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devildogelite:
My natural language processing class has been really interesting so far. I was worried about how hard the class will be since it was a grad student course and the professor has a really thick Chinese accent but he's using some solid slides and answers one on one questions pretty well. So far the hardest part has been getting used to python which I don't think I've done anything real in ever.

--- Quote from: Pecon on September 14, 2016, 08:13:36 PM ---If any of you are crypto nerds and are interested in Keybase, send me a PM because I have 7 alpha invites.

tl;dr: It's a social-ish network that lets you connect your pgp key to social media accounts.

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I had a crypto class and enjoyed but it was a really brief glance of the field but it's all really interesting to me. So does that site just basically let you have a public key that's easy for everyone to find so stuff is easily verified?

Pecon:

--- Quote from: devildogelite on September 14, 2016, 09:03:36 PM ---I had a crypto class and enjoyed but it was a really brief glance of the field but it's all really interesting to me. So does that site just basically let you have a public key that's easy for everyone to find so stuff is easily verified?

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Kinda. Take my page as an example: https://keybase.io/pecon
It links to and verifies cryptographic proofs on all the profiles you link to it, on top of having your public key.

Foxscotch:

--- Quote from: devildogelite on September 14, 2016, 09:03:36 PM ---So far the hardest part has been getting used to python which I don't think I've done anything real in ever.

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I'm a python freak
also a javascript freak
I love them both. sometimes I use one or another. I don't know what determines whether I choose to use one or the other for a given task, aside from perhaps library availability

at work I have this stupid, awful task that involves me making up random numbers off the top of my head within a certain range
I got tired of making them up myself (previously my least favorite part of doing it), so I made a python script to do it for me

import random

parts = [
["86697-C2000", 302.0, 15, 3],
["86697-C2200", 292.0, 6, 3],
["86697-C2300", 288.0, 15, 3],
["84716-4Z000", 180.0, 15, 5],
["86717-4Z000", 185.0, 15, 5],
["55163-F2000", 705.6, 15, 3]
]

output = ""

for part, avg, rng, samples in parts:
output += part + ": "
sample_list = []
for i in range(samples):
sample_list.append('{:.1f}'.format(random.uniform(avg - rng, avg + rng)))
output += ', '.join(sample_list) + '\n'

print(output)

output generally looks something like this:

86697-C2000: 287.9, 295.0, 309.5
86697-C2200: 293.6, 286.2, 286.2
86697-C2300: 293.2, 302.4, 283.9
84716-4Z000: 182.1, 171.4, 183.6, 194.3, 176.1
86717-4Z000: 184.3, 190.8, 190.6, 174.8, 199.3
55163-F2000: 700.8, 710.0, 693.8

in this particular case it's easy to explain that I chose python because its random module is much more convenient than javascript's Math.random()
but sometimes the reasons are much more abstract

eboyblue10:
so i'm taking a programming class in school (they only do java so uh hey)

i just installed the eclipse IDE but my school uses jcreator so i'm a bit confused with all this fluff in eclipse

Becquerel:

--- Quote from: eboyblue10 on September 14, 2016, 10:09:31 PM ---so i'm taking a programming class in school (they only do java so uh hey)

i just installed the eclipse IDE but my school uses jcreator so i'm a bit confused with all this fluff in eclipse

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Eclipse is one of the most popular IDEs around, with a stuffload of downloadable plugins. Its written mostly in Java

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