this is a good one I love khan academy
Hi
I love the idea of working to improve our society's education system
Khan academy is a really good one darn that was what I was gonna say.
haha well i'm glad it's common knowledge that our education system is terrible heartbreaking... i know
I think scholarships and improvement to the education system is a philanthropic cause I care a lot about. Right now I am on the receiving end but someday I want to be on the other side Absolutely
I agree. It's amazing how much people give to scholarships etc. do you know what the wheatley institute is?
no what is it
A guy named Jack Wheatley has funded an institute on campus to promote lds (family based) values in the public arean arena He has a ton of money and when you go to apply for scholarships he has a tab with his name on it
Hmm thats interesting. I think I may have heard of a wheatley schollarship oh yeah than that is where I have heard it before
it's only for people who have served one of the two missions
what are the two missions?
portugal and i think colorado? not sure
Hmm well that is interesting. Why?
I think just because he's loaded and can he has his own floor on the hinckley center on campus
Wow who is this guy, do you know him? How do you know so much about him?
hahah no i don't know him. I work on the second floor of the hinckley
Oh haha.
so I run into a lot of students that are "wheatley scholars" aka they help write a lot of the articles that get published
Wow. What do you do in the hinckley center?
I'm in Student Alumni are you working right now?
What do you do on a daily basis? I don't have a job right now.
ahhh got it! what are you studying? I'm help put on a lot of the events on campus for BYU
I am currently studying acme. What about you?
have you ever heard of "Show me the money" or "etiquette dinner"
I haven't heard of show me the money but I actually attended the last ettiquette dinner etiquette
and i help run "BYU Connect" which is a program that helps people get connected with Alum if they don't know what they want to do with their life that's awesome! yeah i helped put that on! ACME is dope. My brother graduated in that
Hmmm. I talked to someone earlier today and they were telling me about how important networking is Really? I feel like it will be a great program, even though it is a bit new.
connect.byu.edu Yeah, I'm a stats major so I have a bunch of friends in ACME
Oh. I used to be in the stats department For like my first few months
ahhh what made the switch?
I was on track to go ahead with the actuarial program I don't think the life of an actuary is for me. Maybe if I end up there later, but I don't want to set myself up to be an actuary.
Yeah graduating in ACME can make you very marketable but you're right networking is so important
Thats what I hear. I want that lol
How far along are you?
Who would I network with as an acme student if its such a new program? I am just starting I have taken and gotten As in CS 142, Calculus 2, and Math 290
Definitely talk to upper classmen first. Cast a wide net and don't rule out any opportunity
I have also done the same in econ 110 and stat 121
I have a friend who's graduating in ACME and she's doing research at Harvard this summer for the second time
I didnt take Calc 1
Nice! if you got an A in Calc 2 you're fine
Holy cow that is awesome I would be so down for that
did you check out the website I sent?
yes it is open in another window
So I have an excel sheet of all the people I reach out too and all the companies I've interviewed with and their point of contact they can take you to lunch (and pay) skype, phone call
Wow thats cool
I hop on the phone with somebody every other week and do "informational interviews" some people call them "life design interview"
What is an informational interview
a lot of people will get on a "networking call" with an ulterior motive or hidden agenda but people see right through that
They dont have my major on the connect application
so an informational interview is a phone call seeking guidance or opportunities to serve
There isnt a mathematics: acme one
My brother was in the 2nd cohort and he graduated in 2016 they probably haven't had any alum sign up since the ACME program graduated since ACME students graduated***
Hmmm thats too bad. Well they started it in the past few years so  I guess there aren't any professional acme alums
haha yep but that's the cool thing is that your major path and career path could be completely different
So how far along are you in your graduation?
I graduate in december
Holy cow. That is crazy. Thats when my roommates sister graduates
and I need a macbook pro to replace my crappy computer for my internship this summer haha I know! It's so soon!
oh nice. So you are going to go really hard to win the second contest?
fingers crossed
hahaha good luck
what are your plans this summer?
it is pretty competitive already. I am surprised. Well this spring I am doing more school and then in the summer I will be chilling and working for my dad. My sister and I are
I know I'm amazed at the attention it has got!
planning a road trip to the western us. We will visit california and seattle and what not. She is the one who planned it so I don't know where specifically
Haha nice, what a good lady.
It grows by 50 users a day and gets more intense the closer it gets to the end of finals
what type of work for your dad?
Not sure. Maybe accounting, maybe just physical labor,.
hahahah
My parents are remodeling our house so they might hire me.
that's legit are you from utah?
