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Unless you get somewhere where you get to do something cool outside of classroom, with people you want to work with... May as well save some $$ and go to a CC for two years.

user315433

Sitting in a classroom is about the same thing everywhere.

bjb568

I've realized that.

Sans anybody to do cool things with now, I'm going to try to write an AI that makes or analyzes music over the summer and publish a paper about it.

user315433

I finished grading final exams in one of my classes... two students got their money's worth, one already knew everything about the subject, and the rest would be better off investing in lottery tickets.

user315433

2:25 AM

(It was not a large class).

user315433

(Okay, maybe 4-5 instead of 2. It's a temporary effect of grading.)

user202362

2:46 AM

@bjb568 Life is about setting goals and figure out how to acquire the resources in order to achieve them.

bjb568

Eh, maybe. I'm happy when I don't set goals too tho.

user202362

if you don't have any goal, accumulate enough resources until you find your goal is okay too

user202362

@bjb568 that's because you are young

user202362

but you wouldn't be young and in good health forever

bjb568

:(

user202362

2:48 AM

nothing to be sad about

user202362

that's exactly why you should set goals or start to accumulate resources, like the squirrels

user202362

I am telling you this because it's the mistake I have made in my earlier life

πάντα ῥεῖ

@Telkitty Do you remember all of your resource bunkers? Or are you just getting happy sometimes about finding some nuts again you already had forgotten about?

user202362

I have to make sure no other squirrels steal my stored resources, which is bloody hard

πάντα ῥεῖ

^True

Squirrels (the other ones) could become a plague :-P

At least forgotten bunkers will be helpful to grow further nut trees, so that investment wasn't in vane.

user202362

3:15 AM

If I have time, I would start a new question on physics 'under which apocalypse scenario is a bunker going to help your chance of surviving another 10 years'

Elephant

play Fallout series

user202362

If surviving and evolving is as easy as in the movie cast away, I really don't know what humanity has been doing in the past 5000 years

user315433

3:40 AM

user315433

The interest in strings is waning, while arrays remain strong, after experiencing rapid growth in 2013.

user315433

Java Arrays in particular, I suspect.

user202362

all those data mining is supposed to achieve a goal assume?

user202362

not sure what goal a few graphs is going to achieve or prove.

user315433

Also, for-loops are considerably more popular than while loops. Hiring an experienced for loop developer should be relatively easy.

user202362

3:44 AM

Normalhuman bot, producing useless facts since 2008

user202362

My undergrad thesis is about data mining, then for the next 15 years, I watched painfully as part of the world revolved around data mining with nothing significant been produced.

Journeyman Geek

@Telkitty data is 'cool'

user315433

@JourneymanGeek data ARE cool

user315433

Because R

Journeyman Geek

....

data is uncountable.

user315433

3:58 AM

(stolen from Joel, unless he stole it from elsewhere)

Shog9

data ain't cool

user315433

If you want to have more fun at the expense of language pedants, try developing an hypercorrection habit.

Journeyman Geek

@Shog9 hence the quotes.

data interpreted appropriately can be useful. Also, makes pretty graphs.

Feeds

I take the view that "open-faced sandwiches" are not sandwiches, but all other physical objects are.

Journeyman Geek

lol

PERFECT TIMING

user315433

4:02 AM

And of course, a big discussion at ELU, Is "data" treated as singular or plural in formal contexts?

Elephant

SO Trends... Google Trends...

Shog9

yes; graphs are cool, and results are cool, and results that can be represented in graphs are extra-cool.

<-- currently looking for an excuse to post a directed graph illustrating some sort of result

Journeyman Geek

yup

user315433

Teenage Mutant Bacon Sandwich

Journeyman Geek

(but the only graph I look at a regularish basis, is my reputation ;) )

Elephant

4:04 AM

mine is phone's battery graph :(

user202362

Usually, you have an intuition about something, then you use data to prove your theory

Journeyman Geek

I can trust my phone battery to go on all day

user315433

@Feeds Notably, all are examples of Trochee fixation

Journeyman Geek

Other than definition of a sandwich

user315433

"sandwich" qualifies

Journeyman Geek

4:08 AM

hm

True

user315433

@Gerry I never noticed "an hypercorrection" in title text until now. Neat.

user289971

4:46 AM

!!/report skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/38274/…

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user289971

what?

user289971

Are there two different Smokeys?

Journeyman Geek

erf. THAT GUY

Oh well, free flags ;)

@HyperNeutrino might not want to engage the troll tho

user289971

Ya :P

Journeyman Geek

4:49 AM