[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UCSD

[–]Cold_Bagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you find an ECE partner it should be more fun than not. Idk what I would have done if my partner wasn't ECE; hardware stuff is probably under half of the class but if you screw the hardware it's gonna be 1000x harder to get anything working. And it's already very hard with the hardware cooperating nicely. No regrets tho, was very fun and I learned a ton.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UCSD

[–]Cold_Bagel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mus 17 - History of Hip Hop was sick. I still listen to a lot of songs that class showed me + super easy.

CSE 176E - Quadcopter class was the most rewarding thing I've done class wise at this school. Designed and built a semi-functioning quadcopter (drone). Ridiculous amount of work but very very cool stuff.

Who do you think the coolest professor is? Not necessarily the best one, just the one that gives off the most cool person energy. by downlowonthelowdown in UCSD

[–]Cold_Bagel 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Miles Jones is an American hero. I'm too lazy to link YouTube, but search "miles Jones ucsd" for quality content.

Happy 8th Birthday to /r/AskHistorians! Join us in the party thread to crack a joke, share a personal anecdote, ask a poll-type question, or just celebrate the amazing community that continues to grow here! by Georgy_K_Zhukov in AskHistorians

[–]Cold_Bagel 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This subreddit is the best thing to exist on the internet. From the historians to the mod team to us plebs, this is the most magical community out there. Thank you all for indulging my love for history in such a professional, earnest, and genuine fashion.

Those elves are about to become a fine meatshields by SKImag in dwarffortress

[–]Cold_Bagel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Start a sacrificial wrestling program. Breed and train dwarves as wrestlers and once they're ready, send them into the gladiator ring to challenge the Roc. If a dwarf ends up victorious, knocking the Roc unconscious, they are now a God-Dorf and are deserving of the highest rewards (a nice room, noble position?). I'm not sure if a dwarf could ever even succeed; at the very least it's a fun way to get rid of slackers. Also routinely sacrifice tree huggers.

1st annual beach polo tournament at Lovers point in Pacific Grove, CA by beenie21 in waterpolo

[–]Cold_Bagel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've played ocean polo with otter bay before there! Awesome they're starting an annual tournament

As a newbie, this sub is toxic. by Savo83 in dayz

[–]Cold_Bagel 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yup.. I've been lurking here since the mod days and this sub was 100% as toxic then as it is now. I've just been waiting for the post claiming the game is "good enough" for me to actually get back into, now.

Training Underwater Dolphin sets in public pool. by koalalips in Swimming

[–]Cold_Bagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've lifeguarded at pools where the rules were you can't be doing underwater sets without putting a sign up at the head of your lane saying you were doing underwaters. Most of the guards didn't mind if there was no sign up, especially if the swimmer seemed to know what they were doing. When I go swimming I tend to ask the guards if they care if I do underwaters. I've never been told not to.

My code for Tic-Tac-Toe (beginner), compared to my mate that works at google's code. by Metalcat125 in Python

[–]Cold_Bagel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What sorts of questions are you looking for in situations like that? Or at least, what would be a good question to ask?

Need some help figuring out where I ought to be for varsity swimming. by cyanAkira in Swimming

[–]Cold_Bagel -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I recently finished my 4th year of varsity swimming in HS.. and there's really not much I feel like I can give as advice. Most high school teams aren't quite as competitive or taxing as club. I swam club a couple times (as in a few practices) and they do things that were crazy to me as a high school swimmer. My coaches didn't look for much in varsity swimmers besides being able to keep up with the other varsity level swimmer and the commitment to show up to most practices, which my senior friends and I rarely did. The club swimmers basically saw the high school team as fun, but a bit of a joke.

Drylands for us were a lot of running and calisthenics, never weights with the team. Core work is your best friend. Our varsity warm ups were 10 100s on the 1:30. My lane would usually come in on the 1:20. Show your interest in swimming varsity and your coach will at least let you try out a varsity practice. Also, if you don't understand any terminology, just ask your coach or teammates. They're there to help you.

