Hello?
hello
Oh, hi!
id say neither just Dave Matthews Band
Haha, funny. I like Beethoven, but . . . I mean, I don't listen to classical all the time. I can't tell the two apart. :3 But anyway.
ya i cant either
I'm curious. Do you know how the point system works here? I can't find solid answers.
i even took a music class last semester and learned quite a bit about both of them and have since forgotten everything hahaha
Oh, really? Well, hey, credit is good, too.
and im not sure exactly, i thought i heard someone say that it was by the number of bytes that your account sends
Really? Huh. I wonder why people wouldn't just copy and paste large blocks of text. You know, increase their word count and whatnot. Maybe take a stroll down thesaurus lane and pick up all those fancy sounding words.
ya i have no idea...i think they throw out anything that isn't actually "chattish" but once again, I have no actual idea haha
Me neither. :) But, man, I'd love to see the code! I'd like to fix some of the chat interface . . . I have to reload something like 7 times to get a real person.
what bugs have you found? really? i haven't found anything like that
Oh, no real bugs, just annoyances. Really? Huh. Must be just me. I know I've run into a couple of people who have had trouble finding people to talk to.
i think it depends if someone is online at the same time to chat with you to get real people
Oh, right right, that makes sense. I'm now suddenly randomly self-conscious of the laptop camera staring at me. I need to find a piece of tape or something . . .
do you have a webcam blocker?
Not currently. I think it'd be troublesome to find for a chromebook. Plus . . . heh, I don't really trust those. A blocker may or may not work. But slap some paper over the front, and they'll never get through.
ya thats what i meant by a blocker hahaha
Oh. Haha, my bad. Now I'm wondering if there are apps for it. They're probably like those anti-virus programs. Curious. Do you use those? You know, like McAfee or Norton or something?
nah man, i just dont go to sketchy sites or download weird things haha
Oh, good good good. To be honest, I've always been suspicious of them. Buuuut that's probably the skeptic in me.
nah everyone is out just to make money basically, its good to be skeptical haha
I suppose. :) What's your major? Oh, wait, you're a student, right? . . . wait. Does that qualify as personal information?
no clue haha
I mean, they can't track you down THAT hard, right? I'd say we're dealing with megadata, but that seems unlikely. There's only a few hundred users. How many words could they POSSIBLY get?
a lot of words haha
Haha, yeah, I guess you're right.
i bet there are people out there just constantly chatting on this thing
And those are the people who're going to get the macbooks and whatnot. I'm telling you, I'm TELLING you, people would write bots for this. The conversations would be trash, but you could increment the point counter.
ya exactly haha. im interested in Data Science and analytics though, so i thought that it would be nice to help some people out with it
Hey, me, too! I recently took CS 224. Heard of it?
ya and i figured that people probably would write bots or scripts to do that ya 224 was the worst class i ever took
Haha, no kidding. They should make a "I survived 224" badge somewhere. Pin it on your transcript.
especially after they changed the material
Did you take it before or after the revision?
after
So . . . like last semester?
ya haha
Oh! I heard it was wicked hard. I mean, it's still hard, but I heard that that semester was just cruel.
ya, and Jones isn't a very good teacher in my opinion
Oh, you got Jones, eh? I have Prof. Mercer, if you've heard of him. He's great. But anyway, all I can think about is exploiting this program. I don't really know how, but I'm kinda in that mindset.
i dont know enough about bots or scripts to try that haha, all i can think of trying is grabbing a bunch of text from some random website and pasting it in
I wonder if there's a limit. One moment, I'ma find a gigantic block of text and paste in it.
doubt it
Is it segmenting it?
i just found 3 different blocks
Well, didn't seem to have a limit.
the stuff i found seems like it doesnt make sense though, kinda gibberish...? hahaha
It tested the limit, though! I think? I don't think we actually reached it. I was about to paste the Declaration of Independence, but then I thought better of it because I worried it might mess with their data analysis or something. Buuuut, well, that's done with already. I wonder how much garbage text they get. Kinda like the above. Random words. Or even paragraphs that make sense by themselves but hold no context.
i bet a ton of garbage
Do you think the creators anticipated that? Prepared for it?
ya probably which is why i think theres gonna be something to weed it out
That's crazy. Obviously, a human call tell it's random. But, to a computer, it kinda words, doesn't it? Maybe the top scorers get their conversations screened or something. *works
ya i wouldnt be surprised if the top scorers got screened
I still have no idea how many points we have. Is there a way to check? Also, where on earth are you getting those? And for random word generators, I wonder how many cycles you'd have to iterate through before you got a full paragraph that made logical sense. Kinda like pi. If you could come up with a good system to convert numbers into letters, you could, theoretically, scan pi for messages. Most of it would be a garbled, indecipherable mess of letters, but some of it would make sense. And since pi is infinite it, technically, has every single novel ever written. Every single poem, every single speech, every single event recorded in detail. If you looked far enough, you'd find it all. Of course, if you spent enough time, you could wear down the mountains of infinity with nothing but a bird beak (xkcd reference), but that doesn't mean it's reasonable. Or even feasible. . . . I've gone off on a tangent. Well.
i just searched large text blocks
Umm. Hey, hey, stop. One sec. Just got an email: "Guys -  Stop screwing with our data.  The whole of deploying the CCC to BYU students was that we expected students to be reasonable, helpful users.  If we see any other data fabrication from you, we'll disqualify you with out further discussion." Like, two minutes ago. It was addressed to two people. Um. Preeeetty sure they monitor these.
hahahahahahahahaha thats pretty funny
Funny, I suppose, but I feel bad. Welp. Um. Least that answered my question. They may throw out this chat session to preserve their data. In which case, maybe wanna end and start anew with others?
hahaha ya probably, see ya