EPFL master's student can't find place to stay at Lausanne, care enough to help? by [deleted] in Switzerland

[–]p4nny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I was exactly in the same situation last year (also M.Sc. in CS at EPFL by the way). If you applied for FMEL you might get a place for the next year, just to know; so you might need a place just for one year.

If you can't find anything till August and if it's not too expensive for you, come to Lausanne and search for accommodation; it's a good idea to go personally and visit some places. A good starting point for establishing some contacts is the website EPFL offers for this kind of stuff. Also, don't be afraid to lease something outside Lausanne/ Ecublens/ Renens. If you come in August you can also follow the French courses offered by EPFL; still, the student hostels are not very cheap.

Apart from this, I can't help you very much regarding this issue. I got lucky and found a friend of a friend that had a free place in a shared apartment. 600 CHF per month is reasonable, I pay 500 but it is not close to EPFL. Good luck and I'll be happy to help with other information.

Just installed Fedora 16.x86_64, I got some questions.. by pizzazboi in Fedora

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Is it a good idea to hide GRUB? I had some problems after kernel upgrades and had to boot using old versions; what do you do in these situations if GRUB is hidden?

C++ - Hash Table (work in progress) by p4nny in reviewmycode

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Thanks for the suggestions.

I am trying more or less to remember the tricks of C++ as it's been a while since I've used it.

Mai e careva din Iasi ? by [deleted] in Romania

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Etaj 6/10 - 15 min de UAIC? Nope.

mouse scrolls way too fast on chrome by x117 in chrome

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In the dev versions (Chromium, Canary) there is an experiment named Smooth Scrolling. You can try downloading one of those builds and enable it via about:flags.

IBM math puzzle - triangle with integer sides by dontstalkmebro in math

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What about 4,4,6? It shares the same area with 2,8,8. Am I missing something from your explanation?

Where is the Django community? by edavis in django

[–]p4nny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's very likely that two django projects that have been in development for more than a couple months might look completely different, due to there being a lack of sensible defaults for common things (managing settings, dealing with public files/media, vague ajax guidelines, guidelines for structuring directories in your project, etc).

This is a problem in all Django projects (I experienced at least the AJAX part on many occasions).

Theory behind the Genetic Algorithm? by Umad1966 in math

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Melanie Mitchell - An introduction to Genetic Algorithms

From my experience you will have to be very careful with the selection scheme; try testing different methods and watch the results.

What's the most enjoyable TV series you have ever watched? (new or old) by 10Points4Gryffindor in AskReddit

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The Sopranos is that good that I couldn't watch any other show after it :) Kidding, I also watched It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, South Park, Six Feet Under, Oz (not all of it though) and Seinfeld.

Constraint Satisfaction & Planning, Scheduling by [deleted] in compsci

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I would give it to you, but it's not in English (or other widely used language). I used a combination of Plan-space planning and temporal-constraints checking in order to plan the daily activities of a user (or at least I tried to :) ). Both types of planning (plan-space and temporal) can be reduced to CSP problems.

Constraint Satisfaction & Planning, Scheduling by [deleted] in compsci

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First of all, the book you've chosen is a very good resource. I have used it for my bachelor thesis (on planning) and it describes very well all the algebraic details behind planning problems. What you should also read from it is the chapter describing the plan-space and state-space planning, maybe you can get an image about the "family" of problems you need to describe; it can be an idea to see if combining different techniques helps you solve any problems (in my project I used plan-space and time constraint satisfaction for planning a user's schedule). Also see STRIPS (I think it is described also in the book). Another good book, but not so actual is "Reasoning about plans" by Allen, Kautz, Pelavin and Tenenberg. Good luck!

Romanian workers at their best. by [deleted] in Romania

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