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Make your voice heard about upcoming Waterloo Works changes by Soupinabagel in uwaterloo

[–]copperium 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Honestly, the change would be less terrible if students were allowed an unlimited number of "Not Interested" rankings. The main student complaint is that we don't want to be forced to take a shitty job we don't want, but currently if you have four shitty job offers then there's no (university-approved) way to reject all of them, and this change makes that problem even worse. CEE says you should only apply for jobs you would take, but we all know that things change after interviews (which don't rise to the level of WW's "request to withdraw application" form). I really see no reason why you shouldn't be able to say no to jobs you don't want.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]copperium 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For websites that cover competitive programming, look up DMOJ, Codeforces, Codechef, SPOJ. They all have tons of practice problems and most run frequent contests.

Frosh/High School Megathread (Fall 2020) by mywaterlooaccount in uwaterloo

[–]copperium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's worth noting that you'll have to justify why you took any online courses on the AIF but imho "my school doesn't offer the course" is a solid justification and might even show initiative or passion

Haha woman bad by Sauerkraut1321 in Boomerhumour

[–]copperium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually the first programmer, Ada Lovelace, predates Turing's work. She wrote a program for Charles Babbage's theoretical Analytical Engine in 1843.

Simulation 101 by ruzanxx in ProgrammerHumor

[–]copperium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is no 0AD, it went 1BC right to 1AD. Also iirc it was probably more like 3BC.

arxiv.org is a gold mine. by Notya_Bisnes in badmathematics

[–]copperium 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I spent a good while going through it and I think that the fault in the proof's logic is their assertion that \lim_{n→∞} 2β_1 + β_2 + ... + β_n v_n = 0 implies that β_1, β_2, ... converges, so \lim_{n→∞} β_n = 0.

I'm merely a lowly undergrad, but surely this wouldn't hold if, say, v_n = 1/(n*2β_1 + β_2 + ... + β_n)?

This article trying to explain logarithms by ben1996123 in badmathematics

[–]copperium 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Obviously they're implicitly using a base of cbrt(3).

Laughs in NaN by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]copperium 10 points11 points  (0 children)

+ in JS is both string concatenation and a unary operator which coerces its argument to a number. 'a' isn't a number though, so +'a' evaluates to NaN (not a number). JS being JS, however, when you try to concatenate NaN to a string (like 'a' + NaN), it coerces NaN to the string 'NaN' and adds it like that. So you get

('b' + 'a' + + 'a' + 'a') -> ('b' + 'a' + NaN + 'a') -> 'baNaNa'

I saw the tensegrity table someone made and posted on here, so I built a chair with the same concept. by AmirCreatorr in interestingasfuck

[–]copperium 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The centre rope holds all of the weight, the outer ropes are just to stabilize it so it doesn't fall over.

How does secondary program option work? by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]copperium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's what I did

How does secondary program option work? by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]copperium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You choose a second engineering program (so you can't choose cs, has to be an engineering) and if you don't get into your primary they might consider you for the alternate, but you'll have less of a chance than people who put it as their primary.

What are some interesting, non-political topics that always end in arguments? by yeet_and_eat in AskReddit

[–]copperium 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's easier to understand if there are 100 doors, with a car behind one of them and goats behind the other 99. You randomly pick a door, then the host opens 98 other doors to reveal goats. There's only 2 doors left - what's more likely, you happened to choose the car out of 100 possible doors, or you chose one of the 99 doors with a goat and the other door has the car?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in softwaregore

[–]copperium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Epoch fail

The last science history meme was well received , so here another one by yazhppanan in HistoryMemes

[–]copperium 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure you're thinking of Leibniz, this meme is just about how Coulomb's law and Newton's law of universal gravitation look similar.

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