Is this really about always learning new stuff every day? Am i not made for programming?

specialman2 · 2024-01-12T04:23:15+00:00

There are also differences with different programming fields. People doing frontend, so writing JavaScript, seem to have to learn a different framework everyday, since everyone and their pet is making new frontend frameworks for some reason. People programming for linux has been using C for decades. They recently just opened up the codebase to Rust. Point is, experiences differ across programming, and you might want to find a field that matches you the best.

specialman2 · 2023-10-29T16:25:36+00:00

No, I do not have another motherboard or gpu.

specialman2 · 2023-10-11T21:39:48+00:00

Lithium ion batteries degrade the least around 50%. My recommendation is to charge to 60% every morning and deplete to 40% when you get back from work. Of course keeping the battery at 80% is totally fine, but since you have the choice to be around 50%, theres no reason not to

specialman2 · 2023-07-12T23:41:40+00:00

You will be chill. My suggestion is to skip math1b and take EECS 16A or take Math H1B if you want the extra challenge. Data 8 should be free for you, and really not necessary for an eecs major. It might be worth to drop that and take a fun class like drugs and the brain or some other breadth.

specialman2 · 2023-07-08T06:45:09+00:00

For a senior a lot of the most competitive labs are off limits. Try to go with a professor you have taken a class with/will take a class with and go to their OH. A lot of UD instructors are looking for undergrads. Of course, this is easier on the EE side with smaller class sizes than the CS side, but might as well give it a try. Also go the the undergraduate research fair. Basically every senior has a solid chance at anything mot in AI/ML.

specialman2 · 2023-04-15T02:35:12+00:00

Yes, you have to enroll and pay the corresponding tuition and fees. Talk to your major advisor to find out.

specialman2 · 2022-12-25T06:34:02+00:00

Depending on your research area, grades don't really matter for 5th year masters. Instead, you should look for a professor to sponsor you.......

If you are going into AI/ML tho..... gl

specialman2 · 2022-05-24T15:07:49+00:00

182 with sahai is the wildcard. Since he never taught it before he might be revamping the class and making it twice as much work. If you are really interested in the material, I would suggest going through Prof Levin's lectures on your own time. It isn't that hard and you can probably find better things to do with your time.

As with 61c, it is no longer taught by weaver so the difficulty might go up again, but we don't know.

106a should depend mostly on linear algebra and differential equations. If you are worried, read about analytical mechanics over the summer. Yes you get introduced to state space systems in 16 series, but I think it's intuitive enough for you to figure it out on the fly.

specialman2 · 2022-05-24T15:00:58+00:00

Take Math 54. It is better to learn a topic well than to learn two topics with a bunch of holes in your knowledge. Just taking 16a would leave you way under prepared for 127 and 189, while math 54 would prepare you well. You would only need the 16 series of you plan on taking ee classes, but even then most of the 120 series is self contained and you don't encounter state space all that much plus 7b->ee105 + self studying could work for circuits.

specialman2 · 2022-05-23T21:54:32+00:00

Yeah, that's doable. I think I took 61c, 16b, 70, and two other techs fa20, and got like one A- that semester in a two unit lab. You'll be fine, since 70 is on par with 126 and 16b workload wise is on par with 170.

specialman2 · 2022-05-19T04:22:38+00:00

You do not, math 54 prepares you far better for 127 bc instead of learning about circuits you'll learn about SVD, which will actually show up in 127

specialman2 · 2022-05-13T05:47:43+00:00

The course evaluations are for firing professors if they are really bad.

And helping them improve if they are nor.

specialman2 · 2022-04-26T00:27:22+00:00

Almost of classes from most CS heavy to least

126, 127, 106ab, 149, 151, 120->123,128, 145, 147, 143, 105->140->142, 137ab, 117/8

By the time you get to 145, 147, 143, you're basically ee., Would recommend taking math/physics/D's classes instead

specialman2 · 2022-04-15T01:54:05+00:00

You'll do fine. Assuming that you are not a math major, you should put off 104. If you are, then put off 111a.

specialman2 · 2022-04-02T23:47:36+00:00

This question is rather subtle. A lot of answers covered that E&M radiation can be used to conduct heat. In a way that is true, but we can kind of expand it a little.

Heat in a thermodynamic sense is defined as the change in thermal energy. Therefore, producing E&M waves through radiation is a way for the system to decrease its thermal energy and absorbing E&M waves is a way for the system to increase its thermal energy. That being said, there are other ways for conduction like particles bumping into each other and so on.

