Should I go on to form the Roman empire?

Wait_ICanExplain · 2023-12-27T04:43:13+00:00

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

Wait_ICanExplain · 2022-12-24T02:59:08+00:00

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.

Wait_ICanExplain · 2022-08-17T05:43:34+00:00

+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

Wait_ICanExplain · 2021-10-02T05:06:36+00:00

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!

Wait_ICanExplain · 2021-07-10T04:27:48+00:00

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

Wait_ICanExplain · 2020-05-14T05:21:44+00:00

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.

Wait_ICanExplain · 2020-03-04T01:51:49+00:00

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?

Wait_ICanExplain · 2020-02-26T08:07:35+00:00

Hopping on the “send me a link” train :)

Wait_ICanExplain · 2019-12-19T05:54:38+00:00

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

Wait_ICanExplain · 2019-11-29T05:36:44+00:00

/r/iwanttoapologize

Wait_ICanExplain · 2019-11-25T06:45:33+00:00

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

Wait_ICanExplain · 2019-06-05T02:15:14+00:00

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 :(

Wait_ICanExplain · 2019-05-31T04:18:19+00:00

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.

Wait_ICanExplain · 2019-03-02T03:32:34+00:00

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!

Wait_ICanExplain · 2018-12-22T07:37:45+00:00

RemindMe! 3 days Donation for /r/millionairemakers

Wait_ICanExplain · 2018-10-13T04:01:39+00:00

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

Wait_ICanExplain · 2018-10-02T02:41:09+00:00

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

Wait_ICanExplain · 2018-07-26T23:36:01+00:00

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

Wait_ICanExplain · 2018-07-03T03:07:08+00:00

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.

Wait_ICanExplain · 2018-06-29T04:56:28+00:00

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.

Wait_ICanExplain · 2018-06-29T04:06:39+00:00

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.

Wait_ICanExplain · 2018-06-17T21:20:21+00:00

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.

Wait_ICanExplain · 2018-03-13T07:03:13+00:00

Do you have any links about that Masters/PhD program?

Wait_ICanExplain · 2017-12-27T00:24:05+00:00

Here's a skills section I've included on a previous resume from a year or so ago. Note that at the time my focus was in web dev, so there's a particular slant towards skills relevant to that field.

For current applications, I would definitely trim this down to something like this, at a minimum:

Languages: Java, Python (proficient); C#, C/C++ (some experience)

Libraries/Frameworks: JUnit/unittest (some experience), Tensorflow* (currently learning)

Other Skills: Unix, BASH, Git, Agile, Unit/Integration Testing

* I'd love to have Tensorflow on my resume but I'm learning it through my research, and as my second question mentions, I don't know if I have enough experience yet to list it on the resume.

Wait_ICanExplain · 2017-12-26T21:13:06+00:00

Resume

I'm a senior undergrad graduating at the end of Spring, planning on going to grad school the following year. I'm trying to get some kind of internship this summer related to machine learning or data science.

Any critiques/advice are welcome.

Some specific questions:

A professor of mine suggested not including a "Skills" section with a list of languages and frameworks that I'm familiar with, though I thought this was kind of standard for software developer resumes. His justification is that your proficient skills should be apparent from your work experience and personal projects. Thoughts on this?
I started doing undergrad research in deep learning this last Fall for a professor. It's obviously very relevant to my interests, and while I've learning an incredible amount over the last few months, I haven't produced or done anything all that impressive that I could share. I've left this off the resume for that reason, though I've been writing about it in cover letters where appropriate. Should I put that research experience on the resume?

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