Carthik Sharma

Yesterday was a typical day. The only thing worth noting might be that I had innumerable problems trying to run Greffenstette’s Genetic Algorithm Program Genesis 5.0 running on Turbo C. I started with Visual Studio, and then after I convinced myself that it cant be tuned to make and compile all the .c files, i turned to TurboC, and for some strange stupid reason, the program (TurboC) would hang on me, time and again. After 5 hours of agony, i gave up on DOS/Windows for good.

Of course I could have tried doing all this on Linux at home, but there was a small problem. I had tried upgrading to RH 8.0 using the cds sent me, but since the second installation cd would not work, i had to abandon the upgrade. And for some strange reason, i could not get Linux to boot up properly. I was too lazy to install RH 7.2 again.

So today in the morning I reinstalled RH 7.2 again in the PC at home, and Genesis 5.0 works like a jap (efficiently and without a fuss, no other racial characteristics implied, inherited)

I have to do all this to complete the assignment in the evolutionary computing class, due by monday. I had two weeks to work on it, but i didnt have the time for this earlier, so as usual its a sprint to the finish line.

At about 11 in the night yesterday, me and sumant went to applebees and downed 2 bottles of Zinfadel. Thats really good wine, as and had said it would be. The two of us were laughing most of the time, and sketching transformed pictures on napkins. Dont ask me why we were laughing, its that laughter which happens without reason.

And then I called her and talked to her for a long long time, about this and that, and felt super.

Today is another story, it promises to be a hard night, but I wont stay up too late, should become more regular in my schedule.

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