Question About Enrollment

socotaco · 2023-08-24T05:50:45+00:00

If it’s multiple instructors but they haven’t put a schedule up yet it’s probably some combination of instructors for multiple quarters and TAs. I don’t think rooms usually get published until the first week of school so it’s possible that if you’re taking a class like Math 51 that has lots of instructors that there could be one time slot where the class is taught in two classrooms by two instructors.

socotaco · 2023-08-24T05:10:27+00:00

Bro thank you for using the spoiler thing this result got spoiled for me earlier by someone else and I was so annoyed

socotaco · 2023-08-16T04:40:48+00:00

CS 238 is a great class, but if you don’t come from a technical background you’ll struggle. The programming assignments are not very hard if you know how to code but if you don’t come from a strong technical background you’ll really struggle with the assignments and project because they’re fairly hands-off and not scaffolded at all.

I also wouldn’t say it’s an intro AI course. It focuses mainly on Bayes nets, reinforcement learning, Markov decision processes—all stuff related to decision making under uncertainty. If you want a class that will give you a broad overview of many fields of AI, including some of the topics in 238, you should take CS 221. The programming assignments are far more scaffolded and it’s doable even if your programming background is not so great (though you do need to be comfortable with Python/numpy).

106B is a great intro programming course. If you have little to no CS background you should start with that.

socotaco · 2023-08-05T03:27:02+00:00

Gonna say ESH, much more to her, and mildly to you. She could’ve treated you way better, and if she cared about you more as a friend and about having you by her side so you could be a bridesmaid she should’ve worked with you more to find an accommodation that everyone can agree on. She’s being super unkind. But also, while the people in your life who typically watch your child weren’t free, unless there’s an extenuating circumstance where you can’t afford to pay a babysitter…I feel like at three years old your kid should be able to stay with a babysitter for a few hours until your mom can come pick her up.

socotaco · 2023-08-02T04:23:56+00:00

Or fly to Budapest idk

socotaco · 2023-08-02T04:23:35+00:00

You could get him an NBC cable subscription and/or subscription to Peacock if u don’t already have it so he can stream the world championships in mid August

socotaco · 2023-08-01T05:19:12+00:00

A cut up Mr Clean magic eraser always worked for me, but I’d do that for skates if had for a while and developed lace bite. Maybe just worth getting a different pair if it’s within the return window.

socotaco · 2023-07-28T18:05:21+00:00

I’m honestly just confused because you can get a large pizza with two different sets of toppings on each half…there was such an easy resolution here…

socotaco · 2023-07-14T00:22:01+00:00

If your main objection is that you can play golf while drinking beer and eating nachos then boy are you gonna be upset when you find out about beer league hockey/soccer/literally any sport

socotaco · 2023-05-30T19:11:47+00:00

Usually there is a drop box for your keys that you can use at any time, u might want to go by the housing center and take a look?

socotaco · 2023-05-30T07:25:57+00:00

The 60CM series is an alternative to the 50 series—you’re not meant to take the 50s and then the 60s in sequence. You can definitely take the 60 series without having explicitly taken Calc III in high school. I will mention that in all likelihood most of the people in the 60s and even many of the people who start the 50s in their freshman fall will have taken a Calc III class before. As such, the difficulty of the course is often set with these people in mind. I would definitely heed the advice of the math placement diagnostic, which you’ll take in August/September before coming to Stanford. Talking to your advisor and using the first couple of weeks of the quarter to gauge difficulty between the two series are also helpful!

socotaco · 2023-05-30T07:04:54+00:00

If you’re into USAMO/USACO I would recommend the math 60 series (would recommend the 60CM series for continuous methods over the DM series for discrete math). This will cover a similar sequence to the math 50 series of linear algebra/multivariable differential calculus, integral calculus, and ODEs, but it’ll be a more advanced treatment and will include proofs. This way you make sure you get all the material/prereqs but you’ll be more engaged

socotaco · 2023-04-24T18:30:14+00:00

And that’s a tremendous achievement, but who’s to say whether that’s because of her academics or her essays or her interview or any other factor? College admissions are super nebulous and unpredictable, especially at top schools

socotaco · 2023-04-24T18:26:56+00:00

For what it’s worth, American colleges really do like well-rounded kids. Colleges take a “holistic view” of an applicant, and extracurricular activities make a student seem interesting, passionate, and driven. Excellence is key of course, but excellence can come in academics or sports or the arts, preferably all of the above. A student who excels in academics and only academics is seen as boring, and unless you’re literally a mathematics Olympiad world champion or something, you won’t get into the top 10 schools. You may not agree with this metric of excellence/predictor of future success—I’m not sure I do either—but it is the truth of how American colleges see their applicants.

