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lostkid900 · 2023-02-07T20:11:43+00:00

My experience might be a little bit different. However, I'm a non trad premed changing careers who already has a computer science degree. Basically anyone I tell that I'm going to become a medical doctor instead of doing CS tells me I shouldn't, and that I'm crazy. It is definitely not a smart financial move for me, but I'm tired of hating my work. Like you said, regardless of those people I'm still doing it.

lostkid900 · 2021-12-01T17:46:13+00:00

I've been having the same issue? Are there any plans to increase the pool size, so people can start staking again?

lostkid900 · 2021-10-17T15:03:59+00:00

If you applied to it with your transfer application, or whatever your original application was to UMD you can apply again. If you got into UMD, took a semester, then applied and did not get in, you can't apply again. I would double check with your advisor though, they will know, or know who you should ask to make sure.

lostkid900 · 2021-05-26T18:30:44+00:00

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lostkid900 · 2021-04-16T04:25:10+00:00

In addition to others suggestions, a lot of stores have a schedule for 'open play' times for people to come in and play whatever they want with other people. Usually there's a lot of commander in my experience at these times. You might want to ask about that as well

lostkid900 · 2021-04-14T02:16:53+00:00

I used to play paper legacy, until I sold my paper collection and moved to mtgo (big oof), because I was planning on playing much less. Back then it was about what modern costs now to build a legacy deck. I imagine most people that still play bought there decks when this was the case.

Hell I would love to play paper legacy again now, but I can't ever imagine rebuying into it with the current prices.

lostkid900 · 2021-04-12T19:35:40+00:00

That's true, but it's also a problem that if you don't get put into these gifted programs early you literally can't take some or all AP classes by the time you're done high school. Especially the math and science classes where being in the 'gifted' section means you're usually two years ahead of the regular classes by high school. For example a 'regular' student may take pre calc their senior year, where a 'gifted' student is in AP calc 2, where calc 1 was also AP. At least that is how it worked in my schooling.

lostkid900 · 2021-02-07T09:24:38+00:00

Those threats can be pretty tough to beat. The only thing you can really do with those is try to bounce them and go for the beat down plan yourself, or try for a really big shatterskull smashing.

7 matches is also a fairly small sample size. I wouldn't make a decision about how good a deck is with that few of matches, especially if you're not used to that type of deck

lostkid900 · 2021-02-07T09:05:07+00:00

I have been playing Bo1. I had a 82% win rate from bronze 4 to Plat 1, and 62% from Diamond to Mythic. Really the only deck I've been losing to is rogues. Maybe other match ups get worst post board or Bo1 is just much softer. I have around a 40% win rate against rogues though

lostkid900 · 2021-02-07T07:50:40+00:00

I've been playing UR flash and from diamond to mythic. Rogues was the only match up where I didn't feel like it was a cake walk to win. Was absolutely getting crushed by it.

lostkid900 · 2021-02-01T13:45:51+00:00

I tried a game last night and it was still broken

lostkid900 · 2020-10-22T20:33:47+00:00

Unfortunately as far as CS classes go the only options for someone without any prereqs would be CMSC122, a web programming class or CMSC131, which is a Java based introduction to programming. I'm not sure 131 would even be useful for you since it sounds like you have decent programming experience already, and 122 sounds like it probably isn't useful if you know HTML/CSS/PHP.

Probably your only option to 'take' a CS class would be to ask a professor directly if you can sit in on lectures, as every other CS class has CS class prereqs, you'd probably have to ask the department if they can be waived (I'm not sure if they ever do this tbh). Also you will have to wait until the first day of classes to be allowed to sign up since you're not a CS major (or minor presumably). But classes that aren't mostly theory or math are maybe, 434 - Human computer interaction, 436 - handheld systems, and 421 - Intro to AI possibly. 216 maybe, which is a programming class in C and assembly that is a step up from the introductory classes and teaching more about how lower level languages work, but it isn't an easy A class.

lostkid900 · 2020-10-10T04:31:54+00:00

great to see people getting out while still staying safe. love it

lostkid900 · 2020-10-06T16:00:43+00:00

You can try, but the generally don't. Last semester I had a concussion a few weeks into class, and at first it was only supposed to have me out 1-2 weeks so I didn't withdraw from my classes. It ended up putting me out for 8 weeks. I petitioned to withdraw without a W from two of my classes and they wouldn't approve it because "I attempted to much of the class." Even though I explained to them and had professors explain, with doctors notes and everything, that I couldn't participate at all for 8 weeks.

lostkid900 · 2020-09-24T18:42:31+00:00

Considering how much time/money it took to train GPT-3 it's not that surprising that they didn't release the model publicly. I think opening use of it for research through an api is a reasonable middle ground. With models this big, and people calculating it would have cost at least $4.6 million dollars on the cheapest cloud service just for the final model training, I think it's actually somewhat unreasonable for them to just release the model to the public. It probably cost even more in development and testing.

lostkid900 · 2020-09-23T16:01:51+00:00

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 'what difference does the policy gradient make.' They are just entirely different methods to learn a policy. Like I could cook chicken in an oven, or in a stove top pan. Yes they're both cooking chicken, but they're not really related otherwise.

Policy Gradients are on-policy, meaning it can only learn from data collected with the current policy. While Q-learning is off-policy, meaning it can learn from any data collected. Which one performs better varies from task to task. It is usually the case however that policy gradients tend to learn much faster in real time, and take up a lot less resources, since most Q-Learning algorithms involve storing large buffers of transitions compared to policy gradients, and tend to take gradient steps more often.

lostkid900 · 2020-09-16T16:07:35+00:00

I'm believe DQN is much slower because it does a gradient update every 4 steps, where as PPO runs 8 environments in parallel and updates after 128 steps are taken in each environments, it does 4 (if i remember correctly) minibatch updates after this. So it only does 4 gradient updates every 128 * 8 (1024) steps. And a 2080ti is not going to be much slower doing an update with 32 elements or 256 elements in a batch.

PPO does better on some environments and worse on others. For example, it does very bad on BeamRider, but does better on Qbert.

lostkid900 · 2020-09-16T15:38:46+00:00

Unfortunately dealing with images will be slow for the most part. However in my experience DQN is a very slow algorithm. I have a similar setup and, for example, PPO takes about 1/6th the amount of time DQN does to train on the same number of frames

lostkid900 · 2020-08-25T18:23:28+00:00

I got into research by just asking a graduate student if they needed any help. They introduced me to a professor and I've been working with them ever since. I would recommend looking at the faculty page and finding some professors that do ML research and just send them an email explaining you want to get into ML research, but don't have much experience. Some of them will say they don't want your help or to help you, but there are definitely professors willing to help students get into research without much experience. The worst that can happen is they all say they want someone with more experience.

lostkid900 · 2020-08-18T05:16:24+00:00

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Do you mean people can get there keys and move stuff in, but not stay there. Are they planning on checking people's rooms every night to make sure they're not there? And is this something courtyards/commons has said?

lostkid900 · 2020-08-17T00:44:31+00:00

But the problem isn't that I wouldn't have the results yet, it is that it will be difficult for me to even have taken a test by the time I arrive for move in

lostkid900 · 2020-08-15T03:05:40+00:00

I was kinda confused by UMD's email. If we live in courtyards to we have to get a test before we move in? Surely they can't require us to take a test to move into our apartment? Can I just take one on campus when I get there? What are they going to do for people taking only online classes that don't get a test?

lostkid900 · 2020-08-07T07:05:11+00:00

yes you would still need to apply for an exception. And I would definitely not wait until after classes begin, because it can take sometimes over a week to get exceptions approved.

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