Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity

I am traveling in Europe for my brother wedding, which took place in Paris. And now I am spending a week in Eindhoven. During some point in time I got bored enough to write a sudoko solver in a few hours (dont ask me why). In any case, here is the source code and input examples 1, 2, 3, and empty board.

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In the name of the holy lady of the flatland, it is the middle of the night and I posted this entry two minutes ago and I just fixed the link.

Anyway, thank you, and it should work now.

In the name of the holy lady of the flatland, it is the middle of the night and I posted this entry two minutes ago and I just fixed the link.

Anyway, thank you, and it should work now.

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The link to JPWS doesn’t work for people outside uiuc!

The link to JPWS doesn’t work for people outside uiuc!

I recently mentioned the discrete integration problem, and now my new paper on the topic appeared in the highly prestigious JPWS. See here.

The conference was good and well organized (good work by the local organizers Alon Efrat and Carola Wenk). The jeep trip in the desert was by far the best excursion in any conference I had attended. Fun. Pictures and stuff like that in a few days.

Attendance was disappointedly low (roughly 136), but Sedona was really nice and not that hot overall.

Read in the trip the books “Hunted” by James Gardner (not recommended unless you like space opera [which I sometime like in some cases]) and “Mother Night” by Kurt Vonnegut which was good but not perfect (I think Romain Gary did a better discussion of similar topics in “The roots of heaven”).

Oh well. Next, on the connection between L1 fitting, Computational Geometry and porcupines.

Good movie…

The following is taken from Rev. Uriah J. Fields testimony in the conspiracy trials (March 1956) against the blacks boycotting the buses in Montgomery, Alabama. There was violence against the strikers, and an effort to show that the movement was lead by Martin Luther King, Jr.

**Q:** Do you remember who called the mass meeting for that night?
**A:** Since I promised to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, I don’t know. I am not sure of that. I couldn’t say.
**Q:** Where these minutes made by you?
**A:** they were.
**Q:** Do they reflect what went on at the meeting on the afternoon of December the 5th, to the bast of your judgement?
**A:** They do. However, I don’t profess to be an adequate secretary.
**Q:** Are you now the secretary of the organization?
**A:** I am secretary in name, sure.
**Q:** What do you mean by secretary in name, sure? Somebody else doing the work with your name signed to it?
**A:** I am secretary, but my multiplicity of duties makes it impossible for me to be an efficient secretary.
**Q:** Do you mean you are secretary but you are just not efficient?
**A:** That is right.
**Q:** What are your multiplicity of duties at the present time?
**A:** I have to keep in touch with my Creator. It takes a lot of prayer through times like this.

Taken from “To the mountaintop” by Steward Burns.