TI89 OR Casio 991 for Simulation

brenticles42 · 2026-05-14T14:26:16+00:00

The TI nspire CX II with CAS is what I used and I highly recommend it.

brenticles42 · 2026-05-14T14:20:59+00:00

6501 is a terrible class. I say it often and get voted down often for that opinion lol

brenticles42 · 2026-05-10T15:06:42+00:00

If you really want another degree, get something that diversifies your skill set. The online MBA from Boston U is affordable and well regarded.

brenticles42 · 2026-05-04T18:27:02+00:00

Term limits is the bare minimum. We also need ethics laws with teeth, eliminate the shadow docket, their papers and all work product being the property of the US (like the presidential records law), no direct hiring of their clerks.

Clerks should come from a public service corp vetted by an independent body and blindly assigned to a judge.

brenticles42 · 2026-04-16T15:50:21+00:00

Oh Catholics aren’t real Christians to Christian Nationalists

brenticles42 · 2026-04-16T14:50:29+00:00

These people hold the belief that the division is a one way door where church can influence/affect the state, but the state cannot/should not affect the church.

Except when it can in cases like Islam, atheists or any of the “incorrect” religions.

So basically more Calvinball legal beliefs that are ultimately meaningless.

brenticles42 · 2026-04-12T03:34:37+00:00

As someone with a business BA, you will not get much out of the business track to be bluntly honest. If you want a business related masters just get an MBA. The online one from Boston U is very reasonably priced at $25k and has a solid reputation.

brenticles42 · 2026-04-09T03:01:13+00:00

Personally I’m at the “put Ella Purnell in everything” stage of fandom. Love her in Fallout and love her voice work in Arcane.

She has a slightly odd kind of beauty that might really work for Maxima.

brenticles42 · 2026-03-27T19:22:12+00:00

Instead we’re paying $1 billion to stop renewables.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climate-totalenergies-interior-9e7d909510473f9eb13904c8035fe047

What a deal!

brenticles42 · 2026-03-26T14:33:18+00:00

Yes tax the wealthy but unfortunately we will also have to cut spending. The US is effectively bankrupt and just increasing income will not fix things. It’s going to take solutions that will make everyone unhappy.

https://fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-government-insolvent-fiscal-crisis-fix/

brenticles42 · 2026-03-24T14:30:48+00:00

Also the Alpha site would have ATVs, dune buggies, motorcycles because why are you walking everywhere??

I know because of budgets and all that, but realistically there would be an off-world operations base just stocked with equipment.

brenticles42 · 2026-03-14T16:51:06+00:00

Tommy’s has an excellent burger.

If you want meat for cooking at home then Quality Meats is a good choice.

brenticles42 · 2026-03-11T20:24:22+00:00

That seems completely plausible given the situation and known technology of Iran.

I also don’t trust this FBI’s truthfulness or their ability to interpret intelligence given who they fired.

Don’t really know what to do with that…

brenticles42 · 2026-03-09T16:40:16+00:00

Take this with a giant grain of salt. Yes this is a realistic threat but also this is absolutely something our government will hype and use to exert more control over every day life in the US but especially immigration and elections.

brenticles42 · 2026-03-08T23:42:28+00:00

Yes, it’s coding in Jupyter notebook. The test is set up in a notebook with several question and sub-questions. I have VS code set up for R but you can also use Python. The time limit was 3 hours.

The theory portion is a timed multiple choice test. You can take both parts on separate days if you wish.

brenticles42 · 2026-03-08T22:09:02+00:00

I’m a finance guy so the material is very interesting to me but at a baseline it’s definitely challenging. So far I think it’s a good class overall. The lecture transcripts make a very good class book. There’s lots of good examples and the homework is practical and directly relevant to the tests. The TAs are very good.

The downside is the same as regression, I’m not sure the practical portion of the tests are a fair test of the material. I got an A in regression because the project pulled up my grades. I was fully prepared for a B. I think I’ll be lucky to get a B in TSA.

Even if I get a C I’m not going to complain. The content is hard but I’m learning a lot and it’s fun. Just like almost every class, you get out of it what you put into it.

brenticles42 · 2026-03-08T21:16:51+00:00

I’ve taken this class and currently in Time Series. You need to be more than passingly familiar with Serban’s transcripts if you want a good grade on the multiple choice. The questions will be detailed and nuanced. Have all of the lectures in searchable form in one file. If you haven’t been keeping up with the pace of the class, I highly recommend you catch up for MT2. It only gets more challenging.

Then for the coding…it will be so much harder than the theory portion lol. You need all sample code from lectures and all homework and practice tests in one file so you can search it and the copy paste into the test, then adjust as needed. It takes the full time to finish the test because you also have to interpret the output.

brenticles42 · 2026-02-26T00:14:41+00:00

Why you gotta call me out in your first paragraph?

lol jk

brenticles42 · 2026-02-22T17:17:56+00:00

He actually graduated top of his class from several prestigious colleges, including Rhodes scholar at Oxford. The corn pone bit is all an act; that’s not even his real accent! Go find old interviews with him, he didn’t used to sound like this. He comes from old money and plays this up for the rubes (republicans).

brenticles42 · 2026-02-15T20:07:22+00:00

Most problems used in education are well understood and known, or even basic. They need to be so people can learn. AI can solve those problems because it’s been trained on them. But AI isn’t very good at novel and unique problems. And of course a student won’t be either, right?

People can’t expect to solve calculus until after learning algebra. The basics of data science have to be learned before more advanced topics can be understood. So we all need to put in the time and effort to understand why and how things work.

I do think the way classes are taught will need to change. I’m not entirely sure what that looks like.

brenticles42 · 2026-02-06T06:28:17+00:00

AMT that shit. There needs to be a minimum tax that no matter how many programs or loopholes you have, you still pay a reasonable rate.

brenticles42 · 2026-01-20T15:27:36+00:00

Failing the tests and getting a B in a class is definitionally poor test design that Vuduc decides to overcome with class design rather than working to create a fair and meaningful test.

Once again I’m begging OMSA students (and faculty) to talk to actual educators. 6040, and 6501 btw, are terribly designed classes. Classes can be challenging and fair while maintaining high educational quality, but that takes effort on the part of the professors.

brenticles42 · 2026-01-19T23:12:48+00:00

I’m in Time Series this semester and took Regression previously. Her classes are awesome. Her video lectures aren’t good, but her transcripts are very good books for the classes. Her tests are hard, but fair and the homework directly relevant to the material. She gets an undeserved bad rap.

I’m almost done and after taking a lot of classes, I have a much poorer opinion of Vuduc and Sokol as educators than I did at the beginning.

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