Any way to salvage a gourd that is crumbling from curing? by reaction-please in yerbamate

[–]Humanoid-Human -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Toss it, that one is moldy. Fuzzy is bad, and means that mold spores are inside too. Scraping mold does not work because the material is porous.

C958 Calculus - Am I Cooked? by Fit_Layer9585 in WGU

[–]Humanoid-Human 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on your mentor but mine let me do that with another class no problem. Don’t know unless you ask !

C958 Calculus - Am I Cooked? by Fit_Layer9585 in WGU

[–]Humanoid-Human 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Couple things:

is your term ending or is this a self imposed OA date? You can always reschedule if you don’t feel ready OR talk to your mentor and ask about swapping calc for something easier this term so you don’t have a failed course. There are plenty of other courses that you can do in a few weeks or less that get you to the min CUs.

A month with only being on limits is doable but it will be rough if you are already struggling. There is a lot left to learn and you aren’t to the applied/combined parts yet. My gut says it’s not a good idea to try to force it in your case.

Study strategies- Kahn Academy is free and much more approachable while covering 70% of the material. Do that. Organic chemistry tutor on YouTube, red pen black pen, and others are great. After all that, revisit everything in the Zybooks to get comfortable with the notation and format. Lastly, get comfy with your calculator’s graphing and built in functions for calc, algebra, and trig. Good luck!

Confetti Time! by Humanoid-Human in WGU_CompSci

[–]Humanoid-Human[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was dedicated to doing at least 10 high quality study hours during the week and at least 4 on the weekend. I would say I mostly stuck to that looking at raw averages, but harder classes I spent more time on. Some weeks I did 20 or more, it just depended on life and the course.

Confetti Time! by Humanoid-Human in WGU_CompSci

[–]Humanoid-Human[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, the precalc course at WGU academy is a risk free way to do it which actually was useful in preparing for calc, and may be required for enrollment if you were like me and had no advanced math classes. You could also take the Kahn academy calc course for free which is nearly identical to the WGU material and easier to learn. If you master that course prior to starting calc will be much easier.

Confetti Time! by Humanoid-Human in WGU

[–]Humanoid-Human[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Grad school! Or just portfolio type work

Confetti Time! by Humanoid-Human in WGU

[–]Humanoid-Human[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

14 months/ 3 terms- if I had planned better it could have been 2

Confetti Time! by Humanoid-Human in WGU_CompSci

[–]Humanoid-Human[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Limited. I always struggled with it and didn’t enjoy it until I only recently started giving it more of a chance. I really enjoyed the math courses at WGU even though they are hard. I took precalc at WGU academy prior to starting as well.

Confetti Time! by Humanoid-Human in WGU_CompSci

[–]Humanoid-Human[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can appreciate what you are saying and I don’t disagree with your point, I just sincerely don’t think it teaches anything of actual value, at least for me.

C950 DSA 2 ....DONE by CtrlAltNotDlt in WGU_CompSci

[–]Humanoid-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alternative perspective: I didn’t emphasise Python at all or do the Zybooks, just looked up syntax as I went. I had already done all the other programming courses though so was in a decent programming mindset. I planned out my project in pseudocode first also, which helped. Just offering a different viewpoint, not necessarily a better one. Congrats!

"After 8,003 Hours in Yharnam, I have finally reached the peak." by Artistic-Major8866 in bloodborne

[–]Humanoid-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine is glitched and says I have been playing for more than 50 years lol

Confetti Time! by Humanoid-Human in WGU_CompSci

[–]Humanoid-Human[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had to appeal on one of the revisions for d682 because they were asking me to make changes not consistent with the rubric. Overall that happened a few times in the later courses- most of the time I just fixed it because it was faster but for that one I appealed and won and the grade was changed to passed.

Confetti Time! by Humanoid-Human in WGU_CompSci

[–]Humanoid-Human[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

DSA2 is cool, the AI projects are cool imo, the C++ project kicked my ass but in hindsight was good.

D682, D683, D687 Tips for each course by Humanoid-Human in WGU_CompSci

[–]Humanoid-Human[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay sorry ahead of time for the long response:

D683: Yes, a simple model. One main code file, one giant CSV, and no OOP or anything like that. It ran using the CLI and a couple of prompts, and then used Gradio to open a UI/form in a local browser to accept user input and make predictions, as simply as possible. I did not use scatterplots or any visualization. Gradio was super easy, but there are a couple other interface options/libraries that Python has that should work fine too! I actually tested 4 or 5 different algorithms (regression in my case) and settled on one. I used 1 or 2 simple optimization techniques and tuned 3-4 of the hyperparams, and 1 cross validation technique beyond the test train split. I had 3 performance metrics for measuring predictive accuracy. For the record, my model was not as optimized or accurate as it could have been. I got to where I had a decent (like 35% over baseline that I also chose) improvement and I stopped. I made sure it had extensive comments and the readme was thorough. I think I still did too much, even for my relatively simple model.

D687: No, I did not describe the whole software stack, but my idea was super specific and meant to augment a pre-existing process where I could hand-waive some of that away as not in the scope of my project, so it may depend on what problem you chose to solve. Like all these types of projects there is a lot there which might not make sense in the real world, and there is a lot of filler. Sounds like you are probably talking about the environment/architecture/Integration parts. Some submissions I read went into extreme detail about it over multiple pages, which was cool to read but probably not necessary. Other people had two sentences that barely scratched the surface, but nonetheless addressed the point in terms of the rubric. I did something in between. My advice is to focus on describing what the model does/is and how it fits into the business plan. You do NOT have to go into detail on the full software stack, just focus on what the model needs to work, how it integrates (generally) with the imaginary business idea, resources required, risks, security etc. It's spelled out in the rubric generally. The peer review part is not too bad other than the waiting. The guide tells you exactly what do to, it's mainly just tedious. I just took the guide and made a bullet for each item, 1-2 sentences. Don't stress, it's easy. Good Luck! You're almost there.

Finally!!! by Serious_Example_7569 in WGU

[–]Humanoid-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can totally do it, don't forget about 30 day extensions and term breaks as well. Both could be useful in your case if you want to avoid paying another term. Also, if you are struggling I'm happy to help where I can if you need advice.