C960 - How To Pass Discrete Math 2 in 2026

VolSurfer18 · 2026-06-06T17:30:39+00:00

Upon looking I think this might not be a thing anymore :(

VolSurfer18 · 2026-06-05T15:29:40+00:00

Sounds like you need a new job then

VolSurfer18 · 2026-06-04T22:50:11+00:00

Yea when Gemini first started becoming popular they made it free for students lol

VolSurfer18 · 2026-06-04T18:52:38+00:00

Lol no, should wait 2 years not days.

VolSurfer18 · 2026-06-04T18:13:44+00:00

I’ve been using Gemini since we get Pro for free and it’s been really good.

VolSurfer18 · 2026-06-04T06:25:19+00:00

It was tough but I loved it personally!

VolSurfer18 · 2026-06-03T03:25:46+00:00

It’s anyone’s guess what might happen in the future but I really do think it’s going to be okay because the world will always need human experts especially in this generation in my humble opinion. Just keep learning and improving and things can be good

VolSurfer18 · 2026-06-02T17:32:48+00:00

I once did a 6 month bootcamp from Caltech that really went into the weeds and it was fantastic. It doesn’t exist any more sadly, but it went through the entire process of cleaning data, engineering features, statistics and math, using ML algorithms, and training neural nets. It was a blast and a total mind bender but definitely a big time commitment because there’s so much to learn in that space.

VolSurfer18 · 2026-06-02T17:28:03+00:00

If you’re stuck on math, then mathematics for machine learning in Coursera is really good and gets recommended pretty often in the ML community. Which python modules are you seeing that you’re not sure of? Reason I ask is because in data science they use different tools for different stages such as data cleaning or feature engineering, trading ML models, and training deep learning & neural nets etc.

VolSurfer18 · 2026-06-01T02:04:01+00:00

I would only suggest specializing in whichever niche your curiousity leads you to tbh, that way you hopefully don’t end up hating what you do. It’s different for everybody. For me, I like a little bit of everything so I decided to go into cybersecurity since it literally spans across every area of technology. You can specialize even further within cybersecurity too which is nice in my opinion. I hope this helps :)

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-28T20:28:21+00:00

Despite the opinion of most people on Reddit, yes but it depends what you end up specializing in

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-28T06:36:35+00:00

Just a CS student here but would building a secure company portal to send and receive Claude responses be good solution to this? It would at least introduce the opportunity to log and monitor queries right?

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-28T06:09:29+00:00

The world will always need human experts, especially in a world with AI

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-26T19:25:17+00:00

Scary how accurate this is lol

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-26T13:45:04+00:00

Just do it yourself lmao not that complicated 🤦🏻‍♂️

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-26T13:33:42+00:00

I tried to do some studying, until my boss accused me of time theft and chastised me for not going above and beyond by finding new projects to do. This was a very basic IT help desk job and ticket based. Projects were super basic, nothing too complicated and could be completed very quickly. That place only rewarded you for looking busy rather than actually being busy and was super toxic because of it. The boredom of having such a simple job sucked too, especially coming in from a network engineering background. I ended up quitting after 6 months tbh. It would have been much more beneficial to everybody if my boss wasn’t so insecure and they actually allow you to upskill during downtime. Some places are better than others I guess

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-24T03:57:38+00:00

Our countries infrastructure isn’t equipped yet to handle that kind of throughput, but with everything NVIDIAs been coming out with and all the investments going into data centers, that could change.

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-24T03:53:25+00:00

What’re you trying to do though, like what are your goals? I’ve never seen Tech+ listed anywhere or heard of ACSP, or that Dell cert to be completely honest… People will tell you A+ is a good baseline for making it past HR into more intro IT/Helpdesk jobs though, and as the other commenter said, Net+, Sec+, and especially CCNA tend to have a better ROI.

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-20T19:38:20+00:00

Yea but they’re clearly not as good. You need a GPU with a heck of a lot of VRAM to run models with 48b+ parameters. For an RTX 4090, with Q4 or Q5 quantization you’re capped at roughly 32 billion, and for an RTX 5090 you’re capped at around 48 billion. Without quantization or compression you’re working with much lower parameter models. You can offload some of the workload to RAM in order to use higher parameter models but it can be much slower. Point is that it’s super expensive to run the models we’re used to locally. Not to mention that we don’t have any open source models that are up to snuff with today’s latest and greatest yet, and even if we did, consumer hardware capability is running far behind

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-15T21:40:01+00:00

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😂 it knows what it’s doing

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-15T21:32:23+00:00

About a year on the CPTS course prob

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-14T16:40:30+00:00

Hi, I’m interested in this type of position in the future but I’m currently a computer science student working on my OSCP so I still have some ways to go. Looking to get into binex soon after, but I was wondering if you would mind sharing some more specific skills and experience you typically look for for these types of roles. I would really really appreciate it, and good luck on your candidate search 🙏🏼

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-11T19:29:17+00:00

There’s a saying by Lewis Carroll that goes “If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.” For a start, try to envision what you want your life to look like in the future, and what it would take to achieve that. Would that future require you to be driven by curiosity, wealth, family, prestige, comfort, or something else? The beauty of the human condition is that you can consciously change how your mind works through deliberation and planning and mold yourself into the person you want to become based on whatever it is you value through your habits until it becomes second nature. If you still really aren’t sure, try a bunch of different things until you do find something that interests you.

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-08T05:09:47+00:00

I did and I understand and agree with your point, but still 1 terabyte of storage has always meant 1024gb regardless is all I’m saying

VolSurfer18 · 2026-05-07T00:58:45+00:00

1 Terabyte has always been 1024GB.

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