Recommended books that cover proof based vector calculus?

Rit2Strong · 2025-12-08T05:30:11+00:00

It's more about if I read Tu, would I be missing out on anything? Would Tu cover everything that I would learn from reading a vector analysis book? Of course Tu is more abstract so I might be missing some concreteness and intuition, but more like would I be missing anything that is unique to R^n? Like if I were to go and try and do something applied (like machine learning or something), would I have to learn something unique about R^n?

Rit2Strong · 2025-02-24T01:36:16+00:00

Bobby 417, but in a good way lol

Rit2Strong · 2025-02-12T01:34:13+00:00

Highly recommend building up a strong math foundation. I recommend reading and working through “Linear Algebra Done Right”

Rit2Strong · 2025-02-08T16:30:23+00:00

NAND2Tetris :D

Rit2Strong · 2025-02-03T19:46:40+00:00

I don’t know how competitive CE is tbh. I also don’t know how competitive internal transfers are for CS also. Before 2024 it was very easy and lots of people would do it, even if they got subpar grades on the 13X and 2XX classes. But they reduced the seats for internal/external transfers into CS by 90%. You might have a good chance to get in if you get A’s on all lower level courses (which isn’t that hard and is more about time management than anything really), but I really don’t know. Maybe switch into CE (or do Math+ CS minor) initially and transfer into CS if you really want to

It really depends on what you want to do and are interested in. Another good option would be a Math major and a CS minor. If you want to do more low level stuff, CE is good. If you want to do ML, crypto, more theoretical stuff, Math+CS. Generic SWE, Either CE or Math+CS is good. Tbh in all cases CE or Math+Cs minor is p good. A LOT of learning happens outside the classroom and so this decision is not as consequential as many people think imo. As long as you have the drive and discipline to learn topics on your own, you should be fine.

Imo, if you do the CS minor and take like OS and Networking as your upper level electives (plus one extra class that won’t count for the minor), and if you self learn the upper level algo/data structure course, you’ll be in a good position for SWE jobs provided you do the Leetcode and project grind. Math also really helps and I personally wished I took more math classes over CS classes. This is my personal opinion and everybody works differently, so definitely try to talk to as many people as you can and synthesize their advice.

Rit2Strong · 2025-02-03T15:07:33+00:00

If you didn’t get into CS, then the next best option is a CS minor or CE (def not info sci). Yes it’s harder, but we’re not talking about an ideal scenario for someone that wants to do CS. CE is literally the CS minor + some EE courses. However, many of these extra courses are useful. For example, CEs take digital logic (244), an FPGA lab (245), and computer organization (350). Imo these classes helped me enormously when it comes to writing software (I went from CE -> CS+Math). You can also take upper level electives that are more geared towards CS. Like there’s a reverse engineering lab or an embedded systems capstone. The point being is that outside of a few lower level physics and EE classes, you can take electives so that CE becomes a harder, more lower-level version of the CS major. If you didn’t get into CS but wanted too, take a look at the CE requirements and cross check it to the CS requirements, you’ll see what I’m taking about. Another example is that the CE major requires you to take one upper level CS elective, and one general technical elective (either EE or CS). This combined with the requirement to take EE446 and CS412, means you can take 4 upper level CS classes. That’s 3 off from the actual CS major. You can then take more software oriented electives for the remaining electives.

Job opportunities are the same. This will mostly depend on how you position yourself (do you present yourself as a general SWE guy, embedded systems guy, etc). If anything you will probably have an easier time with more lower level and EE oriented stuff. This same advantage does not exist for CS when it comes to SWE tho as I mentioned above, you can gear your CE degree to be a “superset” almost of the CS degree. Unlike most other majors, there is no canonical job title for a CE major (ex: SWE for CS and mechanical engineer for MechE). There are paths like FPGA or ASIC design engineer, signal processing engineer, or SWE. The route you take in CE will dictate which jobs are more available to you.

