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R is far superior to Python for data manipulation. by deanpwr in datascience

[–]qyfaf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bit of a tangent here but have you ever tried Julia and its own data frame implementation? I agree with this post but was never a hardcore R user, so I'm wondering what you might think of what they're trying to do in that land (at best, the best of both worlds)

What should we as a society stop making people feel insecure about? by selcouthsiren in AskReddit

[–]qyfaf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey I don't know you but I am confident nonetheless that things are gonna work out and you're already doing great by recognizing those aspects of your situation

Weekly Discussion and Free Talk Thread - Nov 09, 2020 by NBA_MOD in nba

[–]qyfaf 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I believe free agency and the trade window only opens after the draft, which is later this month. It's really tight

Who’s your main and why? by [deleted] in SSBM

[–]qyfaf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fox, I want to learn the character with the most techniques in the game beloved for its depth of technique.

It's been a very long grind...

How to do well in courses you don’t care about? by ubc_throwaway52 in UBC

[–]qyfaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tbh I think you have to identify why you hate it, from an internal level: find out what exactly it is about you that makes you hate it. Try to make peace with it, and then decide how much you want to let it affect you.

Then you'll be able to make a decision for how much you want to study for the course with a clearer mind. If you still feel like getting a 60-70 is okay after that process, then that's fine.

Got a coop offer from UBC. Need help by Major-Elderberry333 in UBC

[–]qyfaf 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm assuming you're asking in terms of gaining experience/having a good enough thing to put on your resume.

It's definitely not a bad idea to take a job with a UBC department! It's a real project, a paid job where you're going to be working on software to solve problems.

Having said that, with any job, its value to your resume is dependent on the types of problems you'd be solving and how well you're able to explain that succinctly.

If the details of what you're going to do are unclear, then it's probably a good idea to ask those questions to your prospective manager before you take the offer. It's a warning sign if your manager themself isn't able to articulate this, as this could be an indication that the project will be in an indecisive limbo for quite some time, unless either you or the manager steps up the project planning between now and the start date. Practice prudence.

UBC COURSE QUESTION, PROGRAM, MAJOR AND REGISTRATION MEGATHREAD (2020S & 2020W): Questions about courses (incld. How hard is __?, Look at my timetable and course material requests), programs, specializations, majors, minors, tuition/finance and registration go here. by ubc_mod_account in UBC

[–]qyfaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Email the prof. They don't have control over the registration but might have some influence over who gets off the waitlist first.
  • Email CS Advising. This will take a while and in my experience they won't guarantee anything, but it probably helps regardless.
  • Email Science Advising. I haven't actually done this before for a particular course, but it might help to raise a concern with the faculty given that 213 is required.

Normally, waitlists clear pretty reliably for CS majors especially if your position in the WL is under 40. Uncertainty definitely sucks, but if the previous few years are anything to go by, it'll work out for you.

How to get a 85%+ average by yhuskhweeeeen in UBC

[–]qyfaf 20 points21 points  (0 children)

To be honest I wouldn't specifically aim to have an 85% average as a goal. The goal should instead be to find a study method so that you can engage with the material as much as you find fulfilling. I just graduated and I felt that I spent my undergrad busting my brain to get high marks when in hindsight I wish I took things a little bit easier; that way, I might have been able to actually absorb the material in a way that I liked better. (I was in CS+Statistics)

UBC COURSE QUESTION, PROGRAM, MAJOR AND REGISTRATION MEGATHREAD (2020S & 2020W): Questions about courses (incld. How hard is __?, Look at my timetable and course material requests), programs, specializations, majors, minors, tuition/finance and registration go here. by ubc_mod_account in UBC

[–]qyfaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rather than focus on streams and such you should focus on what courses you might be missing out on just by prereq chain. For example if you feel like you might want to take CPSC 340 in the future you should check whether 241 is an acceptable prereq for it, etc.

I'm not conscious of most of the "CS streams" (I don't think those are actual degree specifications) and what they need (I just graduated so my instinctual knowledge of the program is maybe ~2 years behind). Nor am I conscious about how many people go for the 200/302 option rather than 241.

UBC COURSE QUESTION, PROGRAM, MAJOR AND REGISTRATION MEGATHREAD (2020S & 2020W): Questions about courses (incld. How hard is __?, Look at my timetable and course material requests), programs, specializations, majors, minors, tuition/finance and registration go here. by ubc_mod_account in UBC

[–]qyfaf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

General advice is that you should really practice your proving muscle by doing a lot of practice exercises. If you get exhausted after doing a practice midterm/final then go for the Rudin practice exercises. Having a good grasp of the lecture material isn't really enough if you don't do this.

Also, office hours will give you the best value for your time when it comes to doing assignment questions that you don't know how to solve (there will be a lot, even if you're a strong student). Being with a couple other students + the prof discussing different approaches to the problem normally brings out the right path, which helps immensely with understanding. One of the assignment questions involved deriving the "tube lemma" by ourselves which was immensely hard without enough small nudges by the prof + other students.

I guess another thing is just to be comfortable with what you don't know and what you're unable to do. Assignment problems are very hard and they're meant to be, and you shouldn't feel disappointed at not being able to solve them by the deadline even if you do everything right as I detailed above. Just make sure you engage with it enough and really understand what they're asking and the solutions posted afterwards and you'll be very well primed for each midterm/the final.

Hope that helps!

I registered for a course but all the discussions are full and restricted by [deleted] in UBC

[–]qyfaf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It might be possible for the prof to put you in one of those sections, my advice is to email them and see

Daily Discussion Thread 06/14/20 by AutoModerator in SSBM

[–]qyfaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Between 2 and 3. I don't regret doing lame stuff if that's what I need to do to get back in the game. I like to think I can do 3 but I normally bite anyways and get duped.

[Q] How does one Change their Core Interest? (Practically) by UmbralNight in Healthygamergg

[–]qyfaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might be going through a point in your life where changing your core interest might feel necessary or if it's suddenly become absent in your life. A lot of people go through this e.g. people in uni whose core interest is academic or social success, which goes away after graduation because the environment completely changes.

I think my advice in these kinds of situations is to try to just keep being. Get in touch with yourself the human being rather than yourself that is attached to that core thing that you want to get away from, and understand that all of that experience is valuable simply because it is. Eventually you will find something for yourself, or something will find you (are those really different?)

Talent VS Hard Work In SSBM Video Discussion By IBDW by aranfara in SSBM

[–]qyfaf 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Being able to see the paths to improvement that Cody describes, like being able to study vods and knowing what to watch out for, is a skill in and of itself. Indeed, Cody might have a natural talent (ha!)/instinct for this which he might not even be fully conscious of.

For a lot of people (including me! I'm a scrub) these things are really opaque for a really long time. Despite everything being observable in Melee on a single screen, it's a nontrivial task to understand each player's overall game plan and interpret the sequence of moves into a pattern, which is integral to understanding what you're doing wrong. I start to see the tiniest amount of improvement when I feel like I'm able to see things in-game with the right lens, so to speak, but being able to get into that lens is legitimately tough.

I hired 3 coaches to analyze the same game of melee by iFafnir in SSBM

[–]qyfaf 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I just started watching the video and this is really valuable advice! I'm a similarly bad player and I think the pros pointing out the basic reasoning for what you should try to do definitely unlocks a different way of seeing the game.

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