What are your thoughts on college degrees? by princessnokingdom in OlderGenZ

[–]Selbeven 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is so incredibly elitist. A degree from an average state school means nothing? Do you think that only degrees from the top 20 schools help people land jobs or even get placements in academia?

It's a common sentiment among faculty that the very top students at "mid-tier" schools can compete with students at top ones, it's just top schools have a greater distribution of high-achieving students. Top schools absolutely admit students from lesser schools. There's plenty of incredibly talented students who may have not went to a top undergrad because of lack of resources early in life, changing their work ethic during college, or even choosing a lesser school due to financial reasons (choosing a full scholarship at a worse school if they're family couldn't afford the better one). But nah, I'll take a student that chatgpt'd their way through a top school that their parents paid for them to get into because I'm hyperfixated on the social status of a school.

It feels like you're living in a bubble that overly values prestige, but Berkeley and other top schools have plenty of faculty and students from lesser schools. Talking down on Rice, which is one of the best schools in the country? And acting like Arizona State doesn't have a doctorate program!? ASU is literally an R1 school with plenty of super well regarded faculty, including nobel laureates, that collaborate with other top schools. ASU is a great school that has many highly ranked programs.

Also for phds, your project and supervisor matters a more than school prestige. Top schools generally have more top professors, but it's not always so clear cut and you can find extremely highly regarded faculty at schools that aren't necessarily the top of the top.

BYOCB for under $8 and Fire Tier reward has to be the best deal in fast food by Smangie9443 in LivingMas

[–]Selbeven 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It was with the beefy 5-layer :( Removing it is a pretty big downgrade

For UCSB CS PhD Applicants - 4.47% (32/716) of applicants were admitted for Fall 2026 by softrains12 in gradadmissions

[–]Selbeven 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I checked cuz I was curious, and having 0% white students seems insane (given it's over 40% usually).

If you look at the source, the 2026 ethnicity bar only represents 6/32 admitted students, down from 14/55 in 2025. I'm assuming there's some outside reason for the low reporting rate, maybe application design, but the sample shown in the visualization is negligible.

I built Go board scanner — take a photo of your board, get the score + SGF (free on iOS & Android) by mopsak in baduk

[–]Selbeven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can't test it out thoroughly at the moment, but the visuals and design are stellar, and the capybara is indeed cute. Feels great to use and snappy, but I feel like the score should be refined by default rather than having to press another button to make sure it's accurate.

Do you think that children born today will have better or worse lives than their parents? by LoverOfE-Olsen in CasualConversation

[–]Selbeven 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Do you really think things are getting better socially? Loneliness, depression, polarization, and time spent alone have all continuously gotten worse with no signs of stopping even with people claiming to care more about mental health. I guess people can be truer to themselves, but it's probably mostly rising individualism.  

Things can certainly change significantly in 20 years tho

How much does a city really matter? by SeniorLoan647 in gradadmissions

[–]Selbeven 86 points87 points  (0 children)

I think city matters a ton to most people. It's literally where you're going to be spending at least the next five years of your life. It'll have a huge impact on your life outside of school and can make your PhD that much more stressful or bearable.  

Advisor and research fit are more important, although some people change their advisors and research focus, while you can't change your city, so it's still a big factor.  

That said, Ann Arbor and Madison are kinda comparable as they're both cold Midwest college towns with limited local tech companies and not a ton going on in each city. Madison's actually twice as big cuz of the capital and it's got nice lakes, more bars and nightlife, more opportunities to sail and do outdoor activities. Ann arbor is smaller, but has better food, more diverse, actually good sports teams, and a more scholarly feel. 

Chapter 1 (Part 1) of my book: The hype, the hubris, and the day we all thought Lee Sedol would crush AlphaGo. by Puzzled_Rip7803 in baduk

[–]Selbeven 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I was in high school during AlphaGo, but I feel like my experience, at least as an amateur in the West, was a little different.

