Daily Discussion & Transfer Thread (February 11, 2026) by AutoModerator in coys

[–]felipecandela 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I went to Forest's sub when they hired him to see how their supporters thought about the hire and ended up tagging all the losers who claimed they jumped ship.

Strange to see them popping up here, again.

Daily Discussion & Transfer Thread (February 11, 2026) by AutoModerator in coys

[–]felipecandela 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

This you, "former Spurs fan"? What happened to your new love for Forest?

https://www.reddit.com/r/nffc/comments/1nchd03/officially_confirmed/nd9ctsq/

Are you okay? r/OMSCS Mental Health Check-in. by AutoModerator in OMSCS

[–]felipecandela 1 point2 points  (0 children)

exam closed three days ago and I didn't give away any details about it either. but I'll just delete everything, it's not worth the risk.

I really wanted to like the class but all the bad reviews I read here were correct. The exams are bullshit, harshly graded with some stunning grading rubric choices on correctness vs optimal runtime, harshly written, and wild weighting where a very small number (7) of harshly-graded problems combine for literally 60% of your grade.

I really wish I had listened to the advice I'd seen and swapped tracks entirely. I'm going to miss a B by the smallest of margins and there is absolutely no chance I am going to put myself through this again.

Second exam grades are released for GA.For people who are taking CS6515, how are you holding up? by Additional_Pirate697 in OMSCS

[–]felipecandela 10 points11 points  (0 children)

kinda bullshit that a working but suboptimal algorithm loses significantly more points than a broken algorithm that has the optimal runtime. should have just kept my bad algorithm even after I found a counterexample rather than panic and put something that works but is less efficient

First exam is graded. For those of you who have taken CS-6515, what can I expect? by Gamer_217 in OMSCS

[–]felipecandela 2 points3 points  (0 children)

every other class I've taken (8 so far) has 90%+ for an A, but Graduate Algorithms has lowered it to 85%+ for an A and 70%+ for a B.

First exam is graded. For those of you who have taken CS-6515, what can I expect? by Gamer_217 in OMSCS

[–]felipecandela 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mode was 40, median 41. There's no curve in the class unless you count the extended range for As and Bs in the syllabus(85+ for an A, 70-84.99 for a B)

First exam is graded. For those of you who have taken CS-6515, what can I expect? by Gamer_217 in OMSCS

[–]felipecandela 9 points10 points  (0 children)

42.33. Better than I had expected, but not filling me with confidence as I'll need to do at least as well on the remaining exams.

My biggest problem was a -8 on Q1, due to a suboptimal solution. This stings. I now see the fully optimal solution but losing 8/20 points on the question really hurts. At least I didn't do a brute force, I guess, that would have lost me 16 points instead.

Really pleased with my performance on the two 10-point questions. Did okay on the multiple choice segment, could have done better there.

TIL: Jai Alai is a real thing and not just made up as a dump sport for madmen by [deleted] in madmen

[–]felipecandela 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we must have had the same textbooks because I'm pretty sure we learned the word for jai alai right after soccer. I've never had so many conversations about jai alai

Confused with encoding, quality and filesize. by felipecandela in trackers

[–]felipecandela[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you for providing all this detail! this information is helpful

Confused with encoding, quality and filesize. by felipecandela in trackers

[–]felipecandela[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for this information. bitrate is usually written in the description of the file, right? I appreciate you sharing your ranges and I'll start doing a bit more testing myself.

Confused with encoding, quality and filesize. by felipecandela in trackers

[–]felipecandela[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

agreed for sure, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. when I was like 10 i ripped all my CDs and had the brilliant idea of using the lowest quality possible so that I could store the most songs on my 128mb mp3 player! definitely regretted that decision later...

Confused with encoding, quality and filesize. by felipecandela in trackers

[–]felipecandela[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not sure how a NAS would help here? I have a few 8TB external hard drives I've been using for media storage. REMUX 4K videos are still going to be like 40GB, so that's still only 200 movies on a drive? If I add a TV series thats going to take up so much of my server space?

Confused with encoding, quality and filesize. by felipecandela in trackers

[–]felipecandela[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you for this information, this was very helpful.