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04:42
Hey @crazy ninja want to swap email addresses?
04:58
hi
@Woodrow
I was in the daily scrum meeting
rugby?
LOL.... at office
haha
so, whatz up?
how old are you?
what do you do?
about the same age as you, I'm not in school, but I'm studying a foreign language, and couple fields in computer science
05:01
I'm not in school either :P
I see, do you work an interesting job?
software engineering
Nice, sounds fun
yeah I do. But more interested if I were lived in a good country
idk what the limitations are there, but what steps do you have to take before you move?
05:03
complete college
For me, I'll probably study for a year or two, then get some work in web dev or datascience
btw do you have interest in either of the above disciplines?
Yeah. I last two years I worked in Web Dev
05:20
nice. I'm decent with js, css, jquery, html at the moment, I'm studying php now, then I'm going to practice it all with a few practice social network sites / cms etc. Then maybe learn laravel, and ruby/rails
Laravel sucks!
learn Node
and angular
haha, I'll give it some research. Correct me if I'm wrong, but node as a backend, and angular as a front end?
yes
Node - for server side Javascript
This is our college chatroom
you are mostly welcome to share, ask anything there
@Woodrow
which year are you now?
I mean in College
I see, I look forward to studying, ty for the chatroom too.
and sharing your college stuff within two universities will be definitely beneficial for both parties!
05:32
I don't go to college lol, I mainly take online courses, and study from textbooks that I handpick. Though I'm sure the exchange will still be beneficial
wise decision
Honestly
Can't wait until my skills are better in both the fields of web dev and datascience, there's a lot of things I want to make / participate in.
For web dev, I eventually want to get pretty good with threejs.org & blender in particular
For datascience / machine learning, that's the field of AI, pattern/image/speech recognition, can't wait till I'm better at it.
my advise is to start from the ground level
AI, image processing are too advanced and old stuff
learning them is really good, but at the time when you finish learning those, new tech will be replaced them
so, don't just stick to one thing
05:50
I'm aware they are advanced subjects, it wont be easy, I know that much. I already started out with studying Jeff Heaton's intro to the field, and now studying to get a strong foundation for the field with a great book by this guy: amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Optimization-Perspective-Developers/…
Since I'm more interested in understanding all the nuts and bolts, rather than just using a super high-level library
nice to see that you are reading good books
what's the online university you are following?
I have looked several places to start my MSc, but now decided to do it after migrating to Europe
As far as online courses, I'm enrolled in a free course by a Stanford guy on ML at coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/
and a plethora of courses at udemy (which I got at discounts)
There are a lot of course platforms out there.. edx, udemy, coursera, MIT OCW, udacity
god bless the internet
i tried udemy and coursera
but I couldn't manage with my college work + office work
So I ended up with nothing
hm, hopefully your college work is stuff that you like spending time on?
yeah, but let me first move to Europe :D
06:02
godspeed :)
BTW; Seriously, how old are you?
65
jk though I'm 20
cool
What do you in your free time?
I guess I'm mostly studying in my free time.. one of the 3 subjects I listed. Besides that, music, exercise, good food, stick shift cars, programming projects (java first language), and anime
Since in my current position, I can afford to be a full time scholar
06:11
dubstep, rap, and classical are some genres I like.. decent variety
they are fine
yourself?
mostly, pop + dance
and rarely, classsic sinhala music
nice
btw are you currently studying any subjects?
yup
3rd year 1 semester
we have 5 modules
06:23
like liberal arts courses?
Software Engineering
Mobile Applications Development
Human Computer Interactions
Software Engineering Project
System Programming and Design Concepts
those are the 5 modules i'm currently following
Nice, is it fun?
Not at all!
I hate college now
Mhm, I had a similar experience. Some of the classes aren't interesting I take it?
but now i can't quite
so, i'm just doing for the sake of completing it
06:35
I had pretty strict parents, I used to work to get good grades to appease them, though I didn't get to choose what courses I took. Wasn't the best system.
hmm... most important thing is, enjoy what you do
I agree :) something I had to find for myself after being fed up with my situation.
Took time and introspection though. anyway, what is it that you want to do?
I want to move to Europe. That's my life dream
I see, I'm sure you can do it. I'll try hard at mine too.
btw, is "Human Computer Interactions" like user interface design?
07:15
yes
 
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