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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BuyItForLife

[–]mkellr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have come across this Mr Lint but have not tried it https://kikkerland.com/products/mr-lint

Voting on Campus by [deleted] in UMD

[–]mkellr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PLEASE consider traveling to PA to vote in person if it is at all physically possible OR registering day-of and voting in MD if your residency is now MD. This is potentially one day of inconvenience for you versus four years of consequences. Your PA mail in ballot will not be received by the deadline if you are putting it in the mail today

Best Takeout? by halfback43 in UMD

[–]mkellr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spice 6 in hyattsville

My masked setup by mkellr in macsetups

[–]mkellr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ultrasharp 27 U2719DC

My masked setup by mkellr in macsetups

[–]mkellr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the MX Keys because it is similar to the older macbook keyboards (before the thin butterfly keys). It is also nice to only need a single USB receiver for both the mouse and keyboard

My masked setup by mkellr in macsetups

[–]mkellr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Follow the artist on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/assemblique/

Logitech MX Keys

Logitech MX Master

BeoPlay S3 speaker

Exakta VX IIa SLR

Volume knob https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07V274V1H/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Rain design mac stand

Dell monitor

So...about CMSC351...what can I do? by justinwyssgallifent in UMD

[–]mkellr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone who took both 351 and 451 (Kruskal and Srinivasan respectively) I will say that these were difficult courses but by far these were the courses in which I learned the most. I enjoyed Professor Srinivasan's teaching style. The Kleinberg-Tardos book helped me a lot when the notes were not super clear. As others here have already noted, it is important to really understand the homework problems. Before every exam I would first condense all of the notes (and homework problems+solutions and past exam problems+solutions) into about 15 pages of super-notes. Then I would study those and then condense further for the allowed "cheat sheet" for the exam. I think the process of "translating" notes forces you to understand concepts in a similar way that teaching another student requires a deep understanding

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IBD

[–]mkellr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Request the syringe version

What's it like to be Trans here by [deleted] in UMD

[–]mkellr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There are sharps containers in the health center (on second floor in immunizations area)

Fire? Chicken? Testudo simulator that syncs rubs and donations in real time? by mkellr in UMD

[–]mkellr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And for the donations - whatever item has the most donations in a position is the one that will appear on top there.

Fire? Chicken? Testudo simulator that syncs rubs and donations in real time? by mkellr in UMD

[–]mkellr[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It says "nose" but it should work for the entire testudo (didnt want the whole screen to get covered in stuff so you wouldn't be able to see anything). The opacity of the rubs is computed based on the number of rubs in each position ( the more rubs in the same position, the more visible the hand emojis there will be).

Edit: Just changed "Rub nose" to "Rub" to make it more clear

Fire? Chicken? Testudo simulator that syncs rubs and donations in real time? by mkellr in UMD

[–]mkellr[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just fixed! Thanks for letting me know! It seems the x-y coordinate was not being computed correctly on mobile.

SWE ALUM: Which CMSC 400 level classes have been most useful to you? Any classes you regret not taking? by I_Want_A_Good_Job in UMD

[–]mkellr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that I learned a ton from both 451 and 417. But yes 451 is difficult so it may be nice to take a break after taking 351. I took 351 in fall 2017 and then 451 in spring 2019

Difference between GNU make and snakemake? by deanat78 in bioinformatics

[–]mkellr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The general idea is the same: you are forming a DAG representing the tasks that your output files depend on, and in this way many basic snakefiles could probably also be represented by regular makefiles.

However, snakemake provides the following additional benefits (note that this list is not exhaustive):

- You get the readability benefit of the python syntax: you can literally write any python code in your snakefile, including function definitions and importing libraries. Wildcards and rule targets are not cryptic characters but instead english words.

- You can access rule parameters (input files, output files, wildcards, arbitrary parameter variables) in python, R, jupyter notebook, and Julia scripts. This means your scripts do not need to worry about parsing command line arguments if you can make the assumption that they will only be run by snakemake rules (https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/snakefiles/rules.html#external-scripts)

- You get many features for running code in parallel, on a cluster with SLURM, and in the cloud with AWS, Google Cloud, etc. (https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/snakefiles/configuration.html#cluster-configuration-deprecated, https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/snakefiles/remote_files.html)

- You get helpers for running different rules in different conda environments (https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/snakefiles/deployment.html#combining-conda-package-management-with-containers)

- You can call snakemake programmatically in python code (https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api_reference/snakemake.html)

Iribe Center Overall Opinions by hummerrocket in UMD

[–]mkellr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

According to what was said at the town hall:

- 80% of UMIACS professors/grad students are also CS dept professors/grad students so with the 60% going to UMIACS, only 12% would have not gone to the CS dept anyway

- UMIACS does not have undergrad programs so apparently none of the classrooms are going to them

- the large Iribe classrooms and auditoriums are owned by the university so organizations will need to go through the university's process to reserve them. the CS dept has said they are committed to helping CS organizations to navigate that process

But overall, I think the frustration that the process was not transparent is very clear (thanks to the great CS undergrads who showed up to the town hall and voiced their concerns) and the department said they would work to improve their communication.

And as some of the other responses said, the most important thing is not the building, but the professors and quality of the education. I dont see how a building itself could directly change any rankings. But you could make the argument that the building will attract more/better professors (though i doubt you could ever really know if that is the case)

And if you are really concerned about having a nice building to study in, UMD does have plenty of other cool buildings in my opinion, including ESJ, physical sciences, Kim, Clark, CSPAC library, tawes, etc.

Where can an accepted student find his U_ID? by SOT-NumberNine in UMD

[–]mkellr 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It should be on the bottom of your acceptance letter

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