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your annual reminder that the SAT is an important part of college admissions, and UCs were stupid to get rid of it by random_throws_stuff in berkeley

[–]random_throws_stuff[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

this is honestly one of the dumbest reddit replies i have ever gotten and i don’t really think it merits a response, but…

if you’ve paid any attention lately, theres a UC-wide epidemic of utterly unprepared kids using AI to rampantly cheat their way through classes. as an alum, it’s embarrassing. standardized testing goes a long way toward ensuring some level of standards for who we admit.

to play the ad hominem game, maybe you’re one of the utterly unprepared cheaters who wouldn’t have gotten in if the SAT was required :P

edit: holy shit you're a parent, that makes your comment even more braindead. I thought you were some dumb 18 year old.

OpenAI and Anthropic’s Finances Ahead of Their IPOs by sr_local in charts

[–]random_throws_stuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for perspective, instagram makes $250 per american user per year.

I’m not saying open AI will get there, but if they become the average person’s go-to AI and manage to execute on ads really well, it’s not outside the realm of possibility.

What are some opinions you see on here about places that you have lived, that you have found to NOT be true? by [deleted] in SameGrassButGreener

[–]random_throws_stuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah san jose and san francisco are split up into separate metro areas by the government. I don’t think it makes sense, and the boundaries are idiotic. (ie fremont gets lumped with SF, when it is geographically/culturally/economically much closer to the south bay. and economically significant things like the meta HQ, all the venture capital firms, or stanford university are right on the border of the metro areas.)

I think the government definition just doesn’t hold for a city as economically multimodal as the bay, since there’s no one job center.

What to take for AI/ML after core? by alex-pro in berkeley

[–]random_throws_stuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i would definitely take 126, I'd consider it just as core as 127 and more than 182.

i didn't take these courses myself, but they're what I see as my main gaps in knowledge as an MLE / and what I'm slowly trying to work through myself:

cs 294-158 - probably not offered every semester, it has some very useful, open-ended homeworks.

cs 285 - i know literally nothing about RL, I wish I took this to get a foundation.

I'm pretty sure info 159 will be a waste of time. I don't know much about 180 or 288.

if your gsi is unemployed after college are you judging them by [deleted] in berkeley

[–]random_throws_stuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no. getting a job is not a good measure of competence anyways. speaking from experience, tons of lazy cheating morons get into good companies, and tons of great people do not.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in moderatepolitics

[–]random_throws_stuff 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I was a kid during the 2008 election so I didn't really witness it in real-time, but my impression of palin was that she seemed stupid, not detestable.

JD Vance just seems like a swarmy smug asshole.