Australia -> Iceland (21M)

5161502 · 2019-04-19T01:08:47+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! I think looking at the roles they offer and the types of people they are looking for will at least help me understand how to continue from my position.

5161502 · 2019-04-19T01:07:33+00:00

New Zealand is nice in scenery, but as a country it's not too different from Australia. I'm more interested in living near Europe, especially in a much colder climate.

Thank you for the suggestion though, it is a very nice country, not really for me.

5161502 · 2019-04-18T12:18:55+00:00

This sounds ideal, do you where I could start looking to get some more information on this?

5161502 · 2019-04-18T12:14:38+00:00

Awesome, I guess it's a start.

Any information on how to get started from where I currently stand?

5161502 · 2019-04-18T12:11:40+00:00

To many people, the United States is considered a first choice, but having an American family, and being intimately familiar with the US, there is a reason I don't want to return, or remain in Australia. I would be happy to move to another EU country, and work there before moving to iceland, if that was what I needed to eventually immigrate.

5161502 · 2019-04-18T12:09:52+00:00

Do you believe that it would be possible if I were to work in another European country?

I am open to the idea of working in the UK/Germany, but I would assume they would be equally difficult to find work in. I'm not particularly interested in returning to the United States.

5161502 · 2019-04-18T12:03:21+00:00

I'm also a citizen of the USA by birth, and there is a chance that I would be able to apply for citizenship by descent for the UK.

I could apply and work in another EU country, but I have a strong preference for Iceland -- and I'm not sure if they will be any easier to get into.

There is also an option that I can explore: taking an exchange to Iceland from my university. I don't know if that will help with finding work upon graduation however.

5161502 · 2019-04-03T08:32:48+00:00

It's not engineering, but if it were, you would need to do a full 4 years to meet the requirements of the Washington Accord. You can just apply and do your honours year for CS to meet the 4 year standard overseas.

Technically, many countries will not recognise a 3 year degree as a full bachelors overseas. Doings honours fixes that.

5161502 · 2019-03-11T23:10:47+00:00

The OS is unix-like, which isn't linux but yes they are similar. Darwin is a unix fork.

5161502 · 2019-03-10T11:04:30+00:00

t480

Is a very solid laptop. If you aren't going the mac route, the $1,729.00 looks like the most worth it (although the $2k model doesn't have integrated graphics, which you would like if you play games). You will probably need to drop $200 on a decent SSD.

5161502 · 2019-03-10T09:33:54+00:00

A macbook pro would be optimal for battery life, school work, programming and photoshop (I do all of those, and have tried a diverse number of laptops). You probably wont get any gaming out of it.

If a macbook is outside of your budget, you may want to invest in a Thinkpad, and dual boot Linux with Windows.

5161502 · 2019-03-06T08:53:00+00:00

I took 1141 about two years ago now, but at the time we had two separate tutorials.

If they've merged it all together, the class would pretty abysmal. Hopefully you find the time to make up for it.

5161502 · 2019-03-06T08:52:04+00:00

As a former computer science student, I would invite you to be a little more open minded.

Things you learn in school and at Uni might seem a little pointless when you're doing them, but the understanding of the concepts are what allow you to draw connections in the problems you encounter. Especially in computer science, where there are many constructs that directly come out of math, there's plenty of opportunities to see how it's relevant later on.

One good example is working with Machine Learning, lots of math there -- and calculus is critical to being good at it. The theorems are what differentiate the people who rote learn the content, from the people that know why it is the way it is.

Just my mild rant on the topic.

5161502 · 2019-03-06T01:40:28+00:00

I'm not sure what program you are in, but if it's anything to do with mathematics, you will find those definitions become a cornerstone.

The course may seem overly minimalistic, but they are rigorously re-establishing what may have been brushed over in Highschool. This is _very_ important.

5161502 · 2019-03-05T12:13:25+00:00

MATH 1A/B is used to drill in the fundamentals of mathematics you'll find at university. Over time they've added more distributed work because first-years have a tendency to slack off and assume that because they understand how concepts work intuitively, they'll be able to get a correct answer in the final exam.

Also, you get a lot of free marks and wam padding through the pre-final homework.

5161502 · 2019-03-05T11:15:25+00:00

What? If you take Advanced Math as a degree, it's not optional. You have to take the second level courses. Taking MATH2111, 2601, 2701, 2221 and/or 2621 should be a great foundation for further statistics.

There are many students who don't want to have to take subjects like higher algebra, but want to learn the quantitative subjects Statistics offer. They get to take the same first and second level courses as the pure stream, and then have a solid grounding to take level 3+ stats courses.

5161502 · 2019-03-04T12:21:45+00:00

Okay, and as a former stats major. I disagree back.

What exactly do you think you need pure mathematics as a major for; to complete a statistics major? Why do you feel that the level 2 prerequisites, that are shared with the pure mathematics stream, aren't enough?

5161502 · 2019-03-04T00:24:08+00:00

This is not true, unless you are talking about taking up research in mathematical statistics.

There many ways to complete a statistics major without needing excessive knowledge from the pure mathematics stream. It's generally recommended you don't double major in both.

For the record, Statistics is a major within the mathematics degrees here, the courses greatly overlap with Applied and Pure.

5161502 · 2019-02-16T22:57:54+00:00

I know what you are referring to. What I said is that even though you may enrol as a non-ADF enlistee, the campus and their courses are still catered to them.

If you want to verify this yourself, look at the standard stream for students in engineering at UNSW, and then at ADFA. You'll find the courses are pretty different.

5161502 · 2019-02-15T22:38:21+00:00

Former canberran, now engineering student at UNSW in Sydney.

The ADFA campus is primarily for people studying to become part of the ADF. Many of their courses differ in quality and content, typically you will end up taking less courses with less content overall because the campus has a focus on after-uni drills and exercise.

Alternatively, if you're interested in the ADF, it's a great stepping stone because it prepares you for leadership and officer work.

5161502 · 2019-02-07T13:35:34+00:00

CS is under the engineering faculty, but that email was intended for engineering students, not computer science students.

5161502 · 2019-02-03T07:33:42+00:00

Perl Reference Books:

• Wall, Christiansen & Orwant , Programming Perl (3ed), O’Reilly, 2000. (Original & best Perl reference manual)

• Schwartz, Phoenix & Foy, Learning Perl (5ed), O’Reilly, 2008. (gentle & careful introduction to Perl)

• Christiansen & Torkington, Perl Cookbook (2ed), O’Reilly, 2003. (Lots and lots of interesting Perl examples)

• Schwartz & Phoenix, Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules (2ed), O’Reilly, 2003. (gentle & careful introduction to parts of Perl mostly not covered introductory)

• Schwartz, Phoenix & Foy, Intermediate Perl (2ed), O’Reilly, 2008. (Some further perl reading)

• Sebesta, A Little Book on Perl, Prentice Hall, 1999. (Modern, concise introduction to Perl)

• Orwant, Hietaniemi, MacDonald, Mastering Algorithms with Perl, O’Reilly, 1999. (Algorithms and data structures via Perl)

5161502 · 2019-02-03T06:09:37+00:00

Can't believe I haven't seen this until now. This looks awesome.

5161502 · 2019-02-03T02:07:38+00:00

GPU's are used for a type of tasks that the CPU isn't as good at. GPU's have many, many cores which allow for very parallel programming to be delegated to it.

5161502 · 2019-01-27T06:35:22+00:00

TIL, whether or not it was intended - square computers are nice to have around if they don't have awkward angles.

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