[quote=afx114][quote=Hatfield]Nice interview. Also: UCSD Cog Sci, represent! I had no idea.

Go Tritons![/quote]

WTF, I represent UCSD Cog Sci as well. What is it about us?[/quote]Mine was UCSD – EECE/Computer Engineering – Revelle, I actually enjoyed Math 2F.
[quote=Rich Toscano]BTW for any youths reading this, I wouldn’t recommend doing that… switching to a major just bc you think it’s interesting. Unless you are going to go into academia in that topic. But otherwise, I’d recommend optimizing for career/job getting preparation vs. interestingness.[/quote]I switched, partially because it was interesting, partially because I had to put myself through UCSD – on my own dime, no grants. Comp-Eng was the only way I could figure to get a job while putting myself through college at same time. I was originally Physics/Engineering. PS: Loved the Compiler class (EECE 163) – ok, yes I might be ‘demented’.
[quote=Rich Toscano]Glad someone finally found a use for recursion…[/quote]How about lambda functions, particularly self-writing code. It is possible to do that in Lisp.
[quote zk]Huh. That was just like when my wife’s family is over, and I’m listening but they’re speaking Chinese, and suddenly they all laugh.[/quote]EECE 163 was known for having students ‘camp-in’ on the lab when the University was running it on timeshare Vax11/750, Ridge Pyramid or HP Snake. I think at one time, the machine was sdcc13.ucsd.edu. With PCs, that all changed, though you still have to work longer than normal hours to complete the homework assignments. I remember having to queue my compiles for EECS 163. It helped that on the second quarter (163B), I had access to an early Sun Microsystems SunII (Multibus Sun) as well as a Vax11/780 all to myself at night from where I was working.