY BACK!!!!!!!

Delling

yep, that's m'velcro...

Thankees Shades  ;D
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

Rosella

Awww! So cute! :D

Not as cute as Spot, but that's ok, no cat is. :P
I'm a princess even if my kingdom is pixelated.

Official Comfort Counselor of the TSL Asylum © ;D

It's funny how you find you enjoy your life when you're happy to be alive.

Delling

Yeah, he's a cutey.

I have a picture of him as my background on my cellphone right now that I was originally going to post but couldn't get from the phone to the computer. So... maybe more pics of velcro whilst on the topic of whatever...
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

Deloria

Forgive the belatedness of this, but congrats on the thread. :P

 
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Précieuse and salonnière! :D
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koko_99_2001

Quote from: Rosella on September 20, 2006, 10:26:34 PM
Awww! So cute! :D

Not as cute as Spot, but that's ok, no cat is. :P

Hey! YumYum is as cute as, if not cuter than, Spot!

And Velcro is sweet looking *pets*
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Delling

Quote from: Deloria on September 21, 2006, 04:38:05 AM
Forgive the belatedness of this, but congrats on the thread. :P

Go raibh maith agat, a Dheloria. (Thank you in Irish Gaelic)

Quote from: koko_99_2001 on September 21, 2006, 06:12:30 AM
Quote from: Rosella on September 20, 2006, 10:26:34 PM
Awww! So cute! :D

Not as cute as Spot, but that's ok, no cat is. :P

Hey! YumYum is as cute as, if not cuter than, Spot!

And Velcro is sweet looking *pets*

I can't believe that I am about to say this on this forum, but it's just too horrible of a pun to pass up.

No cat fights in my thread please... XB...

Sorry, but, let's all just agree that they are all cute as it's fairly common practice for people to like their own pets the most and ascribe superlatives to them.

Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

Shades2585

#52
Quote from: Delling on September 21, 2006, 07:19:12 AM
I can't believe that I am about to say this on this forum, but it's just too horrible of a pun to pass up.

No cat fights in my thread please... XB...

Had to see that one coming.  XD

Quote from: koko_99_2001 on September 21, 2006, 06:12:30 AM
Hey! YumYum is as cute as, if not cuter than, Spot!

And Velcro is sweet looking *pets*

Yum Yum? Is that what her name is? I didn’t know that. Cute though.


They're both cute.

Knight of Queen Deloria since 24-Jul-06 ;D
Duke of Lancaster of Queen Deloria since 09-Sept-06
Bestowed "Captain of Calais" on 08-Nov-06

Bestowed Kingdom of Bohemia by Queen Deloria on 06-Jan-07

Does anybody even remember who Wormy is?
Bring WORMY BACK!!!!!!!

Deloria

The cat in Cat's avatar is actually Crystal. :)
 
Holy Roman Empress
Queen of *all* Albion
Précieuse and salonnière! :D
"In cases of doubt about language, it is ordinarily best to consult women."-Vaugelas
Space! :D Extraterrestrium! :D Espace! :D

Delling

~~MATLAB~~

function ret = student_search(x, y, z)
n = {x.(char(y))};
    for index = 1:length(n)
        if ischar(z)
            if strcmp(n{index}, z)
                ret(index) = x(index);
            end
        elseif isreal(z)
            if n{index} >= z
                ret(index) = x(index);
            end
        end
    end
    if ~exist('ret')
        ret= [ ]
    end
    ret;

let
x = students2=struct('First',{'John','Bob'} , 'Last',{'Doe','Murray'} , ...
         'GPA', {3.5, 2}, 'HoursTaken', {92, 15},'Standing', ...
          {'Senior', 'Freshman'})
y, z = 'standing', 'Junior'

then student_search(x, y, z) =???

Error: undefined field

~~MATLAB~~

So, the TAs write the homework, and they don't generally do that great of job. One time they said a triangle was a pentagon, and now they can't keep their capitalization straight.

Sorry... I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out why my code was not referencing the field correctly only to find that again TA incompetence is to blame.
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

Rosella

No!!! *is going to stare at that for hours until she understands it XD*
I'm a princess even if my kingdom is pixelated.

Official Comfort Counselor of the TSL Asylum © ;D

It's funny how you find you enjoy your life when you're happy to be alive.

Delling

it's matlab code... it kept giving me errors when I tried to run it... it takes in the first entry (x) which darn well better be a structure and makes a cell array out of x.y (only it has to change y back to a character string first x.(char(y)))... it calls the cell array n. Then it checks the elements of the cell array against the third input (z): if z is a character string, it returns only the elements of x.y that match z exactly; if z is a real number, it returns only those elements of x.y which are greater than or equal to z.

It gave me errors because x.y is case sensitive and when the TAs made the test inputs they capitalized the natural y of x.y (the field that existed there anyway) but not the input y: capitalization matters! (Matlab was looking for x.y but x.Y was what was there.) It completely stole 15 mins of my life... compared with the rest of the time matlab has stolen from me... it isn't much... but this is a TAs fault... I can blame a person other than myself for this and I am!
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

Yonkey

The question is: is it the TA's fault for making an error, is it MATLAB's fault for being case sensitive, or is it your fault for wasting time and energy to figure it out for yourself? :scholar:
"A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything."

Delling

It's pretty much the TA's fault because they write the test code and it's their responsibility to make sure it works: forget that, IT'S THEIR JOB!

How did I waste my own time? I didn't waste my time. They wrote faulty code that gave a false negative and thereby wasted my time. If I hadn't used my time to figure out what they did wrong, I could have had a zero on the assignment, and I could still end up with a zero on the assignment if they screw up the autograder. I really don't see how it isn't their fault...

...and it can't be MATLAB's fault because MATLAB simply exists regardless of whether or not people are trying to use it and without concern for the ignorance of people.
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

Yonkey

You're right that it's their job to provide correct answers, but you wasted your time by figuring it out for yourself rather than getting the TA to figure it out for you. ;P  Trust me, I've had my share of incompetant TA's too. ::)  I've actually had to see the Prof in-person sometimes because their stuff was so wrong. XD

Oh, and it's MATLAB's fault because its programmers were too lazy to output a more accurate error message. :P
"A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything."