Glad to see this place is still alive

[ScareyedHawk]

Wow, feels like I haven't been here for ages.
So, uh, hello.

I was just reading some old IRC logs some moments ago and started feeling nostalgic, so I thought I'd take a look around, see if this place is still alive. I can see that it is, but not nearly as active as it was "back in the days". I must admit, I miss those days. I loved #uplink and all the regulars. I haven't used IRC for a long time now, and I can't see any reason I should. It was a shame it died out like that, but I suppose it happens to everything eventually.

Anyway, for those of you who do remember me, I feel like I should give you all an update.

I still live in Sweden and I will probably stay here for a while. I'm studying automation at a university here in Västerås, and I hate it. I don't hate studying per se, but my teachers have no idea what they're doing. I've been dating (Dating? I really don't like that word.) this girl for over 2.5 years and we moved in together a few months ago. I still hate my old nickname, which I chose when I was around 11 years old and had little understanding of the English language. I only use it in places where I already had an old account.

I used to do a little fire juggling a year or two ago. I was in a group that did a few performances in Sweden. We split up when one of us moved to a small island in the southern Sweden and one got politically active and busy all the time. There were only four of us, so a group of two was not that impressive. Unfortunately, my interest in the art died with that group. I had no one else to practice with, so it got boring quickly.

Anyway, now you guys know I've been up to these last years. Now it's your turn to update me.

[GreenRock]

-decided to remain anonymous-

[xander]

There's no work for teachers, so I'm in grad school. This semester, I am taking three hard core pure math classes, teaching remedial algebra, and trying to get a useful result that I can write into a thesis. This is part of this week's work:



I've started drinking coffee again, and am living on approximately 4 hours of sleep per night. And, oddly enough, I'm actually enjoying it.

Also, Wendryn and I are [redacted] at the end of next month---more news on that happy event when the time comes.

xander

[shinygerbil]

I remember you from the IRC! I'd still be in #uplink if the very act of using IRC didn't literally grind my "broadband" to a halt.

I'm going back to uni, yay! What to study, you ask? Why, I'm still finishing my first degree in Maths. Yes, the same degree I started 7 years ago, and I still blame Darwinia for making me fail my first year (that, and I got a girlfriend.) So King's College have warned me that this is the last year I can retake (I've failed too many times/taken too many years off) so let's hope I can finally knock it on the head and actually get my 3-year bachelor's degree after what will be a total of 8 years.

At least I don't have to pay the new-fangled ridiculously expensive David-Cameron-is-a-shiny-faced-asshole fees.

Also, the Koch snowflake is one of my favourite fractals.

[Montyphy]

*Jumps on the bandwagon* I remember you ScareyedHawk!

I graduated from university 2 or so years ago and now work as a developer for an IT security company in London. Whoop!


As for fractals, I've said it before and I'll say it again, Buddhabrot.

[NeatNit]

Oh my god, I totally remember you! You're that person that sometimes posts every once in a while! I really hate your avatar.

[Xarlaxas]

I, like jelco, remember you but you probably don't remember me!

Starting my final year at uni now, working on a fun final project for that, and will be applying for basically every graduate job I could stand to do soon and have to pray I get a conditional job offer to work to!

[xander]

*Jumps on the bandwagon* I remember you ScareyedHawk!

I graduated from university 2 or so years ago and now work as a developer for an IT security company in London. Whoop!


As for fractals, I've said it before and I'll say it again, Buddhabrot.

Very little of my work actually involves pictures. Rather, I am trying to extend a theorem about upper bounds of the Assouad dimension. It has previously been shown that if a set is invariant under a union of self-similarities, and that the image of those self-similarities are disjoint, then the Assouad dimension can be easily bounded. The problem with the Koch snowflake (among others) is that the self-similarities are not disjoint, hence a new approach is needed. The problem now is that my current proof relies upon the fractal being embedded in a finite dimensional space, and the applications come from infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. I am hoping to re-generalize the proof.

xander

[ScareyedHawk]

I believe you underestimate yourselves. Of course I remember all of you! Well, except NeatNit, I think you joined a bit too late. I might have a small memory of you somewhere in the back of my head.

I'm glad to see all of you are doing so well. Also, I'm terribly sorry about my awesome avatar.

[xyzyxx]

/me waves

[Mas Tnega]

I graduated from University about 3 years ago and I got a job as software tester.

The dating and sexy man-beastliness things continue to elude me. I think it's all the gaming.

[ScareyedHawk]

Software tester, huh? Sounds... kind of boring, to be honest. Would probably have been my dream job a few years ago. Well, game tester would obviously be at the top. Do you still look a pretty little girl? I really wish I saved that old picture of you.



Also, the game. Can't believe how many years I've missed that.

[Xarlaxas]

I can confirm that he most definitely does.

[Energizer_Bunny]

Meow :3

Im living near Stoke now with my boyfriend. He's just finishing uni and we're getting settled down with possibly sprogs on the horizon ^^

Missed yall <3

[Energizer_Bunny]

Hellos! Inorite