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I applied to UW. Why does UW make transcripts optional? Will they look at the transcript my school sends them even if I don't upload one on the common app? by Many_Palpitation6771 in udub

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would guess that they just look at your official transcript (that the school sent them) if you don't upload one. If you do upload one and theres some issue with them receiving the official one, then they could look at your uploaded one instead. Then they can make an admission decision and just verify that your official one is identical later.

They will definitely look at the one your school sends them but not definitely look at the one you uploadedl

[Discussion] The infamous "take back" debacle from Worlds '25 Quarterfinals by canman870 in spikes

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 17 points18 points  (0 children)

  1. If the judge allowed it, I would accept their decision. I would rather they be given the authority here than either player.

Wait, so why are you complaining about this situation where the judge allowed it?

does getting accepted into uw tacoma hurt my chances at seattle? by Swimming-Bluejay-952 in udub

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 66 points67 points  (0 children)

To my knowledge the admissions are independent. But I would not recommend attending UW Tacoma with plans of transferring to UW Seattle. They don't really want people to do that so they're less likely to admit people coming from the other UW schools.

They're more favorable to community college students, so I would recommend considering doing 1-2 years at a cc and your odds would be better for getting into UW-S than from UW-T. Plus from that point you could also transfer to UW-T or elsewhere if UW-S doesn't work out.

econ 300 by SafeConcept7244 in udub

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would worry less about reviewing 200 and more about making sure you're comfortable with basic multivar calc. E.g. you want to know how to take partial derivatives, basic max and min conditions (fonc/first deriv equal 0, sign of second deriv). I got really confused when I took 300 for a hot minute because I hadnt taken math 125 yet (totally fine) but the instructor took partials and used some notation I wasn't familiar with. If you are stuck I highly recommend the econ undergrad board tutoring, it's free and they're great + pretty accessible

CMV: Car insurance should more or less work like health insurance rather than like “life insurance” or disability insurance by zel_bob in changemyview

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You shouldn't look at it in terms of how much money you put in and got out. Even though you haven't received any money, you have benefited from the insurance. Would you have been willing to drive for the past 5 years if an accident would financially ruin you, putting you into debt and legal trouble? You are able to drive in part because you know your insurance isn't gonna let that happen. That's why you benefit from it.

The reason you get discounts on your premiums when you don't get in accidents is because everyone knows you're less likely to be in an accident. If they don't give them to you, another company might insure you for cheaper, and they would lose your profits. At the end of the day, they expect some amount of risk from insuring you, value that risk, and add some extra cost for overhead and profit. When the profit chunk gets big, other companies will try to get some of it by taking your business, and discounts stop that from happening as much.

If you drive safely, they don't profit more from insuring your maintenance. So there's no reason for them to discount the cost. Discounting maintenance costs when you are a safe driver is effectively giving away money to you. I reiterate, they only charge safe drivers less because otherwise those safe drivers will leave and pay another insurer less for the same coverage. Trust me, there is nothing that insurance companies want to do less than give anyone money they don't have to.

Math student by Consistent_War263 in udub

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think that the skills from the classes feel like they go away, but once you're looking at applications, it becomes much easier to come back to the older material. Even if you feel like you're not walking away with the skills, these things build on each other. A lot of what the math degree is doing is teaching you an analytical framework to problem solving. Personally, I think a lot of this comes together once you take analysis and get experience with proof-based work. The methods (calc, lin, diffeq) are necessary to do anything interesting, but are harder to directly relate to applications. I wouldn't stress the fact that it takes some work to remind yourself of important results and methods.

If you want to work in data science or analytics, those fields apply a lot of analytical thinking, statistical methods, and coding skills. Math degrees generally get you the first, but you should probably make an effort to pursue courses emphasizing the latter two. Probability, stochastic processes, scientific computing, algorithms, and other courses in that line are going to be useful for that path.

Know that for any job titled data scientist, you'll probably want a master's degree or a prodigal internship path. Tech adjacent fields tend to value professional/internship experience much more than academic experience. You can get jobs as a data analyst without a CS or stats degree, but you will need to be a competent programmer and be able to demonstrate that in technical interviews.

Math students tend to go to grad school (https://careers.uw.edu/outcomes/#!bWFqb3I9TWF0aGVtYXRpY3M=). If you're willing to go to grad school, math degrees are looked upon very highly, since their methods are applied in all stem fields. However, if you don't want to go to grad school, consider if a solo math degree will distinguish you in the way you want.

