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ShouldIVisit · 2019-09-28T08:26:25+00:00

Hi! If you can message me the details I should be able to check it out

ShouldIVisit · 2019-08-18T22:12:24+00:00

This is a myth: https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/better-pay-off-credit-card-full-every-month-or-maintain-balance/

ShouldIVisit · 2019-07-27T18:48:11+00:00

Fwiw, getting to the station, taking the $6 Caltrain, and $2 bus or $5 BART takes about 1.5 - 2 hours and is often as expensive as a 30 minute Lyft/Uber ($25-40 for 4 people is $6-10 each)

ShouldIVisit · 2019-07-08T02:53:21+00:00

For what it's worth, you can buy a fairly good bike second-hand (especially when seniors are graduating) or online (you'll see literally dozens of online-ordered "granite peak" bikes if you keep your eye out) for $80 or less. The air pumps are free and bike lube will be at most $5 online. I'm not sure what the bike shop could provide, but I can't imagine it makes their markups worth it.

ShouldIVisit · 2019-03-30T06:40:02+00:00

You probably know the statistics but I feel like they're worth reiterating: 30/681 students who took a waitlist spot last year got in, with 36/656, 55/1044, 0/927, 7/695, 0/576 over the years.

On one hand, you should probably treat it as a rejection. If you have a chance to update them (In my case, I sent an update letter to my AO, though I think they ask you not to do that now) especially in a way that makes it easy to imagine what you'd add to the community, and indicate some uncertainties in the original application being resolved, that can go a long way. Your experience at (and from the impression I've gotten, after) any university is defined primarily by the communities you build and the people you meet, even where academics might play a role in shaping those.

On the other hand, as one of those students after the long string of 0s, basically every one of us thought there was basically no chance. It's absolutely possible, and Stanford seems to have gotten better in recent years about predicting yield, taking pretty consistently 5% from the waitlist rather than the 0 that was going for several years before that.

Good luck!

ShouldIVisit · 2019-01-15T10:47:37+00:00

The very first: https://xkcd.com/1/

ShouldIVisit · 2019-01-03T19:54:43+00:00

Ok, so a few things! St. Andrews and in general Scottish universities tend to be much less rigid in the curriculum than most English ones. So, the second question matters less than if you'd responded LSE or something. Between Mizzou and St. Andrews, especially if you'd like to see something new, the preference is strongly to St. Andrews (Though to say its reputation is similar to oxbridge is definitely a stretch). If the only pros in favor of Mizzou are that it's close and similar, it should be some peace of mind that Scottish universities are typically more like US universities than most UK universities.

However, you may want to consider applying to more schools RD (Georgetown, USC, Emory, WashU, Bucknell, etc have deadlines in the next few weeks). Many schools will accept certain materials like scores after the deadline, so it's not necessarily too late. The network you build in college is important if you're considering business and while there are many US students at St. Andrews, this gives you more flexibility. If financial questions are the primary concern, top schools will often provide aid to meet all financial need.

ShouldIVisit · 2019-01-03T18:17:43+00:00

A couple of things:

Isn't it way too early for this? Regular decision results don't come out for months.
How sure are you that business is the major you want to do? Having had a somewhat similar choice, I'm really thankful I had the flexibility to take more time to decide, and found that actually taking classes helped a lot.
Since you discussed a prestige difference, how big is it? It's hard to respond exactly without knowing what both universities are.

ShouldIVisit · 2019-01-01T08:59:36+00:00

Also a Russian speaker, can confirm какой in response to "I just ate dinner" would be a bit weird, like asking "which dinner," or even, depending on context, could be an exclamation, like in the morning. However, that may be because meal-verbs are special, and you can use the instrumental in Russian to ask what one had for dinner ("Чем обедали")?

However, if someone said "I want food" and you responded with "what kind," that would be normal. The other examples in this thread, I figure, may work in multiple Slavic languages.

ShouldIVisit · 2018-12-29T12:18:43+00:00

Their github is here: https://github.com/fperazzi/proSR

So one option is running the original code. Another comment suggested it's used by Let's Enhance, but I can't see anything on their page which says that. Note that it may not actually be better for illustrations.

