Con-putron
*this post has been edited since June 18 4.43PM GMT+8;00 (singapore time) and a single paragraph was added. if you read this post before this time, the added paragraph is actually "scene FOUR" *today went for the computer competition c0mputr0n, but kena conned, it was basically a mathematical, illogical, speed and luck based competition.
wasn't supposed to go for the competition, but cause shermond signed up and went to m'sia, can't possibly leave his group members with 1 missing member, so filled in for him.
during registration in the morning, i kept wondering if my name will be registered as shermond or willy, and if shermond has told them i'm replacing him for the round. then when they say must take out ez-link card to check, i was quite worried. luckily it seems that there was no name filled in and the guy just filled in my name.
it would seem like hci ppl are naturally attracted to mug notes. was mugging my phy notes, and just as i started mugging, all the hci (ok maybe only 2) started inching towards me, until they were in visible range of my notes and started reading them. Person A: "hey, thats wrong, centripetal acceleration cannot be used to calculate the acceleration as the earth is not round". Person B: "hey, are you mugging this for a competition? what? you have astrophysics in your syllabus? thats so lucky"
i missed the first round cause it was held on the 10th when i was still at JEX, so nothing to say about it. 2nd round was basically a impossible mcq quiz. heres one of the questions:
What is a GIGABYTE?
1. 1024 bit
2. 1024 byte
3. 1024 KB
4. 1024 MB
it was impossible to imagine how easy the quiz was.
but still made a few screwed ups here and there, kena tricked by the cunning simplicity of the questions and ended up owning myself. but somehow my group still made it to the finals! well done minghan and jcheng!
finals was much more exasperating than the quiz. first you think of the simplest IT question you can come up with. next you look at the questions being flashed, and you wonder if you accidentally went to the pre-school category finals instead.
What do you do when the computer freezes?
1. Call up the service centre
2. Kick the computer
3. [insert option which i cannot rmb]
4. Restart the computer
5. you put it to your head cause you're getting a fever just by looking at how stupid the questions are.
then theres also this question on Operating Systems:
Which of the following media is hard and stores just over 1MB of data
1. CD
2. DVD
3. Diskette
4. Harddisk
5. Thumbdrive
in case you havent realised, the answer is diskette and may i ask, wth does a diskette have to do with OSs? oooooh i know! diskette has the letters 'o' and 's' in it! oh wait, it doesn't.... (i think the computer isn't the only thing freezing around here)
and theres this question on Logic (or should i say lack of it?)
All humans are mammals
All mammals are animals
-> there are some humans are animals
What will aristotle think of the statement?
1. True 2. False 3. Valid 4. Invalid
and the answer is..... INVALID! why? the conclusion assumes that humans exist which the premise doesn't say (WTF?!). and when minghan said "by answering this question, i have already proven that humans exist" which was well received by the audience, but the judges merely said their decision is final and didn't even bother to explain anymore (WTF WTF WTF?)
then theres this smart guy from HCI, REALLY smart. there was this qn that goes like this:
Q. Who is the most well-known person in initializing the Linux project?
A. Linus Torvalds
and he cleverly pointed out that the person who initialized the Linux project was actually Linus's teacher who told him that he should do something about it. and pangwei responded by pointing out the word "well-known". apparently being a teacher doesn't give you much recognition.
this same smart guy is quite pissing. didn't really like him much since last years techn0quest webpage design component. our group made this nice blue webpage to which he stood up and said "according to research done by xxx, it is shown that blue is not a good colour to use for background on webpages as it is not very visible". oh wow, great research, that research probably also shows that using light grey font on dark grey background is very visible, and it is the projector's fault that we can see our webpage extremely clearly but not theirs.
finals was damn screwed up also, especially the buzzer round. at first the rules was that when you buzz in, you have 60 seconds to answer the qn. then they realised that every team buzzed in before the question was shown. so they changed it to that you have to answer the question within 3 secs after buzzing in, and other screwed up things started happening.
scene ONE.
*team buzzes in*
1...2...3..
"Our answer is-"
"sorry your time is already up"
scene TWO
*team buzzes in*
1...2...
team: "The first answer is X......H.......T........M.........L and the second answer is XML"
us: "hey, that was definitely more than 3 seconds"
mc: "they started answering before 3 seconds"
(they were soooo obviously not trying to delay time so that they can think of the 2nd answer)
scene THREE
Question: What does GNU stand for?
*team C buzzes in with team B slightly lagging behind*
mc: "team B whats your answer?"
team B: "GNU is Not Unix"
mc: "oh sorry, team C buzzed in first"
team B: (wtf?) [added this myself lol]
team C: "er the answer is.... " '=
*about 20 second passes and hint auto flashes on the screen*
team C: "our answer is GNU is Not Unix"
scene FOUR
team B: "the answer is a"
mc: "i'm sorry thats wrong"
*team A buzzes in*
team A: "i think the answer is b"
mc: "you're guessing right?"
team A: *grins sheepishly*
mc: "is that your final answer? you still have 15 seconds left"
15... 10... 5
mc: "do you want to change your answer?
team A: "erm sorry, can i change my an-?"
mc: "lucky you! you got it correct!"
the finals was really ill-organised and ill-planned. it can barely be considered a computer competition. even the prize presentation screwed up. there were no top prizes for the individual highest quiz scorers for secondary schs cause all the prizes was accidentally awarded to jc students -_-. even the MC was pissed with the organizers. no wonder we had to return the feedback form BEFORE the finals started.
but not bad, managed to get 3rd (out of 3 teams in the finals). got a nice trophy, 6 months subscription of hardware zone magazine and $66.67 per member of the team. guess it wasn't a wasted trip lol.
conputron apart, can more brudders post? jem and chin still got post but the rest??? ah boy once in a while. eugene only left memories of him. yzyz zzzzzzz liao. cheeky earning big bucks at kfc. dali play his sports until dunno where liao. then weeps still weeping in his house. all come and blog leh.... keep the blog alive man. post boring, sian, short also nvm what. my blogging skills so noob, jokes so cold also post. mahjong also must have all the tiles then can play what.
W toked kok @ 6/17/2006 09:55:00 pm
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