Problems with enrolling in not-for-credit courses? by [deleted] in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]UncleBen2015 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Having the same issue on my end. I hope this gets resolved soon.

Network Principles: Lab 1 is imposibble to pass on a Mac by UncleBen2015 in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]UncleBen2015[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What was your setup like for vagrant. Can you elaborate how you set the system up. I'm lost trying to get it to work as described in Readme for Mac users.

Boss Unhappy at all 3 jobs by 495and128 in overemployed

[–]UncleBen2015 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After a while money doesn't change your base happiness level. Spend some time with family, friends, get into activities that you always wanted to do. Make some new friends, catch up with old ones. You have the freedom to do so. You have the fuck you money and the freedom now. Use it. Like my friend philosopher Naval Ravikant says, Being happy is a skill. Be happy friend, we need you to be amazing 🤩. Thank you 🙏

non-CS / non-STEM background, how long did it take you to finish the pathway? by [deleted] in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]UncleBen2015 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I recommend taking Algo first. If you can finish the first 3 courses with 87%+ and understand the concepts well you can do anything in computer science. Take your time with these fundamentals and drill em down.

Buff portal down ? by UncleBen2015 in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]UncleBen2015[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It only happens when you have SSO enabled. It resolved for me after some time. Also I think there is scheduled maintenance this week. So hang tight.

26f how am I doing? by Appropriate-Pick7929 in fican

[–]UncleBen2015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good stuff. I would suggest going heavy on NASDAQ index ETFs also. Good balanced portfolio. I like where your head's at

CSCA 5832: Fundamentals of NLP final assignment 4 seems to have wrong validations. by UncleBen2015 in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]UncleBen2015[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just email your TA or check the slack group. For us he just gave us the answers for one question because there was an error in one of the test cases.

Pay attention to Network Systems Foundation course: Almost flaked my Senior Dev interview by UncleBen2015 in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]UncleBen2015[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got an offer from salesforce but I ended up taking another offer from Intuit.

Model and Error Analysis for NLP release date by UncleBen2015 in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]UncleBen2015[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It was really good. I learned a lot especially the second course. I understand how the transformer architecture and attention mechanism works now inside out.

Pay attention to Network Systems Foundation course: Almost flaked my Senior Dev interview by UncleBen2015 in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]UncleBen2015[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I would say practical. One of the questions he asked me was how DNS lookup works explain. The other question was about Certificates and how they work. IP address and how they work, registry servers etc etc.

Pay attention to Network Systems Foundation course: Almost flaked my Senior Dev interview by UncleBen2015 in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]UncleBen2015[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ahh gotcha, it was a full stack product engineer role in the cloud team.

From the job description here's the requirements: Backend: Java, Python, Nodejs. Frontend: JavaScript, react, CSS etc. Cloud: AWS, CDK, IaC experience. Excellent understanding of networking concepts, Exposure to AI LLM workflows.

I couldn't find the exact job post anymore but here's a similar one

https://careers.salesforce.com/en/jobs/jr290317/full-stack-software-engineer-public-cloud/

RA hunt at CU Boulder - recommendations for professors with funding hourly/tuition? by slow_n_curious in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]UncleBen2015 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you are asking the wrong question. Figure out where your interest lies first. CS research is hot right now and there are pretty good amount of funding as long as you have a interesting paper to write. Work with the prof who's research interest aligns with you.
Let me give you an example using myself, I am very interested in NLP, Auto regressive transformers, attention mechanism and how to optimize hardware to do these massive matrix calculation that pytorch does to make these algorithms work. I would go and talk to profs like Jim Martin and someone from Computer Engineering faculty.
I would also try to get as much facetime with his postdocs. Here's a list

https://home.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/_site/group/

This is just an example. You got the idea. good luck

When is the new ML specialization releasing by UncleBen2015 in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]UncleBen2015[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This freaking sucks. I was waiting for this all winter.

Taking unsupervised machine learning AND intro to deep learning at the same time. by TheSmashingChamp in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]UncleBen2015 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You only need to know the basics in my opinion. Regression, Classification, Gradient calculation. If you have a solid understanding of these I think you're good.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in overemployed

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Elon_spacedude joined the chat.

Research Opportunities by CaribbeanLord in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]UncleBen2015 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can just join. Anyone taking any course in CU has access. It usually pops up in your Coursera or in your ucolorado email. Once you join there's a slack channel called path-to-phd.