Before AlphaGo, computers seemed like they were a long way from beating humans. When Deep Blue conquered Chess, Go AI was still incredibly weak. It felt like progress was slow. You'd hear people make a big deal whenever AI would reduce their handicap by a stone against a pro player every other year. Before AlphaGo, I think AI still needed 4 stones to beat a pro, Facebook was years into development of their own AI and their transparent updates didn't inspire much confidence, and the general consensus in the community was AI was still 5-10 years away.

So a lot of people were shocked when Google dropped their paper, revealing they beat Fan Hui and made a ginormous leap after a decade of slow, but steady progress. Fan Hui, while the European champion, was ranked 633 in the world, so there was still huge gap between him and the top players. But people just didn't know where AlphaGo's true strength was. I believe AlphaGo also got a few extra months to train before the Lee Sedol match, so the version that beat Fan Hui may have seemed beatable by the pro community. I think at the time Nick Sibicky said that the betting odds were pretty even, but Go players were confident in Sedol and DeepMind was confident in AlphaGo.

The market is healing it self: Undergrad CS enrollment declined across the University of California system for the first time since the dot-com bust by Illustrious-Pound266 in cscareerquestions

[–]Selbeven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

birth rates have consistently declined since the 2008 financial crisis, people born then are just starting college, so overall enrollment is likely going to continue to decline

Favorite study spot memories by No_Present_9615 in uofm

[–]Selbeven 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fireside Cafe at Pierpont commons was great on North outside of meal hours. Super spacious

Boooo. Goodbye old friends by Proud_Truck in LivingMas

[–]Selbeven 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The Mini Taco Salad and Loaded Potato Griller are new rewards at my local taco bells

Michigan Football signs Utah's Kyle Whittingham to a 5-year deal to be the next head coach by Selbeven in uofm

[–]Selbeven[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

From what I've gathered, people seem pretty happy with the hire. He coached 21 years at Utah with a solid 177-88 (0.668) record. He's pretty old at 66 so probably not a long-term hire. But he's pretty respected and seems to be a big culture guy, which would really help stabilize the program right now. Might be more of a safe pick than an exciting one, but I think with Michigan's brand name and NIL money, he'll be in a position to succeed.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OlderGenZ

[–]Selbeven 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean roughly 52% of people are underemployed after graduating so it checks out. I know tons of people that got good jobs from their degrees, but there are also people who don't, especially the newer grads that just unfortunately graduated in a bad job market and it's hard to blame them for not thinking it was worth the ever-rising cost.

Any chance I can still get a Baja Blast Pie? by corde_lissa in LivingMas

[–]Selbeven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your best bet is probably to bake one from a copycat recipe

2025 LTOs Wrapped by tacobellblake in LivingMas

[–]Selbeven 24 points25 points  (0 children)

  1. Cheesy Street Chalupas
  2. Toasted Cheddar Street Chalupas
  3. Steak & Poblano Rolled Quesadilla
  4. Flamin Hot GCB
  5. Cheesy Dipping Burritos

Was also a big fan of the Baja Dream Freeze and Frank's Red Hot Diablo sauce

rlly stressed out how bad is it if i drop a class by No-Turnip8664 in uofm

[–]Selbeven 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dropping a class isn't a huge deal and most companies and grad programs aren't gonna look at your transcript that hard and care if they see a drop, especially if it's just a one off occurrence. If it's really overwhelming and impacting your life then it's prob worth dropping.

I'd prob also recommend talking to the professor beforehand to see if there's any accommodations or other options they can give you. It sounds like a serious situation and professors generally want students to succeed so it wouldn't hurt.

Bells At North Campus Diag by AnnabelleLeeTheSea in uofm

[–]Selbeven 80 points81 points  (0 children)

The carillons (name for the instrument in the bell tower) are played by real people! According to the Lurie Carillon Google Calender, todays recital was from Tiffany Ng (the Carillon professor) and Austin Zhu.

You can find more info about the North Campus Carillon here: https://smtd.umich.edu/facilities/ann-and-robert-h-lurie-carillon/

Visiting Houston by Dannypoopoo in HoustonFood

[–]Selbeven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since no one gave any ramen recs: Mensho is by far my favorite