I am a do do head (ouch and give ammo to women are do do's!)
I just realized Jonathan is on my/our side, "flaming" the anon coward.
Sorry, Jonathan for my resp to your resp. Of course you know about us, and Kate, and the rest of us.
FYI, Jonathan definitely is "within our/Kate's peerdom."
He is lead prog of the open sourced very well-structured Golgotha 3D engine code from Crack.
He is one of many "unsung" intelligent contributors to our 3D game engine coding world. Not as rich, not as famous, but very smart, and very competent.
Here is to another good coder, though he is not female.
Good luck to your current proj.
P.S. And your challenge of "engine" is meant to be of course Corrinne have a better chance at winning this than this anon coward, not the other way around.
You gave me kudos, and I slam/flame you. Bad bad corrinne.
I have already written several 3D engines already.
Some of them are in fact software rasterizers, without the benefit of 3D acceleration.
It is not just me. The very beautiful blond Ms. Kate Seekings was founder of Rendermorphics, which is a 3D API.
No, neither Ms. Seekings nor me have as much money as Carmack, et. al, nor are we as famous. We have the technical respect of each other and other people who love coding for the sake of coding.
If fame or wealthy happens for some, that's great. Since neither I nor her did it for fame or wealth, we "women" who wrote 3D engines already (probably more engines than you had) could care less.
As for the bait, I am just trying to tease more math-nuts into having math chats with me.
I use math for work.
I also love math for its own sake.
It would be hard for me to drop the habit of striking new friendships with math-nuts and code-nuts.
I don't have a social life, and I don't care. I care that every little and big piece of code I write is good. I care I have a fun life coding and thinking about math.
Either you are a math-nut or code-nut and we have fun. Or not.:)
It is beyond I hate Roblimo at this stage, first the Woz, now Dr. Lederman.
I have this 3D game engine to code, and then you have to interview all these nifty people. Why do you "force" me to become a/. denizen? I am slowly converted...
Now I have to think of if there is one question I can ask Dr. Lederman which one would it be. It is beyond Roblimo hate!:)
P.S. Please do not moderate this up. This is not a question.
I won't play unless you come out with your real long-on!
(Same rule for the putz.)
I love it when I run into other math-nuts who want to chat math.
Since you are not the putz, how about, win-or-lose, we all have fun with this?
i.e., my point wouldn't be to prove you are bad at math, even if you lose, etc. (keep it fun and games, not ego-based) So take as long as you need, etc.
I am just grateful to find people who wants to have math conversations! (How much are you into sphere packing?) I don't need to trash people's egoes.
First one: What is ( 2 * x * x + 2 * y * y + z * z - 1 ) ^ 3 - 0.1 x * x * z * z * z - y * y * z * z * z = 0 ?
You can either answer the math way by recognizing the function, or you can cheat by coding it/graphing it. Take your time.
P.S. You don't need to be too scared. While my code have current math, I have been in the applied world in many years. You have a pretty good chance if you are still in academia and the rigor is fresh.
You hear that putz? If you're in academia still you have a good chance.
ha ha coward you don't know what you walked into.:)
For picking on some apparently defenseless wimmin (sic).
Put your code or math where your mouth is.
Show me your superior code/math/intellect. (Snippet would do.)
I am willing to put my own math/code on the line.
Unless you are ? or ? or ? who I know would never say anything like this, I know I have a good chance of being a better coder than you.
Take it offline perhaps?
Specialty alert: I am more 3D Game Engine Programmer than a web developer, so it is possible if your specialy is web development/administration your API knowledge would be more current.
If you do 3D Game Engine coding, the challenge would be perfect.
If you are webbie, API-wise I would be disadvantaged, but I can learn the new API and exploit it fast enough.
Let's draw out all the "Are you a chick? Please resp" troll.
And draw out all the "am a chick and I also code" posts. (As demeaning as I am a black man and I am articulate.)
Not to say all the "online transvestite flirts."
How about: There is some good math/code here, something I can use for my project. Wait, I can't believe it, it is from a woman. Cool, she is one of the best. I guess it doesn't matter if it is a he or a she then.
P.S. I am usually/still an optimistic math-code nut. It is just fun to *play* cynical once in a while.
P.P.S./ouch please don't flame. I know in one post I offend all kinds of women and men at the same time.
(Fine, laugh at Fortran, I did punchcard on Fortran 77 too, but if you would repsect the Cobol guy, at least respect the Fortran gal.)
