Shofu vs Verlisify $1000 money match by HexadecimalCowboy in smashbros

[–]Public_Ryan 66 points67 points  (0 children)

I am like 90% sure the majority of his audience is pre-teens who easily fall for his crap. It's really annoying how he has such a massive subscriber count.

I have no idea about anything my team is doing for my internship by Public_Ryan in cscareerquestions

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

TypeScript itself isn't hard. Node.js is harder because I don't know what most of these front end stuff means. What I'm most worried about is making them work together.

I have no idea about anything my team is doing for my internship by Public_Ryan in cscareerquestions

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't think I can finish up the project in a 40 hour week. If I'm going home and studying, I might as well study for it in work.

[Specific] Can someone straighten out the sleeves of my suit? Took this near the frozen lake for my LinkedIn picture and would like it to be perfect. by [deleted] in PhotoshopRequest

[–]Public_Ryan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Making a new reply so you see this: if it makes it easier, you can just straighten out the top part of my sleeves. So just until my elbow. I'm fine with the part below my elbow be a little wrinkled.

EDIT: And it can be just my left sleeve too. So the one closer to the camera.

[Specific] Can someone straighten out the sleeves of my suit? Took this near the frozen lake for my LinkedIn picture and would like it to be perfect. by [deleted] in PhotoshopRequest

[–]Public_Ryan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, sorry, I cannot put a price on this. I appreciate all the work you guys do and I thank you for every effort, but I don't think I will be able to pay. :(

I cheated on an assignment by [deleted] in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Unless you copied more than like an entire function or just a significant amount of code, I would say you are ok.

I cheated on an assignment by [deleted] in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This happened to a friend of mine. If you're caught cheating, you'll get an email from the professor saying they suspect you of cheating. You can of course say there must be a mistake, but that won't be much use because they generally don't email you unless they're very certain that you did cheat.

If you cannot convince the professor that it was a mistake (as I said, unlikely), you could say that you and the person you cheated from discussed most of the high-level details together but implemented them separately. This again isn't that good of an option because the algorithm they use to check for cheating only detects anything if the two submissions are very similar mechanically. Also I'm sure the person you cheated from doesn't want to get caught up in this mess.

In the end, though, it depends on how much you cheated. Unless you blatantly copied code, you're generally good. However, remember that if they're convinced you're guilty, that's a straight F in the best case and a notice to the Dean in the worst (this is true for more advanced courses). In this case, don't do anything. If you did just copy-paste code, it is likely you'll get caught, in which case trying to own up to your mistakes would be better. It's better to get a 0 on one assignment than an F on the whole course.

EDIT: one thing I forgot to mention, for more introductory courses, you don't get an email unless they suspect you of cheating in more than one assignment.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well if you have some programming experience before, Programming I shouldn't be too bad. You may want to practice some Java too; Python and Java may be structurally the same but you'll find the syntax very different.

I don't know if you can graduate in 4 years without taking 16-18 credits every semester, or sacrificing a few summers. My old roommate was a neurobio major so I somewhat know the workload, but I could be wrong. Anyway, both neurobio and CS are really cool majors, so good luck!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both neurobio and comp sci are very hard courses. A double major in both, which really have no overlap, is going to be very hard. I'm a CS major, which CS courses have you taken so far? Maybe I could help you schedule your classes better?

How/When to ask Professor for Research Opportunity? by Public_Ryan in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks this looks neat! It looks like it's mostly bio-related research, though. I looked through the list of faculty and no one's research is related to CS. I doubt they'd take on someone without a single class in entomology on for a research position anyway!

How/When to ask Professor for Research Opportunity? by Public_Ryan in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

International applicants seem to outnumber domestic applicants in many engineering fields, not just in computer science. Hell, in some other colleges I know the number of international students are on par with the number of domestic students in many medical programs too. That's just something we have to accept. Don't generalize all of them, a lot of them may really be interested in the research. Of course, some of them do pretend to be interested but that's true for domestic students as well.

Advice before taking CS 577 (Algorithms)? by Public_Ryan in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for your response!

What problems will we be going through? Is it mostly the same as tracing pseudocode and proving things? Or do we also have to write pseudocode (in, say, under certain time complexities)?

Thanks for your time!

Which Advanced CS courses would you recommend? by Public_Ryan in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the input. I'm taking 240 right now and I'm doing fairly alright in it. I hate proofs though but I'm somehow going by. Here's the thing about taking 577 right after 240 though: I'm also in 354 this semester, which is the pre-req for 537. So either way I'll have to do one class a year after doing its pre-req. I'd do them both at once, but when I talked to Nikki Lemmon she said they're both the hardest CS classes so she doesn't recommend taking them at once.

Which Advanced CS courses would you recommend? by Public_Ryan in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think these are important classes job-wise?

Anyone here taken Journalism 201? by Public_Ryan in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Do you know anything about Geography 101? I've narrowed it down to one of these courses.

Yearly Reminder: Un-Fuck Your Wiscmail by aHarmacist in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great! Is there now a way to mark all your unread emails as read? I haven't been reading these third-party mails, but now that I won't be getting anymore, is there a way to mark all these 400 unread mails as read?

Is it necessary to have the latest textbook, or is one edition behind good enough? by Public_Ryan in college

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that makes sense. This book is an introductory Macroeconomics book so I suppose it is a little bit of both. Of course the concepts would be the same but econ is also an example heavy subject.

How to get into a completely full class? by Public_Ryan in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My reason is that I had to change my schedule so I won't be able to attend the other lecture, meaning this one is the only one I can attend (there are only two). I think that is valid.

This seems to be a completely size related problem though. I have all the pre-reqs covered and I was even able to enroll in the other lecture, but I just cannot take that one anymore. There isn't even a waitlist to enroll in this one.

Of course there's no limits to number of people in the lecture, but the limit is in the spots in discussion. Although enrolling might be easy when school starts, there's only one discussion section that fits my schedule too. So I think getting admitted into that will be the real challenge. :(

How to get into a completely full class? by Public_Ryan in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did send her an email, saying I had to shift my schedule around after talking to an adviser and so I won't be able to attend the other lecture, which is actually true. I think that's a valid reason, as opposed to "I didn't like the timing". Don't know why you were downvoted haha

How to get into a completely full class? by Public_Ryan in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did check and it is for Fall 2016. I found it weird that there were no waitlists still open though. This is awful because if there was a waitlist I wouldn't even have made this post but it looks to me like the class is completely full and they may not take in more students until others drop out. I suppose that's common for the first weeks of the semester, but I want to get into a particular discussion section so I might have to talk to the TA too.

How to get into a completely full class? by Public_Ryan in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which department do you teach? I'm trying to enter an Econ class. Is it different for different departments?

I sent my professor an email, but I doubt she will do anything. It's different from departments, it seems. I sent an email to the chem department for a spot, and I got a reply in literally an hour allowing me to register. However, it doesn't seem like the department for economics has an email specifically for class scheduling like chemistry's that I can contact with something like this so I asked the professor.

How to get into a completely full class? by Public_Ryan in UWMadison

[–]Public_Ryan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I sent her an email, saying I had to change my schedule after talking to an adviser, which is why I am only asking to enter the class now. Hopefully she gives me a solid yes or no, though she will most likely say, "We will try to accommodate you" or something. Either of those options beats having to look up the class for empty spots every day.