"Meat pie - sausage roll; come on Liverpool, give us a goal!"
"Ooh, we got a corner...."
- V. Wilde, 2017
By some strange coincidence, I wrote my last post on my very first (proper) girlfriend's birthday. Strange one, that. I haven't seen her in 8 years. But once again its been too long. Good words on the page at a young age make a man sage. That's the hope anyway.
The main point is I did end up getting into Liverpool University and while I tell myself I've been rammed with work and therefore forgotten about this jotting area for all my frankest thoughts, the truth is I've just been watching such online streaming delights as Narcos, Westworld, Silicon Valley and Mr. Robot. I also did do a little bit of work.
Narcos is intense. Watch it.
I've met some interesting characters in Liverpool. The most interesting one being a young man by the name of Vishal Wilde. The word I would use to describe him is ebullient. The first meaning of this word is "cheerful and full of energy" - a more archaic meaning is "(of liquid or matter) boiling or agitated as if boiling". Both meaning fit his persona quite actively.
He's more incensed by politics than anyone I have ever met. He writes for various think tanks and Market Mogul. He's a newbie Java and Python programmer. He wants to model an entire economy in software just to ascertain if his various idea on monetary reform would actually work in the real world. Put simply (and in the kindest and best possible way) he's somewhat obsessed.
Another character is Addy "The Baddy" Dada. I remember when I first met him - he spoke of forming a start up straight after uni with some grand ideas about natural language processing for a self-help app. It would record and scan every conversation you had with people and then help you to make your communication more effective with others. What an idea. I then ended up working with him on both machine learning assignments. What a team.
I also met Vanessa. But the less said about that the better, probably. Wiederspenstig indeed.
But back to the narrative. I seem to be averaging ~70% in all my courseworks and exams I've taken so far which is pretty good considering my main aim of coming back to uni was to get me back into the swing of programming and making a few new friends. I'd love to say that I'm bothered about my upcoming exams in May but the very fact I'm writing this when I should be revising after trying to make inrows with "Liberal DemoCrash" with WebGL probably says different:
https://github.com/InBrewJ/LiberalDemoCrash
Maybe it'll be playable the next time I write something here. That is the hope.
My biggest aim of coming back to uni was to write a substantial piece of software in C++ which I seem to have bagged in the form of a project entitled "Creating a geospatial macro level feature database from existing street imagery e.g. Streetview". Sounds pretty substantial to me. The other good thing is that I get to work with Sandy making the whole thing work. Much fun. We seemed to gel together quite well during my first semester Web Programming module and I even stole her Tic-Tac-Toe design which probably got me some more marks than I deserved. Great artists steal and all that.
OTHER UPDATE. JOB OPPORTUNITY SECURED:
This is a very good endeavour. I am to be a Leeds man it seems. And whatthemore I am to be a Leeds based web developer. In Leeds. A global team of expert consultants you say? I predict crippling imposter syndrome but I'm sure all will work out in the end.
Also in Leeds are these guys:
I sense a paradigm shift coming along in years to come. That is if I pull my finger out to a VERY forceful extent and learn some linear algebra and perhaps enrol for an MSc High Performance Graphics and Games Engineering at Leeds University.
Why not stay under the Russell Group umbrella?
My best efforts of game development thus far however are this:
I've also decided, when I can afford it, to register the domain "jibworks.co.uk" which will act as a hub for all my activities. All things related to personal programming will be there, hopefully including step by step guides on any new technologies I learn. Mainly so that I can relearn them myself later on when I inevitably get old and forget them all.
Allons-y!
- V. Wilde, 2017
By some strange coincidence, I wrote my last post on my very first (proper) girlfriend's birthday. Strange one, that. I haven't seen her in 8 years. But once again its been too long. Good words on the page at a young age make a man sage. That's the hope anyway.
The main point is I did end up getting into Liverpool University and while I tell myself I've been rammed with work and therefore forgotten about this jotting area for all my frankest thoughts, the truth is I've just been watching such online streaming delights as Narcos, Westworld, Silicon Valley and Mr. Robot. I also did do a little bit of work.
Narcos is intense. Watch it.
I've met some interesting characters in Liverpool. The most interesting one being a young man by the name of Vishal Wilde. The word I would use to describe him is ebullient. The first meaning of this word is "cheerful and full of energy" - a more archaic meaning is "(of liquid or matter) boiling or agitated as if boiling". Both meaning fit his persona quite actively.
He's more incensed by politics than anyone I have ever met. He writes for various think tanks and Market Mogul. He's a newbie Java and Python programmer. He wants to model an entire economy in software just to ascertain if his various idea on monetary reform would actually work in the real world. Put simply (and in the kindest and best possible way) he's somewhat obsessed.
Another character is Addy "The Baddy" Dada. I remember when I first met him - he spoke of forming a start up straight after uni with some grand ideas about natural language processing for a self-help app. It would record and scan every conversation you had with people and then help you to make your communication more effective with others. What an idea. I then ended up working with him on both machine learning assignments. What a team.
I also met Vanessa. But the less said about that the better, probably. Wiederspenstig indeed.
But back to the narrative. I seem to be averaging ~70% in all my courseworks and exams I've taken so far which is pretty good considering my main aim of coming back to uni was to get me back into the swing of programming and making a few new friends. I'd love to say that I'm bothered about my upcoming exams in May but the very fact I'm writing this when I should be revising after trying to make inrows with "Liberal DemoCrash" with WebGL probably says different:
https://github.com/InBrewJ/LiberalDemoCrash
Maybe it'll be playable the next time I write something here. That is the hope.
My biggest aim of coming back to uni was to write a substantial piece of software in C++ which I seem to have bagged in the form of a project entitled "Creating a geospatial macro level feature database from existing street imagery e.g. Streetview". Sounds pretty substantial to me. The other good thing is that I get to work with Sandy making the whole thing work. Much fun. We seemed to gel together quite well during my first semester Web Programming module and I even stole her Tic-Tac-Toe design which probably got me some more marks than I deserved. Great artists steal and all that.
OTHER UPDATE. JOB OPPORTUNITY SECURED:
Also in Leeds are these guys:
I sense a paradigm shift coming along in years to come. That is if I pull my finger out to a VERY forceful extent and learn some linear algebra and perhaps enrol for an MSc High Performance Graphics and Games Engineering at Leeds University.
Why not stay under the Russell Group umbrella?
My best efforts of game development thus far however are this:
I need to literally up my game. Game upping in progress.
I've also decided, when I can afford it, to register the domain "jibworks.co.uk" which will act as a hub for all my activities. All things related to personal programming will be there, hopefully including step by step guides on any new technologies I learn. Mainly so that I can relearn them myself later on when I inevitably get old and forget them all.
Allons-y!
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