Dr./Ms. Ingrid Daubechies developed Daubechies wavelets that is used in a lot of compression algorithms, including the new super compressed JPEG.
Maybe one of these days, I can list myself too. I did 3D and 2D game coding for some OK games. You may or may not have enjoyed them. I have contributed (as a game developer only, not as DX developer) a lot to Direct 3D 7, and am contributing a lot now as we speak to Direct 3D 8 and 9. I guess you may have that installed in your system or not. (/me duck from OpenGL fanatics.)
As for giving away code, I am (but hope to be) not on the level of Linus Torvald, but I had written many code snippets that I give away for free to explain concepts and assist other game developers throughout many years to share.
We were doing *ahem* xtreme programming coding on 3D engine coding on Spec Ops before we realized there is a "buzzword" for 2 of us coding at the same time for something as crucial of rewriting of data structure of 3D engines.
There is absolutely no gender bias for or against pair programming.
In fact, it requires the "lack of social skill" of noticing each other smell bad when the 2 of us sit and type so close for an entire weekend without going home (shower).
When we got tired enough for Adrian J. (he was PSX Spec Ops lead/programmer, he recently shipped PSX 3D game Medal of Honor, woo hoo!) and I, Adrian J. started to have his finger puppet talk to us.
So it is code pair plus finger puppet, with his own personality.
More funding to computer literacy can do potential good.
// "paranoia"
I remember when the Feds were really obsessed with the "crackers" (literally pirate groups that crack copy protection of software and warez them out) and did these huge and invasive crackdowns that led to the Steve Jackson raiding controversy.
And that small children (I was one of them) were offered cash per person that they would squeal on who is such a cracker. (FYI, I didn't turn anyone in.:) )
Not that this is (or is it?) Clinton's idea.
I don't want to see a "Big Brother" state of teenage computer coders being financially encouraged to turn in and monitor their fellow coders (most of them innocent).
Much of coding is learning from each other and sharing information and understanding. This involves a lot of trust and friendship.
I would hate to see government actions accidentally harming this trust, or the programming community.
P.S. It is not if you are legal what are you afraid of? Government officials/FBI sometimes appear to be ignorant of technology issues, and paranoid of things they don't understand, and many innocent (but suspicious appearing) young children can be harmed by this.
That most of his communication and thoughts are transmitted in digital form offer our civilization a rare opportunity to "digitize" an entire human consciousness for years.
It would be a severe invasion of his privacy.
But it would be *amazing* to be able to read every conversation and every thought he ever had, and had this database be archived somewhere.
A proposal.
Or is it too inhumane?
// Moore's Law/computing/neural network
He mentioned that for artificial computing to improve further, that maybe it can start to emulate the neuron model.
We already begin to have the wherewithal to experiment with this idea.
Many CPU's are already networked through the internet, and calculation projects like the SETI project is already exploiting this massive parallelism and connectivity to calculations previously not possible on supercomputers.
Data throughput is *not that important* for this experiment, as biological neural transmision of our brain is notoriously slow. Yet we are capable of "intelligence" not yet fully duplicated by our programs.
It would be fun to create a "consciousness" with our massively parallel computation power.
P.S. Caltech and many others have already worked out a lot of various neural emulation models for computing that we can use.
Mathematics and hard science postulates require rigorous logical and experimental proofs to become non-contested. (Witness Fermat's Last Theorem.)
It would be good to see computer science (yes, I know we have calculation models of algorithm analysis, O(n) o(n) complexities, but they are measurements, not logical and experimental proofs of the robustness of mathematics and hard science), programming, and yes, quality of OS, go through the same rigor.
The recent obsession with OS server uptimes (which speaks nothing of system data throughput, and many other important network performance factors) is an example of our field's lack of rigor in performance.
The lack of mathematical rigor in computer programming is at times appalling.
I know you are trolling but there is a factual technical answer to your question.
There is a GB force feedback/audio speaker amplier/rechargeable battery add-on pack, that provides force feedback directly proportional to audio volume.
Get a Bung Gameboy development system. Code a short simple app that plays audio at high volume. Hook up your gameboy to this peripheral. There you have it.
What is the RAM available for GB Advance? RAM shortage is already an issue with 8-bit GB/Color. With 32-bit processor, instruction and data size can somewhat quadruple (given the same code base).
