Hey, hows it going?
Good! How are you?
thats good! Im doing great! I dont know what my friends dont know about me Thats just a really hard question
Yeah...haha Maybe we could change it?
Ya, if you were skydiving with no backpack or any protection, whats one thing you wish you would have done the day before?
Pack my backpack haha *Packed But really, I think I would have just wished for more time with family It's also kind of tough What do you think?
haha, thats a valid point! I think I would have played one last game of starcraft 2
Hmmm, I've never played. What is it?
haha. Just kidding, its actually been a long time since I have been able to play, I have been so packed full of homework this semester
Yeah, it's been a busy semester
You should check it out, it is a rts game very similar to Age of Empires No kidding
Oh cool! I used to play Age of Empires a lot when I was a kid. I know they have several versions of it now but I think I played the 2nd version It was fun and kind of addicting haha
Ya, its just a really fast paced age of empires
I'll have to look into Starcraft Oh gotcha Why that particular game?
Its just a popular one that many people play online Its kind of addicting too That and I have a ton of friends that play it
All the good ones are though huh? Fun!
Ya, its true the online competition for Starcraft is crazy
Do they scale how good you are so you play against similar playing people? Or would I get killed playing becuase I am new?
Ya, they do scale it. So you will play with other beginners at the beginning. Until you get better you will keep playing with them
nice Do people dress up as starcraft characters for halloween? Haha
I have no clue. it is kind of a popular thing though, so Im sure that there are some somewhere probably Korea haha What is your favorite game to play?
So like video games or sports? Or I guess board games?
both?
So I like playing basketball when I get a chance. Lately it has been more of Frisbee because I am on an intramurals team. I haven't played video games in a while But when I was in high school I played Age of Empires a lot, like I said. I also play a game call Pearl Harbour It must have been an old game because I tried looking it up and couldn't find it. Or at least what can up is more intense than what i played haha For board games I like Risk or Settlers of Catan
Sorry, I was answering a question to one of my groupmmates I havent played games like catan
Oh haha No worries
Frisbee is cool too. I really like soccer!
Hey that is fun! I have always wanted to learn how to juggle a soccerball I've also signed up for a soccer class because I've wanted to up my game
I like soccer and I like playing, but for some reason I have always struggled to juggle a ball
Have you taken any soccer class at BYU?
It just seems so hard to naturally be able to bounce a ball on you foot
It looks kind of hard exactly
I can balance one on my foot or nearly anywhere for literally forever Until I need to sleep but, bouncing is another issue
Hey that's neat haha
Thanks basketball is cool too! I have loved playing frisbee but there is just not enough teams or any kind of competitive leagues that I have found
Yeah, watching Frisbee is hard. Apparently BYU has a good team but I have no idea when they play I think overall it has been getting more popular though
I didnt even know BYU has a team
hahaha
Aparently they play it near the dorms all the time
Nevermind then Yeah, up by the conference building and MTC
Haha. Oh, thats really close. Just north of Heritage?
Yep I used to walk by them everyday They have a women's team too My sister-in-law used to play with them. It is kind of intense. I'm totally fine playing intramurals haha Even thought I guess it would be cool to say I played for the BYU team
Maybe, Ill go watch the womens team. ;) I think it would be cool to play, I just know that im not good enough for it and I dont have a ton of time
Yeah What are you studying?
Computer Science with an emphasis in animation Whats yours?
Mechanical Engineering
Oh, thats pretty cool. I have a friend that is in electrical engineering. Are they similar in any way
Yep! Well, at least what I am interested in they are
What do you want to end up doing?
I'm going to be taking a lot more EE classes as I finish up Robotics
Oh, thats cool. As a mechanical engineer are there cs classes that overlap> ?
I think we go through your CS 142 and maybe a little of CS 235 I did a CS minor though. I think it has helped me out a lot I think everybody needs to do a CS minor no matter what major you are It is so useful to know
Oh, that makes sense those are some pretty good classes to begin with. I actually enjoyed them quite a bit too I think cs235 is easier than cs 142 even though 142 is a prerequisite to 235
You think so? It's been a while for me I do remember a little learning curve in CS 142 CS 240 was pretty tough though
Ya, it was a little. Luckily for me, I had a little background in c++ so that helped a ton I havent actually taken cs240 yet Im probably going to end up taking it next fall I am in cs 224 now though and that one is kicking my but Its the one with all the binary and assembly and all the other fun jass jazz
Oh right I've heard about that one I didn't need to take it for the minor but I kind of wish I had because I felt like it taught some good fundamentals What is hard about it?
Its just complete different way of thinking about the world. And you just stare at numbers for hours and hours. And like I mentioned earlier numbers are my enemy
Yeah, especially binary numbers
its like a staring contest, but the computer and numbers always win yeah 01010101010100000111110010101 just bugs the freak out of you! What is that supposed to mean? Im in the class and could potentially translate it but I dont want to thats just for lame-os
Hahaha That is a good point Maybe I should be thankful I didn't have to take that class
Ya, its pretty crazy Although it has been pretty interesting
So are you hoping for an ipad or the macbook? Yeah, i bet
Kinda both! haha
Yeah me too
either one would be great! Sorry for some of my slow responses Im working with a group on some cs224
My wife really needs a new computer No worries Oh gotcha I can sign off
no worries unless you want to be able to type quicker I like posting a little here and there. It helps a ton in the long run Slow and steady wins the race unless you are trying to win it quickly. haha
haha right The thing is, nobody seems to be on really that much. This app ussually has me wait for a while before somebody gets onto it. So I'm good either way I guess
ya, this chat is kind of dead. There is hardly anyone on here. Its good to just keep chatting as much as you can and try and hope that the other person(me) sees and responds Sorry for being such a bad chatter Hey if you had advice for a struggling group what would you do?
