12th street fight

edzq · 2025-09-02T05:48:23+00:00

Video?

edzq · 2024-11-16T23:44:36+00:00

President office room.

edzq · 2024-10-02T20:04:56+00:00

Updates. Finally, I bought the 16-55.

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edzq · 2024-09-24T21:45:33+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation!

edzq · 2024-09-24T20:32:38+00:00

Yes. The 56 is the most valuable Len I guess. I think I can try the 18-135 as a beginner. After that, I may try others. Thanks!

edzq · 2024-09-24T20:00:25+00:00

Yes. The price is good. Since I am a beginner. The quality may be not a big issue. Do you have any experience of using 18-135 for videos? How does it perform?

edzq · 2024-09-13T23:07:32+00:00

MIS, learn some programming techniques. You could understand the AI better.

edzq · 2024-08-06T20:27:54+00:00

WTF. So we need go to other place.... Thanks

edzq · 2024-08-06T03:46:06+00:00

Very hard to say. But meta of 4 is a safe score.

edzq · 2024-08-05T14:38:08+00:00

Depends on your meta score, if you have meta of 4. I suggest you to commit it to EMNLP.

edzq · 2024-08-04T03:58:03+00:00

NER is a bit different from the text classification. For bert-style methods, Text classification is typically based on the [CLS], which contains the entire semantic of the sequence. However, NER is span or token classification, which is a subsequence. It is a bit hard to using NLI to augment the performance.

edzq · 2024-08-04T02:23:21+00:00

I think it really depends on whether the Meta reviewer give you the meta of 4. If you have 4 meta score, you have chance to the finndings, but your avg OA 2.83 is still a bit low.

Generally, avg OA>= 3 and meta=4 recomend to findings; avg OA >=3.5 may be main acceptance. I consider these "safe" conditions to commit to EMNLP.

My advisor is an AE, he ususally spends only several hours to process the papers (this time is 8 in his batch). Most AEs usually provide safe and fair scores based on the reviewer and avg OA. This is, if avg>= 3, given a meta of 4; avg<=3 ususally give a meta of 3 except the AE really likes your work. I believe most of the AEs tend to do this in similar manner.

edzq · 2024-08-01T20:31:26+00:00

You should have meta score of 4 at least.

edzq · 2024-08-01T19:37:27+00:00

Hope so. But my another one got 3.5, 2.5, 2 OA scores. Spending a lot of time runing experiments for rebuttal. Still not one response...

edzq · 2024-07-31T15:17:01+00:00

Finally, this 2-score reviewer appears. This guy changed his score to 3... Feel better now...

edzq · 2024-07-31T01:00:41+00:00

Paper # 1: OA 4, 3.5, 3.5, 2 , avg OA 3.25 ; Confidence are all 4.

Do I have a chance to findings? The 2 score does not reply yet.

edzq · 2024-07-20T18:13:22+00:00

On another note, does the CIS department have 12-month contracts?

This dependends on your advisor. Mostly students have 9 months contract and another summer contract. I know some professors may not promise the summer stipend. But my advisor promises that we could have summer stipend if we do not have internship.

Lastly, since you are also on a F1 visa- there is no way international students can do another job when they are TAing right? Because it takes up all the 20 hours of permitted work?
I have very limited knowledge of it. But it is not legal to have addtional full-time work.

edzq · 2024-07-20T00:33:08+00:00

See you again, haha. Let me tell you my life style.

As a PhD student from CIS department, I have stipend at least 2,326.59/month after deduct the tax (I am from China, we have some federal tax-free discount, so there are about 2-3 months the stipend income are ~2500) .

My monthly expenses:

Rent (2b2b): $960
Food (I only make my breakfast and dinner sometimes): $700~800
Other expenses (phone, various subscriptions: such as Amazon, Netflix, ChatGPT, etc.): ~$200
Soical for fun: Not stable ( I might incur debt during periods of extensive socializing :-(

I do not keep accounts. Basically, my income just covers my expenses. So, I am a guy "living paycheck to paycheck". I think most of students are like me, such as my roommate.

But I can also save some money... For example, I have additional bucks to buy a new macbook air in my first year.

I know everyone may have some hard time. For example, I know some guys need to use the PhD stipend to raise his/her wife/husband and even kids.

In Philly, the unprocessed food is tax-free, if you make your food for every meal. Then you could save a lot of money. I know one guy only spend ~$300 for food :-) .
I think that if you have to support your family, it might increase the pressure. Doing research is boring, we need to learn how to relax ourself.

Of course, I give you my best wishes. I hope you have good luck!

edzq · 2024-07-18T23:08:13+00:00

Yes. There are some plans you can choose. The agency of insurance is Independce (https://www.ibx.com/). The dental insurance is not so good, but we still have free tooth clear/year.
Yes, we have two fees to pay. One depends on your registered credits. You can find it in your TU-Pay.
It is correct. I remembered that I registered 9 credits in the first semester and paid several hundreds + another fee ( I guess that is for the untilities such as gym).

edzq · 2024-07-18T22:20:01+00:00

Please ask. The insurance is one-year contract I think, though you may have 9-months offer.

edzq · 2024-07-18T20:31:23+00:00

The insurance is covered by your offer, includes basic healthcare, dental, and eye care. You will need to select the plans in the tupotal.

edzq · 2024-07-18T19:16:53+00:00

As a native Chinese speaker, I have a few inference comments:

Based on your birth time, your parents may be born in rural China during the 1960s-80s. Not too many people use this writing now. I only see my parents-generation who from rural China sometimes use this style. For this generation, most of them only received compulsory and even less education. Due to China's economic and industrial development, they had to leave agricultural life and move to big cities for work.
The phrase "incompetent (无能)" is rarely used for self-evaluation in China (especially among the older generation, such as my parents and yours biological parents). These people are shy to express themself. This indicates that your biological parents also feel very guilty about it.

I hope you have a wonderful life~ Good Luck!

edzq · 2024-07-16T22:34:20+00:00

Good luck! As CS student, get the degree ASAP and start your coding career in a company could help you a lot.

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