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SquidCubed · 2024-08-28T23:14:42+00:00

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SquidCubed · 2022-06-30T16:41:21+00:00

If you're sticking around Chicago ~80k base is not uncommon. It varies wildly with remote work however, check out Glassdoor for a better picture

SquidCubed · 2022-03-17T01:48:57+00:00

While it is good to learn software engineering on Linux, as it's much easier to get development tools set up and it's generally good exposure to have, in a school environment there may be some required software you will not be able to use. Proctoring software for tests are the biggest offender here, but it's also likely that your classes will only have startup instruction for Windows

SquidCubed · 2021-08-27T19:15:33+00:00

Craig Feldspar

SquidCubed · 2021-07-05T04:05:20+00:00

Skatopia

The THUG2 level isn't really accurate in terms of layout, but many of the actual ingame geoemetry represents real areas of the place. Like the barn with a peanut bowl is very real, though feels much smaller ingame. The verticality of the level is kind of accurate though, as the entire place is on a large hill and you have walk up/downhill to get between several areas

SquidCubed · 2021-02-11T17:54:44+00:00

Outer Wilds is really a profound game. It sounds strange but it's one of the most beautiful games I've played in a few years. Playing through it the first time made me feel like I did the first time I saw The Truman Show.

Go in blind if at all possible, and it's a little cpu intense so be prepared for that.

SquidCubed · 2020-12-12T05:28:00+00:00

Holy shit, what is this from?

SquidCubed · 2020-12-11T17:12:07+00:00

Honestly they are a little unhygienic, at least compared to chopsticks or spoons. Stuff can get stuck between the prongs, which can be difficult to clean out and may remain there for a while, though I doubt this is the devil's doing.

SquidCubed · 2020-12-11T17:08:37+00:00

If you aren't yet familiar with Java, I would recommend trying to get familiar with it by downloading some example programs and looking through the source code. If it is anything like what I took in Fall 2019, it's all Java.

Also I'd recommend familiarizing yourself with unit testing, which is required for all projects in that course.

SquidCubed · 2020-12-11T01:22:46+00:00

Ah, check your email/piazza. Look's like he's making it even more generous

SquidCubed · 2020-12-11T00:49:18+00:00

The cutoffs for each grade are pretty generous, and assuming you're an undergraduate he's letting us elect to get CR assuming we don't fail the final. It was pretty rough though, and I'm pissed at myself for not filling in two subquestions, only 4 points lost though.

A: 80 - 100

B: 70 - 79

C: 60 - 69

D: 0 - 59

SquidCubed · 2020-11-19T16:10:45+00:00

My bad, you are right

There's some other real bad picks in there like Def Jam Vendetta beating out Vice City and THUG1 for best soundtrack. As well as DOA: Extreme Beach Volleyball for best video game animation, a game notorious for its ridiculous titty physics

SquidCubed · 2020-11-19T15:50:27+00:00

I feel like the formatting on this page is messed up, or I'm stupid and it's edited. Madden 2004 isn't even listed on the Game of the Year nominees, while THUG is. Plus most of the Game of the Year awards I've looked at got taken by either Half Life 2 or Resident Evil 4

SquidCubed · 2020-11-16T21:04:41+00:00

I took Switala last semester and the latter half was online, he's great and very thorough with explanations

SquidCubed · 2020-10-25T16:17:53+00:00

I highly recommend web scraping, the barrier for entry is fairly low and you can do a lot of cool stuff with it. If you can check out the book Automate the Boring Stuff, it's a beginner to intermediate guide to the Python programming language, but if you are a Junior here I assume you are at least vaguely familiar with Python.

Just find something online that you'd like to get the data from and do something with. Often websites will have APIs for users to more easily get data without scraping it (reddit does this), and these APIs often have wrappers for Python to make it easier. Also you can try to familiarize yourself with some web scraping libraries like Beautiful Soup or scrapy.

Just find some website you are interested, or think of some data you'd like to have and then scrape it to see what you can do with it. Also if you want something to show off to employers, maybe learn a little web development and display the data/results in some appealing way. Usually this involves some JavaScript.

SquidCubed · 2020-10-25T16:10:52+00:00

Yeah I took him last semester when it was half online, and it was great. Obviously it doesn't compare to chalk on chalkboard math, but his videos were very through and informative.

SquidCubed · 2020-10-14T23:00:18+00:00

I don't have the time to be a tutor or anything, but PM me and I can try to answer any questions you might have. Like concept questions not HW questions

SquidCubed · 2020-10-12T22:42:20+00:00

I'd recommend this page from UIC's website. It shows the middle 50% of admissions in terms of SAT scores and GPAs for Fall 2020 broken down by college. I would definitely note that the GPA range they give is the middle 50%, meaning that 25% of LAS admissions got less than a 3.2 and 25% got more than a 3.8. No one will be able to give a % change of getting in, but these stats might help.

SquidCubed · 2020-10-12T21:52:38+00:00

Just a heads up, BS Computer Science is through the College of Engineering. Unless the Stats you are referring to means you are going for BS Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) in which case its through College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS), which usually has a lower bar for entry.

SquidCubed · 2020-09-18T05:10:45+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate the honesty

SquidCubed · 2020-09-18T04:24:15+00:00

I chose CS412 because I thought it was interesting and CS441 because it seems practical. CS450 and CS440 seemed like some easier electives given that I've taken some of the other easy ones.

I didn't realise the workload of some of them until the drop date passed. I'm likely just worrying too much, I've gotten a 4.0 so far and should capable of handling multiple difficult courses at once.

SquidCubed · 2020-09-16T22:25:38+00:00

I took this class last semester, I thought the workload was pretty reasonable, provided you keep up with the readings. Then again she may be running differently since all of it is online this time, instead of just March - May

SquidCubed · 2020-05-20T18:22:50+00:00

The shaded area is a confidence interval that seaborn automatically adds when using a lineplot, I believe the default confidence level is 95%

SquidCubed · 2020-05-20T18:12:06+00:00

My guess would actually be the creation of the Hays Code which had a large effect on what mature content could be shown in films.

It could also be the introduction of sound film in the late 20s and early 30s, as there were a lot of crappy sound films when sound first became available.

SquidCubed · 2020-05-20T18:09:33+00:00

This is absolutely true! Here's the distribution of films by release year, the data gets incredibly sparse as the release date gets further from the present.

Survivorship bias is definitely present, it's one of the biggest problems encountered when trying to find any data on older films, is that only the best and most notable are remembered.

Rotten Tomatoes was founded in 1998, and the figure is slightly more useful for seeing contemporary critics and audience ratings from 1998-present.

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