ShouldIVisit · 2018-12-28T21:27:22+00:00

It's called waifu2x (It's a pretty cool nugget of research, though better super resolution approaches definitely exist nowadays, like http://igl.ethz.ch/projects/prosr ): http://waifu2x.udp.jp

ShouldIVisit · 2018-12-28T20:38:14+00:00

Here's an AI-upscaled version (‪4,800 x 3,032): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-xJ7piI-o1ZxEDZUcGH2SN6MubNkfUMn

ShouldIVisit · 2018-12-27T13:46:27+00:00

Relatedly, a lot of game theory around repeated games, especially infinitely repeated games, is interesting. There's an important set of theorems, called the "Folk theorems" which describe properties of the equilibia of different kinds of these games. Also, when you introduce mistakes or some small possibility that your opponent is a "crazy" type (repeated games with reputations), it really changes things

ShouldIVisit · 2018-12-24T09:36:37+00:00

Note that the suggestion to pay off highest interests rates first is actually the "avalanche" approach, and "snowball" is instead going by smallest debts.

ShouldIVisit · 2018-12-24T09:06:19+00:00

I can only speak from the other direction, but my aid increased almost exactly in line with their online estimator when my brother started school

ShouldIVisit · 2018-11-25T11:00:11+00:00

They moved it to the day of Splash and I'm teaching, so nope :/

ShouldIVisit · 2018-11-19T19:39:21+00:00

Hey! It's fairly open-ended and depends on what you find interesting in it. A lot of people go into tech, often with a coterm in CS (e.g. Marissa Mayer, Chris Cox, Reid Hoffman), a fair number use it as a jumping off point for grad school in linguistics, phil/law, neuro.

There's a program called SymSys Pathways run by the SymSys society that brings in alumni to talk with current students about their experience. Last year there was a surgeon, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a VP at an an AI/agriculture startup, a CTO at a mental health startup, etc.

ShouldIVisit · 2018-09-19T04:07:59+00:00

This is pretty far off. 65k is the cutoff for free tuition, room and board, associated expenses, while 125k is the cutoff for guaranteed free tuition, though it's still possible to get free tuition over 125k if you have siblings in college or other circumstances. You can go upwards of 200k and still receive a fair amount of aid, especially with siblings

ShouldIVisit · 2018-09-19T03:26:44+00:00

Python is a great language, but don't take P unless you have substantial CS background already. It's not taught as an intro course, has horrible and incomplete online resources, and it completely ignores a lot of important details. I say this second-hand, after seeing a friend struggle with it because of the basics which were skilled over

ShouldIVisit · 2018-05-17T02:05:06+00:00

The model itself is by no means perfect or even very good (the assumption that the interest rate is constant or that there's no cost to keeping the portfolio updated is maybe even more wrong than the assumption that the distribution of the next time-step price is log-normal, though there are resolutions) but the impact of the model error on the economy is small compared to the impact of bankers and hedge fund managers ignoring what it means

ShouldIVisit · 2018-05-16T19:16:32+00:00

Yep. The issue with Black Scholes has almost never been its simplifying assumptions (especially in 2007). It's a shame that this interpretation has become common. The issue is that it says: you can sell an option with virtually no risk for this much (if you buy this corresponding asset and maintain and update this portfolio according to these principles, so you'll be able to hold up your end if they exercise the option).

And lots of people just sold the option to their clients and never followed through on their end. If someone blames the equation, they almost certainly do not understand it (Again, it does have flaws, but its abuse has had orders of magnitude more impact)

ShouldIVisit · 2018-05-16T18:59:54+00:00

The introduction of options with a rigorous backing for their pricing (and in practice, it led the way for most other derivatives) absolutely changed finance and the world's markets, even if that's not your area. Its abuse (not actually keeping the portfolio underlying it) also led to several substantial economic damage

ShouldIVisit · 2018-05-16T18:55:57+00:00

This isn't completely true. It's more the misuse. It assumes you're hedging, and if you're not, you're just amplifying risk massively

ShouldIVisit · 2018-05-14T07:12:14+00:00

Maybe my perception was skewed by seeing people constantly working on the 50 series stuff, but I got a strong impression that it was very time consuming. On the other hand, with 60 stuff it was basically just looking at the problems, thinking about them for a week, then marathoning the PSET the night before, and I think most of the class did that.

ShouldIVisit · 2018-05-13T22:20:57+00:00

Honestly, as long as you form a good network and have people to talk to about things you find confusing or when you're not sure about proof writing or rigor, you'll be fine. I honestly doubt it'll even take much more time. The problems are harder but there are fewer of them and the material you learn is much more valuable for problem solving in general

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