#metabrainz

dpmittal: yes, comp science is worse

It's through an exam .... Which I'll be giving in March

That's sad. But it's difficult to tell how a school will accept you because it's based on essays and such instead of scores

gcilou: that's true. Uncertainty is probably an issue for schools in US

atleast for a while

dpmittal: I've heard that IIIT-H (a great college for CS) takes in people based on stuff like IOI etc

?

do they consider GCI as well?

Definitely. That's why we apply to so many when we're not confident in scores and essays 😬

It's true that here we're lucky enough: if you pass the end of high-school exam with reasonably good grades, you're admitted; and then they kick out 60% of students by the end of first year. So we do get a chance to prove CS skills more than you seem to

iliekcomputers: after ioi round they will have an interview round and then there they will see your academics ... But still only one college in india

dpmittal: CMI is pretty cool as well, from what I've heard.

They will consider GCI but a little bit..

But yeah, the "popular" IIT's and NIT's taking via physics, chem and math is pretty much a sham lol

Ya if u know ... It's nice

*... It's nice ... Please omit if u know

CMI and IIIT-H are both a bit too difficult to get in ;)

colleges also have to keep certain diversity percentages up, so in engineering, I may have better changes than Ohm for example, just for being a girl

anshuman73: all of the top colleges here are :P

and let's not forget IOI isn't easy either

iliekcomputers: yeah :p

and they consider family background, race, religion, sexuality too

gcilou: whaaaaa ?

so it's just a really weird process

especially if you haven't completely given your life to physics, chem and math :)

anshuman73: yeah. and they want more diversity so the school ends up looking better

gcilou: is that even compatible with human rights?

iliekcomputers: well, Idk, I return home after 12 hors of academics most of the days these days, I don't know how much more time I can spend :p

gcilou: that's cool. I think India's got some schemes, but they're seldom implemented

except for the reservations...

I mean, private schools can do whatever they want. It's not discrimination, but rather just wanting as many good diverse students as possible

Wow ..

meh - I'm thouroughly unconvinced

*thoroughly

Sp4rrowh4wk: haha, you don't know how bad it is in India lol

gcilou: that's actually a good idea. More diverse people, better it is ! I'm lucky to have experienced that in an international school for a while. Got friends from around the world now :p

I mean - who chooses the ratios, and is it really a good thing that someone be taken over someone with a better profile because they 'fit the stats'?

iliekcomputers: u r in a college?

iliekcomputers: an low-tier NIT

heh. well that's why we have to try to look smart, impressive, unique, and diverse on applications

I didn't study much chemistry :P

Still a NIT....

Sp4rrowh4wk: the school decides. and yes it's all politics

NIT is very good

iliekcomputers: I knew it was 'bad' in a theoretical sense, but never really encountered it

iliekcomputers: I was hoping chem is the easiest :( Got tons of organic left tho...

if people like what they

*they're doing, they'll get more money

but I think it is a good idea

gcilou: wow. That enables a fuckton of loopholes

gcilou: but then again considering that India (correct me if I'm wrong) has some *serious* women in tech issues (or in anything), it's probably good

I wouldn't know

It's bad enough in the US

Sp4rrowh4wk: it does, the government's trying it's best.

gcilou: you should see in India, it's worse.

anshuman73: well, chem is the most scoring, but I'm not the best person to talk to about this.

anshuman73: I have figured that it's bad. I have a female indian friend in CS who moved to the US to go to school

mot of us *

gcilou: afaik, they don't give much to international students unless they're US citizens

US schools cost a damn lot compared to public education in Europe for often not much better before PhDs

you people are better off coming in Germany

or France

yes it's all too expensive

Sp4rrowh4wk: Germany is free public education almost, yes?

[picard] samj1912 opened pull request #581: Change windows packager to download and install latest plugins (master...plugre) https://git.io/vMyqa

iliekcomputers: AFAIK yes. France is for sure, and Switzerland here is 600.- CHF per semester, so nothing compared to USA. Life is awefully costly though, if you don't get a student job things get tough. But germany has some rather rad public unis

anshuman73: yeah, that's why I said come to Europe

Sp4rrowh4wk: I submitted a PR for the problem you reported (about the bug tracker not being linked) Let's hope it's merged soon by Leftmost, LordSputnik

we rock (and haven't *yet* elected the racist fucks)

anshuman73: dammit you beat me, I was reading the Contributing.md rn

Sp4rrowh4wk: Gotta work faster! ;)

😂

samj1912: typo at https://github.com/metabrainz/picard/pull/581/f...

anshuman73, because that's probably not set up \o/

Freso: well I'm revising for my EM exam at the same time, so... (procastination ^^)

oh sorry, no idea how that happened

1 sec

(electromag)

Leo_Verto: yeah...

Freso: also I don't know any js, my languages are haskell, scala, perl and C -- so I was figuring out what was where ^^

also, is there a reason why bookbrainz repos aren't attached to the Metabrainz account ?

zas, working a bit slow today :P

[picard] samj1912 opened pull request #582: PICARD-916: Fix type error in initialization (master...picard916) https://git.io/vMymr

anshuman73: Aren't they though? If any are not, then for historical reasons.

hmm, makes sense. But seeing that they are now under development, maybe it's a good idea to move the repos to MetBrainz's Github account ?

anshuman73: Ask LordSputnik or Leftmost about it.

yes, ofc :)

I believe they have been pinged enough for tonight;)

iliekcomputers: http://sac.epfl.ch/partner-universities < this is a list of universities in Germany with which my school has partnerships (which means they have a good to excellent reputation in Europe). I believe most of them are public and (nearly?) free

Sp4rrowh4wk: i think iliekcomputers is already in a college ;) he did mention and indian univ a while ago

anshuman73: ah - indeed. Well it's out there FWIW ^^

Wow

Okay. I lied.

«GSoC 2017: Thanks for submitting MetaBrainz Foundation's application»

anshuman73: LordSputnik has never been pinged enough!

You must ping LordSputnik more@!

Lel

All ping the LordSputnik

mayhem: Oh. You started a MeB application too? I guess I'll mail OSPO then.

gsoc, gci and now gsoc. phew. its already been a year now!

Hehe...

Freso: yes, I would like to be in charge of GSoC this year.

alastairp: ping. If you get free time, would you mind reviewing my PRs to listenbrainz? :)

Sp4rrowh4wk: That will be of use to me some day in the future, I'm sure :)

Sp4rrowh4wk: did you say perl?musicbrainzserver is (still?) written i nperl, afaik

also loi haskell :D

iliekcomputers: well if you're taking it like that, I can't help but recommending EPFL - we absolutely *rock* (and have quite a few indians around)

CatQuest: my perl is not very good yet as I've been twiddling around as a side project this semester

but yeah, and haskell well.. FP is the (second) love of my life <3

I have messed around with haskell some

All the webapps of my society (FOSS on campus) are written in yesod

It is pretty fun

(initially) bookbrainz,or the first iteration of it, was (supposed?) to be written in haskell

yeah I read that in the about page

or have we actually gone fll cirlce on that and gone backto haskell? LordSputnik

not yet, I think :P

we went through several diff languages

what is it now?

there seemed to be an indication that the editing backend was in haskell or smthg

stil phyton?

BB's moving to full JS

erh python. yes moving to full js

i dunno. javascript man, it can be.. well i like ajax (but still)

... well...

like I said, I like FP so js and python are both languages I have a bit of trouble with... too unpredictable ^^

what is fp?

I like to be able to prove my programs

functional programming

floating points?

ah

aha

CatQuest: functional programming