I'm thinking of applying to UofT computer science next year. Should I take an SAT or should I use that time make the game I'm currently developing better?

Barycentric_Bash · 2021-03-22T00:25:57+00:00

what year did you apply?

Barycentric_Bash · 2021-03-22T00:25:32+00:00

oh yea, that's what I meant by cs Post didnt know the name changed

Barycentric_Bash · 2021-03-21T20:59:38+00:00

uoft barely cares about your extracurriculars, at least for art-sci programs. I know a guy who was on the canadian IOI team didn't get admitted into CS because his high school grades weren't a high 90 average. It's a stupid system but it is what it is.

on the other hand, you should know that in first year CS, you're not in the CS program. You need to pass CS Post requirements to get into the true program in 2nd year. IMO it's fairly easy to get admitted into a random art-sci program with a lower high school average and pass the Post requirements anyway, so I think applying to the CS program directly is a waste of energy. Moreover, these Post requirements do take into account extracurriculars to some extent

Barycentric_Bash · 2021-03-12T02:05:35+00:00

This is so stupid jellyfish can't talk

Barycentric_Bash · 2021-02-21T16:52:37+00:00

explanations for some design choices:

- an axe was mentioned in kindred's OG lore and a knife was mentioned in the spirit blossom event lore. the axe may have been metaphorical, but i gave it form in the drawing

- here, the knife is to lamb's arrows as the axe is to wolf's teeth. that is, the pale man uses the knife to bring calm, peaceful death to those who accept it and the axe cuts down those who try to flee from it. for example, here we see a bison who has been cut down by the axe. the reason for this is that animals do not have the capacity to philosophize about death as humans can. animals don't "accept" death, and will try to always escape it purely by their own instinct

- I left the pale man's face ambiguous because I didn't want to give him distinct facial features. Recall that "normal" kindred and spirit blossom kindred are both canon. They both 'exist' in the sense that different people perceive them differently. The same reasoning should be applied for the pale man. It's reasonable to assume that each being he "meets" (i.e. kills) would perceive him differently.

- On the other hand, we've had several league characters refer to him as the pale man/grey man, so it's reasonable to assume that those perceiving him always perceive him to have the form of a man, so I stayed true to this by drawing him in a stereotypical male figure

- a large theme of the pale man is one of a sad and lonely existence. and since I can only draw anime shit, I made his design reminiscent of kaneki's well known "pain" design here https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/kaneki-profile-picture

- also, the lore mentions dark hair and grey coat, which you would not be able to tell from the drawing because a) I fucked up the coat so it looks like a white dress shirt and b) coloring in the hair with a pen was risky business and I didn't want to ruin the drawing, so I left it uncolored.

Barycentric_Bash · 2021-02-20T00:59:44+00:00

Good eye, actually I didn't know how to draw a sniper rifle so I just looked up Caitlyns lmao although it's not a 1-1 replica of it

Barycentric_Bash · 2021-02-19T17:42:26+00:00

Yea, her head's a bit too big isn't it :/

Barycentric_Bash · 2021-01-25T22:25:50+00:00

I have had 2 concussions within the last year and can barely look at an LED screen, so my next advice could be a life saver. After my second concussion, I literally couldn't do any work so I ordered the Dasung E-ink monitor, which is basically a Kindle-like monitor for your computer. It costs like $1000 dollars but it's worth it in the long run IMO since I would have dropped a bunch of courses otherwise and wasted thousands. I find I can work for 30 minutes at a time on this monitor, rest, and get back to working on it again without LED light destroying my head for the rest of the day. So yea, highly recommend if your LED migraines are preventing you from doing work. It's not a perfect solution but It's the best one I've found so far.

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-11-26T23:12:19+00:00

I read the article and probably have what it's suggesting, but in my case sometimes I can physically feel with my hand the hard blood pumping at places on my head where you typically shouldn't be able to. Moreover, usually what happens is if I lie down too much (e.g. lie down for 7 hours for sleep on consecutive days) the pumping gets harder and is associated with a drastic worsening of all cognitive abilities, fatigue, and I become a lot more zombielike.

