X-Git-Url: https://git.ucc.asn.au/?p=ipdf%2Fdocuments.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=irc%2F%23ipdf.log;h=f9df013237811c5531addd9ef02cd1c9e7941ee2;hp=875583acf2f35de7237e1419949af4447e3905ba;hb=62ec3bf3350795dea94a474ec9fe5316ad9e5036;hpb=ce956b14ebbe9147a558b8be9a16c0a4a3679017 diff --git a/irc/#ipdf.log b/irc/#ipdf.log index 875583a..f9df013 100644 --- a/irc/#ipdf.log +++ b/irc/#ipdf.log @@ -6865,3 +6865,233 @@ 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 +--- Day changed Sat Nov 01 2014 +10:27 < matches> I guess we're done here, good job +--- Day changed Tue Nov 04 2014 +14:30 < matches> We will leave this channel here until the marks come out +--- Day changed Sat Nov 08 2014 +23:00 -!- Pommers is now known as bobgeorge33 +23:00 -!- bobgeorge33 is now known as Pommers +--- Day changed Tue Nov 11 2014 +22:57 -!- sulix [sulix@motsugo.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] has quit [Ping timeout: 121 seconds] +--- Day changed Wed Nov 12 2014 +11:50 -!- sulix [sulix@motsugo.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] has joined #ipdf +--- Day changed Fri Nov 14 2014 +22:48 -!- msh [~matt@evil.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] has left #ipdf [] +--- Day changed Sun Nov 30 2014 +12:08 < Pommers> When are marks due out? +12:46 < matches> Well +12:46 < matches> Other unit results are due on the 17th so I assume these are as well +12:51 < matches> I will just continue to be thankful that my 2012 results are listed first on my academic record... +13:26 < Pommers> Yes That is always the bust thing +13:55 < matches> The best thing about those results is the totally vague unit names +13:55 < matches> "Special Topics in Physics I, II, III and IV" +--- Day changed Mon Dec 01 2014 +14:03 < sulix> Hmm... it looks like my project marks are on csmarks. +15:20 < Pommers> fuck +15:22 * Pommers loves scaling +21:31 < matches> Oh dear +21:32 < matches> Mine are not :S +21:33 < Pommers> Don't fret +21:34 < Pommers> Looks like they've pulled the marks now +21:34 < matches> -_- +21:34 < matches> But I wanted to know +21:34 < Pommers> Wait. I'm just blind +21:35 < matches> I could check LMS +21:35 < matches> CSMarks evil step cousin +21:35 < matches> It seems to just be a weekly "RETURN ANY KEYS BORROWED" +21:36 < Pommers> LMS says I got 57% for the unit +21:36 < Pommers> "equal 16th / 35 in cohort" +21:36 < matches> ... I still have - out of 100% for the Semester 1 progress report +21:36 < Pommers> The average was below my mark +21:36 < Pommers> 14 people sitting on 0% though >.> +21:36 < matches> That's wierd +21:36 < matches> Scaling is wierd +21:38 < Pommers> But i love it +21:38 < matches> I wish the culture was "we will do an amazing job on the unit and its assessible content so that everyone gets a mark that is indicative of their knowledge" not just "screw it we'll scale everyone" +21:38 < matches> But apparently apathy averages out better than diligence +21:39 < matches> If lots of people got 0% that would make scaling do strange things +21:39 < matches> How much magic do they do to make it a normal distribution +21:40 < matches> Well I guess they just scale everyone who got more than 0% and it will maybe be normal +21:41 < matches> Good luck anyway +21:42 < matches> I suppose around December 17th I'll start to get nervous about my "0/300" score on LMS +--- Day changed Thu Dec 11 2014 +05:31 -!- Matta [Honda@2.27.186.90] has joined #ipdf +05:31 -!- Matta [Honda@2.27.186.90] has left #ipdf [] +19:28 < matches> :S +19:29 < Pommers> Tis a boty