What is the footprint C standard lib on Cygnus's dev suite? I understand GB/Color has to be mostly programmed assembly because RAM is such a scarse resource.
Thank you for information on this from coders who work with GB.
Sorry you AC had to take so much abuse from the response.
So I play devil's advocate and thank you.
Thank you for supporting the real geek women like us who did the time and made the sacrifices.
I am not going to name names, but I have witnessed many "glamourous women" let all the smart people do all the work and all the discovery, and plagiarize their knowledge. She/They call it "delegating" the "research." Then she/they slap a fancy title of themselves and claim to have "led" this.
But don't fool yourselves.
"Glamourous men" also do the same thing. You just don't know about them because they are not as obvious.
I don't have enough knowledge to verify your assessment of g.
I do appreciate you sticking up for real geek women like us.
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I am a do do head (ouch and give ammo to women are do do's!)
I just realized Jonathan is on my/our side, "flaming" the anon coward.
Sorry, Jonathan for my resp to your resp. Of course you know about us, and Kate, and the rest of us.
FYI, Jonathan definitely is "within our/Kate's peerdom."
He is lead prog of the open sourced very well-structured Golgotha 3D engine code from Crack.
He is one of many "unsung" intelligent contributors to our 3D game engine coding world. Not as rich, not as famous, but very smart, and very competent.
Here is to another good coder, though he is not female.
Good luck to your current proj.
P.S. And your challenge of "engine" is meant to be of course Corrinne have a better chance at winning this than this anon coward, not the other way around.
You gave me kudos, and I slam/flame you. Bad bad corrinne.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Silly.
:)
I have already written several 3D engines already.
Some of them are in fact software rasterizers, without the benefit of 3D acceleration.
It is not just me. The very beautiful blond Ms. Kate Seekings was founder of Rendermorphics, which is a 3D API.
No, neither Ms. Seekings nor me have as much money as Carmack, et. al, nor are we as famous.
We have the technical respect of each other and other people who love coding for the sake of coding.
If fame or wealthy happens for some, that's great.
Since neither I nor her did it for fame or wealth, we "women" who wrote 3D engines already (probably more engines than you had) could care less.
As for the bait, I am just trying to tease more math-nuts into having math chats with me.
I use math for work.
I also love math for its own sake.
It would be hard for me to drop the habit of striking new friendships with math-nuts and code-nuts.
I don't have a social life, and I don't care. I care that every little and big piece of code I write is good. I care I have a fun life coding and thinking about math.
Either you are a math-nut or code-nut and we have fun. Or not.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Apologies to OT, and everything else.
/. denizen? I am slowly converted ...
:)
It is beyond I hate Roblimo at this stage, first the Woz, now Dr. Lederman.
I have this 3D game engine to code, and then you have to interview all these nifty people.
Why do you "force" me to become a
Now I have to think of if there is one question I can ask Dr. Lederman which one would it be.
It is beyond Roblimo hate!
P.S. Please do not moderate this up. This is not a question.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
I am trying to talk Chromatic to try to talk our Hemos crew into starting a spanking new math /. (moderation and everything).
:)
I enjoy (with high enough moderating setting) the good stream of computing-related information and "community."
Since I am a bigger math-nut, than a code-nut, it would be nice to have such an active mathematics community as well.
Get all your friends who may be interested to either petition Hemos and company, or just start our own.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Thank you, Mr. Harris.
I am a coder, not a historian (and I don't use COBOL, though ancient buried history I did punchcard Fortran 77).
Thanks for Ms. Wilson bio. I didn't know and am glad.
I am a better coder than historian though.
Again, thanks for info.
P.S. I do think I got Daubechies right, since I am using her algorithms and read a lot of her papers.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
I say that all the time. :)
And I have witnesses.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
We start by you stop being Anonymous.
I won't play unless you come out with your real long-on!
(Same rule for the putz.)
I love it when I run into other math-nuts who want to chat math.
Since you are not the putz, how about, win-or-lose, we all have fun with this?
i.e., my point wouldn't be to prove you are bad at math, even if you lose, etc. (keep it fun and games, not ego-based) So take as long as you need, etc.
I am just grateful to find people who wants to have math conversations! (How much are you into sphere packing?) I don't need to trash people's egoes.
First one: What is ( 2 * x * x + 2 * y * y + z * z - 1 ) ^ 3 - 0.1 x * x * z * z * z - y * y * z * z * z = 0 ?
