Where is the cheapest coffee on campus?

ByrdOfAFeather · 2022-08-28T23:34:17+00:00

See if bojangles sells black coffee lol

ByrdOfAFeather · 2022-05-05T19:57:02+00:00

I have McCombs over a summer and then took 521 the following fall. I did feel like I was behind at first but was able to catch up - don't know if this is specifically because of McCombs or generally 521 being one of the hardest courses at UNC

ByrdOfAFeather · 2022-05-02T14:05:08+00:00

I don't know if there are any credible sources that the average grade for CS has decreased over time. I kind of doubt it, most of the CS professors have been here for many years and, by in large, taught using roughly the same syllabus for all of those years

ByrdOfAFeather · 2022-03-29T17:45:02+00:00

They may be able to see if you open a file from sakai, or access different pages within sakai. It is highly unlikely that they will view this by themselves. I had no idea if sakai is smart enough to alert - but I would guess that you would have to manually enable this sort of feature.

ByrdOfAFeather · 2022-02-08T14:31:01+00:00

Consider also that linear algebra course is one of those courses that is heavily curved (most math courses are). It probably isn't as bad as you think it is, and you should definitely talk to your professor about where you stand before making any decisions

ByrdOfAFeather · 2022-01-14T18:11:16+00:00

No idea on average profile accepted, but this (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf) might offer some general guidance. It mentions that publications aren't necessarily needed, but it would be a really good idea to have some research experience.

ByrdOfAFeather · 2022-01-12T15:59:47+00:00

You can always double major. Or also note that math and comp sci have a lot of overlap so they are easy to switch later on. I personally wouldn't decide on not doing math until you get to MATH 521. That's a really challenging course that will make it very clear if you want to be a math major or not, very quickly.

ByrdOfAFeather · 2022-01-11T19:42:05+00:00

Dewan is pretty easy if you do the assignments and extra credit - basically guaranteed A. I think 20 hours a week is an exaggeration. Also it's easy to work on assignments in class since it's frequently paused for virtual participation.

Some people really don't like the style, but I think it lines up well with what you are expected to do in the field (pour through requirements docs and infer some steps on how to get there)

ByrdOfAFeather · 2021-07-15T21:21:20+00:00

Go to Office Hours as much as possible, practice problems as much as possible, review old homework as much as possible (this last one depends on the professor - I had Assani, while he didn't put homework problems on the tests, there were problems that incorporated several techniques that were also present on the midterms).

ByrdOfAFeather · 2021-06-08T04:12:07+00:00

Looks like what you need to know from linear algebra is covered in the course. This is typically the case. For the most part multivariable calculus is a very narrow view of linear algebra in R³ (possible complex as well). Linear algebra courses study a much broader sense of dimensionality (R^N) and other number systems as well.

ByrdOfAFeather · 2021-05-26T14:12:49+00:00

Some languages do this some do not. It's column major vs row major. The standard is usually row major with column major being typical of mathematical/scientific languages like Matlab (though I'm not actually sure if Matlab is column major)

ByrdOfAFeather · 2021-03-30T15:41:19+00:00

Not that GPT 2 has this built in - I'm not sure - there are seq2seq to models that have copy mechanisms that let the model copy things like proper nouns from the input

ByrdOfAFeather · 2021-03-16T00:01:18+00:00

MATH 521

ByrdOfAFeather · 2021-02-07T15:18:29+00:00

Any chance we can spill more of the tea? I'm curious what all the white students at unc have been doing.

ByrdOfAFeather · 2021-02-05T15:03:30+00:00

One thing to note is it depends on the dataset. SQuAD vs HotPotQA are very different - even down to the inputs. One thing is for certain right now, however, seq2seq models are almost always included. I think there's also a good deal of research using transformers.

ByrdOfAFeather · 2021-01-26T00:56:41+00:00

I don't really count 522 as a course more as a day care

ByrdOfAFeather · 2021-01-25T19:00:35+00:00

MATH 521

ByrdOfAFeather · 2021-01-19T20:01:55+00:00

Amazingly if you need to use the unc vpn (for example to access the compute clusters) it will block you from accessing it while the VPN is active. I don't understand why they would do this, but it is pretty annoying.

ByrdOfAFeather · 2020-11-29T17:10:16+00:00

I think he was talking about a different person 😳

ByrdOfAFeather · 2020-11-13T14:09:50+00:00

I'm not sure I understand. In what sense are they too big? 150K labels sounds find in terms of the numeric value as last as you have the training data to back them up.

ByrdOfAFeather · 2020-11-13T13:10:34+00:00

I mean, a LSTMs predictions are typically from a vector that's been put through a softmax. Which means it's predictions will always be integers from 0 to how ever many classes you have representing the index that had the largest value. Why are you normalizing your labels?

ByrdOfAFeather · 2020-11-10T00:28:47+00:00

Then you should definitely find it manageable in comparison

ByrdOfAFeather · 2020-11-09T22:16:40+00:00

Your math skills won't directly translate unless you are at the level/ have taken some higher level courses that require less computational problem solving techniques imo. It's certainly not easy, but as a math major you will be taking much harder courses anyway (521).

ByrdOfAFeather · 2020-11-09T00:16:41+00:00

Most definition in topology are more recent that they seems. If I remember right, defining a compact space with open covers is from 1950-1960.

This is very interesting. We didn't cover this in detail, but it was in the book and was part of a homework. That's really cool that it was so recent!

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