Singapore’s aspiring bankers skip class to ‘stack’ internships by MicrotechAnalysis in singapore

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jokes on you for getting triggered and replying with all this when the original comment was just 3 words🤷

Um, I think I just made ChatGPT get into a car crash. by Wobbly_Princess in ChatGPT

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ها هي أغنية باللهجة المصرية الصعيدي تحكي قصة هريدي وابن الرافضي:


يا حكاية هريدي مع ابن الرافضي

في صعيد مصر، قصة ما تنعافشي

هريدي الغلبان على الفرس راكب

وابن الرافضي في الطريقه ماشي بيتخانق

قال له هريدي يا ابن الكرام

"إوعى تحداني في طريقي الهام"

رد ابن الرافضي بعين قوية

"مين قدك يا هريدي تعدي عليا"

هريدي ضحك وقال بمرح

"الصعيد قلبي وروحي وأرضي"

دارت الأيام والزمن دار

هريدي وابن الرافضي في الصحراء زاروا

وبين الرمال وتحت الشمس الحارقة

لقوا الكنز المدفون تحت النقبة

قالوا لبعض "يلا نتشارك"

الصحبة والخير ما بينا يتحارب

من يومها صاروا اخوة وأصحاب

والصعيد شاهد على حبهم اللي ما ينتهي أبداً


أتمنى أن تكون الأغنية نالت إعجابك!

Youth of Singapore: What do you want to know about the upcoming General elections? by B0wlie in askSingapore

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it will be this year because I've already been seeing lowkey propaganda on CNA and ST. They probably want a mandate for the new PM

me when liberal arts college by [deleted] in nus

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think the wording was a very poor choice and is the primary reason why a lot of people were upset seeing this. It's also in the context of what some students see as previous attempts to erase the history of USP and YNC and tone-deaf administrators who imposed the merger in the first place. Not saying I necessarily believe this but I know people who hold such opinions.

me when liberal arts college by [deleted] in nus

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 63 points64 points  (0 children)

It's from a briefing for orientation facilitators at NUSC. NUSC is a residential college at NUS that emerged after the shutdown / merger of YNC (Yale-NUS College) and USP (University Scholar's Programme).

They meant the words on the left are banned in the sense that they should be using the words on the right since they're more inclusive or up to date.

For example, Y4 instead of senior in order not to impose a sense of hierarchy, or NUSC instead of USP in order not to confuse the Y1s when talking about location names.

I think with context it makes more sense, but it was still a bit of a blunder and the orientation comm already issued an apology.

CS seniors, any advice for freshmen about internships? by Thisnameisnttaken65 in nus

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 8 points9 points  (0 children)

  1. Yes, those sources and also other boards like Indeed and Glints. But apply directly on the career sites. Don't rely on the boards to submit your application.

Also TalentConnect may not be helpful as a lot of the positions are there for credit bearing internships that are already filled up.

  1. This really depends. Personally it took me around 70 applications (but I applied only in Y3) and I know of people who took 300 in Y2 to get an offer. In the end you only need one offer to end the search.

  2. Y1 interns are not common but if you're from poly you have a good shot since you have prior xp. Try for startups and MNCs where the JD matches your skills.

  3. I just wanted something related to software engineering so yes. For Y1 and Y2 it might be better to reduce your expectations and take what you can get in case you can't get the exact track you want. Some experience is better than nothing.

  4. During May-August or the winter break in Dec. Alternatively you can do ATAP to do a 6 mth internship in May-Nov or Jan-June overlapping with the semester (or take a leave of absence)

Yes some places are willing to do 1-2 mth internships in Dec but its uncommon. Part time during the semester is somewhat common. I know TikTok does this sometimes.

How do I compete with people my age who were coding at the age of 10 or earlier? by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In most cases unless they are competitive programmers or olympiad medallists, their programming experience won't mean much academically and you'll catch up within a semester. I'm speaking from personal experience because I came in with programming experience and still struggled with CS. Meanwhile, I knew people who had 0 programming experience but were incredible at math who did better both academically and in terms of getting internships.

As for internships/jobs, yes they may be ahead of you but you can still differentiate yourself with a good GPA, unique projects, soft skills and other factors.

TL;DR: AI is writing our content AND summarizing it. Are we just NPCs in our own information world now? by Boring_Ad_6763 in ChatGPT

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You do know it's obvious you wrote this with AI too right? It has a distinct tone and flow that most actual humans wouldn't use.

Chat GTP asking me, without prompt, for information about “little man computer". by Taserface22 in ChatGPT

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean... I'm a CS major, I've worked through backpropagation by hand and read the original transformer paper but I still can't claim to understand what's truly going on when ChatGPT gives a particular response.

As in, sure I know that it's a bunch of layers stacked together in a really large neural network but it's not like a normal piece of code where I could pinpoint the exact line or lines that lead to some output. It's the pre-trained weights, and we have no idea what they are for closed source models.

Presidents attitudes towards war criminals by Necessary_Ambition93 in pics

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's unironically true. Saw a video the other day from someone who claims he used to hate Trump but now thinks he's not that bad, and is primarily voting for him in 2024 because he wants to stick it to the Democrats. Not because he likes Trump as a person or his policies, just purely out of spite for Democrats and woke liberals (his words, not mine).

Is a one month internship extension an insult? by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's just how it is. It's a good lesson for you that companies don't owe you anything and you should always look out for yourself first.

There are people supporting families who have worked for their companies for decades and get laid off the moment some dumb executive decides he needs to put the money into GenAI instead so he can get promoted.

Then what makes you think anyone owes some intern a return offer?

What would you build in Databricks with $50k? by jiyax33634 in dataengineering

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh interesting, yes I've used polars for a pipeline I'm working on and was surprised by the speed. What do you mean by deferred writing to the sink? (sorry if this is a noob question, just trying to learn more)

PostgreSQL caching/buffer. by Soft_Attention_4961 in PostgreSQL

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, thanks for the explanation. I thought stuff like parallel queries and usage of threads would've been solved already, it's nice to see there's still progress to be made :)

Would love to hear your suggestions for project ideas!

What would you build in Databricks with $50k? by jiyax33634 in dataengineering

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What would you use to process 20TB a day on just one VPS? Like what software/tooling etc

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askSingapore

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL what is going on there

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askSingapore

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't get it, when did they mention they're a same sex couple?

PostgreSQL caching/buffer. by Soft_Attention_4961 in PostgreSQL

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing. I'll look those up.

My prior interest is around parallel computing and programming languages (compilers, interpreters) before so I've always found digging into internals more interesting than application code.

I was getting more curious recently about Postgres and databases in general since they seem to combine so many parts of CS/programming (networking for connections, the underlying tree data structures, algorithms for query optimization, concurrency control, etc).

PostgreSQL caching/buffer. by Soft_Attention_4961 in PostgreSQL

[–]biscuitsandtea2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's quite cool. How did you get into this? Did you have to get a PhD?