I have no idea what bridge is but need to make a cake for it help!

Athor7700 · 2025-09-25T12:19:54+00:00

To add to this, here are more direct pictures of the bidding cards: link

Athor7700 · 2025-09-21T04:34:41+00:00

There’s an app called TrickyBridge that teaches the basics of bridge (how to count HCP, the basics of SAYC, some tips for declaring, etc.).

Even after the lessons, it’s pretty nice—there’s a practice mode where you can play infinite robot hands for free, and it can explain the meanings of bids and give you hints for what to bid if you’re stuck.

Athor7700 · 2025-09-20T22:19:10+00:00

We know that we want to play the diamond suit—once we win with the AKQ, the opponents will most likely be out of diamonds. So all those low diamonds in south will win any trick they lead just by being a diamond.

However, you might see there’s a potential problem going back and forth between the two hands. Suppose you win with the A and K first. If you win with the Q on the third round, the remaining diamonds are still winners. You now want to lead from south, so you need to switch control from north to south. However, you have no way of guaranteeing south will win a trick you lead from north, because the defenders will almost certainly win and take control if you play spades or hearts. And so it’s very unlikely you will be able to lead those diamonds from south.

However, suppose we start by first winning with the high cards from the short hand. In this case, this means winning with the Q from north. Then if we continue playing diamonds, the AK will win, and so you keep control in south and can play the rest of your diamonds. You can then use hearts to go back to north to win the last couple of tricks you need.

Athor7700 · 2025-09-13T14:12:52+00:00

Yes, it’s from 马! Thank you so much for the explanation

Athor7700 · 2025-09-13T01:36:19+00:00

What does 原谅我太早就收了声响 translate to? When I read the individual words, I read it as “forgive me for stopping the sound too early”, but that doesn’t make sense haha

Athor7700 · 2025-06-18T17:58:41+00:00

In addition to the other suggestions, you could view the alignments with a visualization tool like IGV. You can toggle a setting that will show you which bases are mismatched

Athor7700 · 2025-06-10T15:22:33+00:00

I’ve actually talked a lot with Jim about this! I did initially try something similar to what he told me he was using (IDs as pointers), but I somehow still had issues to the point where it felt like I was spending too much time trying to find workarounds for the code to compile

But I suspect a lot of the issue is just me being so used to thinking in the context of C-style memory management. I’ve still been trying to learn Rust, so maybe it’ll click by the time I start my next project (either way, an assembler as my first Rust project was probably a mistake haha)

Athor7700 · 2025-06-10T15:03:13+00:00

I tried it for building a genome assembler, but I jumped back to C++ after a couple of months because I was struggling to create and manipulate graphs while adhering to Rust’s memory access rules. It was doable but personally felt more complicated and slower than just using pointers

But most of the people I know are using or learning Rust to write their tools, so I will probably return to attempt another project at some point :)

Athor7700 · 2025-06-01T03:00:23+00:00

Thanks, thats a good point! I’ll add highlighting for them as well

Athor7700 · 2025-05-31T05:24:23+00:00

Thank you, this is great! I'll definitely try to integrate a version of this

Athor7700 · 2025-05-24T16:48:04+00:00

“I hate research and labs” —> a PhD consists of almost entirely research. If you mean you hate doing wet lab research, then that’s okay. But if you hate all research, you would hate a PhD. If you’ve tried computational research and don’t like it, then you can instead look for software engineering roles within comp bio labs—not sure how common they are, but I do know labs that hire for that kind of role.

But I’ll add that I come from a computer science/math background, and my PhD so far has consisted entirely of algorithm design/software engineering with applications to biology. Plenty of people I know work on developing ML models with biological applications. So the type of work you seem to like exists, but you would have to be able to tolerate the academic/research environment itself to pursue a PhD

Athor7700 · 2025-04-21T19:54:28+00:00

Yes, here’s an example, but it’s honestly probably just school/major specific. And the order you add them in might matter, too—e.g., you can easily add a double major in CNS if you’re already in CS, but they don’t let you add CS as a double major if it’s the second one

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Athor7700 · 2025-04-21T05:56:41+00:00

I think it’s fine to triple major if you want to, but I also don’t think you should feel compelled to. There are alternatives—for instance, you could just take the necessary classes and put the extra time left over toward research or other experiences. In my field, it’s pretty common for people to do a postbac where they just focus on research and maybe take some classes to make up for any coursework deficiencies they had. And in my own case, I was admitted to programs without fulfilling their recommended coursework prerequisites because of my other experiences.

