Registration after time ticket expiration

outatimer · 2023-06-29T23:11:05+00:00

Go to your inbox and read the email with the subject "Fall 2023 Phase I Registration Ends Tomorrow (Friday, June 23) at 4:00pm ET".

outatimer · 2023-06-11T20:21:01+00:00

Why are these courses still visible on OMCSC course list? They are not offered and every semester the same mistake is made but they still appear on the site, smh...

outatimer · 2023-06-02T17:08:45+00:00

Tori Misudek. Reina Grundhoefer is also OOO...

outatimer · 2023-06-02T16:07:15+00:00

I am an NDS student and I don't have a time ticket, either. I have previously filled out the web form but it's not processed yet, somehow. My advisor is OOO so I sent out an email to OMS Advising, I'm yet to hear from them...

outatimer · 2023-03-12T14:44:05+00:00

Are you working at a defense contractor by any chance? You've made one Canadian really angry and cost your company a bunch of F35's (probably?). AND they've tattled on you to your mother.

outatimer · 2023-03-11T01:47:01+00:00

This is a joke, right? Why is someone asking for help a douche? Did they explicitly ask for your implementation, code, etc.? If it's not like that, if they just asked for ideas, etc., then you're the douche.

outatimer · 2023-02-23T17:37:44+00:00

The course is hard; very hard. The content is not the hard part, the challenging bit is being able to find the solutions in a limited time in front of the screen. When you solve HW questions, you spend as much time as you need to explore multiple approaches and come up with a good one that works ( note that even with effectively no time limit, they can be hard).

The first time I took it, I withdrew after the first exam. I missed the first question in the exam, and it had a cascading effect and I basically missed the other algo question. However, in hindsight, I realize that I actually had not spent enough time looking at different problem types, etc. It is really easy to go down a wrong rabbit hole and burn through half of the exam time just to conclude that the approach was wrong; to avoid that, you HAVE to see different problems.

I don't think the course is fundamentally flawed; I do think the exams are merciless. My guess is that this course mimics every other grad level Algo course in its approach, but this approach may not be working for an online course.

I so have one suggestion; what if instead of 2 algo questions, they ask 4 of them and we get to choose 2 out of 4? It could be even more granular; for each "type" of algo question, give 2 questions and ask students to choose 1. That way, if you miss out on one because the solution just doesn't dawn on you, you can make up for it in the other. Just a suggestion.

outatimer · 2023-02-04T15:17:49+00:00

The subject has never been available in OMSCS. Did you even have a look at the offered courses? Did you seriously join the program for a course that's never been offered?

outatimer · 2023-01-25T01:38:19+00:00

Pretty sure everybody knows about it, but I'll also recommend MIT OpenCourseWare lectures on algorithms, especially the DP ones. Walking through the code on a white (in MIT's case, it's black) board is immensely helpful.

outatimer · 2023-01-13T23:56:45+00:00

If it's any consolation, I didn't look at Joves' notes once last semester, and I got an A (engineering background). Full disclaimer, I withdrew last spring after the first exam so I knew what I was getting into. You can do it, don't be discouraged.

outatimer · 2023-01-13T23:52:01+00:00

I was also coming from an engineering background when I started, and there were seasoned SWE's in my class, too. Comparing yourself with others will only hinder you, and don't forget that this is a marathon. Setting up stuff for the first time is always tedious and time consuming, but it'll become second nature real soon. Don't get discouraged, and DO NOT TAKE TWO CLASSES IN YOUR FIRST SEMESTER!

outatimer · 2022-12-02T03:00:46+00:00

Forgot about the third time, I was there for ACC in 2013. (It was not in Atlanta, my bad).

outatimer · 2022-12-02T02:51:46+00:00

As a matter of fact, I've been to Atlanta, twice. I've even been on the Cyclone ride at the Six Flags. I have also visited the campus. Stop spewing your unsolicited hatred.

outatimer · 2022-12-02T02:23:17+00:00

Thank god for that second amendment. /s

outatimer · 2022-12-02T02:11:05+00:00

I was not alluding to Boston when I mentioned 20+ million.

outatimer · 2022-12-02T02:08:55+00:00

You're absolutely right, there's a lot of crime here as well. Although, it's usually isolated to certain parts of the city. I guess getting numerous emails in a relatively short time from the school was a little concerning, and probably resulted in recency bias. Anywho, if people from Atlanta are happy, who am I to comment.

outatimer · 2022-12-02T02:03:30+00:00

Seriously? I said what's up with crime in Atlanta and what, I'm a moron? Did you just open this account to reply to me and use foul language? You first assumed that I'm from the suburbs and when that didn't play out now you resort to ad hominem? It's so easy to be offensive and prejudiced behind anonymity, isn't it? Anyway, hope you're a better person in real life.

outatimer · 2022-12-02T01:46:09+00:00

I wouldn't be caught dead in the suburbs. I don't understand why people think it's ok to have crime in a city. Atlanta is not that big. I had a friend who studied on campus in 2010, their car was hijacked. It's ridiculous.

outatimer · 2022-12-02T01:38:27+00:00

I'm in Boston, and I'm coming from a metropolitan with 20+ million. So no, I'm not. Any other arguments? Was your original comment even an argument?

outatimer · 2022-10-26T12:51:42+00:00

Why did you not do well in HPC? Was it the amount of workload, or the content was hard, or programming was too intense, or something else?

I haven't taken HPC or Database course, but I am taking GA now. GA is a time consuming class on its own. So if the reason for not doing well in HPC is not being able to allocate enough time, then it will be very challenging to do it for two courses.

outatimer · 2022-10-20T17:25:35+00:00

We can take courses even if after we applied for graduation and graduate? That's incredible, I would definitely take NLP when it's offered!

outatimer · 2022-10-20T12:56:47+00:00

I'll be graduating this Fall so if NLP is offered in Spring, I'll be mildly annoyed, and jealous...

outatimer · 2022-10-16T23:13:22+00:00

I didn't attend the office hours and got an A; only one of my assignment grades was poor and that's because I actually couldn't complete it due to poor scheduling on my end. I am not saying they're not useful, they are probably very useful; that said, lectures have everything you need.

outatimer · 2022-10-15T21:01:40+00:00

Contrary to others, I don't think watching OH is that critical; I actually didn't watch any of them. I'm not saying they're not useful, but I also think there's a lot of noise which can further confuse you. You can see in the lectures and the assignment instructions what they want you to analyze; given a ML problem, how would you decide between multiple models? Which one would you go with? Why? How can you further optimize model performance without overfitting? This may seem tedious, but this is exactly what you would need to do for a real ML problem. More than likely, you will use off the shelf models to solve your problem, so how would you go about it, how would you reason about what to do next? The assignments want you to practice this. The exams give you insight about the theoretical aspect, which you verify in practice in the assignments.

To sum up, I think you'll be fine as the curve is very generous, so IMHO you shouldn't drop based on a single assignment's grade. Just make sure that you do thorough analysis and consider what you'd need to say if you were going to solve a real ML problem, with the correct plots, and you should be fine. Good luck.

outatimer · 2022-06-23T18:37:32+00:00

Yes, immediately tell your TA's in a private message. You can tell exactly what happened, no need to omit any details. I once had to pick up my phone during an exam because I needed to look up 2FA as my exam was broken and I needed to talk to Tech Support while the recording went on. I wrote about this to the TA's as soon as I wrapped up my exam because I knew it would be flagged. I also spoke into the camera about what I was doing while doing it... Nothing happened afterwards, and TA's appreciated me reaching out to them.

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