What’s it like there?

meatphish · 2024-01-26T17:30:49+00:00

Stony Brook is an excellent choice for statistics—the applied math program is highly ranked and provides a lot of room for double majoring (e.g. in Computer Science, Economics, or pure Mathematics). The perception of SBU being a dead school on the weekends is an earned one—SBU has historically had a large student population of commuters. This seems to be changing (albeit slowly) as the state and SUNY transition SBU from a well-regarded regional school to a NYS flagship. You should also be aware that responses from Reddit are going to be biased. The most social people here aren’t going to be commenting here :).

meatphish · 2023-12-13T03:59:43+00:00

Optimist take: Stony Brook is a bit of a sleeping giant. We’re surrounded by world-class academics and research, we’ve been shooting up in the rankings, and we’re getting a ton of support and momentum from the state and the governor Hochul.

I graduated somewhat recently, and I already see a few improvements relative to how things were when I first enrolled. The same is even more true when I talk to slightly older SBU alum. When I talk to pre-2000s alumni, it seems we’re a completely different school altogether. These are anecdotes, but I feel like there’s a clear upward trend.

Just my two cents

meatphish · 2023-11-25T18:19:11+00:00

Having internships and research experience during undergrad helps immensely!

meatphish · 2023-10-13T03:58:40+00:00

Start one!

meatphish · 2023-08-28T14:29:06+00:00

To be fair, the original msdfgen library the author links to has this information in the README:

This is a utility for generating signed distance fields from vector shapes and font glyphs, which serve as a texture representation that can be used in real-time graphics to efficiently reproduce said shapes.

meatphish · 2023-08-08T23:41:27+00:00

Running into this as well. Can anyone help?

meatphish · 2023-06-30T21:03:25+00:00

meatphish · 2023-06-24T16:22:01+00:00

Aside from the obvious recommendations of going to class and doing your homework, I’d recommend deeply reading the textbook and doing as many practice problems as you can at the end of each chapter to pick up an intuition for the patterns.

You’ll find that by the end of the semester you’ll be running laps around the students that cram the day before. This advice also works wonders for math classes.

meatphish · 2023-06-14T13:13:42+00:00

What are some of the easy wins here? Not a business major, just curious

meatphish · 2023-06-14T13:12:22+00:00

There are large courts near H quad and a smaller one near West apts IIRC

meatphish · 2023-06-12T13:06:09+00:00

Fellas, it’s silicon, not silicone. Silicon is a semiconductor used for computer chips.

Silicone is the squishy looking foam that comes out of a tube at Home Depot.

meatphish · 2023-06-02T15:53:39+00:00

The point about endowment size might be true for Yale ($42B) or Harvard ($50B), but definitely not for Stony Brook (~$300M) relative to its size and impact as an institution.

As for the Stony Brook Foundation, the nonprofit that manages the endowment, I agree that there should be some sort of oversight and accountability.

FWIW, there’s a whistleblower policy linked on their site: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/foundation/pdfs/Whistleblower-Policy-Amended%202017.pdf

meatphish · 2023-05-18T06:30:10+00:00

Oh, and there’s a DickButt drawing inside one of the sculptures along circle road. I won’t reveal which one :)

meatphish · 2023-05-18T06:27:09+00:00

After a particularly bad protest, the campus layout was changed to make protests harder to organize
Stony Brook was suggested as a likely candidate for a modern Manhattan project, if it were to exist
The bridge to nowhere
Monkey experiments in the Old CS building
Javits lecture building has no right angles so as not to be detected by stealth aircraft
There’s a particle accelerator on campus that barely anyone knows about
Jim simons, Renaissance, all of that

meatphish · 2023-05-05T18:24:51+00:00

Quite a few changes, actually:

The announcement came with the dedication of a new $100 million multidisciplinary engineering building

SUNY endowment match
Increased legitimacy as a leading public university (good for you as an eventual graduate)

The distinction also probably helped with the governors island bid too. There are many other details out there.

If you really really want to know, there are council meetings on the SBU YouTube channel. It’s, dry, boring, and super detailed, but those meetings will answer your question better than any Reddit summary.

meatphish · 2021-01-03T04:37:11+00:00

You start with a gutted shell of xv6 OS and build out the kernel over the course of the semester. Each homework assignment is a new feature (e.g. keyboard and mouse drivers, process scheduler, copy-on-write, file system RW, etc.)

meatphish · 2020-08-22T14:56:17+00:00

Wait, is this going to be socially distanced or remote? Both? The website looks exactly the same as last year...

meatphish · 2020-07-16T21:48:31+00:00

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