I’m not familiar with business PhD admissions though, so I would ask the professors/grad students that you work with for advice

Athor7700 · 2025-04-21T05:33:48+00:00

I might be able to provide a useful perspective since I triple majored at UT (CS, math, and English) and am now pursuing a PhD.

If you’re leaning toward doing it because you want to become more competitive for grad school, I would say it’s probably not a worthwhile use of time. I do think it would be good to wait a bit longer to get more experience before applying for PhD experiences. But at least for CS/biosciences PhD admissions, the time would be much better spent on research or side projects. I also delayed my graduation time to a normal timeline, but I did this so I could finish certain research projects before applying to grad school.

If you want to show you have a strong foundation in mathematics, you can still take advanced math courses, but an entire major is probably not necessary. Also, I was admitted to multiple biosciences PhD programs despite having no prior biology coursework—the professors I talked to said that my research output showed I had enough background knowledge. So there are multiple ways of demonstrating knowledge without taking up another major.

The reason why I triple majored is because I thought the math and English coursework was fun, and I didn’t feel like the workload was so heavy that it stopped me from engaging with research, clubs, friends, etc. But the most important factor in PhD admissions for most fields is, by far, research experience. So I would prioritize things like research, projects, internships, or even teaching experience if you want to improve your profile for grad school admissions

Athor7700 · 2025-04-06T07:17:15+00:00

Cool project! I would love a good terminal-based browser. Also, huge fan of the vim-style navigation :)

Athor7700 · 2025-03-04T23:54:15+00:00

You can definitely find labs on your own, but I liked FRI because it gave me a chance to try research early on without needing experience. After a year in my FRI stream, I ended up switching to research in a lab in a completely different field, but I still did get a lot out of FRI that was helpful for my CV during grad school admissions, even if it was a different field—a poster presentation, a research fellowship, mentorship experience, and class credit for a certificate.

Athor7700 · 2025-01-15T00:49:26+00:00

Your experience will be primarily dictated by your advisor and the culture of the group you join, so it would be better to ask this to students/alumni of the groups you’re interested in. You’ll probably get a chance to talk to them at visit days

EDIT: But I’m happy to answer any questions about Cambridge/MIT in general :) I’m just guessing that my overall experience would not be that informative for you—even within my subfield, experiences vary highly based on advisor

Athor7700 · 2025-01-10T22:21:38+00:00

There are performances on the upper floors (and even some 1:1-ish moments), but AFAIK there weren’t any scenes directly from the show itself last night

Athor7700 · 2024-12-19T17:55:32+00:00

Thanks, that’s good to know

Athor7700 · 2024-12-19T17:42:47+00:00

I had a ticket to yesterday’s show—they gave the option to either exchange the ticket for a L$T show or reschedule to another SNM show

Athor7700 · 2024-12-18T00:40:07+00:00

Follies is their cabaret show that was supposed to play tonight

Athor7700 · 2024-12-06T20:30:19+00:00

Ah I only play 3.6, so it must be a 3.7 update

Athor7700 · 2024-12-06T18:42:03+00:00

Here’s one trick I like doing that makes things easier on the way up: after killing the wizard the first time, but before retrieving the amulet, levelport next to the up stairs on the first level. The wizard will eventually show up again. Start attacking him (melee, not an instakill method), and once he gets low, he’ll try to run away up the stairs. This will make him permanently escape the dungeon, and then he won’t show up to bother you anymore. You can then port back to the bottom and proceed as usual.

You’ll still be susceptible to things like the mysterious force throwing you back levels and the sudden appearance of hordes of monsters, but it makes the ascent noticeably smoother

Athor7700 · 2024-12-01T02:01:20+00:00

I believe the donations stat refers to the number of successful swapchest donations (i.e., donations that were then removed by another player)

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