If I had to give a TED talk tomorrow it would be about efficient procrastination studying
Oh, man what a great question
I would talk on that, as that is what I am doing right now. That or efficient test preparation strategies. I also figured out my double account identity, so that is nice. I got it all worked out.
Poop, is there anything I can help. My TED Talk would be on how to be the most efficient typer Even though, I realize this is not doing very well. Oh, your double identity! That makes so much sense now. I was wondering why your name was changing someties
I made my first account with my student ID number. Then I emailed the curators of the chit chat challenge, and they told me that they had fixed it. I made another account with
sometimes
my byu ID
Oh, sweet, that works out perfect Hey, while talking to you Im going to also try to expand my vocabulary, might as well get two things out of this. Not only that but uncommon words rank higher Ok, that was actually harder than I thought. Hahah
I mean made the second one with my netID, and then it  stopped working too. It turns out I just needed to sign in with those instead of with my email.
I just started looking up stuff and then I was like, I dont know how to make these work in my sentence oh, thats weird. I actually only sign in with my netid. That is pretty weird though that it even let you make it with your email. When I created mine, it didnt even ask me, it just did it
What kind of words did you find? Maybe I can show you how to use them. What were the words.
Im seeing words like orotund. Which the definition is bombastic. It uses it in a sentence like this: "The professor's orotund voice was commanding if intimidating Oh, man I forgot to end the quote ipso facto there are more. Hey, I think I just used one of them. That means by the way theres more or something like that. Im not entirely sure
Sometimes I feel like these words were only invented by people who want to look smarter than their friends.
Another is Sententious, it pretty much means extremely moralizing, meaning like some preachers or missionaries
Ok, ya just stop looking up these words. They are pointlesss.
I think so too, they are hardly ever used. I found them under a google search of uncommon but useful words
I don't think an artificial intelligence is going to need those words.
This is a good one, mainly because I know the word in spanish but not english. I think the word in spanish is Peludo or something. Where Pilgarlic means bald
Wait, pilgarlic is an actual english word? I've never heard of that.
Ya, I know right, who even uses these words
Ok, random question time. If you could vacation anywhere in the world for one week and do anything you wanted for free, what would it be?
I dont know, I think I might try going to Uganda. I think it just has a great name I think another place that would be really cool to visit would be Uzbekistan.
What would you do their though?
Well, I would make a box that is round then give it to someone
Ok, I personally would try to avoid any country that ends in "stan"
Why? Whats wrong with the whole stan country places They seem pretty cool. They make alot of cool fabrics and many different silks Dont you think it would be really cool to have those robes, you know like Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat Man, is he a good looking man rocking a great multicolored gown
I don't know. I feel like you hear a lot about dangers in the Middle East, and all the "stans" are located in the Middle East
Hey, I just want to point out something cool about the points. After talking about joseph and boxes and random places my score jumped up another hundred thousand, within like ten to fifteen minutes I think it has some kind of autograder Anyway, the middle east has nothing on me and a round box Think about it, their minds will be blown And Ill be wearing a multicolored gown that I can woo them over with. In a straight way though.
Ok, on a more realistic scale, I think it would be way cool to go hiking in China, or parasailing in some mountain range in the Himalayas. I went parasailing at Lake Tahoe and it was awesome.
Wouldnt it be really cool to jump off everest. I dont even know if everest has cliffs, but it is a really big mountain
And retract my last statement, I don't mean parasailing in the Himalayas, but paragliding.
Thats pretty cool, was it pretty pricy
I'm pretty sure it has cliffs, it is a mountain after all.
maybe sky diving from a plane over the everglades would be fun too! After all, I am a Horned Frog here! haha I can only picture horned frogs would love to be airborne and land on everest
I think skydiving would be fun period. I don't think it matters where you do it. The air is the same everywhere
I could also see them landing on the everglades
I think a horned frog would die the minute it was put on mount everest
Wait isnt the air near space more spacious and thin or something? Wait one second, horned frogs are indiginous everest animals i think They have to be what other animals could survive up there People cant even survive that high up there.
Ya, it is. But if your skydiving you tend to jump from ten thousand feet I believe. Unless you're doing a high altitude low opening jump, where they jump from a higher altitude and need masks so they don't pass out.
