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Phonon

12:29

@IvoFlipse Hey

Ivo Flipse

hi @Phonon

thank god, I finally finished CS262's stupid parsing exercise

Phonon

@IvoFlipse So I decided to not even start PGM PA before I read like three more chapters = )

Ivo Flipse

had a small error with the way results were concatenated

@Phonon lol, PA8 you mean?

Phonon

@IvoFlipse I'm glad all is well

@IvoFlipse Don't remember... may be 7

Ivo Flipse

I got stuck on PA7, I had no clue what to do with the CliqueTreeCalibrate, where you have to do something to logZ

Phonon

12:30

@IvoFlipse 7

Ivo Flipse

I wonder if the book covers it in more detail

Phonon

@IvoFlipse Yeah, I haven't even gotten that far

Ivo Flipse

because else, I'll start reading too

Phonon

@IvoFlipse I'm just reading stuff about parameters and undirected networks. Then I'll read the maximum likelihood chapter

Ivo Flipse

:O the first two are pretty easy, if you know what you're supposed to do (which is a huge if)

Phonon

12:31

@IvoFlipse I literally guessed questions 2 and 3 on the third quiz

Ivo Flipse

@Phonon hehe, I have to resort to that too at times

I'm also working on the last NLP PA, we have to parse XML

I couldn't get it working for the life of me, et voila this morning CS253 covered XML parsing :P

Phonon

@IvoFlipse Yeah, I noticed that there was a lot of stuff on what she called parameters in week 7 lectures in that chapter on undirected networks

@IvoFlipse Nice = )

Ivo Flipse

We're playing Jeopardy, given the name of someone's wife, we have to return a string: "Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger" or something like that

Phonon

@IvoFlipse lol

Ivo Flipse

at one point I cheated, I simply changed the input file, they gave us a name, which had a nickname in quotes within her name

which makes parsing more tricky

I wrote a function to check if parts of the name we got were present on that line, but for some reason it was being used on every name, which gave me some trouble :(

but I bet they'll screw with us and use such nasty features in the test set

and I had to find the name of the person who she was married to (talk about recursion), so Colin Powel was in there

luckily my regex could deal with Colin E. Powell

but those bastards used: General Colin E. Powell...

Or double surnames

still not sure if my regex deals with it properly...

Phonon

12:38

@IvoFlipse Wow, that's pretty involved. Can't wait to take that class! = )

Ivo Flipse

@Phonon Yeah I actually didn't feel like putting more time in it

but the deadline is the 23rd

so I'm first going to watch all Udacity video's (only CS262 left), there's no homework yet

after Udacity I'll try wasting some time on PGM (or reading the book) and if I have time left, work on getting a good score for NLP

Phonon

@IvoFlipse Cool. I can't wait until PGM is over. I need some of my life back = )

Ivo Flipse

that was just part of the exercise, you also have to parse Google results, to figure out where Taj Mahal and the Eiffel Tower are located

@Phonon same here

oh and Diablo 3 launches tomorrow :P

Phonon

@IvoFlipse Not into that, fortunately. Used to be, but not these days. = )

Ivo Flipse

@Phonon well I haven't played a lot ever since PGM became such a nutcracker

Phonon

12:45

@IvoFlipse lol

Ivo Flipse

do mostly due to time constraints :P

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Mohammad

14:59

@Phonon @IvoFlipse Hey all!

Ivo Flipse

hi @Mohammad

Mohammad

@IvoFlipse Was never into the diablo type games, but was really into strategic ones - starcraft esp!

Ivo Flipse

@Mohammad I played them all :P

though I didn't really start gaming (those kind of games) until warcraft 2 / red alert came out

before that it was only the DOS type of games

Mohammad

@IvoFlipse Oh yeah, I remember Red Alert. And Dune 2000. lol

Ivo Flipse

@Mohammad Dune was the best, great story

Those weapons were totally awesome

Mohammad

15:02

@IvoFlipse The spice must flow!

Ivo Flipse

the mind control gas, the sonic tank

I always called the things in Red Alert harvesters, after those things in Dune (I believe)

Mohammad

@IvoFlipse Yeah - I always thought the Artreidies sonic tank was..how shall we say?... not macho enough hehe

@IvoFlipse Harkonen devastator - now that was something. Too bad was also such a big target

Ivo Flipse

@Mohammad It wasn't macho, but coupled with other troops it was very useful

Mohammad

@IvoFlipse It only affected infantry though from what I remember

@Phonon When does PGM end anyway?

Ivo Flipse

@Mohammad well its long ago, so I'm not going to argue, I don't trust my memory that much :P

uhm, we're at PA7, there are 2 left. Then there's a final exam. So somewhere begin of June

Mohammad

15:06

@IvoFlipse Hehe. These days I play very little starcraft 2

@IvoFlipse Ah I see

Ivo Flipse

@Mohammad I'll just wait for the next expansion

I played some multiplayer, but the matches took too long

Mohammad

@IvoFlipse This year I think

Ivo Flipse

so I couldn't drop in and out to play a short game if I wanted to

Mohammad

@IvoFlipse Hmm, have you tried the custom games on multiplayer?

Ivo Flipse

@Mohammad Soon™

Mohammad

15:07

@IvoFlipse They can be really short and sweet

@IvoFlipse lol

Ivo Flipse

@Mohammad yeah, a bit

I also played Skyrim last year

and some Indie games

Bastion, with its awesome soundtrack

Mohammad

@IvoFlipse Ah yeah, a bunch of my friends were into skyrim. Its all reddit talked about for the longest time heh

Ivo Flipse

At some point it just became to repetitive, so I just quit :P

Mohammad

@IvoFlipse THose games are fun until I realize the character in the game has more of a life than I do. 0_0

Ivo Flipse

I also played Dungeon Defenders, which is fun until you become powerful enough, so survival games take forever

@Mohammad Amen

I played more WoW than I studied for my masters

Mohammad

15:10

@IvoFlipse LOOL

Ivo Flipse

Now I study so much, I don't have time for much else

oh how the times have changed

Mohammad

@IvoFlipse Starcraft was my craze freshman year.

@IvoFlipse Hehe, yup. Its almost as if it all comes out in the wash. Thank you central limit theorem! :P

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