Hello
Hey
B-cubed. That's a fun name. Are you a math guy?
Math girl... close though
Ah! Sorry...
how about you that's okay
I'm a CS major
oh awesome i'm applied math what makes you interested in cs
I wish I had done that. I like the mathy part of CS far more than the engineering part
i feel the same way i really enjoy programming but i especially enjoy understanding the math behind different algorithms
I love seeing a simple algorithm that can do something amazing. It feels like magic
what areas of cs are you most interested in?
Machine learning :) I'm especially interested in how abstract ideas are represented. Like... do you know what a GAN is?
yeah i do! i think gans are so cool and also very confusing to code up
Yeah! *offers hand for high five*
*gives high five* do you do research in machine learning? what do you do with gans?
Woo! What do you want to do with applied math? And yes, I'm actually part of the lab that put this chat thing together (although I'm not part of that specific project)
oh cool! i am not particularly interested in research in machine learning but i have a lot of fun seeing what machine learning methods can teach you
Oh, and as for what I do with GANs...... nothing, right now, but I know how they work so that I can use them if I need to.
i'm doing a machine learning project right now on predicting depression levels
Woah! I imagine you need to collaborate with psychologists to do something like that?
it's not very complex machine learning but i think it's cool how much more we can learn from using the computer's power
It is cool :) Any fun plans for the summer?
kind of! i graduate in august so i have a bunch of GEs to take this summer how about you?
I've really liked the GEs I've taken. I graduate in June :) I still have a class to take in the spring, but mostly I'll be here doing research. My wife and I are going on a cruise to Mexico with some friends at the end of May, and I'm stoked to see Infinity War at the beginning of May :)
That sounds way cool! Is your wife also graduating? Are you a big marvel fan? I'm going to be embarrassed if infinity wars isn't marvel
Oh! I forgot about the chat! Sorry. I am a big Marvel fan :) Well... mostly just the MCU... I don't like the recent X-men movies or Deadpool. My wife isn't a student. She works at the hospital as a billing specialist :)
oh very cool! i didn't really watch movies much growing up but i saw black panther and loved it have you seen black panther? what's the mcu?
Yes, Black Panther was one of my favorites. It had more heart and sincerity than some other MCU movies. MCU stands for Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's started with Iron Man in 2008 and it's all the Marvel movies that are all connected and leading towards the Infinity War movies. What GE classes will you be taking?
I loved black panther! I feel like a lot of movies lately have been trying to appeal to minority groups but they don't usually feel very natural. I though black panther did a great job at showing strong members of minorities in a really genuine and natural way i'm taking history of rhetoric, intro to theater, persuasive writing, and my last religion class