Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2022-02-21 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by kjchen. In attendance were Student keyholders: cjq, kjchen, huydai, jmvidal, jnwagner, bds, asahteck, mitimmy, amigdal Associate keyholders: '() Members: cbsu, toomas, markchil Guests: '() Administrivia: jmvidal: I am the chair now kjchen: Sorry I am late. I forgot to send an ASCII art earlier. kjchen: This is the moment for the symbolic moment of hanling over the gavel. kjchen *shares link*: [...] Please nobody access the gavel. I now officially hand over the gavel to Justice [cjq now reluctantly takes minutes despite huy not passing over yet] Project Reports: cela: hwops continues. not much to say right now, except if you got an email from us, please do reply to it! we appreciate that. huydai: Just started working on creating the project-database for SIPB. It took me a while, but I'm currently learning how to work with Scripts SQL service and am creating a database schema for representing projects. I've had a lot help from cel. Is working on it this week and probably for a while. Other: cela: spring break is sooner than you think! kjchen: [???] is sooner than you think. toomas: your graduation is sooner than you think. kjchen: god, i wish. huydai: isn't this supposed to be the twilight moment when you're enjoying your work before you ride off into the sunset? kjchen: yeah except unfortunately i have to do work, which is terrible. jmvidal: project reports are sooner than you think. Other Other: cela: ukraine. huydai: what happened? cela: same thing that's been happening. toomas: [explains depressing scenario with ukraine.] that's fun. bds: i recently realized that there's this voice filter called rnnoise made to filter out background noise from regular speech, and it's scarily effective. i was talking to one of my friends [*cuts out*] mitimmy: if you're on linux or using pipewire, you can have it directly if you use easyeffects huydai: is that just something you install mitimmy: yeah, it's pretty easy i think [amigdal, chat: huh using rnnoise is an example on the pipewire wiki ] huydai: what about *propriety software* which is better than open source jmvidal: there's this new tech where you write text and it moves a face. text to facial movement. huydai: like a 3d model of someone? jmvidal: like a mannequin-type face render they're able to move using *machine learning*. The meeting was adjourned at 19:40. Minutes taken and submitted by huydai.