Sasha's Journal - Day

1:58AM - Memory lane...

Not long after I started undergrad at UofT, before the days of the world-wide-web, a program I had written in high-school was mentioned in a newsletter I found on the Internet. I've been slowly moving old references, such as this, out of ref_ (and friends) and into a more flexible archive here. I still think the article is cute and the program Net is a source of a lot of nostalgia. Here is the excerpt from the article: ( Read more... )

Perhaps the most effective trick is used by the vampire program Net. It looks quickly through memory and only throws bombs when it finds a potential victim. This stealth can be devastating to nearly any program, and so far I have not been able to write a program that can consistently find it before being found. ¹ ( Read more... )

There is something uncanny about this trip down memory lane. I remember enjoying a moment of "vicarious" pride at Net's mention and babbling about Quantum Mechanics (eg. in my QM class) and wondering how I should go about making a "Quantum" version of Corewar for a living. More than ten years later I've put up an Internet server-- Science.Fiction.Org-- running my Quantum Coreworld. And in the coming days, weeks (and months) I'll post more about it here.

I have to confess that all this is, somehow, terrifying. When you get a shot at child-hood dreams as an adult it's only your own fault if you mess up.

1. Lindensmith, C. 1992. Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck. The Core War Newsletter 5(4):5-8. GZIPed Postscript.