You can either answer the math way by recognizing the function, or you can cheat by coding it/graphing it. Take your time.
P.S. You don't need to be too scared. While my code have current math, I have been in the applied world in many years. You have a pretty good chance if you are still in academia and the rigor is fresh.
You hear that putz? If you're in academia still you have a good chance.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Doing in the putz would give me greater satisfaction than doing you in.
:)
If you are Ron L. I will now immediately concede and bow to your math greatness. But that's OK because Ron L. is not a chauvinistic male pig.
It is also open to all the other gals/chicks/grrls who posted on this thread (Pyr, etc.).
After all I am defending Pyr's honor.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
just in case for poor Adrian's sake guys lust after *him*
he is heterosexual and wouldn't enjoy the appreciation.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Let me fan the flame of the challenge more (so coward would step out of his cowardice) by saying ...
"Why so few chauvinistic males who can stand up to a woman coder in math?"
:)
/ouch flame
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
ha ha coward you don't know what you walked into. :)
For picking on some apparently defenseless wimmin (sic).
Put your code or math where your mouth is.
Show me your superior code/math/intellect. (Snippet would do.)
I am willing to put my own math/code on the line.
Unless you are ? or ? or ? who I know would never say anything like this, I know I have a good chance of being a better coder than you.
Take it offline perhaps?
Specialty alert: I am more 3D Game Engine Programmer than a web developer, so it is possible if your specialy is web development/administration your API knowledge would be more current.
If you do 3D Game Engine coding, the challenge would be perfect.
If you are webbie, API-wise I would be disadvantaged, but I can learn the new API and exploit it fast enough.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Apologies to being a poo poo head. :)
/ouch please don't flame. I know in one post I offend all kinds of women and men at the same time.
Good job, Hemos.
Let's draw out all the "Are you a chick? Please resp" troll.
And draw out all the "am a chick and I also code" posts. (As demeaning as I am a black man and I am articulate.)
Not to say all the "online transvestite flirts."
How about: There is some good math/code here, something I can use for my project. Wait, I can't believe it, it is from a woman. Cool, she is one of the best. I guess it doesn't matter if it is a he or a she then.
P.S. I am usually/still an optimistic math-code nut. It is just fun to *play* cynical once in a while.
P.P.S.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
It *just* occurred to me.
Just in case you are salivating.
Adrian J. is a he. A poorly groomed and dressed he.
And a good coder.
Which is what matters.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Admiral Grace Hopper developed Fortran.
(Fine, laugh at Fortran, I did punchcard on Fortran 77 too, but if you would repsect the Cobol guy, at least respect the Fortran gal.)
Dr./Ms. Ingrid Daubechies developed Daubechies wavelets that is used in a lot of compression algorithms, including the new super compressed JPEG.
Maybe one of these days, I can list myself too. I did 3D and 2D game coding for some OK games. You may or may not have enjoyed them. I have contributed (as a game developer only, not as DX developer) a lot to Direct 3D 7, and am contributing a lot now as we speak to Direct 3D 8 and 9. I guess you may have that installed in your system or not. (/me duck from OpenGL fanatics.)
As for giving away code, I am (but hope to be) not on the level of Linus Torvald, but I had written many code snippets that I give away for free to explain concepts and assist other game developers throughout many years to share.
/ouch flames coming up!
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
buzzword time. :)
We were doing *ahem* xtreme programming coding on 3D engine coding on Spec Ops before we realized there is a "buzzword" for 2 of us coding at the same time for something as crucial of rewriting of data structure of 3D engines.
There is absolutely no gender bias for or against pair programming.
In fact, it requires the "lack of social skill" of noticing each other smell bad when the 2 of us sit and type so close for an entire weekend without going home (shower).
When we got tired enough for Adrian J. (he was PSX Spec Ops lead/programmer, he recently shipped PSX 3D game Medal of Honor, woo hoo!) and I, Adrian J. started to have his finger puppet talk to us.
So it is code pair plus finger puppet, with his own personality.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
// literacy
:) )
More funding to computer literacy can do potential good.
// "paranoia"
I remember when the Feds were really obsessed with the "crackers" (literally pirate groups that crack copy protection of software and warez them out) and did these huge and invasive crackdowns that led to the Steve Jackson raiding controversy.
And that small children (I was one of them) were offered cash per person that they would squeal on who is such a cracker. (FYI, I didn't turn anyone in.