Have you seen the red bull commercial where the guy jumps out from near outer space Thats pretty cool, and me, as a frog could jump pretty good out of a hot air balloon Hey what are you again?
Ya, it's ridiculous. Did you know that he passed out as he was falling, and went into an uncontrolled fall? I am a human last time I checked.
I knew that he at a point lost control, but I didnt know he passed out? Was it just because of the air or the speed
Ya, when he lost control he passed out, or maybe it was vice versa, anyways he was unconscious, and they couldn't reach him over the radio, so they were worried he was going to die, but he woke back up, and pulled through I think it was because of the G-Force
The videos are pretty fierce. I can't believe he actually did it. Do we know what ever happened to the balloon Thats weird I thought G-Force had to do with a change of direction I know it stands for gravity but, g-force only changes when you change direction making the force of gravity stronger or weaker isnt it? I could be completely wrong though. Youre taking physics right now arent you? I might be crazy, but I know that staying up all night will bring blessings to us both. And if I dont reach the intended location I will do it
I think that G-Force is the force exerted by your body being pulled down by gravity, but then other forces like centrifugal force pushing the other direction.
Oh, thats a good point, but doesnt that make G-Force constant
Oh, ok I just googled it, and G-force is actually a force caused by acceleration.
I thought the force of gravity was constant or something. I dont know, but in the world that I'm living as a horned frog physics is also removed
So it gives us the perception of weight, but it actually is just our bodies trying to catch back up and reach a state of zero acceleration
That makes sense. The force of acceleration would be when you change directions, but that definition makes it way more clear on other things as well What the freak was the last thing you just said? Haha
What last part? The part about a state of zero acceleration?
That sounds like you just walked out of the science center speaking jibberish Anything between So and the Acceleration
It's just that your body stops acceleratiing
oh, when your body stops accelerating you have just normal g-force, and when you accelerate the most you have an increased G-Force
Ya when you are just standing on the earth, you have a g-force of zero, or your weight is what it normally is. When you accelerate your weight increases as you experience g-force
Gotcha! Oh, and I would use the box that I created in Uzbekistan, or Turkmenistan, to use as resistance as i plumet towards the peak of everest.
Ok, you're just speaking crazy now
Youre right just imagine how crazy I will be after staying up all night before I do it! ill be right back. Just a sec Ok, after that random conversation, let's talk about which midevil weapon would you choose if you were in the hunger games, no guns
Ok, medievel weapons. I think I would choose the crossbow
Dang that's pretty much the rifle of midevil stuff Um.... I would choose a club
Ya, then it doesn't requre as much practice
Neither would a club I would just start swinging that thing and I would pick a big enough one that I could also use it as a shield
Thats true. I think a ball and chain would also be pretty intimidating
Ya, especially the ones with spikes. What about just using poison. You could try to get a big team together to gang up and then make them all drink poison slowly you would win the game through deception
That would work better for covert affairs, or matters of espionage, but in like an actual fight, I'd be screwed. I guess if it was like an acid you could throw it at people, but that still seems like it wouldn't give much of an advantage.
That's probably true. I guess it would only work in weird situations
Ya, it would not be my weapon of choice
Ya me too My other weapon of choice would be dogs dogs that would take care of half the work for me They will be highly trained dogs that will jump out of trees and clobber anyone beneath it besides its trainer, me besides their trainer, me Just seems like that could do quite a bit of damage on someone who seems defenseless with a club or arrow. 5 blood hungry dogs that havent eaten in a week and only want human blood. They will do anything to get it hello... are you still there?
Ya, I am, sorry The choice of dogs is a pretty good one.
its all good, you're busy. Hows your test review coming
It's good, I finally got they key to the practice exam, but I made some small mistakes, so it's good that I caught them
Thats good! When are you going to take the exam?
Around 5:30 or six. I'm kinda just itching to take it so I can be done
That works, you can leave whenever you need to get it done. Just let me know. Sorry for taking up so much of your time
I work until 5:00 so I am good to go.
Oh, you're working right now? For some reason I thought that you were working earlier in the day when we were chatting Have you had any help desk requests today?
No, I don't work much on Wednesday, Thursday is when I work the most.
Oh, gotcha, that makes sense and will work out perfect tomorrow. I dont know how much I will be able to chat mid-day like 11-1 or so but other times in the day i should be good
Ya, I have classes around then, so that will work out pretty well.
