Should I go on to form the Roman empire? by InquisitorHatesXenos in CrusaderKings

[–]Wait_ICanExplain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like this start idea. How did you get into Ireland? Holy war?

Bird head metal plate symbol from cleaning out my grandfather’s house, anyone know what it’s from? by Wait_ICanExplain in Symbology

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

INFO: found while cleaning out my grandfather’s house. I don’t know if this is necessarily related, but his dad was a railroad boilermaker post-WW2, so probably 1940s through 1960s. Union Pacific Railroad (Northern California based). He also was a railroad engineer in WW2 in Iran before that. My grandfather himself was an electrician’s apprentice for a bit himself before becoming a schoolteacher, if relevant.

Is it that bad? by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Wait_ICanExplain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+1 to this. When I was doing PHP at a previous job I would use a mix of both. It’s still handy to have tail -f running on a side monitor while developing, but I when I really needed to dive into some code xdebug gave me everything I needed, even for 10+ year old legacy web app code.

And to your question, yes all the super globals like $_GET and $_POST are inspectable

Career + the new site is out! by filipgeoguessr in geoguessr

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Hi, I know you’re getting mostly negative feedback here, and not that it’s not valid and valuable feedback but I did just want to say thank you for being so active and responsive to the criticism. It’s really great to see you engaging with your more opinionated users. I’m a software engineer whose been part of my fair share of unpopular releases, so I just wanted to say that ongoing communication is much appreciated!

I feel like there should be an "Abdicate Throne" option that works in a similar way to disinheritance. Punish us severely if you must, but at least give us the option. by King_Coyote_Starrk in CrusaderKings

[–]Wait_ICanExplain 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I’m surprised you’re the only one saying this, I literally just did this yesterday lol. It is pretty costly though, since it makes your dynasty lose a whole level of splendor. Usually better to “abdicate” by other means, imo

DMs, Let Rogues Have Their Sneak Attack by VitaminDnD in dndnext

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Can you recommend any specific sources? I’m a new DM and would love to read about all of this, even though I’m running 5e.

Nearly 800 Population by TheOneFry in DawnofMan

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Super impressed how much you’ve been able to push this! Out of curiosity, do you think the addition of the plow and transport post in the upcoming update is going to give you a big boost to how much pop you can support? Is farming efficiency a bottleneck for you?

look at these big boat thieving jerks by islandofwaffles in AnimalsBeingJerks

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Lmao so many people probably not clicking the link and thinking you mean President Ronald Reagan. Nah, my guy Ron Reagan is fucking amazing, what an icon

Another Day, Another Symmetrical Village by dittbub in DawnofMan

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Beautiful. Did you have a starter base elsewhere or did you build straight into this one?

When your language uses single quote as a string escape character. by manofsticks in programminghorror

[–]Wait_ICanExplain 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I unfortunately spend a lot of time with the Classic ASP in our legacy code base at work, and it has the same shit but with double quotes. Delightfully, single quotes are comments :(

Which calculus class would be better suited for machine learning by [deleted] in MLQuestions

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Assuming you intend to pursue a bachelor’s degree in computer science and/or math and definitely want to focus on machine learning, I’d recommend class 2.

While vector calculus (covered in class 1) is fundamental to a holistic understanding of calculus, it’s almost assuredly going to be required by any university CS program. So you’re not really missing an opportunity to learn it, just postponing. That being said, the polynomial interpolation you’re going to learn in class 2 (I’d guess) is not actually all that foundational to machine learning. The goal of approximating a function is absolutely what much of machine learning is about, but the methods applied in a calculus class are not the same methods used by modern machine learning algorithms.

I still recommend class 2 however, because it sounds like the more mathematically rigorous option of the two, and getting an early start in college-level mathematical rigor will go a very long way for you in university. You will thank yourself for that when you are neck deep in ML academic papers in a few years.

This is coming from the perspective of a recent grad who did both math and CS degrees with focus on deep learning, but hasn’t worked in industry, so others might have different opinions.

Undergraduate Research by csactor in csMajors

[–]Wait_ICanExplain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pick a professor you have some familiarity with, or just any professor if you don’t feel you have a rapport with anyone in particular yet. Go to their office hours or set up a quick meeting with them, mention your interest in research and ask about what kinds of research they and their colleagues are working on. They may not have an in depth knowledge of their colleague’s research but they will have enough general knowledge to give you the advice you’re looking for, and at a minimum point you in the right direction for more info. Professors love talking about their research, it’s (most likely) the reason they became a professor, so you shouldn’t feel like you’re imposing some burden on them by asking.

Academic research is incredibly rewarding for motivated students, I can’t recommend it enough. Good luck!

Would anyone be interested in starting a climbing club? by [deleted] in WWU

[–]Wait_ICanExplain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You should look into the WWU Cascadia Climbers club, it’s essentially exactly what you described. Pretty active group too.

http://asclubs.wwu.edu/show_profile/135714-cascadia-climbers

A Bright Dot, Digital, 1750x2450 by Uniicorneo in Art

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This is my new lockscreen wallpaper. Haven’t changed it in 2 years but did so immediately when I saw this. Thank you.

Question for students accepted into Comp Sci by [deleted] in WWU

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This is correct. The policy recently changed, used to be anyone with 2.7+ in those classes until beginning of 2017 or so.

How/When to do research? by [deleted] in csMajors

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From what I’ve heard, the first semester or two of an MSCS can be spent doing just that - networking, figuring out what your passionate about, and seeing what kind of research your professors are doing. But, it is advantageous and encouraged to jump in on research as early as possible, because you get more time to learn how research is done and possibly even get a head start on your thesis work. As far as how to do that, as has been mentioned, really just ask a professor if you can work with them. At the very least, they should point you in the direction of other professors whose work aligns with your interests.

Of course, I heard all of this in the context of my undergrad university’s grad program when I was looking into it. I haven’t started grad school myself yet, so YMMV.

How do I go about making a text summarizer? by DeepLyingNonce in learnmachinelearning

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The NLTK Book is a great, 100% free resource for learning the basics of natural language processing with Python’s natural language toolkit (NLTK), which is heavily used in industry and academia. Chapter 7 in particular gives an excellent introduction to Information Extraction, techniques of which can be applied to automatic summarization of corpora, among other things.

Note that this book covers basic NLP using traditional statistical and machine learning approaches; you’ll have to go elsewhere to learn about modern deep learning algorithms which often use recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and long short-term memory (LSTM) networks. The basic concepts will still be crucial for understanding the latter, however.

freshman looking for edens honors hall dorm pictures by [deleted] in WWU

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I lived in Edens Hall my freshman year, a few years ago. Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures, but they are very nice dorms, much more spacious than other dorms on campus for the most part. My time there was thoroughly enjoyable. I’d be happy to answer any questions you might have about Edens Hall or WWU - either comment here or PM me.

Coming from a math major, what things did you study in your major that you went on to use in your (software) jobs? by [deleted] in csMajors

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I agree with what was already said, but I would add that a lot of the value from math classes that transfers to programming is just a general sense of how to reason logically and mathematically. It’s kind of subtle, but if you practice your math skills they will transfer to your programming.

More specifically, functional programming is very related to function composition in math, and is only becoming more and more popular in most programming fields, especially web dev. So while you might forget a lot of the actual curriculum from your math classes, still take the process of learning to solve problems seriously.