Not that this is (or is it?) Clinton's idea.
I don't want to see a "Big Brother" state of teenage computer coders being financially encouraged to turn in and monitor their fellow coders (most of them innocent).
Much of coding is learning from each other and sharing information and understanding. This involves a lot of trust and friendship.
I would hate to see government actions accidentally harming this trust, or the programming community.
P.S. It is not if you are legal what are you afraid of? Government officials/FBI sometimes appear to be ignorant of technology issues, and paranoid of things they don't understand, and many innocent (but suspicious appearing) young children can be harmed by this.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
// Hawkings log
That most of his communication and thoughts are transmitted in digital form offer our civilization a rare opportunity to "digitize" an entire human consciousness for years.
It would be a severe invasion of his privacy.
But it would be *amazing* to be able to read every conversation and every thought he ever had, and had this database be archived somewhere.
A proposal.
Or is it too inhumane?
// Moore's Law/computing/neural network
He mentioned that for artificial computing to improve further, that maybe it can start to emulate the neuron model.
We already begin to have the wherewithal to experiment with this idea.
Many CPU's are already networked through the internet, and calculation projects like the SETI project is already exploiting this massive parallelism and connectivity to calculations previously not possible on supercomputers.
Data throughput is *not that important* for this experiment, as biological neural transmision of our brain is notoriously slow. Yet we are capable of "intelligence" not yet fully duplicated by our programs.
It would be fun to create a "consciousness" with our massively parallel computation power.
P.S. Caltech and many others have already worked out a lot of various neural emulation models for computing that we can use.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Typical fate of Ph.D. graduate student. Non-handicapped professors do the same too.
:)
Just get your own tenure and exploit other grad students in your own time.
(sorry OT)
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
I third the nomination.
(Apologies to ditto and OT, but Roblimo et. al. need to take note that we want to interview Stephen Hawkings.)
:)
P.S. And nomination for more hard science, nuclear physics, and "hard computer science" (i.e., not OS war) news: algorithms, et. al.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Apologies to OT and ditto.
Mathematics and hard science postulates require rigorous logical and experimental proofs to become non-contested. (Witness Fermat's Last Theorem.)
It would be good to see computer science (yes, I know we have calculation models of algorithm analysis, O(n) o(n) complexities, but they are measurements, not logical and experimental proofs of the robustness of mathematics and hard science), programming, and yes, quality of OS, go through the same rigor.
The recent obsession with OS server uptimes (which speaks nothing of system data throughput, and many other important network performance factors) is an example of our field's lack of rigor in performance.
The lack of mathematical rigor in computer programming is at times appalling.
My 2c.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
I know you are trolling but there is a factual technical answer to your question.
There is a GB force feedback/audio speaker amplier/rechargeable battery add-on pack, that provides force feedback directly proportional to audio volume.
Get a Bung Gameboy development system. Code a short simple app that plays audio at high volume. Hook up your gameboy to this peripheral. There you have it.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Apologies to OT.
FYI, PHP is a HTML scripting language. Web administrators would be more familiar with it than coders of other specialties.
Not knowing PHP just means web administration is not high on your job priority. (Apologies if I butchered PHP definition.)
Ignorance is rarely fatal. Ability to learn and understand matters a lot more to being a good coder.
The first step to being a good learner is to recognize and admit ignorance.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Is Dev Studio upgrading to GB Advance (32-bit)?
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
What is the RAM available for GB Advance? RAM shortage is already an issue with 8-bit GB/Color. With 32-bit processor, instruction and data size can somewhat quadruple (given the same code base).
What is the footprint C standard lib on Cygnus's dev suite? I understand GB/Color has to be mostly programmed assembly because RAM is such a scarse resource.
Thank you for information on this from coders who work with GB.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer
Sorry you AC had to take so much abuse from the response.
So I play devil's advocate and thank you.
Thank you for supporting the real geek women like us who did the time and made the sacrifices.
I am not going to name names, but I have witnessed many "glamourous women" let all the smart people do all the work and all the discovery, and plagiarize their knowledge. She/They call it "delegating" the "research." Then she/they slap a fancy title of themselves and claim to have "led" this.
But don't fool yourselves.
"Glamourous men" also do the same thing. You just don't know about them because they are not as obvious.
I don't have enough knowledge to verify your assessment of g.
I do appreciate you sticking up for real geek women like us.
Corrinne Yu
3D Game Engine Programmer