X-Git-Url: https://git.ucc.asn.au/?p=ipdf%2Fdocuments.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=irc%2F%23ipdf.log;h=914c367641c9ed43aad895517d98e4fc6194210d;hp=0041e814231c3a9825709354fdb39018f3efee53;hb=5cda52d3a3eff87812971a0f0d6d89d80945878d;hpb=05f3431d2cc89f19f39793dbc206cc0be28762f9 diff --git a/irc/#ipdf.log b/irc/#ipdf.log index 0041e81..914c367 100644 --- a/irc/#ipdf.log +++ b/irc/#ipdf.log @@ -6847,3 +6847,196 @@ 18:26 < sulix> s/come/coma 18:26 < sulix> (The state of my brain is becoming more and more evident) 18:55 < matches> (The trick is to delete the TODOs) +--- Day changed Wed Oct 22 2014 +12:50 < matches> ECM sent me an email about 2015 Final Year Project preferences... +12:50 < matches> NO +12:50 < matches> I already did this! +12:50 < matches> They also sent me an email about submitting vacation work reports +12:50 < matches> I didn't do that yet! +12:51 < matches> This is what you get for totally ignoring the recommended degree progression +17:17 < Pommers> Guess who has card access through the main door for CS xD +17:18 * sulix is filled with a jealous rage. +17:20 < Pommers> hehehehe +17:20 < Pommers> Pretty sure I now have more Access to CS than both of you :D +17:54 < matches> They'll probably be glad they get to revoke our access at the end of the year +17:54 < matches> Doing other assignments is a nice distraction from the project although in terms of time investment it is not wise +17:54 < matches> In terms of time investment the correct approach is to fail everything else +17:55 < matches> Although that didn't work so well last semester +17:55 < matches> (I didn't actually fail but my marks got consistently lower :( +17:55 < matches> I don't know how to bracket that +17:55 < matches> :() +--- Day changed Thu Oct 23 2014 +18:12 < matches> My report scores a Flesch Reading Ease of 42.30 +18:12 < matches> Which is higher than "university graduate" and lower than "13 to 15 year old students" +18:13 < matches> It scores a Flesch-Kincaid Grade of 12.44 +18:13 < matches> I guess that means it is high school level... +18:13 < matches> That isn't as reassuring as I'd hoped... +18:14 < matches> At least I'm beating "an average 6th grade assignment" +18:17 < matches> My physics thesis is 39.90 and 12.99 indicating my writing has gotten dumber, as expected +18:19 < matches> Yours is at 46.06 and 11.39 +18:19 < matches> The question is, what should we be aiming for... +18:21 < matches> That was an interesting but not particularly productive diversion into readability of documents +18:21 < matches> (I think the most this test can conclusively say is that we did indeed write some words) +18:21 < matches> (Many of which had more than one syllable) +19:40 * sulix shall have words with "an arbitrary number of syllables" in his thesis. +19:41 < sulix> Also, it turns out printperf has a big #ifdef QUADTREE_DISABLED around it. +19:41 < sulix> Which explains much. +19:59 < sulix> Did you know: when rendering with GMPrat, sometimes the debug text displays the bounds as being totally wrong for a frame, and then they're back to normal. +20:00 * sulix has found something even more fun than watching paint dry: watching gmprat render. +20:16 * sulix now has a graph: http://davidgow.net/stuff/ipdf-gmpqttest1.pdf +20:54 < matches> Cool +21:16 < matches> That looks very similar to the turtles graph I just got +21:16 < matches> Except qtree isn't on it +21:16 < matches> Path-gmprat is my favourite +21:29 < matches> Ok, I know it's only 9:28 but my clock says 5:28 +21:29 < matches> So that counts as bed time +21:30 * matches tries not to think about the asignment due tomorrow or the 3 weeks of assignments that need to be marked before students start to hate me +21:30 < matches> Or, for that matter, how he is going to explain Quantum Mechanics... +21:31 < matches> Or CoderDojo... +21:31 < matches> I must be getting old +21:31 < matches> Back in 2012 I could work on my thesis until 5am and still be awake enough to do my other assignments :S +21:32 < matches> That might be a slight exagerration, I think there was a large amount of feeling like death involved +21:36 < matches> I used to know the quantum number selection rules off by heart too... +21:41 < matches> Ahh, the amazing HTML formatting of the quantum mechanics webpage +21:41 < matches> The memories +--- Day changed Sat Oct 25 2014 +11:26 * sulix will not be able to make coderdojo today, for obvious reasons. +11:26 < matches> Ok, good luck +17:39 -!