Current location:	greenstalk (eeepc)
Current mood:	curious
Entry tags:	experiment

The industrial hazard of studying
Namely, it throws my brain into gear - no mean feat, considering the delirious flu-haze in which it has floated through the weekend, only occasionally bobbing to the surface. Now this sort of moment is theoretically a good thing, except when it results in mental connections which coalesce into a runaway distracting obsession. Specifically, I am now haunted by the question of what kind of performance one might expect from an (arbitrary) algorithm that has been compiled to run on the provably Turing-complete Game of Life, accelerated using the HashLife algorithm. The latter is capable of very disturbing (exponential!) speed-ups.

So far all I have to go on is the prediction following from what I call the Theorem of No Fun - namely, that any experiment which follows so trivially from widely known concepts must surely yield nothing of interest. Especially when a positive result would be so shiny (collapse of complexity classes, anyone?) Which, of course, is not something that has ever stopped me from burning precious time and electric energy.

Back to staring at annoyingly vague slides about protein structure.