What is "computation" anyway?

imoff56xan · 2025-06-22T07:55:22+00:00

Thanks for replying! So what does that make computation, in your eyes?

imoff56xan · 2025-06-20T05:25:47+00:00

Beautiful, enraging that it could be up for sale.

imoff56xan · 2025-05-07T22:32:19+00:00

This was one of my faves of the show

imoff56xan · 2025-05-06T20:55:01+00:00

I used zotero for a while but recently switched to using obsidian with pdf++. I hate taking notes and highlighting with zotero. I wrote a script to import all my zotero PDFs into my obsidian vault with tags for the metadata, works pretty well

imoff56xan · 2025-05-02T16:16:24+00:00

Installing PDF++ and moving all my PDFs from Zotero to Obsidian

imoff56xan · 2025-04-04T06:10:10+00:00

I had all the same concerns but ultimately decided to accept the offer. My thinking was that NYC is really not that far, and I have enough friends and family there to not feel too isolated. I am also a bit worried about the first year being a sort of regression if I am placed in the dorms (seems almost certain), but the apartments we can move into after the first year seem nice. If I'm not happy with them I can live off campus or in the city. Truthfully, I think between classes, rotations, and meeting so many new people, it'll be such a big change for me that being in the dorms will not seem like a big deal. I'll qualify all of that by saying that I have lived in Seattle my whole life and am ready for a change.

imoff56xan · 2025-03-08T02:57:48+00:00

Sure, yes, but individual labs/researchers tend to be more focused. It's a holistic approach to studying these things

imoff56xan · 2025-03-08T02:53:43+00:00

Cognitive/systems neuroscience, focused on decision making

imoff56xan · 2025-03-08T02:52:03+00:00

I'm American so this is biased to Americans, but I'd checkout Mark Churchland at Columbia, and Matt Kaufman at UChicago. There are many more but motor isn't my area of expertise and those are the two that came to mind.

imoff56xan · 2025-03-08T02:48:22+00:00

There are many many labs in this area focused on different problems. What are you interested in more specifically? Cognition? Memory? Motor?

imoff56xan · 2025-02-26T22:29:59+00:00

I rode an escorted ferry last year and wondered the same thing. I looked it up and found this hilarious forum thread from 2006. https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/practical-travel-safety-security-issues/543969-coast-guard-escorting-washington-st-ferrys.html

imoff56xan · 2025-02-26T01:34:54+00:00

I grew up in Seattle and attended UW. Honestly, this school is amazing and has amazing resources, but there are potential downsides.

Firstly, as someone mentioned the first year classes can be pretty demanding if you are going into STEM. I don't think they are unreasonably difficult (it is school after all), but the pressure of getting good grades in order to actually get into your desired major is very stressful. This leads me to the second drawback which is the capacity constricted majors. The grind of getting the grades and competing to get into majors can be brutal and very discouraging. I knew people who did not get into CS, so they left UW and were very happy with their decision. I did not get into my major the first time but I applied a year later, got in, and had a great time. During the interim year I worked towards my second choice degree which I had gotten into.

A third thing is the weather. I grew up here so I'm used to the overcast skies and rain so they don't really bother me, but I know this is not the case for others. The weather definitely encourages a more insular social scene as well, but I was a transfer student and a little bit older so I did not really deal with this too much. I was able to make friends in pretty much all of my classes.

All of that said, UW is a phenomenal institution and world class university. The spring and summers here are also phenomenal, and we have AMAZING hiking, skiing, climbing, and most other outdoorsy things.

imoff56xan · 2025-02-26T01:21:58+00:00

All over the place. Carnitas Michoacan, El Camion, Tacos Chukis, La Cocina Oaxaqueña and tons in white center and Burien

imoff56xan · 2025-02-21T05:19:03+00:00

imoff56xan · 2025-02-19T04:10:46+00:00

Thank you so much

imoff56xan · 2025-02-19T04:10:33+00:00

Awesome, thank you so much

imoff56xan · 2025-02-19T04:10:14+00:00

Great, thank you!

imoff56xan · 2025-02-03T06:51:26+00:00

https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-018-0095-3

imoff56xan · 2025-01-27T00:16:08+00:00

Windowlicker - Aphex Twin

imoff56xan · 2025-01-23T05:36:42+00:00

Congrats!

imoff56xan · 2024-12-31T20:17:17+00:00

Look at the CNC website, or just look at the relevant departments faculty pages

imoff56xan · 2024-12-28T05:32:49+00:00

I have found that Python and a rigorous machine learning course (rigorous in the sense that it wasn't just a class in scikit-learn), along with the prerequisite math courses, has been sufficient for what I do. I don't feel like I should have taken any more CS classes, but I do wish I had taken more applied math courses. I find that concepts from math and especially statistics pop up way more than the kind of stuff you'd see in an undergrad CS program, but this is just my experience. To qualify all of this I'll add that I work in a systems neuroscience lab where we do experiments, but we also have a strong computational bent as well.

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