New World - Wandering in the thick of night

Right now I'm doing my best to quickly learn the Python programming language. I've gotten a lot of advice from friends, and I've been sluggin' away at codecademy.com and some videos I saved from a couple of months I spent before in U of T's CSC108 (when I wasn't learning it for serious reasons).

To be honest, my motivation and interest right now is pretty damn high. I have a lot of reasons why I really need to do this, and time is of the essence! I am really going at it!
To be honest some more, I'm also really scared of it. I am excited by even the mere thought of programming battleship, Tetris, or a text adventure such as Pokemon! However, the more I read up on or get told about all I need to learn to do and about all the things some friends of mine already can and do do - hehe, I said "doo-doo!" - the more I'm kind of just like, "woah, shit!"

Am I going to give up? Not a chance. Am I going to ignore the intimidation and feelings of hopelessness?

Hell yeah~

I've been browsing a lot of programming-related stuff recently, especially some incredibly informative and interesting Youtube videos, and today I took a little peak at my friends (outdated?) blog.

Honestly, I have no clue what he is talking about, and I don't know how many years it would take me to get 1/4 as far as he has. Not to mention, that last post at the top of the page was from four years ago. I quickly saw "SDK" written near the top and almost kid myself that he might be talking about Go, since he plays.


Nope.


But you know what, this is probably something like what it feels for starting Go players. So...

I'm going to go at this the same way I went at Go back when I was improving quickly at Go as a Kyu player who wanted to become a professional player (yeah... well... I REGRET NOTHING!!).

I'll keep making some updates about my progress with programming. Wish me luck! Or at least... wish me greater probability?

For anyone wondering when the heck I'm going to get around to finishing and posting chapters of stories, such as Love Lilycove or one of my Fate AU fanfics... They are coming.


I'll do my best!! I'll become a programmer!!


For now I may wander in the thick of the night,
But I'll run and I'll fearlessly take on this fight,
For the now is my goddess who beams down so bright,
To rid my future of eternal twilight

~Yukigami

Nevermelt-blog

Yukigami in da house.

I've had a lot of blogs in the past. You'll be able to find those blogs and things easily on this one once I find the time to get it all organized (Summer is coming!).

I've had at least 2-3 other blogs plus a live journal, not to mention MySpace, a website through Tripod, and more... But this one is here to stay. I may have made this same claim about other blogs in the past, but this one will not share the same Fate.

Right now I'm studying for a difficult and heavily-weighted (final exam-like) stats test I have tomorrow. After that test, I need to write an essay on fantasy due the next day, and then write another essay due 6 days after that's a great deal more of a pain in the ass - an increased-difficulty variant of a Shakespeare essay. I'm planning to write on the topic relating to "airs and spirits."

Right now I just have absolutely no time to be blogging, but I plan to blog after I submit my Shakespeare essay due on the 19th, after which I should finally, after all this stress, despair, and chaos, have at least a day or two somewhat off from hardcore writing/studying. I may make a quick blog post before the 19th, but that's it.

The next thing I plan to blog about is the fact that I've joined the Canadian Go Association (CGA) newsletter team as an editor and writer. I have submitted this Joseki tutorial - the first of many to come - to the newsletter, and the newsletter containing it has been published and sent out to the CGA. You can view the newsletter here (March newsletter). Note: this link does not (yet) direct you precisely to said newsletter. In fact, the url is misleading as it seems to bring us to the home page with a different url. But just scroll down the newsletter tab :)

Oh, and I will be editing my "Subway Joseki" tutorial, since it was edited a little both by myself and by the other CGA newsletter editor before being published. Those changes will be made to the blog version within two weeks :)

Au revoir!

Awesome Cha La Head metal cover! Oh the nostalgia~ ~ !

 

 

~Yukigami

Very Busy! Hello and Small Go Update

Hello everyone! Yukigami here~

I haven't been able to post much of anything lately because of school ><
Right now I'm at a very busy spot, with two essays and two tests all jam packed into a short time period. I'm losing sleep!

For now I'll just post a little Go update.

Recently my Tygem suffered a lot. I was already not performing as well as usual for a bunch of games, but I lost some over and over due to disconnection, poor sportsmanship (forcing me to lose via spamming counting and draw requests in my face), and otherwise time out. There were a lot of legitimate losses, but the illegitimate ones were extremely frustrating!

Anyway, when April swings around I'll have to play some games and get it back to 7d :)

I started playing on WBaduk(formerly OroBaduk) again for the first time in years! My name there is Yukigami. The ratings there seem slightly softer even then Tygem ranks, or otherwise about the same. It was very easy for me to get to 7d there and I think 8d could be possible! I'm glad that it doesn't take quite as long to rank up there as it does on Tygem. The relative downside however is that when you rank up, you remain just at the threshold and a loss can put you back down to the previous point of almost being at that level. I got to 7d so far but I've only played against one 7d so far. He was pretty decent I guess, I made some silly strategic mistakes probably due to lingering complacence caused by the 4d-6d opponents leading up to that game.

KGS is more or less the usual, floating between upper 4d and lower 5d, though I haven't been playing much there lately. Compared to on Tygem or WBaduk, it's difficult to find an opponent on KGS sometimes.


Okay, adios!!


Good luck with essays/exams/important deadlines, presentations and pursuits!

~Yukigami

Rosario and Manga

Yukigami here~



I came to a pretty obvious conclusion just now while studying for my 6pm Fantasy and Horror midterm.

I should read the Rosario and Vampire manga! Even though I had the conclusions spoiled for me, they sound like what I'd wished for for the story as a continuation of the dissatisfyingly inconclusive anime ending.