No you're fine I'm actually TAing right now so it balances out What type of struggling?
What class are you taing for? We are struggling with coming up with solutions
Control Systems Hmmm, is there an option for asking a TA?
Oh, what kind of things do you do in that field We have been on the help queue for almost an hours hour
Darn I have thoughts about that type of homwork. Basically any homework that you cannot do without a TA I mean maybe I am not smart enough
Its pretty hard. You probably are smart enough though
Thanks
Its some attack lab
attack lab?
and its kicking our <insert swear word here> haha
hahaha gotcha
ya, we are trying to hack into a software that he has given us using assembly code and hex
That sounds cool but I bet it's hard Who's teaching? Or who is the professor?
We are pretty much trying to push information that the system just cant handle the professor is professor jones He is pretty good. i just struggle to figure out how to do the stuff all the stuff
Hmmm, I don't think I had him Well, I guess, since I didn't need any of that stuff in later classes, you could probably be done with it after your finished with the class
Midterm next week and not even panicking. Mainly because I already know the outcome An "F" haha No, I actually think ill do fine
How's the rest of the class doing? Oh good!
we are all struggling, except for those that have taken it once already. Which I dont even understand why they are taking it again, but were pushing through
Nice!
I think we will be fine, just not going to get it early for extra credit
Oh right I thought it was nice that the CS department did that I totally got better grades in CS than ME But at the some time I think I might have stressed about it more Either the program works, or it doesn't
Oh really is Mechanical Engineering pretty hard
I thought so
Its all good, they are both pretty hard. I cant believe that I decided to choose one of the most thinking ones that there is I like thinking, but not this much. be I really like art, and I really like animation, but I struggle with 2D art a little and rock the 3D art, hopefully the whole CS thing will get me to the places that I want to
I'm sure it will! So I've never been good at 2D art but I recently bought a cheap udemy course on stetching and it is lot of fun. Of course I haven't done it in a while becuase of school but I hope to get back into it So have you already done quite a bit wiht 3D art?
Ya, I absolutely love the whole 3d Aspect. I think Im pretty good at it. Ive been focusing on trying to get photorealistic computer generated images
That is neat
I feel like I can do most art styles, but getting something photorealistic is something that can be really hard, but I think I like the challenge For instance, I like just taking a photo of something then trying to recreate a natural scene of something
Hmmm, give me another example They only thing I can think of is what we did in the deep learning class where we generated images of celebraties or rather of faces So do you mean creating a picture using several hundred other pictures? I think that is called a picture mosaic actually
Oh, thats pretty cool was it like a mosaic of a whole bunch of different faces that combined made up the face of another person I actually mean, like taking a cube or sphere and molding it on the computer to the point where it resembles objects, then texturing it to the point where it looks real There are also a ton of lighting tricks that you can do with 3D software, that make things look a little more realistic Its based off the same kind of thing that they do in all the different big name studios, like pixar or others Ive learned a lot about lighting. Honestly that can make or break your 3D. And also any art that you create it can also set the tone of whatever you are trying to achieve
Cool!
Deep learning seems pretty cool. What kinds of things did you do in that class?
So a good example of what I was talking about is: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/30/16569402/ai-generate-fake-faces-celebs-nvidia-gan For the deep learning class you learn a whole lot of neat applications of deep learning. We did GAN's like the generating celebrity faces We also did generating text So I make a ai system that would generate text resembling the book huckleberry finn\ One classmate did Trump tweats
Oh thats pretty cool! Maybe I should check that class out
Kinds of funny It was way fun
Thats hilarious
All in python too
What? Thats super cool. I want to be able to learn python
yeah it's a good one to learn What do you know already?
there are so many things you can do with python Especially in 3d stuff Maya lets you use python for scripting, and most 3D software does
yeah, and it's nice that most of the libraries have c++ bindings Oh cool!
Im also interested in a lot of web development
I've wanted to learn how to use Maya CooL!
and there is python everywhere
Web developement seems to be a big black hole though I started learning and know the basics but there is just so much to learn And from what I hear, it keeps changing It's hard to keep up with
Maya is super cool! you should definitely learn it. Especially if you want to do animation stuff
Is it a CAD software? Or how does it work?
Kind of. its like CAD but with more abilities for texturing and less about measurements its more for art
Oh cool
Its practically a designer CAD CADs cool though! do you enjoy using that?
I've used it. They teach us a basic CAD class in ME. I learn the software inventor It is neat. I haven't really used it since I took the class. I really like using it when I was in the clsas though
Oh, thats good I actually love using CAD
I know people can make some good money do free lancing Which software package do you use?
there are a ton of great uses for it I think they even use it sometimes for animation
Yeah, I bet.
It just has a lot more measurement tools so you can measure things out and get things very accurate Does it let you texture things?
Which does? Most do Inventor does. I think you can even run life like simulations We never got to that. We mostly did manufacturing parts Like little air-powered engines Got to go Thanks for chatting