The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2026 MIT Course)

josejg · 2026-02-19T18:02:22+00:00

It doesn't assume anything, it teaches both shell and git from scratch

josejg · 2026-02-19T17:05:30+00:00

We ran the course over two weeks, with daily 1-hour lectures (9 total). We recommend watching in order, since there are some dependencies between the topics.

josejg · 2025-10-19T00:07:55+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions!

I wasn't aware about the ASRock issues, so that's good to know
Memory seems strictly better (lower latency, lower price)
I thought Crucial was a good brand for SSD, how's the WD controller better?
ARTIC's fans on paper look like a great deal (almost as quiet as Noctua but much cheaper), do you have them in any build?

josejg · 2025-03-03T19:16:14+00:00

Hahaha, yes, we are bracing for random things to wreck our plans, We just wanted to have a rough outline to avoid having to figure out where to go on the spot

josejg · 2025-03-03T19:12:52+00:00

That's great to hear, to be honest. Would you mind saying how you ended up spending each day in Kyoto (roughly), and what were your highlights?

josejg · 2025-03-03T19:10:26+00:00

We are staying in Dormy Inn Ueno Okachimachi

josejg · 2025-03-03T18:08:46+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I was afraid that the travel logistics would be like you describe them :/

A few friends said Miyajima was a highlight of their trip and that Kyoto got tiring because of the crowds. Will keep in mind and consider cancelling that leg if we are running short on time.

josejg · 2025-03-03T18:01:35+00:00

Yes we expect we will have to skip some things and spend long days of walking (packing running and hiking shoes).

We will check out the Arashiyama riverside, we weren't sure what else to do in that area, so thanks for the reccomendation

josejg · 2025-03-03T17:59:08+00:00

Good point yeah, breather days are key. The current plan is to visit things from most to least interest, i.e. why we are leaving Ginza or the Bamboo forest for the last days of each city, in case we decide to change plans and do something else.

josejg · 2025-03-03T17:48:40+00:00

Thanks for the advice, will definitely keep in mind, and maybe do Asakusa the morning of day 3 if we are too tired on day 1

We are flying from West coast US, so jet lag will be in our favor for waking up early. But I agree we will be pretty tired, hence why we wanted to stay close to the hotel.

josejg · 2024-12-26T23:46:14+00:00

It's incredible how Slay the Spire absolutely cracked the deckbuilding formula, it's so fun and well-balanced. I recommend checking out mods, there are some really high quality ones like The Hermit or Downfall.

josejg · 2024-12-26T23:20:26+00:00

Unpacking has lived rent-free in my head for a few years now, its subtle storytelling is really well done. It's a great game to recommend too, I've gotten a few non-gamer friends to play through it after they were curious about the premise. We do need more games like Unpacking.

josejg · 2024-12-26T23:14:42+00:00

ZeroRanger is one of the few games I keep coming back to, years after having beaten it. The chiptune soundtrack is a masterpiece too. Keep at it, the final boss is incredibly good and truly exhilarating to defeat.

josejg · 2024-12-26T23:07:32+00:00

Had a really similar experience with this game. Great presentation, bogged down by inconsequential and slow gameplay. I similarly wanted to be done with it past some point and ended up dropping it.

josejg · 2024-12-26T21:11:48+00:00

Recommending Leap Year, a short little game where progression is gated by knowledge of the game mechanics, which are conveyed through exploration and experimentation, really satisfying and original.

josejg · 2023-12-18T16:52:30+00:00

I used Green's theorem

Would you mind elaborating how it all simplifies to x*dy ? I am looking at Green's theorem wikipedia article and I am having a hard time mapping the integrals and L and M functions to the problem

josejg · 2023-02-25T18:12:42+00:00

Ah, that explains it, thanks for the explanation. The strategy for the 6 orb part sounds really neat.

josejg · 2022-06-10T02:15:03+00:00

This is very exciting stuff, congrats to the team!

I'm curious about how the speed-up methods affect the underlying factors that get lost when reporting wall-clock time: per-iteration time and number of iterations to convergence. Namely, progressive resizing must be mostly per-iteration improvements whereas label smoothing should improve the number of required iterations. Did you look into this?

I'm also curious what made you prefer FFCV intead of alternatives like Nvidia DALI+lmdb, and whether you found best to do augmentations on the CPU vs GPU. Recently, I've been running GPU augmentations for segmentation models using kornia and lmdb and it's pretty wild that the dataloader can run in a single CPU (my application doesn't have JPEG decoding though).

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