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I want to learn this..
I want to learn that..
I want to learn everything..
There are many things I want to learn..
Everything is interesting for me..
I want to learn all of them..
While I learn them, another things I want to learn come..
I confused what to do, what to learn first..
Could you help me please to cure my sickness?
Thanks in advance.
The root of this sickness is our attachment to knowledge. Ultimately, the universe is actually empty, so there is really nothing to know.
Can we detach it maybe?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sebastiani
What do you mean by empty?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sebastiani
>> Can we detach it maybe?
You are either attached to it or you are not. It's as simple as that.
>> What do you mean by empty?
Consider for a moment your body. Where did it come from? Where did it obtain all of the atoms used to build it? Stardust? In that sense, we are timeless, and have existed from the very beginning. And yet, before birth and after death, we don't actually exist. Arising from nothing and returning to nothing - this is emptyness.
I think I posted this thread in a wrong section..
Mod, move it please.
Sorry for my error.
Don't get a life.Quote:
Originally Posted by audinue
Seriously. Don't!
If you want to learn everything, all you need to do is not wanting to be anything else.
LOL! Where was it before, the tech section?! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by audinue
I kind of have this problem too. At the end of last year I bought this huge book on openGL, and a huge NVIDIA card* thinking I was gonna get into 3D programming, since it seems very sexy, etc. Then it was a series of challanges, like dealing with lighting, textures, quadratics, quarterions, etc. 3D programming can be pretty consuming, meaning it may leave you with little time for anything else.
Which is why I've pretty much stopped. Occasionally it was interesting, but now I think I had myself obsessed ("Must make this work...properly"), because 3D programming is IMO pretty tedious and boring if you are not also very interested in math.
I went thru a similar thing with device drivers. The tedious part started when I realized that a lot of information is difficult or impossible to get from manufacturers, meaning I was getting myself into some time consuming reverse engineering and testing stuff that probably has very limited practical application. Like, if someone paid me to write a driver, I could deal with the headache, but in that case I would most likely be able to get the specs anyway.
So I would say one way to sort out your pursuits is to decide what is genuinely interesting and useful to you from what (if you are like me) are things you are determined to do "because they are there" or to prove to yourself that you can do it. Your opinion may change, as mine did with OGL, once you get into it, so don't be afraid to give up -- otherwise, you could easily just continue such an obsession indefinitely. There will always be something "more to do", so examine your motives for wanting to.
*that actually got returned
A long time ago (couple of centuries or so), it was possible that
what you knew / what the rest of the world knew
could approach 1
Nowadays
what you know / what the rest of the world knows
is in fact approaching zero
Well said!Quote:
Originally Posted by Salem
:DQuote:
I kind of have this problem too. At the end of last year I bought this huge book on openGL, and a huge NVIDIA card* thinking I was gonna get into 3D programming, since it seems very sexy, etc. Then it was a series of challanges, like dealing with lighting, textures, quadratics, quarterions, etc. 3D programming can be pretty consuming, meaning it may leave you with little time for anything else.
Which is why I've pretty much stopped. Occasionally it was interesting, but now I think I had myself obsessed ("Must make this work...properly"), because 3D programming is IMO pretty tedious and boring if you are not also very interested in math.
I went thru a similar thing with device drivers. The tedious part started when I realized that a lot of information is difficult or impossible to get from manufacturers, meaning I was getting myself into some time consuming reverse engineering and testing stuff that probably has very limited practical application. Like, if someone paid me to write a driver, I could deal with the headache, but in that case I would most likely be able to get the specs anyway.
Yeah, I think I have the same problem. Just a week ago, I decided I was going to write an X86 disassembler. I spent about three days writing code, without even consulting the manual - just going on the obvious heuristics. I thought, "Wow, this is going well - now I'll just take a look at the manual and see what's left". That's when I realized that the journey had just begun for this "little" project.
Needless to say, the project is on hold for the time being. :p
Good to see some spiritual coders out there. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Sebastiani
Well you got what you deserved when you thought you could just write a disassembler like that :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Sebastiani
I know, right? It wasn't a total loss, though. I made enough headway so that when I do finally decide to sit down and read a million pages of Intel documentation, things should go pretty smoothly. Oh wait - see? I did it again. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Mario F.
The funny thing is, this all started simply because I was getting annoyed with the way that GNU objdump tool formats numeric constants! I could have just looked around for a better disassembler, but instead I decided to do it myself. Hopeless.
Anyway, I still very much want to finish the project, and most likely will within the near future - if anyone's interested in a project let me know. :D
"How to learn everything?"
Cure the disease by solving an actual problem.
Wolves vs. Sheep Puzzle
Since your brain needs something to do: My idea of putting sheep on the main diagonal and them putting wolves a knight's move away hasn't worked and I've been trying to put a fifth wolf in for too long. It's impossible, prove me wrong.
It's impossible, here is proof by exhaustive search.Quote:
Originally Posted by whiteflags
Code:#include <stdio.h>
void MarkDirty(bool* , int);
int CountClean(bool*);
int main(){
bool Dirty[25];
for(int a = 0;a<25;a++){
for(int b = 0;b<25;b++){
for(int c = 0;c<25;c++){
for(int d = 0;d<25;d++){
for(int e = 0;e<25;e++){
if(a!=b && a!=c && a!=d && a!=e && b!=c && b!=d && b!=e && c!=d && c!=e && d!=e){
// every wolf is in a unique location
for(int x = 0;x<25;x++) Dirty[x] = false;
MarkDirty(Dirty , a);
MarkDirty(Dirty , b);
MarkDirty(Dirty , c);
MarkDirty(Dirty , d);
MarkDirty(Dirty , e);
if(CountClean(Dirty) > 2){
printf("Solution at %d %d %d %d %d\n" , a , b , c , d , e);
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
return 0;
}
void MarkDirty(bool* Dirty, int Cell){
int Row = Cell - (Cell % 5);
for(int x = Row;x<Row + 5;x++) Dirty[x] = true;
for(int x = 0;x<5;x++) Dirty[(Cell + (x*5)) % 25] = true;
for(int x = 0;x<5;x++) Dirty[(Cell + (x*5) + x) % 25] = true;
for(int x = 0;x<5;x++) Dirty[(Cell + (x*5) - x) % 25] = true;
return;
}
int CountClean(bool* Dirty){
int Count = 0;
for(int x = 0;x<25;x++){
if(!Dirty[x]) Count++;
}
return Count;
}
Approaching, but will never reach...Quote:
Originally Posted by Salem
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aparavoid
For some people it has already surpassed zero and is into negative numbers, we call them religious ;)
Haha I completely agree. Thanks for calling me out on that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by abachler
"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. — Confucius