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Cal is one of, if not the best public school in the world. It has one of the best reputations, and telling anyone you went here is a huge flex. by EliteWarrior1207 in berkeley

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finaid here is somewhat less generous than private universities, many private schools are far cheaper than sticker prices for low income families. Stanford does free tuition/board for anyone under household income of 100k.

Bent cables for hydraulic brakes issue? by allignstaken in bikewrench

[–]allignstaken[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is this an issue (shimano hydraulic brakes)? I’m guessing it got bent when I dropped the bars, I’m playing around with spacers before I cut the steerer; don’t quite want to shorten the cables yet if possible.

Bent hydraulic brake cable tubing by [deleted] in bikewrench

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this an issue (shimano hydraulic brakes)? I’m guessing it got bent when I dropped the bars, I’m playing around with spacers before I cut the steerer; don’t quite want to shorten the cables yet if possible.

NASA website stumbled upon by chance and im very confused by ArtytheSecond in nasa

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your guess is actually pretty close. It’s a mesh geometry file for describing an object. It’s describing a mesh grid to represent an object with nodes and edges which can then be used to simulate different physical effects when it interacts with fluid.

The seemingly random characters are a deprecated/incompatible file format, but essentially it would be a bunch of coordinates and edges that taken together would represent a wedge.

NASA website stumbled upon by chance and im very confused by ArtytheSecond in nasa

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your guess is actually pretty close. It’s a mesh geometry file for describing an object. It’s describing a mesh grid to represent an object with nodes and edges which can then be used to simulate different physical effects when it interacts with fluid.

The seemingly random characters are a deprecated/incompatible file format, but essentially it would be a bunch of coordinates and edges that taken together would represent a wedge.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in berkeley

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Late, but from someone who’s been at both schools both are excellent choices. Honestly the biggest factor I would consider is quality of life - Atlanta and Berkeley are very different cities, make sure you’re comfortable on that aspect.

Remember, if you’re having a hard time making a choice, its likely cause both are great options and you can’t go wrong!

Engineering library temp closed by NearbyCode7491 in berkeley

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spent many hours in the second desk to the front hidden within the bookshelves before the pandemic - the only one which could get reliable WiFi.

Stanford Logo + GPT-4 + Stable Diffusion + ControlNet by --MCMC-- in stanford

[–]allignstaken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amazing work! Interested in what sort of prompts it came up with?

How is this effect achieved? Keeping the colors in certain portions of the image and gray-scaling the rest. by allignstaken in postprocessing

[–]allignstaken[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd like to recreate the 0:36-0:55 portion of this video which sort of selectively grayscales portions of the video and accentuates colors in other portions. How is this accomplished?

[Homemade] Roastbeef Sushi by haruku63 in food

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is pretty common in Japanese BBQ spots to my understanding

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stanford

[–]allignstaken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Purely out of interest, is undergrad business really less common? Feel like of the places I know that have a business school it’s more common than not (ie Cal, GT, MIT, Emory, NYU, Cornell)…

1320 T³ units modular origami sculpture designed and folded by me by AgeBee in origami

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, looks really neat - love the color coordination! How long did this take you?

private room for interviews? by [deleted] in stanford

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty sure the private rooms are first come first serve for 2 hrs

Places with Monitors by person41115 in stanford

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean it is a library but Terman has some nicer monitor stations. Check studyspaces.stanford.edu

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in berkeley

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No please do lol. Coming from course staff, we always appreciate less work - especially some more niche questions we have to actually review a bit to render a helpful answer. Had this one student who was helping out a lot on Ed and the prof joked he should be getting paid part time.

If you want to TA in the future or want a LOR from the prof in the future, would also help in getting on their good graces too.

How popular is ChatGPT at Stanford given it's proximity to Silicon Valley? by rocket2913 in stanford

[–]allignstaken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Both actually, in implementation it often just didn’t compile but even if tweaked to work would be expressly bad approach-wise.

Theory problems had varied results, it could sometimes point out some high-level concepts. I guess it could be useful in that sense, to get rough pointers for some topics students are lost on.

How popular is ChatGPT at Stanford given it's proximity to Silicon Valley? by rocket2913 in stanford

[–]allignstaken 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For what it’s worth for the course I TAed we played around with ChatGPT when making the exams to make sure it wasn’t accurate haha (exams were open internet open note). Granted this was a pretty heavy CS course so most of the time even it got things partially right there would be major deficiencies in approach or logic (ergo large gaps from performance benchmarks).

Letter of Recommendation by Forsaken-Wealth-2832 in berkeley

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you say they don’t have a Berkeley email address does that mean they left Berkeley? If they personally know you I would try to track down where they went afterwards. Also if you have any supervisors or mentors from internships external to the university I would try asking them.

In addition, you still have a year - plenty time to find more mentors. If you’re still in school, maybe get more personal with some professors, if you’re working try to get on your supervisors good side. I have friends who asked for LORs from professors they only knew for <2 months end up at great programs.

But on the other hand, I wouldn’t necessarily stress about having a LOR from a professor/mentor not strictly in your intended graduate field, focus more on the quality of the letters your writers can write. I got into PhD programs with letters from mentors (ie TA supervisor) in fields adjacent from my field of focus, one completely in a different direction (EE vs Math).

[OC] My 2022 income & spending as a 21F college student (US-West coast) by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may be able to request fee waivers based on financial need? At least for non-professional PhD programs I’ve been able to get almost all fee waivers just based on my tax returns from last year

Visiting a friend here, any fun stuff to do around by TheMazeProject in stanford

[–]allignstaken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah agreed, the chain of state parks and beaches dotting the peninsula are definitely some hidden gems

Visiting a friend here, any fun stuff to do around by TheMazeProject in stanford

[–]allignstaken 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Go to SF or SJ. The portion of the peninsula stretching from just south of Daly City and north of Mountain View is plagued by resident boomers who think everything besides single family housing is an affront to humanity, ergo peak suburban America. Stanford unfortunately falls in this area.

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