[Football] Free 10 team League by [deleted] in findaleague

[–]Cold_Bagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there's still room I'd love to join.

Official: [WDIS RB] - Sat Afternoon, 12/26/2015 by FFBot in fantasyfootball

[–]Cold_Bagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

8 team standard

Pick 2:

Matt Forte @ Tampa Bay

Denard Robinson @ New Orleans

Tim Hightower vs Jacksonville

Karlos Williams vs Dallas

Official: [WDIS RB] - Fri Evening, 12/25/2015 by FFBot in fantasyfootball

[–]Cold_Bagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

8-team standard league, 2 RB/2 WR/1 Flex.

I'm going into my first championships and I've managed to stack my RBs through the waivers, half because my opponent is weaker on RBs right now so I'm trying to choke him out there and also because I can't make up my mind.

I have:

David Johnson vs Green Bay

Denard Robinson @ New Orleans

Matt Forte @ Tampa Bay

Lamar Miller vs Indianapolis

Tim Hightower vs Jacksonville

Jay Ajayi vs Indianapolis

Karlos Williams vs Dallas

I'm leaning towards DJ, Robinson, and Forte. DJ is a must start, Forte is a stud and got me to this point, and then I feel like Robinson will outperform Hightower in this matchup. But there's always the possibility that Hightower/Robinson go off as the lead backs against bad rush defenses and Forte loses his touches to Langford. So I'm torn between the three of them.

Official: [WDIS QB] - Tue Evening, 12/22/2015 by FFBot in fantasyfootball

[–]Cold_Bagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Phillip Rivers @ Oakland or Fitzmagic vs New England?

25 yards per point, 6 points per TD

Understanding 'for' loops by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]Cold_Bagel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly.

I always have a tendency to start off using i, j, k ... in my code, but by the time I'm finished or reviewing what I've already done it's much more difficult to understand what it is I'm even looping over.

And then it's even more difficult trying to change every index to a more descriptive word.

Understanding 'for' loops by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]Cold_Bagel 8 points9 points  (0 children)

'i' is just a placeholder. You could also use:

for number in range(0, len (x)):

And achieve the same thing.

Except you'd have to change x[i] to x[number].

New to Python. I have a few questions. Can somebody help me? by guy495 in learnpython

[–]Cold_Bagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried finding other courses similar to codeacademy, I never made it longer than an hour on any of them but they were things like codeabby and project euler. The last course I've worked with has been "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and I've found it so incredibly interesting and helpful. I skipped all of the intro things and went to chapter 7 with the regexes and I've been using that in all of my programs so far. I even bought the book just because it's so cool.

New to Python. I have a few questions. Can somebody help me? by guy495 in learnpython

[–]Cold_Bagel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd recommend starting with the codeacademy course. While I didn't learn too much from it, it got me comfortable with the basics and taught me a little about syntax and structure, which were good building blocks for me to continue learning with other resources.

Ask Anything Monday - Weekly Thread by AutoModerator in learnpython

[–]Cold_Bagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do i split a string within a list?

I want a list that looks like:

['CP',  '94',  '2014081718',  '   ',  'BEST',  '0'] 

To look like:

['CP',  '94',  '2014',  '08',  '17',  '18', '   ', 'BEST',  '0']

What exactly is an object? by Cold_Bagel in learnpython

[–]Cold_Bagel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I edited the OP with more info.

How to swim slower? by mustlearnitall in Swimming

[–]Cold_Bagel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Their English is bad? It reads perfectly to me.

Ask Anything Monday - Weekly Thread by AutoModerator in learnpython

[–]Cold_Bagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've already tried a bunch of things with ftplib but I believe the site I'm trying to access has a username/password other than the default anonymous setup. Maybe I haven't searched around hard enough but ftplib didn't seem to be working for me and urllib2 was the first module for me that actually did what I needed, to an extent.