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• Quick Guide for writing Mini Essays #short

  • Mini essays must be concise, they should only talk about a single topic. As the name suggests, mini essays must be small, preferably 100-500 words.

  • Write prompts early on to avoid writer block

  • structure - intro, body, conclusion. Simple and effective

  Intro

  • Ways to write intro
    • Straight into the topic
    • Evoke emotion
    • Ask a question
    • Use a story
  • Hooks...

• Binary Systems

  MSB

  • The bit which represents the highest order of an integer.

  • Typically the left most bit.

  • In case of signed integers, MSB is used to indicate the nature of the integer.

  • For a binary number consisting of n-bits, n-1 bits is used for storing the value and nth bit for storing its sign.

  • MSB has a...

• A Basic Intro to Lambda Calculus #short

  • λ calculus is universal, any computable function can be expressed and evaluated in terms of λ. Thus making it equivalent to a Turing machine.
  • It emphasis on the transformation of expressions.

  Terminologies

  • An expression can be recursively defined as:

    • expression := <name> | <function> | <application>
    • function := λ<name>.<expression>
    • application := <expression> <expression>

  • λx.x

    • This is an example...