Uberman sleep!!!

[UPDATE: I forgot to add link to Uberman sleep schedule]

[UPDATE #3: Don't know too much about the music thing. Meh. I just do it for fun; I certainlly do not want to be "passionate" about it; contrary to my recent behaviors.]

[UPDATE #4: Before I start extending my vocab. I think it is best to brush up on my grammars. I don't know how I even got through college, lol. All I know is what my english teacher told me: hmmm, try using just small sentences without commas. Except she didn't say it that way; and I have no way of remembering because I don't know any grammar jarons. LOL.]

[UPDATE #5: ]

I’m going to be starting this soon. I hope it will be what I hope and like it would be, but we will see. It is liberating to be able to work on stuff you enjoy.

Goals:

-Continue work on “the project”

I would like to be able to use this to make a living. But if it doesn’t work out it will be my demo. to get into “the industry.” Whatever happens whatever. I no longer care . Liberating!

My plan is to do this for 6 hours daily. Like a job.

-Study GRE vocabularies

Learn a couple of words everyday and use them. Spend half to an hour everyday.

-Study math.

Spend an hour to two hour a day to review and do exercises.

-Play around with music

Spend rest of the time learning about music.

-Excercise and good healthy living:

Been doing great lately with eating healthy (light lunch, light dinner and okay breakfast)!!!

Exercise thing not so much. I stopped for maybe two month now . I going to pick it up. Time for PAIN!!!!!!

—WEEKENDS—

Time for chillouts. Maybe cut these down to hanging out with friends for a few hours per week.

I figure if I work like crazy I will be alright!

YOUR DREAM is never going to come if you don’t pursue it! Even if you dream becomes a “broken dream” I think it is worth it.

I will give it all I GOT!

I was supposed to hook up with this chick. Not really “hooking up” hookups but you know to get to know them and shit. I don’t know what became of that; I give her the address of this blog and never heard from her AGAIN. LOLZ. But I may be hooking up with someone else too soon.

Time to slow down on the beat thing

I need to slow down with making these so called music. LOL. They all suck.

crazy super mario world hack thing

WOW. I had my “Guanwar” part I and II on while watching this fit it is amazing how it synchronizes with the action. So I guess I do have a future as a “demo” maker.

freaky stuff & UFO NOT debunked.

The Lone Gunmen youtube video.

That’s freaky. I’m NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORIST. I’m not like those crazies.

As for the NASA “tether” UFO dunked I posted the other day…what was I thinking? The first time I watched that video I now remember thinking that those “ice crystals” were changing direction. I watched again; you need to watch it. I clearly sees curving trajectories that changes heading from going straight to right turn 90 degrees. It’s freakin weird.

Word Count 76??? Twittering bitches.

VC2008 sp1 crashes a lot for me

I don’t understand why VC 2005 is crashing (just lol @ the names) so frequently now. I’m not sure when it started,but it will stop responding like every 20 min, so it seems. WTF? Maybe it’s something with the my code that is causing intelli-sense to hang?

It is time to go back to Linux land. Oh I long for the embrace once more.
VISTA can die!

It’s just install linux, getting it downloaded, mantian the build, etc, is going to take at least half a day.

Music making part 2

WIKI upload

See I made this song in an hour. It’s just a progression over c minor. The guitar part I actually played, everything else is drawn. My point is you just have these chord progression and you can then play scales over it and it will sound good.

Methods of music making

A friend and I were have a heated exchange on how to make music, basically I was shouting expletives–FUCK YOU MAN FUCK THAT..FUCK THIS, etc. You know I read up a little bit on music theory awhile back for a few days, so I know some theory about chord progressions, scales, etc. Basically my friends think since everything is digital now, none of that theory stuff matters–one can simply play patterns that sounds good. Well, I do agree with him that. However, he kept on dissing me and call my stuff the old way. This I just don’t get. It doesn’t matter. Why not combine both ways. He seems to think when I try to play something I have to structurally map out everything, which is BS because I “jam” but also know something about the scale and harmony (can’t say I know a lot though).

Part of the problem stem from the fact I can’t play very well within this theory framework, and plus I don’t have much experience with music. Right now, I’m finding it easier to “draw” the notes into a program (ala old-school demo scene tracker types) and arrange them in such a way to mimic actual playing. I’m making progress with the expectation that eventually I will be able to draw some nice sounding stuff.

If you look at what Ronald is doing (previous post)…I’m hearing his little chord progression, which is basically two bars on a chord, one bar on a 2nd chord, two more bars of first chord, then two more bars for a ending with some new chord. And over the “chord progression” one would simply play a scale. One then make sentences with the scale: comma, comma, period. The trick is to find the right chords and progression for a particular “style” or sound that you are going for and just play it.

This is what I’m trying to do. My friend thinks it’s all bullshit. Well, it is because I can’t PLAY IT properly. If I could then it would sound awesome! Trust me. It’s hard doing changes when you can’t hardly play the chords.

Oh yeah, he also thinks this is “old school” style of music making, for muscians. WHere digital music you don’t need to play. IMHO one doesn’t need to know how to play but one still can *mimic* what real musicians do. Except you are in this digital framework and you can do whatever. I don’t see them as being mutually exclusive. Why?

Check out ronald jenkees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O2aH4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoFurLe

I’m trying to duplicate some of the stuff he does. I can’t play it, but I can try to make them on the piano roll.

BTW. THIS IS PROGRAMMING BITCHES! (Sort of).

Compresssive sensing for high frequency lighting reconstruction?

You know I’ve been working on Spherical harmonics (I have the thing coded in blender, but that’s about as far as I got) which is a way to reconstruct low frequency lighting. Anyway, I remember reading about compressive sensing (on Terrence Tao’s blog!!! If you want to feel stupid go read his blog, lol. http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/reflections-on-compressed-sensing/; http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/compressed-sensing-and-single-pixel-cameras/#more-25; http://terrytao.wordpress.com/tag/compressed-sensing/), so I’m wondering whether one can apply the method of compressive sensing to the problem of reconstructing high frequency lighting (and whether one can do this efficiently on current hardware).

Well, first of all, I mostly skimmed (if you can even call it that) a few resources regarding compressive sensing, and I recall seeing a paper (didn’t read it) on wavelets reconstruction of HIGH frequency lighting. A note of warning: the point about using spherical harmonics is because one can reconstruct LOW frequency lighting (without ambient occlusion) using only a few terms, allowing for fast reconstruction (it’s just a few dot products) not sure how many terms one needs for wavelets reconstruction (note: I never studied wavelets, but I assume it is some sort of series out of basis functions). Which brings me to the point of this post is that I saw something in compressive sensing regarding wavelets (or a certain ‘family’ of functions) which…I don’t know what the point is. It is just I THINK that these areas are related. SO ALL I”M PONDERING is whether one can apply compressive sensing to the problem of reconstructing high frequency lighting, because it seems that these subjects are RELATED.

Anyway, definitely something to look into. Also, I know for wavelet “type of problems” is !!!definitely!!! (not sure) related to compressive sensing. I remember skimming a paper on reconstruction of fluid dynamic simulations using wavelets. So one can simulate a MASSIVE explosion and then play it back efficiently, or something like that. LOL!

Whatever. I shall tag this post as BULLSHYT.

I’m going to try working on Project Zombie a little bit. I’m currently getting some preliminary networking coding done–in order to generate some interest in the project amongst “the group.”

quick update

Worked on SPH a little. I got something coded in Blender. Need to visualize it. I will work on it tomorrow. Too tired lately.