So here I am, minding my own business in my home computer room working on AI stuff for a future Elemental update when my wife comes in.
“Why aren’t you packed?” she asks.
“I’m packed,” I say, referring to my duffle bag with my iPad, laptop, and various computer books.
"We’re supposed to be leaving and all you have are gadgets and work books.”
“They’re not all work books.”
“Oh?” she asks. “Which of these isn’t?”
“Well, see ‘The Halls Below’, that’s not a computer book.” I respond.
“Isn’t a Penny Arcade book?” she demands.
“Well, sure, but it’s not a computer book.” I try to assure her.
“You’ve spent all afternoon and this evening on the computer instead of packing clothes, tooth brush, swimsuit, and other real people stuff?” she asks.
“Well, look, something came up.”
“Oh, tell me, husband.” she says.
“Well look at this, I can assassinate the AI’s sovereign with just a regular army.”
“So?”
This is where I, understandably, became shocked.
“So? So?!” I exclaim. “These are Channelers. Imbued by the Destiny to rebuild the world and I wiped one out with a bunch of guys with Lord hammers while my sovereignw as out on a quest. That’s an outrage.”
“Well there’s nothing you can do about that right now.”
“Ah, but I can! I wrote a function AIUnit::EvaluateAreaThreat(x,y,radius)! The guys have all these cool vectors where I can quickly determine what’s in an area quickly. It’s amazing stuff that I can use to make the AI wipe the floor with these bloody humans.” I explain.
“Vectors are just glorified arrays anyway,” my wife (CS major) says. “Besides, we are supposed to leave and we’re missing out on a beautiful full moon.”
“I saw it, you can tell it’s fake.”
“What? Fake? What are you talking about?” My wife says.
“It’s an uncanny valley thing. I saw the moon earlier. They rendered it wrong. There’s clearly two light sources.”
“ARE YOU INSANE? Who is ‘they’?” my wife demands.
“I dunno who exactly. I don’t want to get into a blame game here. The model seems right, I think it’s just a lighting issue.”
“GET. OFF. THE. COMPUTER. NOW.”
See you guys in a week or so.
I suppose. A vector provides a lot of flexibility that an array doesn't, especially because you don't know how big it needs to be at compile time (I'm assuming we're talking about C++ here). In much the same way that Garbage Collection takes away the necessity for the programmer to predict exactly how the program is going to run over time, so too do vectors.
I think at this point we're taking the conversation way too seriously.
R.O.F.L
This was hilarious Have fun on vacation
That just killed me!
Funniest part: I've been a part of those conversations w/my spouse... playing the part of Brad's wife!
I love her dearly, and she's a heck of a professional, but once she sinks her teeth into something...
Enjoy some days off
“Vectors are just glorified arrays anyway,” my wife (CS major) says. “Besides, we are supposed to leave and we’re missing out on a beautiful full moon.” Nice pull Frogboy
Nice pull Frogboy
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