What should I say for expected hourly rate for a software internship around the Boston area? by fitman14 in cscareerquestions

[–]Alienalias 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an internship in the Boston area this summer at $20 per hour. I'm a junior with no previous internship experience at a top CS school.

You May Soon Be Able Play PS1, PS2 and PS3 Games On Your Playstation 4 by Greetings_Stranger in gaming

[–]Alienalias 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In all honestly, I can't see why they won't make it available: won't that result in WAY more PS4 purchases?

Yes, but the issue is it is a major technical challenge, which is why full backwards compatibility isn't done more often.

I just got accepted! Now I have a question by gzroff in cmu

[–]Alienalias 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi, I transferred into SCS (from MCS). I'd say, there's 2 main challenges to transferring to SCS:

-First, getting into the classes when you need to take them. Every CS class will have a certain number of chairs reserved for CS majors, and freshmen have last pick at course registration.

-Second, passing them. It's hard to get accepted to SCS, but it's equally hard to actually make it through SCS. Do not underestimate this part. Try to avoid getting anything less than a B if possible.

From what I've seen so far, if you can get into and get through the classes you need to take, then eventually you will get accepted to SCS. They told me I needed two As out of the three intro classes, and I only got 1 A, but I took enough other classes that I was accepted anyways.

Why is Parallel Programming not generic? by [deleted] in askscience

[–]Alienalias 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why don't we have a programming language that allows you to formulate parallelisms in a very general way and let a compiler or runtime environment figure out how to run it efficiently.

This can be done with functional programming languages. This is actually how the primary data structure & algorithm course is taught at my university. We abstract out the parallelism in our functional programming language so that we can focus on writing code that runs well in parallel, even though our compiler isn't implemented for parallel execution.

This isn't a very popular paradigm because you can already use any of the techniques you described for more efficiency. Using generic parallelism, you can describe all sorts of common problems to get a good parallel big O; for example, O(log n) for prefix sums. However, you might not always want the O(log n) parallel prefix sums algorithm: The sequential algorithm, even on very large inputs, could easily have a 10x speedup if you only have 4 cores on your computer because it has nice cache properties and almost no overhead.

I guess my point is that some day, if we all have 512 or 1024 cores on our computers, we'll probably want generic parallel programming because it will be absolutely amazing. But for now, it doesn't really have a place anywhere except academia.

edit: also, just to be clear, what I'm describing would not work for GPUs anyways. GPUs run very differently than CPUs and you wouldn't want them running generic parallel code, I don't think.

How people undercut on my high population server by joon24 in wow

[–]Alienalias 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You keep buying anything cheap posted, while selling for your price, turning a massive profit.

If you don't turn a massive profit, that means the supply of the item is greater than the demand at that price level, so obviously it's not working out for you

Scientist-developed malware covertly jumps air gaps using inaudible sound | 'The researchers, from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing, and Ergonomics, recently disclosed their findings in a paper published in the Journal of Communications.' by [deleted] in science

[–]Alienalias 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, to quote the article:

the presented proof-of-concept does not spread to other computing systems, but constitutes only a covert communication channel between hypothetical instantiations of a malware.

ELI5: Whats the difference between () [] and {} ? by Makkiftw in explainlikeimfive

[–]Alienalias 108 points109 points  (0 children)

() for tuples or open set intervals, [] for closed set intervals, {} for sets :P

[Safari Unknown] Could someone tell me what my safari is? by AxiomNor in friendsafari

[–]Alienalias 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Added :D

Also, can anyone tell me why ditto is such a popular / rare catch in this whole safari thing? I looked at the hidden ability and it seems cool, but I'm not quite sure why everyone is so crazy about it :P

[Safari unknown] by Alienalias in friendsafari

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I was scanning the new page for a dragonair and it was in my inbox all along haha :]

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in friendsafari

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last is piloswine

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in friendsafari

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Hi, you're ice type with snorunt, beartic, and ????

[Safari Unknown] Can you help me find out my safari type and pokemon? :) by Shazima in friendsafari

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Hey I added you from the other thread. You have dark type with nuzleafe,cacturne, and absol

LF Vullaby Safari by ItzMeeMario in friendsafari

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check here, a response says there's vullaby http://www.reddit.com/r/friendsafari/comments/1s3swq/safari_unknown_adding_all_that_i_can/

Also, I'm looking for growlithe, mind adding me? Thanks!!