Edited by Neil Anderson, Tuesday, 9 Aug 2011, 19:27
Today I tried to write some Javascript that would allow me to compose permutations; I got an idea that I wanted to bulk test.
[I should be working on analysis but my mind and fingers itch for groups.]
It was surprisingly hard—because I tackled it stupidly, I didn't write a specification and I've lost my test harness somewhere along the road.
The beast is still in the myth stage.
I will manage this, but my uselessness, after all this study, annoys me hugely. And why do I rely on code [that I can't write] to confirm something that I should be able to prove?
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Today I tried to write some Javascript that would allow me to compose permutations; I got an idea that I wanted to bulk test.
[I should be working on analysis but my mind and fingers itch for groups.]
It was surprisingly hard—because I tackled it stupidly, I didn't write a specification and I've lost my test harness somewhere along the road.
The beast is still in the myth stage.
I will manage this, but my uselessness, after all this study, annoys me hugely. And why do I rely on code [that I can't write] to confirm something that I should be able to prove?