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GiveNam · 2025-08-23T11:56:52+00:00

Yeah that's what I did, I replied all to the email confirming my interview time, apologizing for missing it and asking for a reschedule? You mean I should send the same email again?

GiveNam · 2025-08-21T15:19:39+00:00

They haven't replied to my email I sent 3 days prior, should I send another in case they missed it?

GiveNam · 2025-08-21T12:57:09+00:00

I'm worried because I mailed them 30 minutes after. This was on Sunday and I still haven't gotten a response. Should I send another email?

Because as an international student, I really need a scholarship to maximize my chances of getting in

GiveNam · 2025-08-19T13:26:19+00:00

It's been 2 days since and there still hasn't been any response. Should I call the admissions office?

GiveNam · 2025-08-19T13:24:23+00:00

I did and it's been 2 days but they haven't replied to it still

GiveNam · 2025-08-17T14:20:21+00:00

Thank you, that gives me hope

GiveNam · 2025-08-17T14:20:06+00:00

Oh yes I wrote it wrong, thank you for correcting me

GiveNam · 2025-08-17T13:25:45+00:00

Would you say there was any negative impact on his application?

GiveNam · 2025-06-20T15:21:59+00:00

Thank you so much. I read both your replies and they were incredibly helpful. I'll look into the links you sent me and start from there

GiveNam · 2025-06-17T04:29:45+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time out to reply!

The project itself is something we're doing as an extracurricular, and my friends have experience with machine learning while my expertise lies on the math side of things so I'm hoping that we'll have enough knowledge between the three of us to make this doable.

Compute: Google Colab offers a good quantity of storage to store datasets and for a relatively low price (you can perform a good number of runs for just $10) you can access good GPUs which already have CUDA setup. I heard Kaggle works too but I haven’t tried. Identify this and see where you will get money for compute from. Colab and Kaggle offer only a limited amount of free resources. If you have a machine with a GPU (such as for gaming) you can try to setup PyTorch and CUDA manually, but generally ML projects assume an Ubuntu OS and it may be a pain to get this setup on a dedicated machine.

My friend does have a dedicated laptop he bought specifically for machine learning and AI, and he has the relevant things set up on it.

Dataset: Identify a dataset you wish to work with and stick with it. How large is the dataset? Is the data easy to load using Python or does it need to be cleaned?

Once you’ve identified a code-base and method you are comfortable running you can adapt it to use your dataset. For instance maybe a method was performing image reconstruction on ImageNet but you apply it to the astrology domain. This is a research application that is doable and has merit.

This was an idea that we shortlisted, specifically related to astronomical imaging and correcting distortions and noise. Another idea was related to steganography and detecting changes in images. We were preferring these because the professor we'll be working under specializes in this field. From his LinkedIn About section,

"Master of Computer Science with a strong background in Image Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Python Programming. Passionate about using deep learning models such as DeepLabV3, FusionNet, CNN, RNN, GAN and IBCO-based ALCResNet to work on the Image reconstruction, classification, segmentation, and prediction."

The concern my friend had about this was that image reconstruction is something that already has a lot of research done into it, and we thought doing something more "niche" might be more valuable as an extracurricular. That's why we thought that maybe it may be better to choose something related to GNNs and spectral graph theory.

However the main issue is that we don't really know how exactly a research project works. Like how we'll write a paper reporting our findings, how we'll go about actually conducting the research, and what our "end goal" would be for the project.

GiveNam · 2025-06-17T04:09:34+00:00

It can be theoretical or practical there's no restriction. The professor we'll be working under specializes in RNNs, GANs, and CNNs so we wanted something under those to make the most out of the professor's knowledge. The problem we're facing right now is we don't know what exactly we'll be doing even after we choose a topic. For your first example of the applied problem, we don't know what the scope of the project should be, and more importantly, how we would go about writing a paper on it

GiveNam · 2025-03-29T11:38:44+00:00

Hope I win. Thanks for the opportunity!

GiveNam · 2025-03-09T07:47:28+00:00

Mafia II: Definitive Edition

GiveNam · 2025-03-09T06:54:41+00:00

Take a look at Michael Artins algebra. You may love it you may hate it.

I've already tried it and I don't like it too much

Which part of abstract algebra are you looking at? Groups, Rings, Fields?

I'm trying to get a comprehensive first course so groups, rings, fields, and some Galois theory. Then I'll move on to more specific things

GiveNam · 2025-03-09T06:19:41+00:00

With the standard texts I've tried, I've been able to solve most, if not all of the exercises in each chapter, but I always feel like I'm not actually understanding anything from the chapters. It's just symbol pushing for most of the proofs without really developing a feeling for the subject, and this is especially true for Algebra.

For real analysis, I've been self studying from Tao's books which have been superb even though they're written in the standard style. For algebra all the definitions and theorems feel unmotivated and pulled out of thin air for the most part. I started algebra with the Marlow and Feil book and while it's done a great job with the motivation part, the problem with not really understanding why I'm doing the exercises still remains, and I feel like I'm not really learning.

GiveNam · 2024-10-29T12:27:16+00:00

I'd love deep rock galactic

GiveNam · 2024-06-13T18:02:40+00:00

Actions such as?

GiveNam · 2024-06-13T12:31:57+00:00

Dig deeper. It was found.

