Today, I decided to mess around with something called “ch tseng”. Honestly, I had no freakin’ clue what it was, just saw it somewhere and thought, “Why not?”.
First, I googled it, trying to get a basic idea. Found some confusing stuff, mostly academic papers and things way over my head. But I kept digging.
After some more searching, I found a couple of GitHub repositories. That was more my speed! I cloned one of them to my local machine. It was a bunch of Python scripts, which is cool, I know a little Python.
git clone [repository address removed for safety]
Next, I opened the project in my code editor (just good old VS Code). I looked through the files, trying to figure out what was going on. There was a `README` file, thank goodness, but it was pretty barebones.
I tried running one of the scripts. Of course, it didn’t work. Missing dependencies, naturally. So I spent the next hour or so installing a bunch of Python packages using `pip`. You know the drill:
pip install requestspip install some-other-package- And so on…
Finally, I got the script to run! It did… something. Printed some numbers to the console. I’m still not entirely sure what they mean, but hey, it’s progress!
I modified the script a little bit, changed a few parameters, just to see what would happen. Reran it. Got slightly different numbers. Okay, still kind of clueless, but I’m having fun poking around.
My Next Steps (Maybe)
- Figure out what the heck this thing actually does.
- Read some more of those dense papers I found earlier.
- Maybe even try to understand the math behind it. (Big maybe on that one).
So, yeah, that was my day with “ch tseng”. Still a mystery, but I enjoy my time on practice. I’ll keep you posted if I make any breakthroughs. Don’t hold your breath, though.
