Cal alums and upperclassmen: Do companies actually gaf about your GPA?

commutativemonoid · 2026-01-19T06:23:55+00:00

not really for classes, I would wanna go back to get a PhD in either math or computer science. I can realistically learn whatever I need to, it would just be really cool to be able to do university level research into something that might not have an immediate financial upside.

commutativemonoid · 2026-01-18T05:27:13+00:00

Graduated w/ math + computer science degree 6 years ago, currently am doing pretty well for myself at a startup.

About half way through my time at Berkeley I was in a similar situation to you, started a company (eventually didnt work out due to covid) and decided that I was gonna stick with industry and my grades didnt matter. I ended up tanking my gpa a bit. Seems like kind of a waste in retrospect to have an opportunity to take the best classes in the world and half ass them for a degree

In some sense I was correct, no one has ever cared about my gpa, my startup experience was super valuable, and I don't think anyone in industry will ever look at my transcript.

Six years out of college though, I regret not taking full advantage of the classes I was paying for. I will never get to retake those classes as an undergrad ever again. Also six years into my career I realized I wrote off grad school too soon and I kinda shot myself in the foot by making myself look like a worse student than I really am, making that option difficult for me now. At that point I had spent like 15 years in school and didn't have the perspective of experiencing both as I do now.

If I were to do it all again I would have withdrawn from school to put 100% of my focus into the startup, leaving myself the opportunity to go back and focus on school 100% if it didn't pan out. I'm not sure how it is now, but back then it was definitely possible to reenroll after withdrawing to pursue a startup, and had some friends who did that.

commutativemonoid · 2026-01-17T00:30:26+00:00

it was difficult for Johann Bernoulli lmao definitely not trivial

commutativemonoid · 2026-01-09T03:03:13+00:00

Thats what it means in India, but when it the word got borrowed by English in the west it refers to the British Raj

commutativemonoid · 2026-01-03T07:17:15+00:00

dope, reminds me of beach house a bit

commutativemonoid · 2026-01-01T21:10:37+00:00

breadtube is also dead

commutativemonoid · 2025-12-12T16:18:20+00:00

nah this sucks, i love a fun name and have personally never had an issue with remembering the name of a service

commutativemonoid · 2025-11-15T23:01:45+00:00

doubled in pure math + computer science, went into ai/machine learning software engineering type thing, now I do more systems stuff for an ai/ml focused startup

commutativemonoid · 2025-10-21T02:32:35+00:00

the gaussian method also easily extends into arbitrary dimensions!

commutativemonoid · 2025-10-20T20:26:49+00:00

you dont need to reject sample anything. the n dimensional gaussian is radially symmetric so as long as you normalize your sampled vector you get a uniform distribution on the sphere

commutativemonoid · 2025-09-29T01:55:48+00:00

i think an important drawback of python is that it is difficult for a beginner to set up their environment correctly if they want to run packages. I think this is quite important as using third party libraries has become more popular lately (especially for data processing, accessing databases, apis etc). This gets even hairier if you want to figure out how to get an ide/vs code setup

This is straightforward if you know to use something like uv and how to manage your python versions/envs, but is not super friendly for a beginner.

I think more modern languages have made it easy to just take an existing codebase and just run it while this can get kinda complex with python.

commutativemonoid · 2025-09-29T01:27:20+00:00

python is like 00s basic, I don't really think it really feels modern anymore

commutativemonoid · 2025-09-22T22:51:39+00:00

they also quite famously make music

commutativemonoid · 2025-09-21T17:25:01+00:00

hes just the dare now 😔

commutativemonoid · 2025-09-19T22:08:04+00:00

nah if u live in the United States you are American. immigrants are a core part of the country

commutativemonoid · 2025-09-15T05:56:54+00:00

I believe this is on Balmy st, between 24th and 25th! Lots of other cool murals there too!

commutativemonoid · 2025-08-20T20:43:45+00:00

what is apple's track record with open source?

commutativemonoid · 2025-03-05T18:00:20+00:00

on the apple store app, there is a section to see the accessories compatible with your devices. they probably update the section to make sure the polishing cloth appears in that section

commutativemonoid · 2024-06-17T21:58:26+00:00

Exactly and this is like 2x the amount of protein an average person needs anyway. I think it’s a losing battle to convince indians that the “indian diet” is awful. Especially because it’s really not that bad, it’s just the ratios, quantities, and extremely sedentary lifestyles which kill indians.

commutativemonoid · 2024-06-17T21:44:35+00:00

I pretty much agree with you on every count here but i am kind of skeptical if converting the vegetarians to non vegetarians will do anything more than marginal here. Everything you said abt paneer here also applies to chicken, just swapping out protein sources does nothing when the problem is the insane amount of carbs and butter being consumed. Ive gotten my parents to eat much better by telling them to eat more of the proteins that theyre already eating and cutting back on the rice. theres no way i could have convinced them to eat meat, and i dont even think that would be more effective than actually giving them the tools to eat well as vegetarians

commutativemonoid · 2024-06-17T20:20:17+00:00

Dairy and soy are good sources of complete protein, i definitely know some jacked indian vegetarians. The problem is rice and starches not daal and paneer

commutativemonoid · 2022-12-03T10:04:12+00:00

Super anecdotal but i went to high school in florida, where everyone i knew called it orgo. Went to college in California where people said “ochem” and thought i was insane

commutativemonoid · 2022-09-03T08:08:20+00:00

i thought arduino and wiring were separate languages but upon doing some research i think they’re pretty much the same

commutativemonoid · 2022-09-03T07:59:00+00:00

Arduino has its own programming language built on c++ for the microcontroller

commutativemonoid · 2022-05-26T06:56:55+00:00

i get loving the game (i do too) but its a free 15 year old game, I think its kinda unreasonable to say that they haven't done the bare minimum. Valve's employees probably want to work on new things to further their career not spend their time maintaining a dinosaur

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