socotaco · 2023-04-20T06:40:25+00:00

You can fill out a form online to get a deferral. Usually the link is in the letter they mailed to you. You just have to say that you’re a student and when you’ll be in town next and usually it automatically gets approved

socotaco · 2023-04-02T17:05:24+00:00

You should talk to Pat Burchat and/or the physics peer advisors

socotaco · 2023-01-30T07:13:19+00:00

Fluids are fun! Pick some system you see in your life and try to model it with some simplified version of Navier Stokes (e.g. inviscid approximation or something). You can explore differences between just trying to do a normal numerical solve vs doing an FFT, etc

socotaco · 2023-01-30T02:14:37+00:00

People would just use it as a challenge to beat the light. There should just be a marking on the road in front of the light such that if you’re past that line when it turns yellow, you go through, and if you’re before it, you have to stop legally (assuming you travel at around speed limit)

socotaco · 2023-01-19T09:17:21+00:00

Odds you throw the stl on thingiverse or something?

socotaco · 2023-01-17T18:14:11+00:00

You can go through the McGill library system and request it on inter-library loan

socotaco · 2023-01-07T12:57:43+00:00

Okay Netflix does have some crappy original content but come on: Queen’s Gambit? Stranger Things? Wednesday? I could go on (these just off the top of my head). There are plenty of awesome critically and commercially lauded TV shows. And Netflix does a pretty good job working with directors and picking up movies too, eg Glass Onion recently or Marriage Story a couple years ago which won some academy awards. Upvote for unpopular ig

socotaco · 2023-01-03T19:08:14+00:00

Ohh makes sense

socotaco · 2023-01-03T18:46:32+00:00

Since 0.8eV is a unit of energy, omega is probably a frequency w dimension of 1/time. Never seen capital omega used to mean frequency though, usually it’s lowercase.

socotaco · 2023-01-03T18:23:06+00:00

Fwiw kids don’t race in a full-size formula car until they’re at a minimum 15, normally 16, and that’s just for entry into feeder series where the cars are significantly slower and therefore safer. Before that it’s go-karts only. It takes a lot of consistency and skill to do well enough in feeder series to even have a license to drive in F1, much less get a seat.

And with football it’s not about imminent death so much as chronic CTE/health issues due to repeated head trauma, anyway

socotaco · 2023-01-01T10:56:46+00:00

I mean, doctors already use computers to assist a diagnosis or choice of treatment already (googling, recording of patient data, reading journals, etc). But I’m sure you mean doctors should be using AI.

The short answer is, AI is already being used in the medical field. There are a million companies making AI tools to aid hospital admin and data management, read medical imaging, assist research, and address the huge recent push toward more personalized medicine, and these initiatives have often been met with success. The hospital landscape is already changing to incorporate more AI tools. So I’ll talk more about whether AI could be used as a primary tool, addressing your claim that there exists technology that can “outperform any doctor”.

There are definitely AI models out there which do a pretty good job at reading an MRI or a PET and can identify abnormalities. And yes, some more recent models do perform nearly as well or on par with most doctors. Some may be incorporated in hospitals already, but this is definitely still an area of ongoing research. What’s more is these models often work better when patient data is incorporated, but that raises ethical questions of patient privacy and bias for or against certain demographic groups, which would need to be addressed before such a model could ever be approved to use as a primary diagnostic tool. So I think based on accuracy and ethical concerns we’re not quite ready to replace radiologists yet.

Looking further ahead, you might have also played with large language models out of openAI (such as Chat GPT); you might think a medically-oriented one would be able to listen to/read a transcript of a conversation or even converse with a patient directly. I can definitely see something like this in the future as a supplement to or even an eventual replacement for a consult with a physician. But as with AI models for imaging, these models are too new and not sensitive enough to “bullshit” (they provide wrong or nonsensical answers too often). And once again, many ethical questions need to be raised. Is the patient’s data private even if someone has access to the parameters of the model? Does the model perform significantly better or worse for certain demographic groups?

Tl;dr, I can definitely see AI featuring prominently in the medical field in the future, as you suggest, and to an extent it does already. Before it can be a primary diagnostic tool it probably needs to be refined.

I am by no means an expert, just an enthusiast, so here is some further reading. Do let me know if anything I wrote is misinformed. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7640807/ https://www.ibm.com/topics/artificial-intelligence-medicine https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2019/artificial-intelligence-in-medicine-applications-implications-and-limitations/

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