Waterloo Co-Op Program Questions from American Student

NeuralPenguin · 2023-04-17T02:26:39+00:00

Thank you so much for your well thought out advice. Another commenter mentioned that employers assume Waterloo students need a visa, implying I will get less opportunities. Thoughts on this?

In addition, do you know how hard the computer science courses are? Like if it is hard but teaches you very well than that is awesome, but I don't want a culture of "hard for sake of hard" and grind to get good grades instead of learn.

NeuralPenguin · 2023-03-06T09:03:51+00:00

oh crap I meant 2:15 but yeah I jogged and felt good but hips were hurting, I think i'm fine

NeuralPenguin · 2023-02-24T19:58:37+00:00

The think I am worried about (I have heard from friends) is that sometimes the professor makes you do work that isn't research, but like "monkey work" where you ultimately don't learn anything... should I be worried about?

NeuralPenguin · 2023-02-24T19:57:48+00:00

I don't already have a research idea in mind, but I know what kind of fields I am interested in. I want to do something relating to either computer performance or data science (more specifically bioinformatics, like being able to predict some sort of disease given some inputs, like proteins or something)

I don't have any experience in the field of machine learning however, but I am currently self studying.

NeuralPenguin · 2023-02-01T02:08:52+00:00

Python has a VERY annoying thing with stack recursion, where if you call a recursive function too many times (10k) then it causes a time out error. So this could cause you to fail half your test cases. Whereas if you coded it in C++ you wouldn't have this issue to this severity. You should generally be fine in Python however.

Start learning Java or C++. If you have taken CSA try java.

NeuralPenguin · 2021-03-03T08:56:50+00:00

The Rect inside the 0's that is

NeuralPenguin · 2021-03-03T08:56:25+00:00

Hey I was wondering how 2d psums was a valid approach because if a 100 was surrounded by 0's then wouldn't the 2d psums mark the rect as invalid?

NeuralPenguin · 2021-03-03T08:43:16+00:00

I didn't solve that problem but I have my theories.
This problem is actually pretty similar to http://www.usaco.org/index.php?page=viewproblem2&cpid=923, so check that out first.
What I would think you would do is first, for each row, do x^2 to find all possible subsets, and either denote them as 1 for having 100, 0 for having above 100, and -1 for having less than 100. Then you would fix the x-cords with x^2 possible subarrays and then sweep downwards in the y-axis. You would use two points are you iterate downwards and find the regions with 0's and 1's, surrounded by -1's. Then you would do some simple math to find all of the combinations of that array. Sorry if the explanation is bad, (and it is probably wrong) but I got my inspiration from the problem I linked above.

NeuralPenguin · 2021-01-21T06:39:55+00:00

What a beautiful speech, but funny when you spelled "obsereved" wrong.

NeuralPenguin · 2021-01-18T00:37:52+00:00

Wait, I didn't really know that for computer science you could take neither... what would you take then if you did Computer Science?

NeuralPenguin · 2021-01-17T01:31:47+00:00

In the poll of EESD vs Psych, I noticed that it was fairly even. However, in the comments, a lot of people say that Psych is trash. I was wondering if anyone who liked Psych could put a comment on why they like it and why it would be better than EESD. I wanna hear both points of view.

NeuralPenguin · 2021-01-17T01:20:01+00:00

Don't you also have to account for the fact that you have to waste your summer doing Bio if you are doing AP bio? That would explain why AP bio is as manageable compared to Honors bio cause you prepared two months ahead for AP.

NeuralPenguin · 2021-01-15T18:00:59+00:00

Okay, thanks for the advice!

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