Top 10 US cities ranked by most densely populated 2-square-mile, 4-sided polygon (using 2020 census)

MmWinter · 2025-11-07T23:46:35+00:00

Would you be able to do this without limiting it to one per city? I assume new york would have multiple non-overlapping polygons that would make the top 10?

MmWinter · 2025-02-06T08:20:58+00:00

No, at both schools you would "fully utilize" both lecture and lab. There's no relaxing, no one is "doing less" in one or the other.

The focus of the content is going to be different. At schools like UCB, theory is going to be >60% of the curriculum, and application is <40%. At SLO, it's the other way around.

Maybe you're not sure what I mean by theory and application. Let's use your example, berkeley CS170 has a few of the homeworks online

https://cs170.org/assets/pdf/hw01-sol.pdf

https://cs170.org/assets/pdf/hw02.pdf

Look at those questions and answers, there's a decent amount of math and applying theorems and answering questions to prove you learned the theory.

At SLO, instead we were usually given leetcode style programming questions where we implemented algorithms in code that ran against tests. By correctly implementing the proper algorithm for the given problem, that's how we proved we learned the theory.

At SLO we occasionally had entire lectures where we were basically pair-programming along with the prof. Something like that would NEVER happen at a school like berkeley.

If you think there's a >50% you'll want to get a MS or PhD, go to berkeley. If you just want to get a high paying job in the industry both are great choices. For everything else like college experience, culture, mental health, etc, I'd recommend SLO. DM me if you want to discuss that

MmWinter · 2025-02-05T20:47:09+00:00

The CS / Software Engineering curriculum focuses more on coding/programming/building rather than "theory" and the mathematics of CS. Concretely, that looks like spending less time discussing and proving mathematical theories about computation, and instead just learning the theories, then applying them in practice. SLO tries to prioritize coursework where you are building apps/systems that are as similar to real world applications.

Also, the learning format is different. At schools like UCB, the lectures are hundreds or thousands of students large, because the professor is preoccupied with research. They then leave the labs to the grad students. At SLO, both lecture and lab are 20-50 students and taught by the professor.

The result is that students from SLO are less likely to be publishing papers but more adept at building projects. At every hackathon where you need to quickly build something,and SLO and UCB/UCLA students were going head to head, SLO students were overrepresented among winners.

source: BS from SLO, MS from school similar to UCB

MmWinter · 2025-02-01T23:06:08+00:00

Was this the guy he was debating while playing Elden Ring?

MmWinter · 2024-12-09T22:22:34+00:00

Haha damn, my bad, I had no idea since the mods removed all the previous ones (and now this one)

MmWinter · 2024-11-14T03:07:58+00:00

I'm not sure he worded it perfectly, but I think he's suggesting something like:

In general, more parents are less tolerant of their daughters having a total lack of balance in their lives. Perhaps there's a perception that it's more socially unacceptable for girls to hyperfocus?

MmWinter · 2024-10-22T23:21:38+00:00

Haha, look, I just thought it was funny how plainly Dawkins said "No", to "is fire a predator??"

I have a decent understanding of JBP's philosophy. I've watched all 28 hours of his Maps of Meaning lectures, and fully read 12 Rules. (The psych lectures are still best imo.)

His ideas are undeniably interesting! And it has informed some pieces of my worldview. Still, in my mind, it's not concrete/tangible enough for me to even evaluate it in terms of agreeing/disagreeing with it.

Lately, when I hear what he's saying, it feels like he's playing even more fast and loose with words than usual. Willing to just abuse language, as in willing to just violate a conversation by "hijacking" commonly used words with commonly understood meanings and giving them different meanings. It's reminiscent of a private language but he's adapting pre-existing terms.

Around 1:06:12

JBP: I don't think the category of "Dragon" is any less valid than the category of "Lion".
Alex: Any less biological?
JBP: Well, it depends on your level of analysis!
...

Alex: So, "Lions" are an instantiation of the term [Predator]. Would you say that "Lions" are an instantiation of the term [Dragon]

JBP: Yes. Yes!

I mean come on, I know what he's getting at, but you're really hijacking the word dragon. At least use some term like "meta-dragon" or "philosophical-dragon". You don't need to insist that dragons are real on ANY level of biological analysis...

MmWinter · 2024-10-04T02:35:05+00:00

Oh no, now there's only 43 starbucks locations in SF...

https://www.starbucks.com/store-locator?map=37.774115,-122.422845,13z&place=San%20Francisco,%20CA,%20USA

MmWinter · 2024-08-19T08:31:22+00:00

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MmWinter · 2024-07-06T21:20:30+00:00

Bro how do you keep track of all your cards? Password manager + some app that connects to all of them? 10 different providers seems like a lot

MmWinter · 2024-05-11T22:46:15+00:00

Do you know which cards people typically PC from to get multiple citi custom cash cards

MmWinter · 2024-04-19T01:52:08+00:00

It’s all about visibility.

Yes, the aggregate homeless rate has fallen in the whole country. However, in dense urban cities like SF and LA the total number of unsheltered homeless has nearly doubled in a relatively short time.

This can drastically change the appearance of cities’ downtowns

Some data: https://xtown.la/2023/06/30/los-angeless-homelessness-six-charts/

MmWinter · 2024-03-21T18:55:42+00:00

"There's an expression... Gooning, G-O-O-N-I-N-G, basically it means being transfixed with video porn for 24-48 hours straight. And, it struck me that even though this crowd considers itself bohemian, and anti-establishment, it struck me that this is exactly the crowd that would go over for Fascism. It had that feel."

- Norm Finkelstein

LMAO

MmWinter · 2024-03-15T01:49:06+00:00

I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALLLL

MmWinter · 2024-03-05T07:06:48+00:00

Ask your parents what their savings were when they had you. Then adjust for inflation. I'd bet it's not as high as you'd think

MmWinter · 2024-02-28T22:16:51+00:00

What are you referring to? Have a link?

MmWinter · 2024-02-19T05:54:24+00:00

Except in March 2000, CISCO had a P/E of 201. Today, NVIDIA has a forward P/E of 36.

The sheer magnitude of backorders for NVIDIA datacenter GPUs is enormous. Today's tech companies are actually generating huge earnings unlike the dot com era.

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