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Its a big day for me

@polu you can unmute bob chat now

I'm holstering my autism

will do

Here's what my PhD course scheduel is going to look like

Other than analysis, I am less familiar with any of that, so it should be interesting

Yeah that looks pretty easy

is the data compression CS related?

I am trying to find the page where the explain what the course teaches

thats just why my supervisors said I should take

probability and statistics is broad so that could be completely different from my grad level courses in that area

Its being taught by my supervisor, who is in information theory

if that helps

all of those sound like information theory courses to me

besides analysis

analysis, if you believe it or not, is what I will be doing regarding information theory

so it is all related

complex, real, numerical?

functional

oh the fun kind

that I know very little about

okay pika i'll have you on call when we need a new compression algorithm for our game

I took a course in functional analysis during my masters because my masters also was very functional analysis heavy

so its not a new topic for me at least

the only time I have heard the term functional in a course was describing bra vectors in quantum mechanics

the end will be some applied stuff which is where the CS comes in

wait, speech and image coding

most of the filesize of toushin gent comes from an unncesary amount of voice lines...

If I learn things that will help with your game making endevors, I will let you know

This will be winter though

so 8+ months before I can tell you

by my understanding of what image coding is, you might learn some wavelets analysis in that course

it is a compression technique in signal processing

I think JPEG uses it

Alright pirate, the quest to devolope our own unique compression algorithm instead of using a base one that has already been tested and optimized is a go

I guess

the method is storing just a checksum and generating bitstrings until they match

I know a lot of ways to do data "compression" because dimensionality reduction is a very big thing in data analysis

okay need an algorithm for storing both audio and graphics data in a single archive so that redundancies across all files can be reduced for compression. however it also must be able to index and decode any single file in a not noticeable time on a shitty pc, without needing to decompress the whole archive into memory or similar things.

there's some very stupid and funny ways to do something like that if you have a GPU to train neural networks on

train one of these for the audio and graphics each and store just the encodings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoencoder

it will sounds like crap so add some audio post processing filters to the engine

I have a 3 hour layover in Denver tomorrow

I've sat in that Denver Ruby Tuesday's on many a layover watching planes taxi around

I wonder what they replaced it with now that they went out of business

why is this being announced so early?

release date specifically, this movie has been known for a long time now

yay california

@Spooky Phijkchu @Phijkchu_Pikachu another leak. This time in the stockroom.

you should find a new place of employment

^

So I apparently underestimated my brother, he's doing a 5-month journey through Canada

He's leaving in a week for Halifax, NS , and from there he's spending 2-4 weeks in every province

longest was somehow going to be Quebec he said

he has to spend more time figuring out the french

You should convince him to do the terretories too

send him xbrox's way

he is, hold on I'll post the full thing

Starting in Halifax, NS , he's hitting all the Maritimes from there, ~2 weeks total Then 4-weeks in Quebec, staying in a couple places 2 weeks in Toronto, 2 in Winnipeg Then he's doing a 4-week hiking/camping thing through Nunavut Head through Yellowknife (says there's literally nothing there and he's only doing that to check it off the list) so 1-2 days 1-week each for Saskatchewan and Alberta Then 3 weeks in Vancouver (he'll be here for Christmas/New Years), Then he heads north for another hiking/camping thing in the Yukon and from there into Alaska

>2 weeks in Toronto

dude

if you are spending 5 months in Canada, why would you limit yourself to the worst part of Ontario

Ontario has so many great national and provincial parks

So, the other piece of this is it's not vr well planned out

I think I said in vc, he randomly quit his job, and wanted to just fuck off somewhere

and because it's Summer, I think he natrually wanted to fuck off North

Tell him the Canadian you know is encoraging he spend at most 2 days in Toronto and to hit some other cities like Kingston, Paris, etc which are older and nicer

In all these cases I kinda assume he will

Pika, you have to understand how poorly planned this is

I can tell

he knows NOTHING about Canada

4 weeks in nunavut is insane

if he hasn't killed himself and actually makes it to Toronto, I'll be lk surprised

that's more the vibe I get

a 1/5th life crisis, where he's following istagram advice to go "see the world" with no concept for wtf to do

I think he is making the mistake of "remote" means better nature to explore, when the reality is nunavut is a shithole

like Halifax, he know's NOTHING about the province

fuck, I knew more random facts about it than he did