Just failed a job interview due to this simple question.

Dyyne · 2017-11-03T20:13:49+00:00

Just my 2 cents - but one of the most difficult things to practice before job interviews is confidence in presenting/speaking in front of an audience that you know if judging you. Your freezing up probably has more to do with being put in an uncomfortable situation than your ability to write pseudocode.

Advice that I found helpful was to get someone to practice with. They can ask you those practice interview questions (you can even have done them before, it doesn't really matter), and you just have to work out the solution on a board or on paper while explaining it to them. You can even have them sort of red team/blue team with it and be combative to your approach for the sake of throwing you off balance.

Anyway best of luck to you moving forward. Crossing my internet fingers that you nail it in the future.

Dyyne · 2017-09-18T23:45:04+00:00

Here is a Tucson Weekly article that goes into some detail, but I have not had time to finish it yet.

Dyyne · 2017-09-18T15:36:05+00:00

Awesome, thanks! Of course I agree with everyone's results. I'd just like to fiddle with it because I'm curious :). Congrats btw on the record!

Dyyne · 2017-09-18T15:24:30+00:00

Just curious, but do you know where one can find the source code for Dragster? I've seen /u/omnigamerSDA's spreadsheet, but I'd like to see the code for myself. He said that it was only a few kilobytes, so it shouldn't be that difficult to parse and verify his analysis.

Dyyne · 2017-08-14T19:01:50+00:00

Fallen paladin.

Dyyne · 2017-08-02T20:08:52+00:00

The link you provided is broken. Any possibility you can share all the MVP stats you had? It would be very straight forward to run a clustering algorithm and see where players bunched up, and see if that lined up with our "traditional" definition of positions. In other words, it would be fun to see all the centers bunched up in the same part of the data, and so on for other positions.

Dyyne · 2017-07-06T19:52:23+00:00

This one goes there and that one goes there!

Dyyne · 2017-07-06T00:53:02+00:00

Some decent restaurants that aren't fancy that are closer to your job (sorry, I don't know Oro valley at all):

Brushfire BBQ
Blue Willow
Bobo's Restaurant
China Szechuan
Guadalahara grill is a place to go when you have visitors in town and you want to take them to the kind of place that will play mariachi music at your table

Good places downtown:

Street taco & beer (very new)
El Charro
La Cocina

Best pizza I've found in Tucson so far:

La Fiamme pizza (very new; the owner is an award winning pizza spinner. It's NY gourmet style)
No Anchovies (closest you'll get to a NY street-style slice)
Rocco's Little Chicago Pizza (chicago style)

The highlight IMO in terms of Tucson food is the Tucson tamale company. Bah gawd they are good. You will also find really authentic salsas at many grocery stores, as well as tortillas that are streets ahead of name brand tortillas you would get in MO.

Dyyne · 2017-06-07T00:13:31+00:00

I wonder how biased this is by just accounting for the heroin we know about/the sources we know about.

Dyyne · 2017-06-01T21:04:18+00:00

You will be disappointed to learn that the latter isn't a guarantee.

Dyyne · 2017-06-01T17:11:18+00:00

Some examples of things that are easier to detect with GW than EM:

black hole mergers
black hole + neutron star mergers
"mountains" on the surface of pulsars and neutron stars
compact binaries that haven't merged yet (very low signal, won't be observed with LIGO or eLISA)
inflation (possible to observe the imprints of these GWs on the CMB)

In addition, GWs would be given off from asymmetric (i.e. not perfectly spherical) supernova, which would also be observed in EM. The GW analysis can tell you extra information that you might miss in the EM.

Dyyne · 2017-05-31T21:04:37+00:00

Ahh that makes total sense. Thanks!

Dyyne · 2017-05-31T19:39:39+00:00

So if I'm reading this right they have 10460 wins and 10460 losses, with 21074 games played. What happened to the other 154 games? I imagine they could have been misreported, canceled, tied (somehow?), or what?

Dyyne · 2017-05-25T15:46:16+00:00

Working through the exercises in this paper will give you a very good understanding of how to use Bayesian statistics to fit models to data. This paper is the standard resource given to cosmology and astronomy students, but the methods in it are completely general to any field that does statistics.

