Engineer = %TRUE

[Petr Schreiber]

Dear friends!,

yesterday I successfully passed final examination and presentation of my OpenCL thesis at University. I now have the Masters Degree, I became a werewolf engineer now.

ThinBASIC has been great help for me during studies. Thanks to it I was able to directly try techniques learned at Uni, automate computations and visualisations. My whole thesis has been heavily based on ThinBASIC. In case of DLLs I used TB for prototyping, in case of programs I used directly ThinBASIC, as it has been fantastic GPGPU RAD platform for me. The ability to have the whole IDE on single flash drive, and visit various friends to perform test on their machine without need to install any gigantic IDE was invaluable.

The design of the language helped me in tough times, when Nvidia struggles with static OpenCL library made the Visual Studio pain to use, which would normally hold my work for about a month. Not so with thinBasic - few declares and I got it running. No waiting for compile times and immediate response was another important feature of ThinBASIC reducing the stress during the work on thesis.

I would like to thank everyone who helped to shape the form of ThinBASIC in the past years, I think my studies would be much harder without having this platform available.
My thanks go to people posting sample code on this forum as well, it helped me to understand some programming and general concepts more quickly.


Petr

[Michael Clease]

Congrats :eusaclap: :eusadance: :occasion:

I do hope now that you are the Master you will not be disappearing from TB world and how are your plans on world domination?

Does this mean studying is over and now its time to look for a Job :shock:



Petr.Student = %FALSE
Petr.Engineer = %TRUE
Petr.JobHunt = %TRUE


Mike

[zak]

congratulation
i wish you a happy future

[Aurel]

Congratulation Petr :occasion:

[Michael Hartlef]

Congratulations Petr. I am very happy to hear you have your degree now because that was always a very stressful factor lately in your life.

I wish you the best wishes for your future and that you will find a job that is exciting and makes you happy.

Party on! :yahoo:
Michael

[Jordi Vallès]

Congratulations and I wish you a fantastic future. Be happy. :eusaclap:

Jordi

[ErosOlmi]

Great, great, great !
:occasion:

Take your time time to rest for a while because ...
you have just passed the easy task. Now it's coming real life!

[Simone]

Congratulations Petr,
as we say in Italian: congratulazioni!! :eusaclap:

Now it's time to show all your skills in the world of job.

Simone

[Petr Schreiber]

Thanks a lot guys! :occasion:

I hope to stay active here in similar form as I was till now.

Regarding the job, that will be complicated. We are finishing the project of advertisement robot (http://benderrobotics.cz/), it should cruise indoor environments by the end of this year.
Till that time I have to work on my own, I have plans for multiple projects, mostly GPU related. I would like to continue to use ThinBASIC in some of the "pro" work as well.

But ... everything is quite open now, I am quite curious what I will do in 1 year from now :)


Petr

[Charles Pegge]

:occasion:

You have some highly marketable skills Petr. Take your time to discover where the opportunities are. :fishing:

This is a good time for a break to recharge your mental batteries.

Charles

[catventure]

Congratulations, Petr.
It is a big and wonderful achievement.
Much success to you :dance1:

catventure.

[Lionheart008]

the power is with you :D, congratulations from my side too!

perhaps you will go to establish new kind of robot programming and create a new house robot she/he's programming for yourself and make every day a new idea ? or better more sunshine, good power and %TrueLove among these silly mankind ;)

best wishes, frank

[kryton9]

Oh wow, congratulations Petr, I didn't know you were here at this point... I still think of you as a student in middle of university years... here you are with a Masters!

You have the world open to you now... there are many wonderful game studios in your part of the world :) I also have a feeling you have an interest in academia and perhaps to teach one day. You can always work, do research on the side and or even teach courses. You already got your job with the robot, that is something that can grow into a major business with challenges each year to make them more intelligent and functional. You have many wonderful doors in front of you to open, so enjoy the paths they lead you.

[danbaron]

[font=courier new][size=8pt]It's good.

Not as good as a werewolf, or a vampire.

But, it's good.

(Don't decide in haste. --> Have you thought about cemeteries, or catacombs?)

:twisted:

[ErosOlmi]

dan ???

I'm Italian so maybe I do not understand well what is you post about but ... what f... are you saying?
:D

[Petr Schreiber]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I think Dan refers to the first sentence in my post, where I crossed the werewolf as target of my transformation, and corrected it to engineer.
Dan, I think I will stay in my current form for a while, I heard werewolves have tough entrance interviews at work :lol:

Thanks to all again :)


Petr

[danbaron]

[font=courier new][size=7pt]Eros: --> "What are you saying?"

1)
Petr's explanation.

2)
Petr has used "werewolf" previously, I noticed the "thread".

3)
I like fictional stories about horror, doom, death - maybe because, they substitute pretend controllable fears, for the real uncontrollable fears we live with, but seldom consciously acknowledge. I think, that is the
reason why children like fairy tales; for instance, "Hansel and Gretel", about a witch attempting to cook and eat the very young brother and sister.

4)
In my opinion, overall, this world is not, a "barrel of laughs". Therefore, it becomes fun to escape into absurdity.

5)
I think, for most people, the work they end up doing, turns out to be, stressful, tedious, and something less than fulfilling (because, almost always, the supreme priority of work, is to generate money for the employer -
and many different employers are usually competing for the same money - and additionally, many different people may be competing to obtain/retain, the same position). I think that if people did not have to go to work,
and they would still be paid, then, most would not go. So, while admitting there are exceptions, on average, which is better, to be an engineer, or a werewolf?


:( :x :twisted:

[ErosOlmi]

Yes, sorry, my fault.
I missed Petr's first reference to "werewolf"
:D