... introducing myself. was Re: can pdvjtools have a place in your cvs external repository?
Bio
Sergi Lario Loyo, was born in Badalona on January the tenth of 1980.
Badalona is a city closed to Barcelona. Is known thanks to it's beaches, the music school and a great basketball team.
Since i was a child my prefered hobbies were play soccer and draw.
A Sinclair 48k ZX Spectrum Computer was the first PC i saw at home. The owners were my brothers that had eleven and seven-teen years old more than me. I used to play a lot and even i developed a "plot" or "circle".
Afterwards, while my brothers were using a x286, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 arrived for me.
When i was 14 i used to use a x486 for text writing, but i wasn't aware yet about the big potential for informatic development.
Four years later, without being sure about what to study i decided to start Maths in the University of Barcelona. I spent i couple of years without before i left, but there i learnt math's abstractions and programming basics, that was worth it!
When i was 21 i began to study a lite official degree in Informatic Applications in the Institut B-VII de Badalona.
The first 2 years i began to study Software Engineering, Programming languages such as Pascal, Java or C. Data Bases, Data Structures, Networks and Operating Systems.
In my program there was an obligatory subject where we had to do some practices in the real world, so i started to work in Iquadrat, an informatic company.
To complet my studies i decided then to come back to my old faculty, but this time to study Technical Engineering in Informatic Systems (ETIS).
Since 2005 till now i have been contributing actively to some workshops held in Hangar, centre for audiovisual production, and for Telenoika, an Audiovisual community from Barcelona.
This year (2007) i finally finished my studies handing in a project called "GNU/Linux Videojockey's tools - Imagegrid for PureData".
Nowadays i keep on working in Iquadrat mostly developing integral solution for the internet. Basicaly my work is analyse and develop applications for dynamic websites using PHP, JSP, ASP, DataBases Managers MySQL, $Acces and M$SQLServer. I also code some HTML and CSS following accessibility standars.
Every thursday i take part in a development group of PureData in Hangar directed by Lluís Gòmez i Bigordà.
Nice to meet you,
sll
Sergi Lario wrote:
Bio
Sergi Lario Loyo, was born in Badalona on January the tenth of 1980.
Badalona is a city closed to Barcelona. Is known thanks to it's beaches, the music school and a great basketball team.
thanks to both of you for these great introductions!
do you both want to have CVS write access, or just one of you?
which reminds me: if anybody wants to get CVS write access, they should post their sourceforge usernames with their introduction...
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El dt 02 de 10 del 2007 a les 13:50 +0200, en/na IOhannes m zmoelnig va escriure:
do you both want to have CVS write access, or just one of you?
yes, we think this will help us also to work in a better way.
which reminds me: if anybody wants to get CVS write access, they should post their sourceforge usernames with their introduction...
sorry, our sourceforge usernames are : "sergi_ll" and "lluisbigorda"
ll.
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Sergi Lario wrote:
Four years later, without being sure about what to study i decided to start Maths in the University of Barcelona.
You will find that even though Miller won the Putnam and has a doctorate in Math, and even though I have a bachelor's in Math too, it's still rare to see Sylow subgroups and Noether isomorphisms around here. At best I could find one guy in one conf who was using pd in relationship to "free monoïds"... I have the impression that it was a once-in-a-lifetime happening.
I try to plug isomorphisms around, when I can, but still no luck for Noether's theorems... :}
Still there is quite a bit of other kinds of interesting math that is more commonplace in pd... especially FFT, but also, I did use eigendecomposition as a way to convert an ellipse equation to an angle and two radiuses.
I spent i couple of years without before i left, but there i learnt math's abstractions and programming basics, that was worth it!
IMHO, a lot of computer science and software engineering could count as math, given how much the topic of math has expanded in the last ~200 years... I have the impression that the last 50 years were pretty much the addition of "except stuff related to computers" to the definition of what math is. The problem with that is that those topics are also related to the understanding of the processes of math using math itself - making math more recursive and "self-aware"...
Anyway, I still think that a math education is interesting, as long as you didn't limit yourself to what you had to study for the exam, and that you try to mentally connect math to as much of your experience as possible instead of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_%28psychology%29 (a kind of insanity that is considered perfectly normal when it comes to some university degrees ... ;-)
I think that there's plenty of room to make pd more "mathy" but that non-math people might not necessarily recognise those concepts as being math, and a lot of them have mental association of the word "math" with the situation of just following rules without making sense of them, for the benefit of getting good grades from bad teachers...
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