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[davv]

Hello there,

apparently there has been renewed interest in DW, at least from a certain group! Unfortunately, the real world has been too time-intensive and I have been too busy to write much of interest. Much of my time has been occupied by assignments (programming, stats, linear algebra, oh my), and I've used much of the time that was left to think about very special-purpose things that probably wouldn't be of much interest to others here (e.g. application of statistics to certain types of voting algorithm design).

So instead... let me just meep again. Hello everybody! I have some ideas of what I could write about, but I just haven't had the time yet. Because of that, it's probably easier for me to just encourage those who are reading this to start: ask me something or just meep back, and then I'll try to reply in turn :) Particularly those of you who may have started reading this recently, because I'm curious as to who you are.

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[premchaia_pre4]

*flapflapflapflapflap*

*perch*

OvO

[davv]

It's a beakydragon!

What would the beakydragon on a perch talk about?

[premchaia_pre4]

I'm not sure! Maybe elementary visual art. Or Lisp. Or furries.

Or just being generally silly and hopping around and squawking all over the place.

[davv]

Those are still quite broad categories! What kind of elementary visual art, what kind of furries, whar sort of Lisp programs?

[premchaia_pre4]

Well, I was at Furpocalypse recently, which went… partly well and partly badly. I should write that up, but I need to present the results for redaction first and I've been dealing with another contract thing that has most of my mental energy right now. So, those furries.

And I've been playing both Art Academy and its spinoff Pokémon Art Academy on the 3DS.

The Lisp programs… are at a standstill right now, not that I wanted them to be. Egh.

[indicoyote]

Hi! I don't think we've actually met but we have some mutual friends; Elanna and Soreth mainly. They were actually talking about you (all good things!) a few days before I started fiddling around with DW and so I recognized you here, and you seemed like cool folks so I subscribed! I hope that's okay. :)

[davv]

That is okay :) Maybe I should chirp at you by chat so we can do something about the "haven't actually met" part, so if you see an unusual nick say something on AIM, that might be me. Or a bot, but it should be relatively easy to tell us apart.

How's Elanna, by the way? I haven't seen her around in quite a while.

[indicoyote]

Yes, I'm be very happy to chat with you! I'm online pretty much always and usually paying at least some attention, when I'm awake. :) Would be happy to get to know you better. :)

Elanna is well, quite busy with bird things lately. ;) I'll let her know you're thinking of her! She's on here too now, elanna, should be doing a post soon.

[lhexa]

*meeps*

Has your opinion towards higher education softened, now that you're a fair ways in?

[davv]

I don't remember what I said about it, but if it was from ten years ago or so, it was probably nothing nice at all. After all, the local HS equivalent where I used to live was really bad, and I thought that was how all education would be from that point on.

But mathematics is a lot more about logic now. It's tough, but it isn't mindless. It isn't the arithmetic I referred to when I was young and when forced on a long walk, said "I'd rather be doing mathematics than this".

I've used some of what I've learned in statistics for purposes quite unrelated to the context I learned it in, too. So that's nice.

It is a lot of work, though, and I'd say that they're moving a bit too quickly on the current linalg. It does sometimes feel like drinking from a fire hose: keep up or you'll be lost.

(Of course, one shouldn't discount that I've also become older and thus better at using my mind in general. Or so I think.)