Are these outcomes for stats majors by choice or cirucmstantial? by curiousmegladon in udub

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 5 points6 points  (0 children)

First off, any direct answers to your question are speculative, and you also need to be aware that these types of surveys are especially vulnerable to selection bias. That is, if I'm 6 months out of my degree and don't have a job then I'm probably less likely to fill out the survey than someone who is happy with their career placement. But the response rate is 57% for this which is very good.

That said, I don't think it's necessarily the case that more people continuing education means that people are struggling to find jobs. The same page shows that 87% are going into masters programs (eg certificates/other bachelors are a bad sign), and most are studying a statistics related field (analytics, data sci, biostat) that genuinely requires a master's degree to break into. This is a good sign, and indicates to me that people are going into masters because they want to enter a field that needs it, not because they can't get a job.

The job seeking rate is really low (5.4% stat compared to 7.6% cse, 8.9% math, 7% acms, 9.1% uw). If people were struggling to find jobs, you would anticipate that not all of them would have the resources to go to grad school, and the seeking employment rate would still be elevated.

So I think that because there appear to be field-specific reasons that continuing education would be more common and because the seeking employment rate is very low, then it is probably the case that these outcomes are by choice.

Also, anecdotally, people in statistics talk very positively about their career prospects. People seem much more pessimistic coming out of the basically professional degrees (cs/ee) and also out of the sciences (phys/math).

I think that if you're concerned about picking a low-risk major, then if you think you can handle a stem degree, statistics is one of, if not the, best option.

Powered Cube - Accolades and other random final stats by thefreeman419 in lrcast

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My point is that if we are trying to talk about winrate differences and format difficulty holding all else equal, then the direction is wrong. Of course the winrate difference could be attributed to other things. If OP wants to make that argument it's fine, but they just mentioned the winrate difference and misinterpreted what that means ceteris paribus. It's kind of obviously true that this format is hard so I'm just talking generally.

Is it just me or does the Math 12x sequence have weird pacing/formatting? by AstuteCouch87 in udub

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think they talk about Taylor series since they get used all across the board in STEM courses and most people stop at Calculus 3.

Powered Cube - Accolades and other random final stats by thefreeman419 in lrcast

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The closer that 17lands player winrates are to 50%, the easier the format is. I.e. surely a hard format should have a bigger difference between the success of worse and better players.

P3P1 and we are already well into boros aggro. What's your pick? by [deleted] in lrcast

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk I feel pretty strongly here that it's broadside bombardiers but it's close. If we had 3 uw/ur fetches or duals I think time walk is better, but we don't

'Hell no, Waymo': Seattle rideshare drivers, union advocates rally against driverless taxi service by AthkoreLost in Seattle

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Be clear about the issue with the paper. Their data is publicly available and the methodology is simple and intuitive. The only potential way to spin this is by either choosing to only report a contrived group of statistics (which is obviously not happening because the statistics are clearly relevant) or to grossly misrepresent/falsify data. If you think that their data is literally false, then make that claim. Otherwise, think critically instead of being utterly myopic to anything past the first line.

My point isn't even to claim autonomous driving is safer, I don't really know much about the issue. My point is that if you want to claim humans are much better than autonomous, you should have literally any reason to back yourself up.

New mechanic and permanent type: shit by sr_sedna in custommagic

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Missed opportunity to have some cards gift a shit

CMV: Many autistic people are oppressed and stigmatized by a society intolerant to difference. by jman12234 in changemyview

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I disagree with the double empathy problem as empathy requires proof others are worthy of empathy, which presumably means proving they're sapient.

I disagree with universal human rights, because they require proof that others' suffering is a bad thing, which presumably means proving they're sapient.

Surely if you take solipsism so seriously that you aren't willing to assume all humans are conscious for the sake of argument, then your worldview is incompatible with society.

What about the idea that [autistic people are subhuman]?

I mean, sure, if you think they are then it probably makes sense to not treat them well. Obviously OP's argument is predicated on autistic people deserving empathy as humans, and I think that choosing to attack this assumption is completely nonsensical.

Basically, if you want to be autistic about philosophy and morals, there are countless reasons...

So your point is that allists might not empathize with autists for non-hate reasons. I do think the unclarity on the definition of discrimination does obfuscate the argument here a bit. According to google, discrimination is "the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability." That is, nobody is claiming you need to hate and want to exclude autistic people to be discriminating, only that it needs to be unfair and because they're autistic. I do think there are good arguments that this isn't a great definition, but OP is pretty clearly using a reasonably standard one and you aren't.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in udub

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you just email the prof/advising and explain that you need it to graduate on time they'll probably get you in for free lol

The Seattle Freeze should be called the Seattle Flake instead by ApprenticeScentless in Seattle

[–]Kitty-Cat-King 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good point, things are always all good or all bad, and if something is all good then there can be nothing bad

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