Breakthrough

[dr_tectonic]

I got up this morning and suddenly realized that this chunk of the project that I've been putting off dealing with for weeks is actually really, really simple, and I know exactly how to implement it. I just have to move one piece of code from here to there, split a class into a base-class that does nothing and an extension that does a little bit, extend the dummy class into a third class that uses single-player mode, and then do the ensemble simulation with a shellscript that wraps the whole thing.

I got an hour's worth of heavy-duty thought work done before I was even out of the shower.

Sometimes being a knowledge worker is really weird.

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[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Well, I had a remarkably productive work period a couple of nights ago while I was asleep, followed by another decent one last night. The theorem my student and I have been struggling with for ages is almost done.

Sometimes, being a mathematician feels totally f-ing nuts.