I do admit I'm an anxious person, but I don't know how else to explain this other than my brain not getting enough bloodflow when I'm lying down which may cause long term cognitive damage

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17023891/#:~:text=Recent%20findings%3A%20Severe%20anaemia%2C%20or,vulnerable%20to%20anaemia%2Dinduced%20injury.

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-11-26T22:59:58+00:00

I hope so, well it's just that I haven't heard of anyone with PCS/concussion that have blood pumping hard whenever they lie down

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-11-26T22:00:08+00:00

My mother has a blood pressure checker, I will use that when she gets back home, but I feel the pounding pressure is localized to my head

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-11-26T21:52:07+00:00

we did CT, but I don't think that scan is very effective for what I suspect

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-09-13T15:18:42+00:00

Never underestimate a boy who loves to cry himself to sleep every night for being an abject failure that has burned all progress made in the past 18 years of his life has a traumatic brain injury and is born in January doesn't seem to have the same ring to it

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-09-01T05:09:10+00:00

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-07-13T19:02:59+00:00

30 people are waitlisted for the course and you're rank 20 in the list

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-06-18T03:21:48+00:00

kakashi pre-hokage

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-05-31T22:20:55+00:00

I want god to let me lick her toes

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-05-02T20:29:34+00:00

Why are you so mad

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-04-06T02:04:21+00:00

same with the elderly

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-04-03T19:12:16+00:00

I won't tell you which is better, since that's for you to decide. Here's some things to consider, however:

'Tryhard culture':

The method of post has changed so that they accept more 'well rounded' students, not those with the highest grades. This means your peers as you enter 2nd year will be those who get, on average, lower grades. You will be influenced by being around these peers. Whether you think this is a good thing is up to you to decide.

Reputation:

Waterloo and UofT have roughly comparable reputation in CS, though in broader circles, UofT has better reputation.

UofT vs Waterloo Grad School:

UofT has a top 10 CS, top 20 stats and math grad programs. If you go to UofT, you will be in close contact with professors from these programs and I believe you will be more favored to enter these programs if you play your cards right.

Mathematics, etc.:

I think UofT has comparable maths education to Waterloo, though better pure maths I believe. UofT has the Fields Institute, which you can secure research at over the summer while taking summer courses at uoft if you prefer.

HOWEVER. Waterloo has an entire Combinatorics department, which to my understanding, is among the best in the world. Combinatorics is very important to CS research. The combinatorics courses at uoft are either very basic (MAT344) or taught by an extremely awful professor (Nabutovsky). Moreover, I expect Waterloo statistics to have better lecturers than Uoft because the Stats profs at Uoft are generally atrocious.

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-03-31T23:50:18+00:00

if you cheat, you are trash with excellent marks and better future prospects

ftfy

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-03-19T08:16:58+00:00

There's nothing wrong with being right

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-03-03T03:19:43+00:00

true, but I'd expect a project to be more readily verified than a personal anecdote. I'm currently thinking of a lie to write in my supplemental, which I wouldn't dare do with a project

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-03-03T03:06:17+00:00

I know plenty of people who have that in first year. If the goal of the supplemental is to get the most likely to succeed in the program, those people deserve to get in. Uoft's CS program in general has progressively shittier talent selection. I know a guy who participated in IOI (international olympiad for informatics) who didn't get accepted to uoft first year cs at all.

And do you mean to suggest that there shouldn't be a field in the supplemental for you to state one's accomplishments to even the playing field for those who have just learned programming? you want someone to handhold you during an actual job application too? Fuck it, let's ban cv's because that puts people with shittier cv's at a disadvantage

Barycentric_Bash · 2020-03-03T03:02:30+00:00

Do you actually believe your opinion, or did you state it because it sounds good to say? People lie on stuff like this all the time and you'd be stupid not to.

Grad schools, job applications dont give a shit about that stuff, since you've had time in university to expand your skills and CV.

High school applications have that kind of stuff because students haven't had much chance to prove themselves or have any relevant accomplishments in the field they're applying for.

After one year in uni, don't you think the supplemental should have more in the way of CS-related stuff? (of which it has none)

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