The Goat Pen

yea that definitely sucked. I ran the last 4 lines today waiting on the cameras. figured I would rather do it while the weather is decent

cool read

George Hotz must be the most brilliant computer scientist in the world - and also the guy thats going to create AI that builds terminators

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015- ... iving-car/

Yeah, I read that last night and forwarded it to my team. Great story. I don't even think it'll be terminators that he creates...just what his vision of the future of work is enough to scare some people.

We should enslave the AI's and have them do all our work for us.

Dork

my son with a 26 on the ACT and an admittedly bad 2.8 high school GPA was denied acceptance to UC's Lindler School of Business.

Denied to a damn business school. It may be a blessing in disguise as the alternative college is noticeably cheaper and allows him to transfer credits to UC.

I was a little suprised at how selective UC is - I mean I can see maybe Engineering but Business? c'mon.

Is that something completely separate from UC or is it just a school within UC? If the latter, I've never heard of somebody applying to the school within a school...

no, its just the business school within the college

but I figured they consider the degree you were earning - surely they don't hold the Business Marketing kids to the same standards as the Electrical Engineers or in this case, maybe they do

Matter of fact I know they don't because they talked about the different average ACT scores of the students in the different schools when we took a tour.

The school of business was a 24.

UC has gotten a lot tougher on acceptance applications over the past few years. At least your spawn is trying. Mine just leaves me a grocery list and sleeps till 3 thinking she's gonna become some famous person on YouTube.

at first I was kinda pissed, but he's also a rudderless ship. He understands the importance of education but he doesn't really have much motivation to be anything.

I probably shouldn't have rolled my eyes the day he told me he wanted to be a video game programmer. The real world after college is supposed to crush his dreams, not dad.

At any rate, it is what it is - and I can pay cash for his tuition the next 2 years before he has to make the jump to a real college. Mom gets to keep her kid at home for 2 more years as well. We decide what our next steps are then.

Seems like video game programmer would be encouraged since at least its a path to a shitty but stable Initech type software job

aTm wrote:Seems like video game programmer would be encouraged since at least its a path to a shitty but stable Initech type software job

I didn't discourage him from computers - but I didn't want him to believe that video game programmer for a kid that has never written a piece of code was the path to start out on. Its why I pushed him toward school of business IT degree versus Comp Sci.

Damn, my 8 year old is learning code now via Youth Digital's online programs.

Tell your boy there's hope for him yet. I only had a 2.8 GPA in high school but made the dean's list 4 out of my first 6 semesters in college. Now look at me!

yea, when you decide at 15 you want to be video game programmer but you have no interest in actually learning how to code - I'd say its time for dad to give you a gentle nudge in another direction.

Saint wrote: Tell your boy there's hope for him yet. I only had a 2.8 GPA in high school but made the dean's list 4 out of my first 6 semesters in college.

There is a UNC joke buried in there...well, not exactly buried.

Well done.

hedge wrote:Is that something completely separate from UC or is it just a school within UC? If the latter, I've never heard of somebody applying to the school within a school...

Many schools within a school have a separate admission process.

My nephew is a gaming design major at a New England private college....I'm sure his parents are getting their money's worth.

I like sports. I could do something in sports