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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7275 on: May 20, 2014, 11:35:34 am »

Yes. You can do a transition with college but its not the norm, usually only if you're missing credits.

College is usually done for it's own sake, usually a two or three year program instead of 4 for university. Most people do one or the other.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7276 on: May 20, 2014, 11:39:44 am »

Any chance of swinging in during the Winter semester? I dunno if that's a thing that would work in Canadaland, but perhaps it's worth a shot.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7277 on: May 20, 2014, 11:43:33 am »

No. If I don't stop procrastinating as much as I have, it'll be another year. Guelph doesnt allow second semester first years.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7278 on: May 20, 2014, 10:44:53 pm »

Yes. You can do a transition with college but its not the norm, usually only if you're missing credits.

College is usually done for it's own sake, usually a two or three year program instead of 4 for university. Most people do one or the other.
This is the norm in New Zealand, too. University fees are sodding ridiculous, though, so fewer and fewer people actually go that far.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7279 on: May 20, 2014, 10:58:32 pm »

They're pretty bad here, too. 10K for the year, give or take a couple K.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7280 on: May 21, 2014, 06:36:09 am »

They're pretty bad here, too. 10K for the year, give or take a couple K.
It's not really bad if it's like that everywhere.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7281 on: May 21, 2014, 03:31:54 pm »

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little b̸̵̀o͘͢͡x̶́̕e̕s͟͟ on the hillside,
L̢҉it́t̵̶͞l͟͝e̷͘͝ ̨b͜҉͡ǫx̡e͜͏҉s͘҉̴ ́͡al̛l͘͜ ̢̢t́hȩ s̕͟a̶̸̛mè͢.͘

That's actually pretty cute. It's like a little toybox dystopia.
And it's supposed to be about the real world!

We're all boxes! You're a box, I'm a box! We stare at each other with our square, emotionless eyes in horror!

I kid, of course. The song seems a little on the pessimistic side of things.
After a bit of research, apparently the song was originally written back in the early sixties as commentary on/a satire of suburban living and middle class conformism. So yanno. But still. I honestly found it more horrifying than any lovecraft story.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7282 on: May 21, 2014, 04:39:57 pm »

After a bit of research, apparently the song was originally written back in the early sixties as commentary on/a satire of suburban living and middle class conformism. So yanno. But still. I honestly found it more horrifying than any lovecraft story.
That makes sense, if it was written in the sixties.

What's more terrifying is that when I first heard the song, I didn't know it was written way back then. I thought it was talking about modern life. And it still sounds relevant today.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7283 on: May 21, 2014, 05:59:40 pm »

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7284 on: May 21, 2014, 06:13:23 pm »

After a bit of research, apparently the song was originally written back in the early sixties as commentary on/a satire of suburban living and middle class conformism. So yanno. But still. I honestly found it more horrifying than any lovecraft story.
That makes sense, if it was written in the sixties.

What's more terrifying is that when I first heard the song, I didn't know it was written way back then. I thought it was talking about modern life. And it still sounds relevant today.
There was that TV show Weeds that used the original as it's title song.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7285 on: May 22, 2014, 12:35:31 am »

So it begins.

http://imgur.com/teOs6il
That thing is made by Vecna Robotics. It's called the Bear robot. So apparently liches have allied with robots and bears - guys, I'm pretty sure this is how multiple simultaneous apocalypses start. We're all fucked.
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“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7286 on: May 22, 2014, 12:43:51 am »

I knew liches had a hand in this.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7287 on: May 22, 2014, 12:46:33 am »

Yes. You can do a transition with college but its not the norm, usually only if you're missing credits.

College is usually done for it's own sake, usually a two or three year program instead of 4 for university. Most people do one or the other.
Truly terrifying stuff.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7288 on: May 22, 2014, 12:50:04 am »



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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #7289 on: May 22, 2014, 01:03:30 am »

So it begins.

http://imgur.com/teOs6il
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