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Jalapeno Jelly Phyllo Cups with Cream Cheese
Phyllo Cups
Jalapeno Jelly
Cream Cheese or Aged White Cheddar, cute into chunks
Bake cups for 3-4 minutes, until edges lightly brown.
Add approx. 1/2 tsp. jelly to each cup. Add chunk of cream cheese. Microwave for about 20 seconds for a full plate. Enjoy!
This French speaking faux pet lives in a box, and is so shy it can only be drawn out by your talking to it softly. Lure it out and you can use it as a keychain - or leave it to its self-imposed solitude, and listen to it moving around alone in the dark, like some goth French puppy poet.
If you are not nice to nowa nowa then it won’t come out. But if you are nice to nowanowa then the lid will open longer & will speak to you in French. If you don’t speak or make a sound for a while nowa nowa will go to sleep. When it comes out you can also use it as a dog figure key chain or you can push him back in the box to play again.
In anthropomorphic news, my clustering printout looks like a squirrel hunting for nuts. Go squirrel go!
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* 1 *
* 1 11 1 *
* 11335!45 1 *
* 1224*3111 *
* 21 1 1 1 *
* 1 2421 *
* 1 5!*32 1 *
* 13235 22 *
* 1 2 1 1 *
* 2 223 241 1 *
* 1 113! 3 1 *
* 1142211 1 342 *
* 121 12133*4221 1 11 12 *
* 31 311 1 1 55422 1341744422 *
* 11125!4421 123154423754211 211 *
* 4*2221 2114!3351*312 4!23 3 *
* 2 211 4331 1 423612 1 *
* 12 1 4 2 *
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****************************************************(Legend: numbers indicate how many points correspond to that character on the map. Exclamation marks mean more than 9 points. The stars are prototypes that show the weighted center of the cluster.)
Stop running those Survivor commercials that start out with that guy who sounds exactly like Alan Alda. Every time it comes on and I’m typing away at something, I hear the voice and I’m so excited that maybe just maybe they’re bringing M*A*S*H back and then I realize ONCE AGAIN that it’s that stupid Survivor commercial which, obviously, is much less interesting than any of Herr Alda’s gin-soaked monologues. Please, for the love of Pete, stop running that commercial. It hurts me deeply and personally.
EDIT: My goodness, it just happened again! Arg. ARGH!
I solved my LISP problem. I was using a destructive function to mutate parts of my string. Certain structures were referencing each other within the population without my knowledge, which caused that descructive function to alter more than it should. I’ve rewritten the functions and there have been no more errors! Problem solved!
I just got my first batch of materials for my honours thesis preparations! I’m so very excited. I’m also reading Coherent and Creative Conceptual Combinations by Paul Thagard and despite it being a random “hey this looks interesting” selection, it’s surprisingly relevant to what I’ve been working on recently.
Unfortunately, what I will soon be working on is my French. The paper I’m to read for Lessard? The title is “Modélisation de quelques créations oulipiennes au moyen d’un logiciel de génération.” Eek! Time to pull out the French-English dictionary. I don’t know what I’d do without Google Translate.
So I’m writing a basic genetic algorithm using bit strings of length 16. I’m getting a weird error where some of my strings have an uneven number of 0s and 1s (and that’s after the check that I’ve built in, which always successfully corrects them). So I do a bunch of tests and fiddle around with print statments, and suddenly I find it. It is the stupidest bug I’ve ever seen my life. Stupider than june bugs, and — considering that at least 200 of them commit suicide in our lamps every year — that’s saying something.
So here’s the bug: for some reason, before and after a mapcar I’m getting this one string mysteriously changed every time. It is the same g*sh-d*rned string every single g*sh-d*rned time. Despite the fact that everything is completely random, if the string “(1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0)” is EVER generated then the mapcar FOR SOME HORRIBLE REASON THAT DEFIES MY IMAGINATION changes it to “(1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0).”
So before the mapcar it says:
(1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0)
But if I call it within the mapcar it says:
(1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0)
And once it’s spit out by the mapcar it is FOREVER CHANGED INTO THIS HORRIBLE STRING THAT HAS MORE ZEROS THAN ONES AND BREAKS MY ALGORITHM.
* weeps *
Seriously, if anyone knows what on earth is going on and can tell me, I will take you to Burger King. (That means you, Riz!)
PS: I’m sorry for yelling.
PPS: Turns out it does the same thing to a number of strings:
(1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0)
(1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0)
(1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0)
(1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0)
(1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1)
(1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0)
In later generations I sometimes get variants of the first error:
(1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0)
(1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1)
Flips from 0 to 1 only seem to happen in later generations.
And it doesn’t do it to them all the time. Ideas?