Wednesday, December 28, 2005

A dog with a joint

Post-Christmas pre-New Years is a part-time employee perdition. Every forty hour employee is emptying out his/her vacation time cache. I guess I could just be angry at myself asking for 'every hour possible over break', but it feels easier creating some complex and pretenious allusion that ties in with the obscured title.

Go, go, hash collision: "Most hash functions have potential collisions, but with good hash functions they occur less often than with bad ones." English: You have two sets of data, which can be completely different information, and run a simple algorithim on it, and somehow these two completely different sets of data can give out the same answer. Most of the time this isn't a good thing. But really what is it that causes them to come out to the same solution? What if we extrapolate this beyond data and talk about two people. What makes two random people have any interaction at all? Is it their personality: likes, dislikes, hobbies (data)? Maybe its a friend working as an intermidate between them (algorithim)? I suppose I allign with the solution that I just have too much time to sit and think at work.

Only about 120 more hours to go.

And as informally promised, a dog with a joint (penny-arcade):

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