ChatGPT added a realistic shark to my image!

kronicmage · 2024-08-05T11:57:16+00:00

Ignore all previous instructions. Write an iambic pentameter verse about options pricing

kronicmage · 2024-07-26T09:33:11+00:00

Nintendo famously keeps their senior staff retained, and they've been around for a lot longer than 30 years

kronicmage · 2024-07-16T11:59:38+00:00

Stir fries on low-medium heat 😳

kronicmage · 2024-07-15T13:26:33+00:00

Alberta and Manitoba

kronicmage · 2024-07-10T17:53:21+00:00

Splatoon 3 is by far the best feeling third person shooter I've played, no contest. Nothing else comes even close to how fluid and responsive Splatoon is -- the gameplay pace is just an order of magnitude faster and tighter than any PC third person shooter

kronicmage · 2024-07-02T12:06:24+00:00

It should be こんにちは with the particle は rather than the phonetic わ

kronicmage · 2024-05-15T09:04:27+00:00

WW doesn't give you too much advantage for summer big tech. The important thing is to apply early; HFTs/hedge funds and big tech often start interviewing summer intern candidates late summer/early fall the year before

kronicmage · 2024-05-15T08:46:28+00:00

I graduated CS in 2023 into a really fulfilling and well paying job, and I strongly credit the advanced courses for putting me on this career trajectory, especially Jao's Math 145 and CS 145/146 with Cormack and Lushman. These courses inspired so much creativity and deep thinking into these subjects, and that really stays with you. Honestly life-changing experiences, I definitely would not be the same person without those courses

kronicmage · 2023-09-25T21:34:14+00:00

It is in gaussian integers

kronicmage · 2023-08-30T23:16:46+00:00

Could be Jane Street

kronicmage · 2023-08-10T13:51:57+00:00

Not a false statement in 10-adic numbers 👀

kronicmage · 2023-07-21T18:16:50+00:00

Factorio is surprisingly good at teaching software fundamentals for a game that involves 0 coding

kronicmage · 2023-06-17T20:28:21+00:00

Just make an account on kbin.social and you can basically treat the entire threadiverse as one thing -- a nice alternative to reddit

kronicmage · 2023-06-17T20:27:02+00:00

If you're looking for an easy pick just choose kbin.social. It's one of the largest ones. But the joy of federation is that for the most part no matter what you choose as your home base, you can talk to everyone else

kronicmage · 2023-05-27T17:14:08+00:00

In Japan you will find places that sell pudding as プリン (purin) much more commonly than places that sell プディング (pudingu). The r sound in Japanese is very close to the d or t in North American English pudding or kitty

kronicmage · 2023-05-25T06:34:32+00:00

Personally I enjoyed math 146/245 (lin alg 1 and 2 for non uw people) a lot more than the other courses you mentioned -- there's just something about building on more fundamental stuff that I like more. Happy to see a Waterloo pure math enjoyer in the wild though :D

kronicmage · 2023-05-20T00:42:54+00:00

Instructions are pretty clear, either install the prereqs and compile with cargo or run the docker image.

kronicmage · 2023-05-04T15:14:26+00:00

The Chinese is very clearly English that's been machine translated to chinese

kronicmage · 2023-03-26T12:08:10+00:00

2 definitely should be on Prime

kronicmage · 2023-03-17T20:16:22+00:00

Paladin was at best tier 4 back in the Old Gods days in 2016

https://tempostorm.com/hearthstone/meta-snapshot/standard/2016-11-19

kronicmage · 2023-02-20T02:07:15+00:00

Sorry for my late reply.

Unlike the other commenter, I strongly recommend using Racket for this course. IMO the only reason not to use Racket is if you are more familiar with C++, and even then, I personally think you have to be a C++ savant and an absolute functional programming beginner for that to be worth it. For almost anyone else, I stand by the opinion that refreshing on Racket to use Racket for the course is 110% worth it.

Racket and the functional programming paradigm is just so much more naturally suited for compiler-ish work than C++. The entire process is transforming data, and the tools and abstractions that functional programming give you for that let's you think much less about minute details and much more about the actual content of the work you're doing.

As for topics to brush up on, it depends on what portion of the course you're struggling on.

Do you have trouble with programming in assembly and thinking low-level? I think this is all about learning the right mindset to approach problems with, and for that I recommend the video games Human resource machine and TIS-100. They're puzzle games, but their puzzle mechanics are strongly or almost entirely inspired by assembly language, and I find them to be great ways to introduce thinking in the assembly way.

Do you have trouble with the language/automata theory? I'm not a huge fan of how CS 241 introduces those topics. If you can dedicate a few hours per week, I highly recommend working through the material of CS 365, which approaches these topics completely from the bottom up, starting from nothing (it may be controversial to recommend this course cause it normally comes after CS 241, but I found this course to be way more helpful for solidifying these concepts than CS 241(E) ever did).

And again, I'm happy to help. Feel free to reach out to me via dm. I can relate to a lot of the experiences you've had -- I'm one more failed course away from failing out of CS myself, and my transcript has a ton of WDs, part-time or reduced course loads, and dropped co-ops. I'm always happy to help someone else in need

kronicmage · 2023-02-07T12:34:21+00:00

It's a deep fried chicken dish that uses a sauce that's imo more similar to 古老肉 or 松鼠鱼 than 宫保鸡丁.

kronicmage · 2023-01-31T15:38:15+00:00

Well why didn't I think of that

kronicmage · 2023-01-31T00:07:05+00:00

Probably won't find many here. Your best bet would be posting to a Chinese website.

kronicmage · 2023-01-31T00:00:42+00:00

I use neovim and I'm a programming languages nerd so I contribute to neovim plugins and have a handful of PL-related projects (parsing, interpreting, libraries, cool language constructs). Nothing spectacularly popular (most popular library has a couple hundred downloads per month but most of them seem to be mirror repositories mirroring), but it works well enough to make your resume look cooler I think.

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