#computer sciene

student "but how does this not cause problems?"   prof "ohhhhhhh no, it causes SO many problems"

"which is completely impossible to do in five weeks but we're going to do it anyway to showcase our awesomeness"

"if you recall, we previously examined this model using the examples of ice cream and murder"

"So, say you had two tweets you wanted to examine, let’s say... ‘joe biden bit donald trump’ and ‘donald trump bit joe biden’. you wouldn’t say that these are the same thing, right? right, of course not, because as much as trump would deserve it, biden could get rabies or something and nobody wants that"

"most of these things are related to food or sex which is ironic because those should never be combined in real life. never. do you hear me? n e v e r"

"so in the early 1960s, this guy revolutionized - or destroyed, if you like - the way that corpora were examined. and i do like. he seriously fucked things up"

"i don't have anything against philosophers. i was a philosopher myself in a past life"

"Chomsky did a lot of big important things for computational linguistics but a lot of his basic underlying assumptions are just... wrong"

"he tried to rewrite all of his old texts later in his lifetime, where he tried to remove all stranded prepositons... i don't know about you, but I can think of better uses of my time"

prof "what do you do in sklearn for this?" students look confused. prof looks nervous "i actually can't think of it myself, that's why I'm asking"

“there was actually a study done a few years ago about how often advertising companies commit fraud. so, let’s give a show of hands. who thinks that ads only lie 25% of the time? hands up... nobody? oh, thank god. you may all be cynics, but at least you're a promising bunch"

"There are only two ways of displaying data in statistics. there are lies and then there are BIG lies”

prof "have you heard anything that was used with this word in the past?"   student "yes, but i don't want to repeat it"   prof "yea, there's a ton of sexual stuff going around"

"when examining how many covid-affected people had symptoms of long covid, the scientists used a facebook group to find people to ask. but they used a facebook group created specifcially for people suffering from long covid, and asking the long covid group how many of them have long covid is just... mind blowingly stupid"

"In the LGBT...P...Q...C...H? I don’t know anymore. In the alphabet soup of queers-"

prof "i'm just rushing through these things because that’s all i can do here given that we only have 5 minutes left"   student "actually we have 35 mintues, we finish at half past, not on the hour"   prof "... let me clarify. we only have 5 minutes left where my sanity will remain intact. what happens after that, i have no control over"

"but it's better than HTML in any case, which is full of problems... quite like my marriage, actually, but at least I know that HTML won't cheat on me. ANYWAY"

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I haven’t had anything CS related in HS either. Well, we had some basic C++ but it was like BASIC-basic and I sucked at that anyways. 

You’ll have to catch up a bit, or at least work really hard at the beginning of the year. Probably all through your first term tbh. But it gets better later, so as long as you persist thru the “bad times”, you’ll be fine ;) 

I really wanted to go into something artsy at first, but it turned out they don’t have anything like computer graphics or commercial use graphics anywhere in Poland so I went with CS because I’ve heard they had graphics courses when you’re done with CS. So here I am. And it had nothing to do with graphics lmao I’ve grown to tolerate programming during my first year and now I quite enjoy it. It’s satisfying seeing some lines of code that you wrote come to life! 

Y’all, I’m crying

For my data analytics course, we have 101 different datasets to examine and one of those is a list of 300,000 fics from A03 published before 2018, and included within that file is this readme.txt file exPLAINING WHAT FANFICTION IS LIKE ITS SOME TYPE OF FANCY FRENCH CUISINE

but you know what’s even worse? 

the fact that within the lovely database of fanfiction we are examining

IS ONE OF MY OWN FICS

i made a trans friendly computer science/engineering server! anyone interested in computers, electronics, programming, whatever, is welcome to join, regardless of your level of knowledge! the only requirement is you’re not a transphobe!

8//27//17

Tomorrow is the day!! I finally get to start class ah I’m so excited but also terrified 😭 My classes this semester are:

Intro to Computer Science

Music History 101

Music Theory I/ Aural Skills I

Calculus I

Plus a few guitar-related things once a week as well!