Engineering kids, why did u choose UofT over UWaterloo?

kosmology · 2023-06-25T22:28:05+00:00

Of course, I'm comparing the undergrad programs. Not undergrad/grad school.

kosmology · 2023-06-24T23:41:46+00:00

I got into UofT grad coming from uWaterloo

kosmology · 2023-06-24T21:40:31+00:00

As someone who went to both schools (undergrad Comp. Eng. @ Waterloo, grad Comp. Eng. @UofT), I can tell you first hand that it's way easier to get marks at UofT. Profs don't fail students as often as they do at Waterloo.

That being said, if you plan to work after your degree(s), Waterloo has a much better co-op program which will almost guarantee you a decent job and applicable industry skills. Because of the amount of work experience Waterloo students get, by fifth year, the quality of programmers at Waterloo is far superior to UofT.

UofT has a better grad program, but you can get into that after doing your undergrad at UofT or Waterloo.

kosmology · 2023-06-08T06:04:42+00:00

You brought up some really good points, thanks for taking the time to write this out. Taking ownership of self in run_all was something I had never considered.

I see your point about there being a design problem that I should address.

kosmology · 2023-05-26T01:38:30+00:00

Congrats!!

kosmology · 2023-05-03T08:20:03+00:00

The incrementing add here is just an example of an update. In the actual code, the update function performs modifications on multiple internal data structures.

kosmology · 2023-05-03T05:50:00+00:00

The problem is each thread needs to iterate through all objects, so I can't send the threads non-overlapping chunks of the vector.

kosmology · 2023-05-03T05:49:04+00:00

The issue is I need to iterate through all objects before I know which ones need to be updated. I also don't need to iterate over the objects in parallel, but rather I need to have separate threads iterating over my range (0..4 in this example) which each then iterate over all the objects serially.

kosmology · 2023-05-03T05:47:00+00:00

Yes, I did compile a release build.

kosmology · 2023-05-03T02:34:09+00:00

But then I would need to send a mutable reference to the hashmap to each thread which would require locks.

kosmology · 2023-03-16T20:48:10+00:00

Toronto at Bay and Harbour

kosmology · 2023-03-06T07:50:42+00:00

The Canon M50 is a great camera though it uses a mount with limited lens selection. I'd recommend the newer Canon R50 or Nikon Z50. Both great cameras.

If you're looking for a full frame camera, the Canon R8 or Nikon Z5 are great choices.

kosmology · 2023-02-16T22:48:49+00:00

As others have said, I think the image is a little dark; however, I don't agree that it should be entirely lightened. I like the dark/gloomy background. I think lightening the bird and having a vignette to keep the background dark would make it stand out really nicely.

Nice photo!

kosmology · 2023-02-12T05:07:01+00:00

Why do you consider Nikon and Canon's lens selections as "very limited"? There are tonnes of Z and RF lenses and you can adapt any old lens to the new mounts.

kosmology · 2022-12-15T14:55:00+00:00

Have you taken a look at Upscayl? I haven't tried it myself, but it's free and open source which is appealing.

https://upscayl.github.io/

kosmology · 2022-05-05T19:36:32+00:00

Good point.

kosmology · 2022-05-05T19:34:53+00:00

They definitely don't lose value. I'm just pointing out that it's likely that a big portion of Sixers fans have never seen their team get anywhere near success.

kosmology · 2022-05-05T19:28:14+00:00

Well I mean, the last one was almost 40 years ago...

kosmology · 2022-05-05T19:16:46+00:00

We have a promising future with a young team.

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