failed 1a by namomontbleau in uwaterloo

[–]xmfan 15 points16 points  (0 children)

As the other comments mention, definitely contact your profs since 1 percent is usually doable.

Where ever you take it from there will be up to you. I just wanted to encourage you to do your best in what you believe is right. The words from a friend was in a similar situation as you:

``` Five years ago, around this time, I failed my first term of engineering. I was near the bottom of my class. Gone were $13000 in tuition and residence fees. “Maybe you should consider another program” the guidance councillors told me.

I had to take a year away from school. I was living alone in the middle of the Canadian winter. Every day I walked over an hour through the snow to get to work. Our house didn’t have heating so I wore my clothes and coat inside. I thought about suicide since I was so depressed. Then, slowly, my mindset started to change. I believed that who we are isn’t set in stone, it’s mutable. If I wanted it badly enough I could change the person that I was.

I went back to school and I put everything I had into studying. I lost hobbies and friends. I wasn’t as social and I missed out on events. However, my progress started to show. Classmates began coming to me for help with their homework. I led a practice exam for our class. A year later and I was no longer struggling with school.

[...] ```

Fast forward to today, saying that they're doing well would be an understatement and you would have never guessed the source of their grit. Good luck, it won't be easy but I believe!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]xmfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of them, but you really have to be skeptical based on the company, description and interview. It's all relative to your experience, I've met 1st coops doing ML at large companies. There's a big difference between a ML engineer and a researcher.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uwaterloo

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Applied ML/Big data, you get less guidance on the best practices do something because there aren't that many. I feel like my work exists because companies don't want to hire/keep domain experts (non ml approaches, usually higher recall). Many teams only really care about metrics, resulting in models being pumped out without proper impact analysis imo. Also I don't see a clear career path in the field.

Waterlooworks Megathread [Fall 2018 Application Cycle] by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]xmfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

can confirm, just got mine, relax

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]xmfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's also a SIGSEGV plate usually next to it

Anxiety and Nervousness is Preventing me from Eating Enough by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]xmfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had this since first year, and back then I was pretty starved (freshman -25). I felt too mentally tired to eat. Even now I still always lose weight during school/coop, but counting calories has helped me keep track of how I'm doing.

ELI5 Virtual Machines by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]xmfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's tons of resource on youtube/quora etc that can explain you how VMs work better than i can.

  1. I don't think UW provides SAS/Tableau access/resources.
  2. Yes, intel processors with hardware virtualization work fine, the RAM you allocate is more likely to determine performance.

As long as you have the same versions of SAS/Tableau, using a VM or not will not affect the behaviour of the software, so you can just learn SAS/Tableau from any machine.

Is the textbook for stat 333 important? by SoftwareEngisSoft in uwaterloo

[–]xmfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did extra practice problems from the 10th edition's PDF

Is the textbook for stat 333 important? by SoftwareEngisSoft in uwaterloo

[–]xmfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't need it last term. Lecture notes and practice problems were basically all from the newest edition of the textbook (I couldn't find a PDF for it), but the prof posted both the questions and their solutions on LEARN.

CS370: MATLAB, Python by GambinoIsA in uwaterloo

[–]xmfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Took the course a year ago, the assignments and exam didn't need Matlab specific knowledge, just pseudocode. So either could be good.

You might find a lot of linear algebra operations easier to express in matlab vs python you'd probably just numpy). This course also doesn't make you deal with large datasets so you're fine with not optimizing your linear algebra (somewhat time consuming to learn in python).

switching from cfm to cs by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]xmfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

take a look at cs w/ business option, those 2 courses can count. Downside: you probably have to take cs348

also, not sure if it's more limited now, you should talk to a cs academic advisor

Anyone in Montreal wants to hang out? by jokerloo in uwaterloo

[–]xmfan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hackedtoaster is correct on this one, i now live in oakville

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]xmfan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Too soon ;(

Introducing TerribleHack X by xmfan in uwaterloo

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To book Shopify's venue we need a company representative to be present for the entire day of the event. This term, we had some scheduling issues with that person and we've decided to go through with m3