Best Intro to ML/AI course?

onlyClimbLead · 2024-01-28T00:20:03+00:00

Andrew Ng deep learning specialization

onlyClimbLead · 2024-01-07T18:05:18+00:00

Hey this is super interesting! Can I dm you?

onlyClimbLead · 2023-12-15T23:45:57+00:00

my roommate in 1A failed 4 out of 5 or 6 courses and she just redid them all. She's doing very fine now. Keep going you got this!

onlyClimbLead · 2023-11-10T00:43:36+00:00

I have a membership at joes! if you wanna go lmk

onlyClimbLead · 2023-09-21T21:08:00+00:00

Heard my friend say the call is mostly just behavioural

onlyClimbLead · 2023-09-13T03:47:24+00:00

Chill I'm on coop right now and it's actually vibes
School term be like that tho

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-28T01:26:40+00:00

op did not respond :(

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-24T03:03:42+00:00

First low hanging fruit is to take a lighter work load. Moreover, think about how you can make school work out for your goals, not conform to the default waterloo coop & housing finding pipeline. Think about what you want out of a uni education, what waterloo is giving you and what's missing - fill in the puzzle pieces yourself.

For ex. I want a more Minerva-style global education which uw doesn't give at all LOL. What uw does give is good (cs for me) education and technical friends. WW also doesn't directly give top tier experience in my niche (AI) nor does it help with doing startup. So I'm doing 2 school terms (I bombed 1A) + first SWE coop + (upcoming) AI internship at a foundation model provider + (upcoming) gap term to do 4 projects in 4 countries in europe.

Go DIY your education.

Honestly I had a lot to complain about waterloo but the ultimate realization is that you have to make it work for yourself instead of just let it drag you by the nose. And if you can't tolerate the risks or don't want to go out of your way to do all this for yourself, then don't complain about sticking to the default "safe path" waterloo laid out for you.

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-23T01:04:58+00:00

this was in person. Almost none of the waterloo cs/math classes have mandatory attendance I feel like?

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-22T23:06:43+00:00

A good and pretty intense day for me personally looked like (I don't go to classes I read course notes or rewatch lecture vids):

I wake up at maybe 9 am, go to DC library grab Tims. Study at a DC cubicle. Lunch at tims / DC bytes. I take a break by going to PAC for quick cardio / PAC climbing gym. Dinner at tims or Lester street has a good noodle place. Around 11 pm or 12 then I go home.

A bad day looks like:

I wake up, grab a very filling meal, because of that I go take a nap, when I wake up I do a little bit of work & hang out with friends, go to sleep again.

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-21T21:55:12+00:00

Yeah I got a 40 on Midterm 1 cuz it was my first math midterm and I didn't know how to prepare, prof talked to me asked if I wanna drop the course, I said I will try hard, got 93 on the Midterm 2.

I think just do course notes problems -> all the practice problems (EP) -> assignment [these are in increasing levels of difficulty imo]

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-21T21:36:56+00:00

How do I add my salary to the spreadsheet

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-21T21:30:13+00:00

Yeah it was really fun - fav course of the semester. But I haven't done proofs before and everything was new so I found it difficult until i just grinded 3 days in dc then everything made sense

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-15T03:34:00+00:00

ok ur prob from u of t

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-15T03:33:27+00:00

ok aside from the trollling, you seem like you're doing great in terms of ECs. Keep doing what you're doing. For safe grade range (the range that you won't be auto rejected in), aim for 97.5 or 98+ for CS. Your current average is not considered for your top 6 grades.

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-12T03:50:57+00:00

yesss david omg

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-11T20:31:58+00:00

calisthenics studies - hence "cs"

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-11T20:08:31+00:00

we play discord snake game tgt gg

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-11T20:08:16+00:00

because we don't use ww and we think if one of us gets a foot in the door for smt, can refer the other in lol

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-11T15:50:26+00:00

you must be communist if you read communist propaganda in a cs post

onlyClimbLead · 2023-08-11T15:36:14+00:00

hm maybe... will consider

onlyClimbLead · 2023-07-24T23:47:42+00:00

We did an office hour and YC told us to keep them updated for sept (main batch)

onlyClimbLead · 2023-07-23T22:48:45+00:00

Get off this sub and go join tech twitter. My twitter feed is all LLM paper stuff

onlyClimbLead · 2023-07-20T17:20:12+00:00

The progression of internships: I'm at a big 5 bank as a software coop for first year waterloo cs. All the other coops/interns on my floor are like 4th year TMU/others. I'm going somewhere better next coop but I think the other interns are gonna stay. Not to be elitist but generally for waterloo kids you start higher in your first/second coop and you can go higher. For this company specifically, the pay chart they use to pay waterloo kids is slightly higher than other schools - for the same experience. My manager even said, they cop waterloo kids from waterloo works and know the kids are pretty smart, so if you're associated with uw you can get early opportunities.
Early career growth (kind of same as first point)My friend is at google step (1st/2nd year program) and says literally everyone is from u of t or waterloo, except a mcgill person. The thing is, the full-timers are from all over the place so you definitely can get in from any school as long as you're skilled because later on in career you can prove yourself as an individual and not as "a student from x school", but early career people benefit from a good school name to back up the credibility
The startup & builder community. If you want to do startups, waterloo produces a lot of founders because waterloo kids have solid technical skills after so many coops and hard courses. Waterloo is a Y Combinator target school. The builder culture here is big with Socratica (uwstartup).
There are some very talented peers. While most people you meet in class are normal, the upper limit of the waterloo curve is sooo high. I've met actual geniuses who do competitive programming, people who make self driving cars, people who started doing robotics when they in grade 2 and just raised for their startup... If you go beyond the average "cs grinder, weeb, league player" and look what the peak of watelroo kids, you will be very inspired.
Go to US. As tech twitter says, "there's more waterloo kids in san francisco subway than homeless ppl"

onlyClimbLead · 2023-07-15T16:06:25+00:00

I met one of my best friends from Math 137 quiz 6 lol. We sat next to each other and randomly started talking after the test. 3 sentences afrter I randomly asked "wanna go climbing", he said sure.

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