- sulix [sulix@motsugo.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] has quit [Quit: So long and thanks for all the ghoti] +--- Log opened Sun Oct 26 14:54:49 2014 +14:54 -!- matches [matches@motsugo.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] has joined #ipdf +14:54 -!- Irssi: #ipdf: Total of 4 nicks [1 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 3 normal] +14:54 -!- Irssi: Join to #ipdf was synced in 3 secs +14:55 < matches> Very much in the "The referencing doesn't produce ?? submit it" phase +14:57 < matches> Ah crap the referencing still produces ?? +14:57 < matches> But only in the appendix... +15:50 < matches> I get to submit this to a "Printerface" +15:50 < matches> Oh ho ho +15:53 * sulix has had the joy of having to redo his data with vblank off. +15:54 < sulix> Also, the random flickering bug is actually showing up in the graphs +16:02 < matches> Yuk +16:03 < matches> So you have loads of data now though? +16:03 < matches> I had vague plans of redoing graphs and then apathy happened +16:03 < sulix> Yeah, lots and lots of graphs and numbers. +16:03 < matches> Cool +16:04 < matches> I just have like, 3... +16:04 < sulix> I extended the profiler to also output the number of objects in the document and rendered +16:04 < sulix> (Well, I only have 3 interesting graphs) +16:05 < sulix> The quadtree spens 23.7% of its time generating new nodes. +16:05 < sulix> (In case you cared) +16:05 < matches> Only 23.7%? +16:05 < sulix> Yup. +16:06 < sulix> It generates at total (during the zoom-in-on-grid test for 800 frames) of 219 nodes. +16:06 < sulix> And clips a total of 6559 objects +16:07 < matches> I'll email what I have. +16:07 < matches> Prepare to be whelmed. +16:07 < matches> Oh dear I just quoted *that* movie +16:09 < sulix> I'll email mine when I've finished regenerating all of the graphs and stats with non-vblanked data. +16:10 < sulix> (The quadtree is now officially 2127 times faster than naïve use of GMP rationals) +16:12 < matches> I think naive use of GMP rationals is a slightly unfair benchmark... :P +16:12 < matches> But it'll make for impressive graphs +16:12 < sulix> The requested URL /sam/ipdf/thesis.pdf was not found on this server. +16:13 < matches> /ipdf/sam/thesis.pdf +16:13 < matches> Also attached it to the email +16:13 -!- Irssi: #ipdf: Total of 4 nicks [1 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 3 normal] +16:13 < sulix> Also, "Wintrhop Professor". +16:13 < matches> Oh boy +16:14 < matches> Wait where does it even say that... +16:14 < matches> Oh +16:14 < matches> The damn letter +16:19 < matches> Yeah going by the rubric I think I'll have a solid 1/4 average +17:05 < sulix> Again, the closer this project is to being due, the more interesting mathematical things I'm finding that I wish I'd seen earlier. +17:06 * sulix slips a small reference to the Riemann Zeta function into a footnote. +17:23 < matches> I'm concerned about the lack of interesting mathematical things in my thesis, footnote or otherwise +17:24 < matches> I think I'm allowed to call it a thesis since that's what I was supposed to put on the "letter" +17:25 < matches> You can't diss this ertation +17:25 < matches> That worked in my head +17:25 < matches> synonyms.. +17:25 < matches> monograph +17:26 < matches> disquisition +17:26 < matches> disquietening +17:26 < matches> composition +17:26 <@bobgeorge33> When does Tim officailly start work again? +17:26 < matches> in the key of F# minor +17:26 < matches> Um +17:26 < matches> Next year? +17:27 < matches> Someone has to write a "supervisor report" +17:29 < matches> Well, I at least have lots of words +17:29 < matches> Too many to proof read +18:07 < matches> It has been submitted to the Printer Face +18:07 < matches> Good luck sulix +18:10 * sulix solemnly nods: "Good luck to us all!" +23:34 < sulix> It is done: http://davidgow.net/stuff/DavidFYPThesis.pdf +23:38 <@bobgeorge33> When are they due? +23:42 <@bobgeorge33> Lastly, as a double degree student I need to +23:42 <@bobgeorge33> express a double degree of thanks to my friends and family for their continued patience whilst I +23:42 <@bobgeorge33> completed my second “final