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That's just a normal school day at Carnegie Mellon University. :)
She just analyzed the syntax tree of the sentence. Where I'm from, that's a normal school day in middle school. Of course this is a long and convoluted sentence, but the process is not more complicated, it's just longer.
... from "a point halfway between (a point halfway between (the center of the wall) and (the upper left corner)) and (the midpoint of the left side) and (the upper left corner)" to ...
There are 4 points and only two operators, i.e., "a point halfway between". The pseudocode given has used three "halfway between" operators on these four points (on lines 5, 7 and 9). I don't know how that interpretation was arrived at.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
She just analyzed the syntax tree of the sentence. Where I'm from, that's a normal school day in middle school. Of course this is a long and convoluted sentence, but the process is not more complicated, it's just longer.
Anything sounds trivial if you start the sentence with '(S)he just ...'. And you say that as though a few dozen bright students didn't fail to accomplish the same task.
What really surprises me is that nobody reported the mistake to the professor.
FOURTH LINE is missing a colon and there are dashes missing all over the place! That pseudocode would never compile!
> Melanie Nailed It
> (diagrams showing wrong answers of other students)
> (diagram labeled with "Lewitt" and "Melanie")
> If I were Pace Gallery, I know whom I would hire.
> each of the corners of Lewitt’s quadrilateral was reliably located by about a quarter of the students
> marvelous pseudocode system
> As far as I’m concerned, Melanie has earned the right to title her pseudocode as she did [SOLLEWITTFUCKYOU]. This document is really a gem
> (entire homework answer)
ick ick ick. It's like when a teacher photocopies your essay and hands it out to everybody else in the class as an example of stellar writing, except now it's on the internet.
I can't fully parse the first point of the first line, the part in quotes below. I have added parenthesis on the parts that I can parse: ... from "a point halfway between (a point halfway between (the center of the wall) and (the upper left corner)) and (the midpoint of the left side) and (the upper left corner)" to ... There are 4 points and only two operators, i.e., "a point halfway between". The pseudocode given h…
Given that the line has a FROM and TO point, we can extract those:
FROM
a point halfway between a point halfway between the center of
the wall and the upper left corner and the midpoint of the left
side and the upper left corner
TO
a point halfway between the midpoint of the top side and the
upper right corner
FROM
a point halfway between:
1. a point halfway between the center of the wall and the upper
left corner and the midpoint of the left side
2. the upper left corner
TO
a point halfway between:
1. the midpoint of the top side
2. the upper right corner
FROM
a point halfway between:
1. a point halfway between:
a. the center of the wall
b. the upper left corner
c. the midpoint of the left side
2. the upper left corner
TO
a point halfway between:
1. the midpoint of the top side
2. the upper right corner
FROM
a point halfway between:
1. a point halfway between the center of the wall and the upper
left corner
2. [a point halfway between] the midpoint of the left side and
the upper left corner
TO
a point halfway between:
1. the midpoint of the top side
2. the upper right corner
FROM
a point halfway between:
1. a point halfway between:
a) the center of the wall
b) the upper left corner
2. a point halfway between:
a) the midpoint of the left side
b) the upper left corner
TO
a point halfway between:
1. the midpoint of the top side
2. the upper right corner
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anything sounds trivial if you start the sentence with '(S)he just ...'. And you say that as though a few dozen bright students didn't fail to accomplish the same task.
They failed because the instructions are incorrect and cannot be parsed (assuming, as is reasonable, that they were given the instructions seen in the blog post). It's quite possible that the only student who succeeded did so because she misread the first sentence in just the right way. Note that the assignment has "the first of which is drawn from a point halfway between a point halfway between the center of the wal…
I think someone else in the class did:
> Michelle has asserted that the statement, as it appears in the Pace catalogue, only makes sense when an additional phrase is added.
Which linked to: http://cmuems.com/2013/a/michelle/08/29/quadrangle/
I can't fully parse the first point of the first line, the part in quotes below. I have added parenthesis on the parts that I can parse: ... from "a point halfway between (a point halfway between (the center of the wall) and (the upper left corner)) and (the midpoint of the left side) and (the upper left corner)" to ... There are 4 points and only two operators, i.e., "a point halfway between". The pseudocode given h…
The first line is given in the text as: "... first of which is drawn from a point halfway between a point halfway between the center of the wall and the upper left corner and the midpoint of the left side and the upper left corner to a point halfway between the midpoint of the top side and the upper right corner". Given that the line has a FROM and TO point, we can extract those: FROM a point halfway between a point…
Now I'm expecting someone to make a parser/interpreter and a Sol Lewitt image encoding format using the genetic algorythm that turn images into semi transparent polygons :).
I've stood in a gallery and followed a different Sol Lewitt location drawing before and it had a similar error - an instruction missing.
I wonder, then, if these are deliberate omissions on the part of Lewitt?
I can't fully parse the first point of the first line, the part in quotes below. I have added parenthesis on the parts that I can parse: ... from "a point halfway between (a point halfway between (the center of the wall) and (the upper left corner)) and (the midpoint of the left side) and (the upper left corner)" to ... There are 4 points and only two operators, i.e., "a point halfway between". The pseudocode given h…
The first line is given in the text as: "... first of which is drawn from a point halfway between a point halfway between the center of the wall and the upper left corner and the midpoint of the left side and the upper left corner to a point halfway between the midpoint of the top side and the upper right corner". Given that the line has a FROM and TO point, we can extract those: FROM a point halfway between a point…
[1] http://imgur.com/U0sIlNE (based on my own parsing)