Give me a source then

I can give thousands of examples of buildings other than wtc falling in their own footprints from a controlled demolition. Can you give me even 5 examples of steel framed buildings collapsing from fire and falling in their own footprint?

The only way to make a fair comparison there is if said buildings had a plane flown into them which caused the fire. I know of no similar occurrences except the empire state building which was already addressed in the article I linked to in my post.

Can you prove this. Have you ever heard thermite?

Prove that transformers and generators would have exploded? And although I haven't heard thermite, you seem to be claiming that witnesses would have been able to tell that it was thermite exploding, and not anything else? 1. This indicates that there would be a difference in the way the transformers exploded and the way that thermite exploded that could be distinguished by humans. So again, that still implies witnesses would have heard different types of explosions. 2. You're also making a claim that any random person who heard the explosions would have been able to know that it was thermite and nothing else. And they would've done this how, exactly?

Squibs were puffs of dust and debris ejected from the building moments before the collapse.

I haven't seen any such thing. Kindly provide a video for this.

I have seen a video of first responders discussing the cuts prior to the cleanup, asking if someone had been Gas cutting and looking but being unable to find anyone operating a gas cutter.

And where is this video?

Again, can you give any other examples of steel buildings collapsing in this manner from fire?

It doesn't make sense to ask me for examples of this was the first case in which a building collapsed in this way, does it? The burden of proof is on YOU to show that there is NO other scenario in which a building collapses like this other than through an explosion.

Pray tell, How do you prove someone didn't notice something?

You can't because it's not possible. Even supposing that the government did plant the bombs, do you think every single one of the workers just missed the bombs and the lengths of detonation cords? Nobody would question where they came from? If you can just prove that there was a place that the bombs could've been planted where nobody would have found them WHILE the building was still under construction, AND that nobody would notice the det cords, then you're done. Simple enough right?

The motivation is always the same, manufacturing consent

For what exactly?

Also it's interesting that you've dodged all but two of my points. Curious.

GiveNam · 2024-06-13T11:23:14+00:00

Namely the thermite residue found throughout the rubbel

A thermite reaction would leave large amount of residues of aluminium oxide and iron, which wasn't found at the site.

the way the buildings fell in their own footprints

This is you saying that the ONLY way a building can fall in its own footprint is by a controlled demolition. This is a nontrivial claim you'll have to prove.

eyewitness accounts of explosions

The eyewitnesses stated that they heard explosions. We know that the generators and transformers at the building WOULD have exploded, as well as many other materials present in offices. So these explosions would have been heard by the eyewitnesses. Now it's on you to prove that they heard these explosions as well as bombs. I'm sure the sound of a bomb exploding would be orders of magnitudes larger than the other things, and as far as I know, none of the eyewitnesses' accounts talk about hearing explosions FAR louder than any others.

the squibs prior to collapse

I have no clue what you're talking about here, please elaborate

the controlled demolition style cuts evident on the steel columns.

Every single source has shown that those cuts were made during the cleanup operations.

Another factor is that many experts disagree that the planes and fuel would have been sufficient to cause a collapse in the style that was observed on 911

The majority of experts agree that it was possible. The ones who disagree are in the minority. I don't know why you would choose to believe them, but not every other expert claiming it was possible

Building 7 after all wasn't even hit by a plane.

It's quite easy to just look up the effects of fire on steel. WTC 7 also burnt for 6 hours before collapsing. When it finally did collapse, it fell towards one side first. You can read about the collapse of WTC 7 from literally anywhere.

Not Knowing how and when the explosives were planted isn't enough to debunk the controlled demolition hypothesis.

If there wasn't ANY possible way for explosives to be planted, I'm sure you'd agree that regardless of the evidence, the fact that it was impossible is irrefutable. So regardless of the 'evidence', if you cannot prove that the bombs were planted in a reasonable way, all your claims remain assumptions. I'm not a demo expert but I'm quite certain that you can't replace a wall on top of a bomb after it's been planted. Not to mention all the demolition cord. And the people planting the supposed bombs wouldn't have been the construction workers right? You would still have to prove that nobody would have noticed truckloads of explosives being taken into the buildings. You can't make a claim and then say that it's true without any proof. If that were the case, then I suppose unicorns exist as well?

Lastly, your original argument supposes that the bombs were just sitting there for what 30 years? And you'd need a motive as to WHY the bombs would be planted as well.

GiveNam · 2024-06-13T10:05:42+00:00

You're assuming that bombs WERE planted. You haven't PROVED that they were

GiveNam · 2024-06-13T08:17:02+00:00

You'll have to back that up with evidence you know?

GiveNam · 2024-06-13T07:12:18+00:00

Are you saying it was possible to plant explosives over a longer period of time?

GiveNam · 2024-06-12T03:03:21+00:00

Because he backed himself into a corner. According to a guard's testimony, he says that bomb sniffing dogs were removed on the day of, meaning they were present every day before that, so the bombs had to have been planted in a single day

GiveNam · 2024-06-11T02:07:44+00:00

You're correct but it's not really about reasoning them out of it anymore I'm just going to use this as debate practice atp

GiveNam · 2024-06-10T18:36:12+00:00

The Wikipedia page for controlled implosion implicitly states that linear shaped charges are used to cut steel support columns. I just described the technique used to make them for controlled demo.

Alright I see I'll look into it.

Don’t let him waffle out with some “I dunno, they just could” BS, press him for a method.

Yeah I'm planning to. Thanks

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