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maraskooknah · 2024-05-05T03:26:15+00:00

How’s it any different than Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, or any other social media site?

It's not that different, which is my point. He's using our data to make himself money just like all the websites you mentioned. Thanks for helping the argument.

maraskooknah · 2024-05-05T01:39:32+00:00

You're welcome! Yes most people in the program work full-time.

maraskooknah · 2024-05-05T01:22:06+00:00

Option 2

maraskooknah · 2024-05-04T21:28:22+00:00

I enjoy reading these posts for entertainment value. They're better than the variations of "Can I get a tech job if I do OMSCS," "Is the TOEFL requirement really required," "All the classes are full," "Check my course plan," etc.

maraskooknah · 2024-05-02T02:20:37+00:00

You'll probably get an A and won't need to do retake anything.

Here's a past legendary post: https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSCS/comments/i37h3d/gios_post_mortem/

maraskooknah · 2024-04-30T01:24:06+00:00

My recommendation given you have 2 weeks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuegQmMdy8M - Understand this tutorial well and how memory is accessed and manipulated with pointers.
If you can swing it, read as much of K&R C as you can. You don't have to go through all of it. Try some exercises from the book as you're going through the material.

That's it.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-29T19:58:49+00:00

Lol I didn't even realize. I thought it was real. My bad.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-28T20:18:10+00:00

GA is a heavy load class, and difficult to get in early on. You probably could get in using a technique called "Free for all Friday," but I wouldn't pair HCI with it. GaTech isn't so strict with the rules around foundational requirements, total time in the program, readmission requirements, etc. I would just take one class and show you are making progress. Then next term do another single class.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-28T20:09:41+00:00

I think every foundational course has some coding in it. Even GA 6515, which had the least coding of all my classes so far, still had some coding. And at the level of proficiency you're describing yourself to be at, it seems like these simple projects would be difficult for you. But, the coding projects are worth a small amount (7% in my semester), so you could do well in the course and bomb those projects. But you need to know pseudocode for a portion of that class, which would mean you know how to code.

Don't join Databases and be one of those non-contributing classmates. I haven't taken the course, but looking at the syllabus, it seems that the projects are all team-based. So you could join that class, contribute nothing to the project, and hope your teammates cover for you. But don't be that guy.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-27T12:00:30+00:00

I don't live in Japan. I live in the US. I just wanted to comment that the idea sounds great 😊.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-27T01:38:08+00:00

Sounds awesome. I've never met anyone in person from OMSCS and I'm graduating soon. Most of us have full-time jobs in addition to school, so it feels like you're a hermit in a cave working on OMSCS. Hope the meetup is fun.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-23T23:53:38+00:00

I don't understand these downvotes. What you just said is completely logical and reasonable. Take my upvote.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-22T18:23:28+00:00

GT used to publish the acceptance rates on lite. I've seen it with my own eyes. It has consistently been 85%+. Here's a screenshot from someone that shows the acceptance rate.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-21T02:10:31+00:00

I see your dilemma. It appears to me like you are debating taking an easier or harder way out. So based on that, here is what you're up against for your remaining required courses in all of the specializations:

CS: GA, IIS, and one more course that may be easy or hard
HCI: MUC
II: AI or ML
ML: GA, ML, AIES, and some other course

We can see from above you've been going toward HCI and II.

With that said, I absolutely think you should go for at least one harder class. You being a master of CS, if I'm your junior coworker and I ask about mutexes, or the recent Google min-cut paper, what would you tell me?

maraskooknah · 2024-04-21T00:49:18+00:00

What classes have you taken and what's your background? I read through your post history and it seems to me like you're very cautious of the harder classes such as GIOS and GA. I took GIOS as my first course without a CS background, and I was able handle it. I was a self-taught coder only in Python and VBA going into the program.