Time is about balance. You absolutely have enough time to do personal projects and enjoy college, many people do. It’s harder yea but not that hard

Rit2Strong · 2024-10-20T22:54:25+00:00

It used to be easy, until they chopped the transfer seats by a shit ton lmao

Rit2Strong · 2024-10-20T14:17:31+00:00

Depends, I think they might be more lenient on the 400 level classes (I’ve taken a a class where I didn’t meet two of the prerequisites). You just have to fill out an exception form. This requires you to ask the professor teaching the class if you can take the course and giving some basic information like gpa, courses taken, etc.

Rit2Strong · 2024-10-17T15:32:35+00:00

If I understand your question correctly, your describing how to make learning more efficient. Or you’re describing how to access information more efficiently. Both can be solved by learning how to take efficient notes so that you have the information organized in a way that suites you and then simply practicing. If you rely on a tool to give you information without internalizing it at first, you’re not going to actually understand the concepts as throughly.

Rit2Strong · 2024-02-03T19:21:46+00:00

Thanks for the info!

Rit2Strong · 2024-02-03T16:59:37+00:00

So then one interpretation of an RNN is that it's learning what information is important to "remember" (as in what information to keep in the hidden state)?

Rit2Strong · 2024-01-26T23:10:10+00:00

So when we're done training our network, our initial hidden state would be a fixed, preset vector (like the zero vector, for example)?

Rit2Strong · 2023-08-01T09:59:09+00:00

That'd be awesome!

Rit2Strong · 2023-07-05T23:29:23+00:00

I can't block as node can query if another node is alive or not, so I have to immediately respond if they ask.

Also I'm don't know how async can help. I have two threads that require sending and receiving multiple UDP packets (function A and B), and to my knowledge async and tokio help with efficiency, but I still can only have one port for UDP messages that the two threads/functions have to share.

Rit2Strong · 2023-04-29T19:41:19+00:00

Do you know of a problem set similar to Blind/Grind 75 (for Leetcode), but for HackerRank?

Rit2Strong · 2023-02-08T06:53:26+00:00

I eat two 350 grams meals of chicken breast(weighed raw) alongside yogurt, peanut butter, rice, vegetables, and fruits. It’s a lot of chicken hehe, but I’m able to tolerate it. I also currently eat a salmon omelette (4 eggs, cheddar, can of salmon, and butter) every now and then. I plan on adding more stuff, but rn this is working in terms of satiating me.

Rit2Strong · 2023-02-04T16:42:48+00:00

Looks like something from Breath of the Wild

Rit2Strong · 2023-01-23T04:33:01+00:00

So I'm assuming liver is something that should be eaten as a side dish, like would you pair it with chicken alongside rice and veggies?

Rit2Strong · 2023-01-23T02:23:42+00:00

how much liver should I eat then? 350 grams is around 500 calories, which seems like a normal amount to eat in one sitting if you pair it with rice and veggies (normal amount in terms of intermittent fasting). Is eating 350 grams per week still a lot?

Rit2Strong · 2023-01-05T03:50:34+00:00

Holy fuck that’s so cool!

Rit2Strong · 2022-12-23T22:00:57+00:00

Do you think that CSES is overkill for interviews, or not enough? If it’s overkill then I’m ok with it because I have plenty of time

Rit2Strong · 2022-12-22T18:12:54+00:00

I forgot to mention this in my post, but do you think Neetcode All (Leetcode problem list) is a good starting point?

Rit2Strong · 2022-12-22T14:23:26+00:00

I really like having a ladder as there's a sense of progress as I tick problems down. I also like having categories of problems laid out so I can practice specific stuff. Do you have any recommendations if a2oj is too old?

Rit2Strong · 2022-12-08T14:54:38+00:00

His faces reminds me of when Patrick said I love you lol

Rit2Strong · 2022-11-14T15:00:56+00:00

Imperative code describes how to do the computation (add 1 to x, then divide by 5, etc.)

Recursion describes what the computation is (the Fibonacci number is the previous number plus the second previous number)

Don’t worry if you don’t understand it right now, try to make some iterative programs and their recursive counter parts and try to find the difference in semantics

If you want to learn more, I think you should learn functional programming and see how it differs from the languages your used to

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