year” project in what is technically a penultimate year. +23:42 <@bobgeorge33> Very nice +--- Day changed Mon Oct 27 2014 +08:46 < matches> They're due at 12:00pm +09:00 < matches> Hmm, there are only a few highly wrong statements in my thesis +09:01 < matches> To resubmit or not to resubmit +09:03 < matches> I keep thinking I really need more detail and then I realise it's 9000 words... +09:03 < matches> What did I even say in those 9000 words I don't even +09:04 < matches> In other news it's 9:04 and no one is at my tutorial... +09:05 < matches> I was going to show them CQM animations +09:09 < matches> Curses a student +09:09 < matches> (I don't know what I want) +10:15 * sulix resubmits to fix the typo in the latin reference that Tim disconvered. +10:16 < sulix> I've also added the original proposal as an Appendix because apparently I'm meant to, though it does sort-of highlight how little of it I've actually done. +10:19 * sulix proceeds to collapse from exhaustion. +10:44 -!- Netsplit mussel.ucc.au.uniirc.com <-> arctic.uniirc.com quits: @bobgeorge33 +10:45 -!- Netsplit over, joins: @bobgeorge33 +11:11 -!- Netsplit mussel.ucc.au.uniirc.com <-> arctic.uniirc.com quits: @bobgeorge33 +11:12 < matches> Aaaand +11:12 < matches> LMS is being LMS +11:13 -!- Netsplit over, joins: @bobgeorge33 +11:13 < matches> UWA is having problems? +11:13 < matches> Trying to resubmit to Printer Face +11:13 < matches> Not sure if I am now going to end up with two copies... +11:14 < matches> The second copy is slightly less vague +11:14 < matches> I guess people can work out that they need to read IEEE to get the full gory details of the encodings and stuff +11:15 < matches> Also people can probably work out the legends on my graphs if they think +11:15 < matches> Also there is like, wierd functional programming notation in Tim and Rowan's emails +11:15 < matches> Is it a secret code? +11:23 < matches> AAAH SHIT +11:23 < matches> My last commit is going to be at 7:23pm +11:23 < matches> I'll get in trouble for using a time machine to submit it before 12:00pm +11:40 -!- Netsplit mussel.ucc.au.uniirc.com <-> arctic.uniirc.com quits: @bobgeorge33 +11:42 -!- Netsplit over, joins: @bobgeorge33 +11:42 < matches> Well, that as anticlimactic +11:43 < matches> The whole having 3 other assignments due this week thing sort of ruins it +11:51 -!- Netsplit mussel.ucc.au.uniirc.com <-> arctic.uniirc.com quits: @bobgeorge33 +11:51 -!- Netsplit over, joins: @bobgeorge33 +11:53 < matches> I actually really don't trust someone else to print my assignment :S +11:53 < matches> Who is this Printer and why does it have a Face +11:54 < matches> What if the inline postscript gets interpreted by the driver as actual postscript and it just prints 40 pages of shape.eps +11:54 < matches> Aaaah +11:56 <@bobgeorge33> What happens if it decides to print 100 copies instead of 1 and they aren't collated! +11:59 * matches stabs +12:01 < matches> sulix: "Programmme" +12:01 < matches> Does it have three mmm like that +12:01 < sulix> Um... it does now. +12:02 < matches> I approve +12:02 < sulix> I am a programmmmmmer +12:03 -!- Netsplit mussel.ucc.au.uniirc.com <-> arctic.uniirc.com quits: @bobgeorge33 +12:04 -!- bobgeorge33 [bobgeorge@pommers.org] has joined #ipdf +18:38 -!- bobgeorge33 is now known as Pommers +--- Day changed Thu Oct 30 2014 +13:45 < matches> sulix: Is there going to be a meeting about your presentation? Should I come, or stay away? +14:16 < sulix> I don't think there's going to be a meeting... I've got another research project due at 4:00, so I'll be doing that. +14:16 < sulix> The seminar schedule is out now, though: http://undergraduate.csse.uwa.edu.au/year4/Current/Project/seminarTimetable.html +14:17 < sulix> It's hysterically empty. +14:28 < matches> Baha +14:29 < matches> 25 minutes, ew +14:29 < matches> Good luck +14:29 < sulix> You're welcome to come along to the talk if you hate sleep. +14:29 < matches> I will try and come +14:30 < matches> "Time travel debugging"... +14:30 < sulix> Yeah, Ben's a genius. +14:30 < matches> I do that all the time though +14:30 < matches> (With printf statements) +14:30 < sulix> But you live in the future. +14:30 < matches> (And scrolling through the output with less) +14:30 < matches> That too +14:31 < matches> Don't worry, your abstract sounds really cool too