I spent 4 days making this:

https://txstc55.github.io/us_crime_...

Cleaning data, learning threejs, optimizing the search because threejs is slow as shit, etc

Tell me I’m awesome (please)

I told my phd advisor I’m leaving the group, I need suggestions of what to do next

Everyday I go on Reddit to find memes, and share it with my girlfriend. Maybe I should build a website for this?

I don’t want to write paper/ run test to produce meaningful numbers

Anyone want an image like this?

Just tell point me to the image, a set of text and I will do it for you

Please I’m bored

This is the mandalorian using his lines from season 1

So I wanted to publish the spherical voronoi minesweeper on steam. I paid the one time fee, submitted my tax document and then never heard back, and that’s four month ago.

Shall I just open source it, it’s a unity project so idk how the structure of that should be.

I can also just put the built version on github, if the file size is not enormous.

I wanted to build a platform for student who wants to do research and are having hard time finding a good professor within university or from outside, so naturally I started asking professor I knew and this is what I get:

Normally they will only hire students from within university unless student himself has funding, and even with that hiring students from outside is a lot of procedures.

And no, such platform probably won’t be that useful as they get a lot of emails asking about research.

Startup idea instantly killed.

This is like a survey: for people Dodd research when in school, how much difficulty did you go through to find a good research position

Since the last post did not have the gif correctly attached, and @C0D4 suggested how to do this properly, here it is again.

With virtual camera, now I join meetings like this, and it is a live demo not just a video

Here is the repo to achieve the effect
https://github.com/txstc55/...
You will still need a virtual camera software to project it in the meeting, for me I used OBS

With the help of obs virtual camera, now I can join meeting like this

It’s real time not just a video, idk if gif works correctly on devrant now, but it’s me dancing

Edit: apparently gif still doesn’t work on devrant

I don’t give a shit about boycotting Mulan, I paid to watch this movie

And the movie is shit, so I genuinely ask people to not waste the money to watch it. It’s just so shit and such a waste of my time

I updated the UI as I said last time

prettywordcloud.github.io

Found out word cloud essentially is NP hard problem, so can’t do it in an efficient way.

However, now it is more interactive, and gives the illusion it is faster

You know what
I’m gonna fucking rebuild my website since the ui got bashed pretty hard by a friend who studies hci

And just gonna make it faster while at it

Question:
Is there a good tool I can use to design my UI with vuejs support

I am looking at bootstrap studio but since I will be using multiple JS script as well as .vue file, it doesn’t seem to be good.

Things happened this year so far in chronological order:

Applied to PhD and got all rejected

Graduated without a job because I thought the last event wouldn’t happen

Decided to take more shots at universities in Europe and Canada

Paper got published and got best paper honorable mention

Interviewed by couple professors and the one in Canada seems to be interested in me

School in Canada, which rejected me before, reopened my case for review

Bank account got closed because my parents transferred me some money to support my unemployment ass and bank thought it was a fraud

The review process took so long I got hopeless and thought, if I end up writing webpages for other people, why not doing it now? And did two webpages which are in my previous rant, pretty good and highly recommended imo

Canada school promised a date but didn’t follow that date, depression attack

Finally sent them an email and got an answer saying the admission approved my application and they are working on paper work. But I still don’t believe it because I’m paranoid

Got an email from a professor today confirming they are doing paper work and I should receive official paper soon.

You can see the dramatic ups and downs, but in the end, guess I’m going to Toronto for phd

Another project done in 3 days

https://txstc55.github.io/image-wor...

Generates word cloud based on image and text file user given, the default is Lincoln and his speeches.

Doesn’t work on phones, please view it on desktop/laptop

My god I’m a fucking legend

Fuck it, implemented another idea: image voronoi, it computes a voronoi diagram over the input image, each cell is then populated with the average color inside that cell

https://txstc55.github.io/ImageVoro...

This is an image with the get high option on

I’m so productive and I’m proud of myself

Quarantine and unemployment gave me opportunities to do side projects, here is another one I’ve done recently and I think you guys will like it

It is an image mosaic that preserves features based on color gradient, and tries to use as many photos as possible instead of just repeatedly using same picture over and over.

Here is the link: https://github.com/txstc55/...

For those who care about my minesweeper game, I’m working on submitting it to steam and make it a free game.

After one year of procrastination I finally made the game with unity

Ladies and gentleman, spherical voronoi minesweeper

Yes, I made the game before with in c++ which looks quite shitty, but finally, unity

Why are many of the customizable mechanical keyboard still not going wireless?
I hate plugging in cables to Mac, quite against their design philosophy.

I created a mesh viewer

In terminal

With matrix effect

YouTube: https://youtu.be/K3ejiVEERcM

GitHub: github.com/txstc55/matrix_viewer

So I have the new Mac book pro for 8 months now, always thought that the butterfly keyboard issue will never happen to me.

Until three days ago I noticed my space key is kinda sticky.
I have an external monitor so I don’t recall any time I spill water or food directly on the keyboard.

So I made an appointment for a walk in.

BUT this morning, I was like: man, fuck this shit and smashed the space key.

Now it’s fixed.

Good

Has anyone used catch2? How do I pass the command line arguments to a test when I have test in a separate file. The supplying main yourself document is quite useless, it only tells you how to get the arguments but not how to pass it to tests. I saw people setting a global variable in main but it’s not working for me.

Shall I switch to vs code?

I have been using sublime text for years and the sublime merge works well with it. And I did buy license since I love it. Idk if I should switch or not

A picture is better than a thousand words

Inspired by my professor’s rant about people don’t know how to google stuffs, I made a scriptable script to solve all those issues. It’s a super smart script that shows detailed step by step solution of how to tackle down a problem

For those who doesn’t know, scriptable is a free app for Apple basically writing scripts that can be used, in JavaScript.

Here is the repo:
https://github.com/txstc55/...

Please try it out, you will love it, I promise

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for the ending of any relationship after using this script

Not code related, but.....
When you open a pron site and see this

Guess I should save the planet instead of jerking off

Lab needs a crawler to download some assets, none of my business though

But why not

Haven't touched crawler for two years

Google for latest state of art

Found scrapy

I have to define a class for a crawling script?

Got scared

Went back to beautifulsoup and request

Got the job done in 20 mins

Fuck yeah

I found that one of the pron site I visit is written in Vue .....

Never wrote a website before

Wanted to write a website for myself just for PhD application.

Learned Vue on Saturday and wrote the website in three days.

Conclusion: fuck css

I can post the website if anyone is interested to take a look though

I need advice.

I'm going to apply for PhD this year, but here's the thing, I don't have a specific interest in anything.

This sounds weird but I only want to do thinking. Like solving problems.

I would have a paper coming out this month as first author, but we discovered some weekends of our algorithm recently and decided to postponed the paper (there are 4 professors on the project and one researcher), so I guess this will definitely affect my application.

Like, what shall I say even on the personal statement? That I have one active mind that just won't stop thinking? The very fact that everything is interesting to me made me not interested to anything.