Huh, the more features I add to my personal site, the slower the total build time. Adding the tagging feature increased the build time to around 10s. But who cares, I only build the site when I need to deploy, I don't need to build during development and testing.
The codebase has gotten quite a mess though. Anyway, it's mostly temporary, throwaway code that it will change according to my ephemeral whims.
I now have a roughly working algorithm for finding a factor given a number, and by extension, testing whether a given number is prime. It doesn't involve testing against a (possibly large) set of numbers. It's largely a conjecture if it holds for all numbers. I'm still working through examples that I think could be a counter-example, and thus prove the conjecture wrong. Since I'm not a mathematician, it's a long way for me to be able to formulate a mathematical proof. For now, finding counter-examples is easier.
The question is, will it be any better than the current algorithms? I don't know, depends on the complexity of finding the common factors between a number. I think gcd is pretty fast. Fast or not, it doesn't matter, it would be cool enough to create my own algorithm.
Aha, I managed to tag 800 images in one sitting, for about a half an hour. I did with just keybindings using vim and the dolphin file manager. I should just write a script in the future though.
Frieren, Dungeon Meshi and Shanri-la have the most picturesque screenshots. They really do have a good art, I could just take any random screenshots and it would likely look good.
Fu, I actually have a thousand of images to tag, I can't believe I've accumulated that much screenshots already. I should limit the screenshots when I watch anime. Also, lol I can't even remember for the life of me what the names of anime I watched. Even the catchy titles like Solo Leveling.
I have now implemented tagging on my personal site, and current I'm tediously adding tags to each log and image. I kind of wish I did this earlier. Oh well, it's not that bad, it's mostly a repetitive, mechanical work.
Well, it's midday of an early week in a yet another blazing hot day, and I'm lethargic as fuck again. There's lots of things I could do, or rather, I feel like I should do, yet here I am staring blankly at my untrimmed toe. I'm even too lazy to play games.
Maybe I should eat some chocolate. I had a long good sleep last night, yet I feel extra tired when I woke up.
Still, I should just do something, anything, however trivial or useless it is. Does typing all of this counts as doing something?
Actually I'm still working on my notebook, on my futile goal of trying to find other ways to factor a number. I do this before I start my day, while caffeine is still fresh in my biological systems. Why am still even working on it? Because I'm actually slowly making progress, I feel like I'm almost there. My gut feeling, could be wrong, is that there's no reason to resort to brute force when doing primality testing. What so special about prime numbers anyway?
Mathematicians defined a restriction that the factors should be natural numbers, but without that restriction, prime numbers are nothing special. I could also also try changing the unit other than 1. Yes, in my hypothetical universe where people have digit fingers of 1+N~, some (all?) primes become composite, and composite becomes prime.
But that's cheating, a math nerd would say. Yeah, but if my delusions turned out to be true, then prime numbers are mere superficial constraints imposed by our current mathematical system.
I have several algorithms that (at least appears to) work reliably well on small numbers. I could write programs to handle bigger numbers. It remains to be seen whether I could find (or prove) a general solution that works on any number. Or not, I'm just a lowly outsider to the art of mathematics. As always, I'm most likely just wasting my worthless time. No matter, my curiosity is fixated on doing this, I will keep on doing it, until I find something else to do.
No, find a job you stupid hiki-NEET.
Well, another week has gone by. I'm slowly trying to build up my motivation and get back on my feet. Not even sure what to write right now, anything goes I guess. I should take note of positive things for a change.
These days, it's been quite windy. It has also been quite hot, sometimes I'd be constantly sweating throughout the day, especially when I move around a lot. I should increase my usual water intake to avoid dehydration. I don't mind the heat and sweating though, it feels good in fact to have the wind blow and dry my sweat away.
I also finally managed to beat the final-final boss on Ys: Oath in Felghana. I even managed to beat it on first or second try, without too much effort. With 7 HP left, I did it. Maybe I was well-rested and relatively anxiety-free. Or let my mind take a break from something difficult and come back on it with a better insight or skill.
But most likely, it's because I lowered the graphics settings and improved the FPS. Suddenly, deflecting the dark energy ball wasn't so difficult. Maybe it's all of the above.
No it's actually because I've been watching Shangri-La, an anime where the main character is an otaku who likes beating kusoge (diffult, shitty games). I think Ys games qualify as kusoge. I doubt a very attractive, big-breasted young woman is secretly into me, but it's quite easy to imagine myself as a bird-brained freak who fixates on terribly wrong or challenging things.
It's been a while since I last saw this ending. I wonder if Adol ever went back to Felghana to see Elena again. Looking it up, it doesn't look like she appeared anywhere in the later subsequent releases, so it's left for the player's imagination. What I imagine is that Adol never ever came back, and Elena grew old, decreipt and desolate, but still hopeful until the very end.
I also started playing Ys: Origin next. With the blessings of bird-brained sunraku, I've been in girigiri (close-call) situations, where I defeated several bosses with barely HP left. I even defeated the centipede boss with 1 HP left while poisoined. That's almost like Sunraku, except with a serpent instead of a centipede.
