Traditional RTL and Bluespec perspectives on skid buffers and friends

Public service announcement for 6.191 students struggling with lab 6 (and others).

Here’s a fun problem that I came up with a while ago.

There are lots of things I have been wanting to write about.

• Projects I want to do.
• Projects I have done.
• Things I want to learn.
• Things I have learned.
• Hunches and opinions I have had.

This is a summary of How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing, abbreviated HTDP.

I forgot my favorite method of deriving Y combinator for the n-th time, so this time I am forcing myself to write this up as a quick reminder.

Lately I have been forcing many of my friends to listen/watch this mini-lecture of mine about Haskell and infinite streams. I thought it was pretty cool, so I wanted to share it here too.

In which I nerd about SICP.

Last time, I wrote about my first-month impression of the COVID-infested Fall semester. It has been three months since then, and I’m honestly surprised at how fast it was. Yet, simultaneously, each week felt painfully slow. I guess this is what happens when there are a lot of deadlines and your brain can only handle so many at once.

This blog was originally named “first week of classes review,” but all of you can probably guess what happened. I was thinking of whether I should postpone this until the first semester ended but figured I have too many things I want to say right now, so welcome to a rant an MIT review! I’m covering everything starting ranging from orientation, classes, COVID-era plans, to my sleep log. Refer to the table of contents below for… contents.