Hey
Hi
how are you doing?
How are you doing?
oh haha i'm doing well!
Doing anything fun after finals?
just graduating! then working and relaxing this summer until school starts up how about you?
Going for an internship at Microsoft. But I'll spend some time in Idaho with friends. What are you graduating in?
exercise science! what's your major?
Computer Science. What are you studying after?
medicine moving across the country to start in july
Wow. Congrats!! I know med school is hard.
thank you! i'm excited. so are you participating in this chat for your love of computer science or for the prizes?
Both
that's cool
I love AI, so any chance I have to help to make it better. I'll take it.
sweet! do you know the ultimate purpose? is it just trying to make AI sound more like human conversation?
Yes. Sometimes AIs are very automatic and they have weird grammar structure. So, making a conversational AI that does it well is a big deal.
yeah i've noticed that even with siri and stuff i read online that we're maybe 10 years away from computers that understand english commands well enough to do away with coding do you think that's possible?
I think so. It depends on the amount of work people put into it. If you think about it, 10 years ago most people didn't have cell phones. And now they have it and they are super advanced.
yeah that's true it'd be helpful to not have to worry about coding as much anymore because that's a pretty in-depth skill i tried to teach myself python and couldn't get into it very far
But sometimes I don't know what to think about all of this development. Most companies in industry are doing for the sake of money. And even though that's a huge progress in tech, sometimes is not the best for humanity. Yeah. Coding can be hard sometimes. You just have to stick to it.
i just didn't have much motivation...i mean, it's a great skill to have even in medicine, but i didn't think i could get to a level of proficiency to do anything cool or useful. hello world was neat but i'll stick to anatomy and stuff haha
Hahahah I get you. Coding is hard. You have to understand the logic behind it, the syntax and algorithms.
are you trying to break into AI after you finish your degree?
I have a friend studying CS, but he wants to go to med school. Yes, either AI or machine learning.
i love exercise science and am glad i chose it, but i think it may have been useful to do something that would give me more of a skill exercise science is only good for professional school or graduate school in exercise science haha
Hahahah
i took accounting my freshman year and liked it and was pretty good at it, so that may have been a good choice
Maybe you can come up with a new start up, job, or whatever that use exercise science concepts and you will be the expert.
maybe! i love medicine and so i'm glad i chose exercise science so i can have a little head start for med school, but had i not chosen medicine i would have been somewhat out of luck so it was a risk that paid off i guess
Yes. And there's always Youtube for you to make money. I don't know, many people even leave their jobs for it. They find something they're passionate about and start making videos, then they get subscribers, sponsors, and make tons of money.
yeah i heard about a family from provo that started traveling the world and stuff! and they got sponsors to fund them apparently the guy sold an app for like $54 million so i don't think they're exactly hurting for money anyway, but still
Yeah. There is also a family from somewhere in Utah. The dad helped the son with a school project and now they make money by kind os destroying things together. Hahaha
mythbusters style?
Kind of.
that's cool! i don't know if i'm that big of a risk taker though i prefer the guaranteed money
They mainly cut things like coolers, to show what is inside. But I know a guy who studied communication here at BYU and he started a blog to talk about cars. After a few months he was getting cars from dealers. They would send him a different car every week, to drive the whole week and then write about it. So every week he had a different car to drive, with free gas, and since they insured everything he didn't have to pay for insurance neither. So during his life college he never needed to buy a car.
that's super nice! did he know a lot about cars to start out?
I think he read a lot about it. From those car magazines kind of thing.
oh i see if you had to start a blog what would it be about?
I don't know. I'm an international student, so maybe if I start a blog in my country about the life of a student in the U.S I would probably have a good size audience.
interesting! is it a country where a lot of people want to come to the US to study?
Yes. And Sometimes people just like watching this kind of things because it's like a TV show. Or reality TV
which country are you from? or which continent if that's too much of an identifier!
I'm from Brazil.
ah que legal! are we allowed to talk in another language?
I don't think so.
too bad. i speak portuguese
Did you serve in Brazil?
yes i did, in bh
Cool
are you intending to go back after you finish school?
I'm from Minas
what a coincidence!
It depends if I get a good job offer here.
that makes sense.
I have some friends who served there.
we probably have mutual friends then!
Yes. But my city is not part of that mission. It's actually part of Goiania Mission
so in the triangle? my cousin will he leaving for that mission this summer
Yes. That's cool. He will like it. I think.
i'm sure he will! i loved it did you know that margarita is how you say the flower daisy in portuguese?
He will eat a lot of pequi, so I don't know if he will like it.
i had some pequi since i served for a few months up in montes claros in the far north
Margarida, yeah. Oh yeah, did you enjoy the hot weather?
oh yeah i guess margarita is the spanish spelling
Yep. Hahaha
i did enjoy it! it was still pretty hot down around the capital too...i wasn't in the north during the hot months so it wasn't really too different
Yeah. I lived in that region for a few months. I didn't like it. I rather stay in my region. Not too hot, or to cold. Although, I'm here now, and it's very hot during summer and very cold during winter. Hahaha Go figure, right? haha
yeah utah is pretty unique it snowed last week and then got pretty hot where i'm from it's much more consistent...still hot, but more reasonable year-round
It's like Sao Paulo, four seasons in one day.
i don't care much for that personally! it makes it too hard to plan things out
Hahah True. When I was there I had to carry an umbrella, sunscreen, a jacket just for the day.
yeah that's crazy. i prefer to look at the weather and see what'll happen then carry what i need accordingly
Here the weather is more "normal" so I look at it to see what I need. Do you like movies?
i do! i haven't been to the movie theater recently though, so i'm not very up to date on the new ones the last one i saw was over christmas break...i can't even remember which one it was
Hahah probably Star Wars. I'm so excited to see the new Avengers this Friday.
no i haven't seen any of the new star wars! i'm going to catch up on them after finals i won't have the chance to go this friday, but i will next week! i love superhero movies but i haven't seen black panther yet
Black panther is so good. I loved it.
yeah everyone i've talked to loved it and they can't believe i haven't seen it yet!
Yeah. I have a friend from Africa and he said that some of the things in the movie they got right, so It was cool to know more about it.
that's nice when they get things right! usually movies go along with stereotypes
Yes. But they kind of fixed it in this movie. I'll give you a spoiler.
ok, nothing too vital or surprising though!
His sister is an engineer. She is the one in charge of all the technology in the entire country. So they fixed that stereotype. hahaha Not vital, I promisse.
oh yeah, that's doubly good! both for african-americans and for women! neither are generally cast in a very intelligent light in movies
Yes. And she is funny as well. But it's Marvel, they're always funny.
yeah, they're trying to become more funny. which is a nice contrast to dc movies which are all like a contest to see which one can be darkest! i didn't care much for the last thor movie just because thor's personality changed so much from past movies before he was so stoic, now he's like the comedian of the universe. it was funny, but disconnected him too much from the past movies in my opinion
That's true, but I heard the actor asked to change those things. He didn't like the way thor was going.
oh that's interesting! i guess chris hemsworth is so connected in my mind with thor that i figured he was kind of that way himself
Hahaha Yeah. I like him though, maybe on the new movie he will be more Thor ish.
hopefully! well deise, i need to run to a review! good luck in your internship! tchau!
Thank you, good luck on your finals!! Tchau!!