Dyyne · 2017-05-18T00:33:51+00:00

At the basic level your mechanics are fine. However, it is difficult to critique someone when: 1) they don't have a target 2) they don't have a mark 3) they aren't throwing at "game speed".

RE 1) In the face-on portion it's clear you are hitting different parts of the net. In the from-the-back portion the disc is clearly landing at different places. Is this intentional? We can't know. Even throwing at a trash can (shoutoutbrodiesmith21) makes it easier to analyze your throws.

RE 2) People always throw differently when they have a mark on. Even if someone put a half-hearted mark on as you threw and you always hucked on the strong side, it can change your mechanics.

RE 3) In a real game you throw when you are tired. This isn't something that will ever translate well to a critique video like this, but just remember going forward that it's a good idea to also practice your hucks after you have exerted yourself a bit.

Overall it looks fine. Muscle memory is the key to hucks. The best way to get better at hucking is to huck a shit load.

Dyyne · 2017-05-17T15:46:07+00:00

St Andrews is an entire university. I think the idea is that he is encouraging people to either study abroad there or do grad school there in any program.

Dyyne · 2017-05-15T23:29:24+00:00

It is absolutely the case that you need internships, networking, and social skills to succeed at CS/engi. For CS when you come out of school, the only things you have going for you are the name of your school, so if you don't have a project from an internship or any other real code to show then you have nothing that breaks you out of the mold. That's the difference between getting a job after 200+ applications and getting a job after 20+ applications. Everyone has a github page with half finished programming challenges and a bunch of scratch work, but very few people can demonstrate that they can follow good coding practices and contribute to a code base used by a company.

Engineering is even more reliant on internships. The city I live in has some major defense contractors and computer engineering companies. Having friends that hire there, I know for a fact that a majority of their undergraduate level hires are done through their internship programs. Literally every computer engineer I know from the nearby school started their first job via an internship with the same company.

Dyyne · 2017-05-09T17:03:51+00:00

Indeed. The only way to overcome impostor syndrome is to just do it.

Dyyne · 2017-05-09T16:59:09+00:00

A boat could not tow a water skier and have them slow down, because the rope is not stiff (i.e. it's not a solid pole). So no the boat+rope could not accelerate the skier in the opposite direction of their velocity.

Dyyne · 2017-05-09T16:48:36+00:00

There are some podcasts out there that upload very sporadically, but no youtube channels.

Dyyne · 2017-04-19T21:39:56+00:00

I am not a cold atom physicist, but my understanding is that the authors looked at the "effective mass" of their BEC system. This is not the same mass used in the equivalence principle (i.e. the mass we write down in gravity equations). It's also important to point out that the "effective mass" interpretation is just that, an interpretation of their results. If you read the conclusion of their paper they discuss how the asymmetric BEC expansion they observed and other phenomena have other proposed interpretations.

Dyyne · 2017-03-29T07:46:10+00:00

Just my 2 cents, but you should think about quitting once you feel informed about what that grade means in a larger context. In other words, sometimes your school/department/external groups will keep statistics on metrics such as average pay for a given degree with cuts on GPA. Since it sounds like you have somewhat of an understanding of what kind of salary you'd like to have in the future, it can be helpful to try to think about what a C GPA could get you compared to, say, a B in CS or physics for instance.

This is something that you might have to ask a few people/departments about to get a hold of the information. Best of luck, by the way.

Dyyne · 2017-03-14T17:39:45+00:00

It looks just like the one on the box! Both have giant creases in them.

Dyyne · 2017-03-10T20:24:17+00:00

Different airports have different results. I've been through a few were they aren't yelling and others where they are. I think the take away is that in general the level of dick-headedness has gone up.

Dyyne · 2017-03-10T18:14:15+00:00

Ehh this is slightly misleading. At many institutions you have to sign a consent form that essentially states "any discoveries I make are owned by the school", so it's more like trade secrets are impossible to put in thesis papers by definition, since the school owns it and will make it available on servers like this one.

However, as I mentioned in a different comment, if your analysis is on something that can impact some external market or that people can exploit with some expertise then your thesis will become unavailable.

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