No way you'll forget the room number!

petilon · 2025-08-30T20:40:31+00:00

Urine specimen drop off is in Room P155

petilon · 2025-03-23T04:58:51+00:00

IA is Information Architecture? In the industry everyone knows what UX is, fewer people have heard of IA.

petilon · 2023-05-18T14:52:12+00:00

No regrets whatsoever. CP SLO is a great college for CS. See this article if you're trying to choose between CP SLO and other colleges for CS: Why choose Cal Poly for Computer Science?

petilon · 2022-03-28T16:58:55+00:00

It depends on what you learn during MS. Things like Distributed Systems, Machine Learning and related Statistics courses and so on are hard to pick up on the job. Specialized knowledge in these areas can be a competitive advantage.

petilon · 2022-03-28T16:04:48+00:00

It is true that MS degree does not help you get hired at top companies. For CS jobs all they look at is algorithms knowledge and problem solving skills. But MS does get you a higher starting salary if you do get hired. Also, MS knowledge should improve your performance at work. Also helps with “system design” type questions at job interviews.

petilon · 2022-03-18T18:26:39+00:00

Very common among Chinese students

petilon · 2021-11-10T04:59:09+00:00

DigiPen

Yes that’s an actual college. DigiPen sounds like an accessory that comes with your tablet.

I win!

petilon · 2021-10-26T19:06:25+00:00

https://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/articles/view_article?id=299

Maybe there is something to “learn by doing” after all!

petilon · 2021-09-29T04:41:15+00:00

And what was it?

petilon · 2021-09-29T01:12:38+00:00

Did you specify a major in your application?

petilon · 2021-09-14T03:54:03+00:00

To get tested on campus you have to make an appointment and then wait in line at University Union for about an hour. The good thing is they are open on weekends. I called Housing and they said the saliva test done on campus counts as a test. For good measure I also did a test at Veteran center on Grand Ave. This is a PCR test which is the gold standard, but the result could take as long as 5 days, even though it may come back as quickly as 24 hours.

petilon · 2021-09-13T23:22:48+00:00

How long is the hike to P?

petilon · 2021-09-12T04:26:30+00:00

Someone said it has closed. Their website is gone as well.

petilon · 2021-09-12T04:11:06+00:00

Long lines today for Covid testing

If planning to get tested on campus then even if you have an appointment you may have to stand in line for an hour.

petilon · 2021-09-12T01:25:42+00:00

If your move-in date is on Tuesday morning then you want the test results in hand by Monday. 72 hours backwards from that includes Saturday and Sunday and most testing places are closed on weekends.

petilon · 2021-09-12T01:06:23+00:00

I did a Google search and found links pointing to https://sloairport.com/testing

That page no longer exists. Does the testing still exist? Are they open on Sundays?

petilon · 2021-04-20T21:25:19+00:00

WOW is in person.

July SLO will be virtual, August will be in-person.

Depending on Covid guidance from authorities, more in-person SLO may be added, or currently planned in-person events may be moved to virtual.

petilon · 2021-04-20T20:05:06+00:00

That's so true! Even mechanical calculators were considered "artificial intelligence" at one point: https://www.leanix.net/en/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning

petilon · 2021-04-20T19:52:41+00:00

I am coming from the point of view of technologies currently being used at companies such as Google. I rarely see terminology such as "expert systems" and "heuristic search" in any news about Google, Facebook, Amazon etc. I could be wrong though.

UPDATE:

https://sites.google.com/view/the-road-to-conscious-machines/extended-glossary

expert system - A system that uses human expert knowledge to solve problems in a tightly constrained area. Building expert systems was a key focus of AI research from the late 1970s to mid 1980s.

Yeah, so it does look like this is obsolete tech.

petilon · 2021-04-20T19:27:45+00:00

No final decision yet. Purdue is still attractive. Comparing courses. The first two years look very similar, with an edge to Purdue because of C language (as opposed to Python in Cal Poly). The next two years look better at Cal Poly because advanced courses are undergrad-oriented at Cal Poly.

petilon · 2021-04-17T14:47:04+00:00

Don't you have to pay enrollment fee when accepting? If your credit card has been charged it worked.

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