He says he has work for me to do and that he will pay me 15$ per hour which is way premium so I decided to do it I am not originally from utah, but my parents moved to southern utah in the past year
is your user name the adam to the eve bot ah nice
yes it is hahaha
hahaha that made me laugh where'd yall move from?
No one else noticed that Las vegas My dad had a job there. Now he is looking more into retiring
ah so not too far away what does he do for work
No not at all He was a CFO for a company and then for a city and now he is retiring
dope
He is a smart guy. But hey I can beat him in chess. Maybe some day I can match him in smarts. lol
are you done with finals? hahahahahha chess is the true measure of intelligence
No I still have one last final hahaha yep
me too
I can beat him in a lot of mind games though not just chess.
woah woah woah hold your horses
We did a competition to see who could do arithmetic faster and we tied.
so you're no one trick pony i see
So I didn't necessarily win. And I think it was because he can write faster. I have many passions, but chess is not one of them.
did you see the guy who had 1,000 digits of pie memorized?
There are too many geniuses out there that can beat me lol
i'm curious now. do tell
No I heard of a guy who recited several thousand for pi day though and I know that the record is somewhere up in the 10s of thousands of digits I have 27 memorized.
wow that's still impressive 10,000-27
3.141592653589793238462654338 thats all I got
a little bit left to go but i have faith in you! hahaha you promise you didn't copy and paste
Yes
ok i trust you
I am glad ha ha I wonder how well this whole experiment will work out for eve will she learn to speak? Will she develop real intelligence?
yeah I'm curious to see it pan out
Yeah me too
because honestly most of these conversations have been pretty broken
What do you mean?
and convoluted a lot of trolls or people not responding
You think so? Am I a troll? I dont consider myself one but I wonder how my speech looks
haha no
Thank goodness That would be terrible haha
No. A troll is someone who doesn't respond seriously What about you? have you had other conversations on this?
Yeah. Actually I have had quite a few. I keep running into some of the same people
Haha that's hilarious Can you do multiple conversations at once?
Have you tried?
No, not yet You?
I have tried and I think it does for me.
Hm, I'll have to try it What the coolest thing you've done in the past 72 hours I need complete honesty here Ok, I'm trying it
I think probably write an algorithm that finds big numbers that are read the same forwards as they are backwards
how does that work?
I love how we are keeping both windows lol They are palindromic numbers 998877778899 is an example
hahaha me too
My algorithm finds the greats one given two factors of equal digits like xxxxx * xxxxx
two very different conversations got it so it uses factors to determine which number it is?
Well it just finds the biggest one for example try to find the biggest palindromic number with two two digit factors
oh got it
Tell me what you come up with My algorithm works up to 7 digits but at seven digits it take 8 minutes or so.
the factors both have two digits?
yes
the factors have to be like 99 and something 95 or something
ok hmm isnt that 9405
it's not palindromic but i'd think the largest number that is would have to have pretty large factors
The largest palindrome with two 7 digit factors is ... drumroll please
99 and 91
99956644665999
ohhhh dang boyyyy
9998017 * 9997647 That was what my algorithm produced.
wow that's amazing what about largest palindromic number with 2 two digit factors
oh I think you probably got it
91 and 99 give you 9009 what did you have to do that for?
you are correct
WOOT!
projecteuler.net/problem=4 is where I got it
how'd you find out about this site?
It is something they recommend for acme majors to test their programming skills
hmmm that's pretty cool I think I should do it because for my internship I have to learn python this summer
Well that would be a great idea. Have you taken many CS classes?
I've taken CS142 and IS303 but R is more of my bread and butter but that's mainly scripting so not a lot of exposure to algorithms
Hmmm. Yeah. You probably wouldnt have any problems writing an algorithm like the one I wrote then I was impressed with myself but mainly because I am just starting out with my programming
that's really cool what language do you do it in?
c++
ah
I don't know python lol
can you do it in python?
but python is definitely way simpler and probably a lot easier
yeah that's what I hear c++ was a headache for me
I cant write in python I think it was fun. It makes sense.
it was a headache because I was so new to programming but I love programming in R
Yeah I have never done R. It is a statistics language I would have gotten into with actuarial science though.
You're right. Maybe i'll start doing project euler I need to get good fast
Hey, I read somewhere that once you learn c, most other languages are fairly easy to master.
Yeah, that's what I hear. I just need to put in the time working on it on my own you help me with programming and i'll help you with cool date ideas
Haha we can be a good team
haha for sure
It was nice talking!