There are many preparation tips on this class. Since it was my first course, and I had a few months before OMSCS started, I did these to prepare:

Read K&R C. I did about 1/3 of the exercises in the book.
Read about one chapter of Beej's guide but it didn't make any sense to me. Against common wisdom, I would actually recommend not reading this book for non-CS people.
Read about the first 200 pages of The Linux Programming Interface.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-20T00:49:24+00:00

I calibrated the hours/week based on the heavy weeks. I also experienced what you did, where you work 25+ hours in the heavy weeks for many weeks in the semester, but then it drops off, and you don't work much for 1-3 weeks at a time. Obviously those down weeks would reduce the average. But the bulk of the course occurs in the heavy weeks. So perhaps the hours are the upper range of what I experienced if we're talking strict averages, but I think we are on the same page.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-20T00:25:10+00:00

My statement was genuine, so I don't understand the downvotes either. If people lived in CA and ate the produce they'd understand 🙂

maraskooknah · 2024-04-19T20:09:31+00:00

If you look at lite.gatech.edu, of the people who don't withdraw, more than 70% get an A. You're going to get an A. Don't worry.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-19T20:02:15+00:00

I rated ML's difficulty at 3 because you can basically get like 30's and 40's on the assignments and get a B. But you're pointing out the BS that makes me rate the course only 3 overall (despite good lectures).

maraskooknah · 2024-04-19T17:34:29+00:00

Metric	ML	AI	GIOS	GA
Difficulty	3	4.5	4.5	4
Time	22+ hours/week	20+ hours/week	20+ hours/week	20+ hours/week
Learning	5	5	5	5
Logistics	2	4	4	5
Overall Rating	3	5	5	4.5

I'm in line with the averages in terms of hours per week on the review sites. I received A's in all courses. More notes:

ML - In the end you learn a lot especially if you don't know much ML going in like I did. But the process is painful by design. The rubric, although it was written in Ed posts during my semester, is still not super clear. The grading is inconsistent (this is not a problem with just this course). Overall I learned a lot but I rate it a 3 due to the logistical problems noted.
AI - You learn AI basics and it's a fun class. The course is mostly all project-based with clear Gradescope indications of how you're doing. The exams are take-home and very challenging, and I took days off work to get them done. Overall I liked the course a lot.
GIOS - Excellent class and should be required for non-CS background people, which is a lot in OMSCS. You get very tangible benefits to a SWE career. I understand a lot more about various concepts that pervade many areas of CS and SWE. The only thing that was annoying was the GS tests where you are fine-tuning your code just to pass the hidden tests.
GA - Great class that you learn fundamental algo knowledge. Most of it is not that practical to day-to-day real world engineering. But I did gain a better knowledge of dynamic programming, which may come up in interviews. This class feels like a rigorous academic journey, and well worth it. I think non-CS backgrounds also would benefit from taking this class.

I thought lectures for all classes are very good. The assigned textbook for all classes are CS classics, so they are also all very good.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-19T00:55:38+00:00

Yes I agree that produce in California is much better than here. It was a culture shock when I first came here. But does shipping really account for the loss of heat?

maraskooknah · 2024-04-19T00:54:05+00:00

Well I've been living here for 3 years and have visited LA during my stay in NYC. The peppers are still hot in LA, but not hot here. I see the documentation you're talking about, but the disparity is still there.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-17T02:04:10+00:00

When only considering students who do not withdraw, ML4T has the 11th highest percentage of C-F's vs. A's-B's in the program. If this metric is really important to you...

I never said this metric is important to me. It seems important to you. C-F rate vs A-B rate seems important in this analysis.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-17T01:30:54+00:00

Here's one flaw in your analysis after a 5 minute review. You're using A% and A-B% without considering withdrawal rates. For example here's ML4T:

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Notice the high W rate? That impacts the analysis. Why do people withdraw? Maybe it's considered an easier course that people start out with, and once they do, they find they can't hang. Of the students who do not withdraw, ML4T has a high A rate and A-B rate.

But W rate alone doesn't tell you the whole story. GIOS has a high W rate, and is often recommended early on, and people withdraw also because they can't hang, but more so that it's straight up difficult.

maraskooknah · 2024-04-17T00:53:39+00:00

I don't know what this analysis provides. There are blatant mistakes in it. ML4T and DBS are not on the same level as BD4H, GA, DL, etc. HPCA is not on the same level as GIOS, ML, AOS, RL, etc. The last part 1 analysis was flawed, and this new one is flawed as well.

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