Chan's Personal Blog

3:30am, that is exactly how late I was up last night finishing a crazy big assignment for my Artificial Intelligence class. Conversely, that is also how much sleep I got, three hours and thirty minutes. I had to be up at 7:00am for an early class.

My report for that class ended up being forty-four pages long. The first eight pages was documentation, and the final thirty-six pages was source code. If you ever need a good way to kill off trees, then printing off source code from a computer program is a good way to do it.

What made last night even more amusing was, after I finished writing my report, I started printing the whole thing off. Surely enough, my printer ran out of ink. Good times. The day got better as I headed for the bus this morning and missed it because it came a few minutes earlier than usual.

In either case, I managed to get through the day fairly well despite my sleep deprivation. I actually got a lot of programming done today at work too. I thought I was going to be a roaming zombie.

It has definitely been a while since my last all-nighter. I made an effort to never pull all-nighters any more ever since I finished my undergraduate degree as productivity exponentially drops off as the night moves on. You also start making some pretty stupid mistakes in your programming if you're not careful. If you're really out of it, then you end up creating more work. In either case, I'm getting too old for this .

Anyway, back to more assignment work.