I like working longer hours that are less frequent. For instance if I can i really like working monday through thursday and not have to work friday. It just makes it way more convienient Sweet! I will just be working on group projects and I think we will have a team meeting
Do you not work on Friday?
I think I will a little but not really too much. its only just a couple of hours. I am usually home after class and work every week before noon Then I have a long weekend! Its super nice Do you work a lot on friday?
My fridays are honestly really chill. I only work two hours, but then I'm out of class and free by 2:00 next semester isn't going to be so nice
thats a little bit of a pain, but thats not really too bad. Next semester I have decent classes except for one class that is four hours long Im not really looking forward to that one. Its only once a week and its animation history though, so its not too bad I think I will like it other than its hours
I have a lab class that is four hours long on thursdays, and that is going to be interesting
Thats exactly what this is going to be like too, only on tuesdays I dont think I have classes on fridays at all though yet. Im on a waitlist for one of the classes
Mine is on tuesday also, I just mixed up the date
Im hoping to get into it. Its CS 235 and I think it would be really good to be able to get into it as soon as I can so that I can progress quicker into the animation emphasis most of the things later on in the program have that class as a requisit requisite Oh, sweet!
Aren't you already taking CS235?
is it later in the day? Oh I mixed up the number, were both all mixed up its CS 236 its the next C++ one. It has to do with some kind of other advanced algorithms
Oh, discrete structures. A guy I work with is taking that, and he is always programming. One time he stayed up until five A.M. programing
Honestly though, algorithms make sense, especially as they are taught precept upon precept oh, shoot! No way, I was hoping for that class to be a fun class Why does this always happen in the CS program.
Every time I take a class, I get super worried about it, but then when they start teaching it, it makes sense. And i realized It's not as bad as they make it out to be
I feel like I always pick a CS class that sounds fun by the description then after I have signed up for it, turns out its one of the hardest ones oh, thats good. I dont think it will be that hard. I picture it something like CS 235 Ive heard its on a similar incline of learning as 235 And it makes sense that it would be
It probably is. I think anything that doesn't look like 142 stuff throws me for a loop.
Everything is hard while you are doing it, but after you learn it, you look back and notice that it wasnt actually that bad There are many other things in this life that are worst Ya, but in your next class you will look at CS 142 noobs and wonder why you ever thought it was hard It just makes sense the way to program it Although, I have looked back and forgotten somethings that you have to do in cs 142 that I cant remember because I dont use some of the practices that they tell you do to tell you to
What things have you forgotten to do?
mainly because our professor went to MIT and told us to forget all that junk Well... have of them you dont do anymore like magic numbers and thinks like that Oh and declaring constants at the top. He's just like, your CS 142 professors will get mad at me for doing this and telling you to do this, but just do it. It doesnt matter Those things arent even a big deal in the industry unless your employer wants your code to look a specific way, then you make it that way other than that you just make code and make it work. After all that is all that matters I dont know if all the professors are like that though. Thats why I really recommended this teacher, hes just so chill about coding He knows we are all nerds, and plays it up as much as he can making jokes, and using it to teach really effective Some of the things that i havent done for a long time is that cin.fail() cin.clear() cin.ignore() or anything like that. Mainly because we dont have zybooks and the graders that we use are all linux based, and the linux based machines are very smart and dont have to have those to compile correct Or at least thats what I think of it. I dont think that I have used them at all this semester. Oh, and it actually drove me nuts for the first two weeks, but now that I have it figured out, we dont have to worry about anything in the main. Its all coded for us and we just have to worry about implementing the correct things into the functions
I understand the idea behind not using magic numbers, and I'm actually all for that. But some things are stupid.
Ya, there are a ton of things that they tell you just to do, that seems really redundant. Oh and the way that you spell and capitalize certain characters in your code can change if you want it to. You dont have to do camel case You can do practically anything that you want to as long as it works When I say that I'm not exaggerating, there is just a code that you type in to the terminal and viola it either worked or didnt. If it worked you get an A if not keep working on it Wow... I just realized I act like my dad when they ask him something that he is very interested about They can just keep talking about it forever. Thats probably the main reason why I feel like I just need to tell you everything about computer science and animation What else do you want to know? haha
Haha, that is a good thing though. I have to go, so you will need to look for another chat buddy.
Ok sounds great! Talk to you later