KENNETH PORIO | the blog

Oh, well, I'm back to what I thought was my Waterloo topic in CMSC57 last year: Recurrence Relations and Generating Functions . As I don't want to fail again to look at that definition again that linear homogenous recurrence relations of degree d with constant coefficients (whew!) are of this form: and generating functions are of this form: , I skimmed through a few in the myriads of books on Discrete Math. I'm so happy that my family gave me a chance to hold a copy of Discrete Mathematics and its Applications by Kenneth Rosen, and it gave me hope in those previous topic discussed which were combinatorics and graph theory. My instructor, Prof. Vanessa Ramoran mostly uses Rosen in her discussions, which gave me some sort of relief. (Good thing the author's name is same as mine. LOL X-D) Rosen also has a preview of the topics relating to my future Computer Science courses: Logic Circuits and Boolean Algebra for CMSC130 and Automata Theory for CMSC141. I'm look...

Natilaw nako ang atsal sa usa ka platitong kalderetang kambing. Lami nga pagka-parat nga pagka-halang. Lamas ra man na ang atsal. Walay hinabang gayud. Pero kon walay atsal dili lami ang nakaon nimong pagka-lami sa pagka-sarsa. KENNETH Atsal is a Cebuano term for bell pepper .

I'm planning to sell or lease these books I currently have above in the next semester so that they will be of good use to my fellow UPians in their subjects. Elements of Style will be useful in AH1/COMM1 or AH2/COMM2. Discrete Mathematics... by Rosen will be useful in CMSC56/57 or MATH101. I'll think it over first... KENNETH

I dared to ask this question in my mind: “Will I be a person who will be remembered a lot here in UP?” To that, Rumi “answers” through a line of one of his poems: “Fall into his hands and you will weep like a cloud; Run from him and you will freeze over like snow.” While pondering upon Rumi's “answer”, I thought if I became too proud of myself lately. I became too selfish and self-centered. I did not care if I ruined the pride of my family, my friends – my whole circle of life. I began to catch a realization that the pronoun him refers to my God. I ran away from God and turned to my own way of showing myself that I am a student of UP, without recognizing my relationship to him. These days I feel so cold about my relationship to God, to my family and friends. I feel so empty inside that I am not really enjoying my growth as a person and as a part of the society. The Word of God says that when we draw near to him, fall into his hands, then we will weep in our sorrows while we...

Short ways are not always the right ways. It takes an algorithm to find the path that leads you to success. Infinite it was, finite I found it now. My path starts: zero, A; my path ends: x, Z. x: the length of the short way. Z the endpoint. Finding it took a long way. Think it over, quick! swiftly! O the infinity sign, get lost on that table! I need the path - the short way. Make my node permanent. I'll trace it when I end. Yes...A to Z. A to Z - the path - short way. Why it has to have a long way for the short way to be known? Maybe that's the way it should be; shortcuts take a long time...long time. Dijkstra, my dear. I see how you did it. Others have done their own proper way. But nothing in theirs is short. Never ever short. KENNETH (Fumbling over Dijkstra.)