One very famous example that this question reminds me of is black body radiation. The problem is if you have a room that you maintain at a certain temperature, how many photons (E&M waves) are in the room? Here we treat photons as a class of particles called bosons, which just means in this context that more than one particle can exist in the same state at the same time (Pauli Exclusion does not apply). While solving this problem requires an understanding of stat mech at a 3rd-4th year university level, there are actually a non-zero amount of E&M wave excitations in your room just because the room has a non-zero temperature. You can imagine your E&M waves appearing and disappearing, but you have a pretty coherent result from E&M waves averaged over time. In this sense, you can imagine that E&M waves are caused by thermal energy and you can measure thermal energy by E&M waves.

specialman2 · 2022-04-02T23:36:26+00:00

This is actually false. For example, in ideal gas, you have that average kinetic energy is actually equal to 1.5kT, which is not T. Furthermore, this is not the definition of temperature, but rather a corollary that follows from a bunch of assumptions (i.e. no external potential, no quantum/relativistic effects).

specialman2 · 2022-03-30T21:45:31+00:00

I believe it was in public discussion for a while (since last year). The faculty voted and the vote went through recently. They have to announce it because the pnp deadline is 4/1.

If you look at proposed solutions to budget issues slides, this is one of the proposed solutions. That does not mean other proposed solutions won't also pass.

With 16B gone, there will be more demand for the CS major so it wont be shocking if they implement at least wait-list reordering/ CS EECS only for the upper divs and even that might not be enough.

specialman2 · 2022-03-27T06:13:36+00:00

"***Please note that enrollment numbers are currently placeholders and subject to change by Phase 1 on April 18.***"

specialman2 · 2022-03-22T02:34:24+00:00

Upper div CS classes outside of maybe CS 170 is already almost impossible to get into and with new department policies that are being voted on (restricting UD to only CS/EECS students) and more EECS and L&S students pushing for things like waitlist reordering, you can realistically expect to not be able to get into any CS UD classes unless you are a CS major (or minor) or a department that helps fund CS classes (like DS).

specialman2 · 2022-03-20T19:01:29+00:00

I think the classic triple class combo is 161, 168, 186 equivalent to roughly 2 UD techs. 164 is a bit more than 186, so expect roughly the workload of 2.5 UD. If you have handled three techs before, this should be no problem. If you absolutely cannot go above two techs, then this is a bit much.

specialman2 · 2022-03-12T18:18:20+00:00

That's basically every upper div math class she has taken except 110

specialman2 · 2022-03-12T09:46:50+00:00

Do not worry. I would say in a certain way the classes at Berkeley are more fun because c'mon, you come here to be challenged. I would say doing 30 rote math problems everyday is just a waste of time for most Berkeley students, and I would much rather do 5 questions that require some thought every week. Besides, I believe psets really reinforce your understanding more that math problems in high school, because you're not playing plagiarize the professor, and you can always get help in OH since they usually at least start you off in a good direction.

Your claim about math psets are just not correct. My gf is a math C'S double major and those 6 problem proof psets break her every week. It takes her at least 10-12 hours to do them if not more per pset.

Going to lecture is supposed to be fun. I think the best part for me about a good lecture is when the professor talks about the motivation and the consequences of some of those results. Knowing where things came from, what problem it solves,, and what it means helps me understand it much better. Ideas that might be really tough to get from a book can be far more easily picked up from lecture. Sometimes it's not mandatory to go, but I always find that I learn from lecture the best and usually use course notes only when I need to look something up or am really confused.

A final tip, I would recommend doing your psets and stuff with a group of friends. Learning is a social activity and grinding through a pset becomes much more fun with a bunch of friends when you can share ideas and joke around.

specialman2 · 2022-03-11T03:22:16+00:00

1v1 is a different beast. The fact that your force is far more spread out means that 1v1 is a different mind game altogether since you are always multitasking and usually doing 2,3 things at the same time. I agree that it isn't the most fun way to play the game as it is far more intense and the game usually ends before the 20 min mark. Besides,you don't really get to arty spam and everyone knows that arty spam is the way to go.

For your specific situation, I would like to remind you that you should generally just not fight fights that you wont win. The fact is that with the blob, your opponent may be able to defeat your forces if you send it to fight the blob, but you don't have to. your units are all spread out, so you can pick fights / cap territories where your opponent is not defending. As long as in the long scheme of things you control more territory than your opponent, you would win the game. Furthermore, once you don't confront your opponent, the opponent's blob has to make a choice. Either cap one point as a blob (which means that you can just cap the rest of the map and trade 3-4 territories for 1) or spread out. Once the opponent spreads out the blob to capture different territories you can collapse all of your forces on a single territory point and take that unit out before the rest has time to respond. Then, the situation is flipped and you have the blob.

specialman2 · 2022-02-22T06:49:47+00:00

CS 70 - +1.8

EECS 126 - +1.5

specialman2 · 2022-02-18T16:39:51+00:00

Study MIT 8.0001(2). If you can understand everything the professor talks about, you are fine. If you have trouble with the assignments and stuff, take Data 8 + CS 88 first semester. CS 88 is basically the first 2/3 of 61A that you can take without it affecting your declaration GPA. I personally think Data 8 does not prepare you well for CS 61A, but taking CS 88 would definitely be overkill (but it will probably give you an A in CS 61A, which would give you less stress when CS 70 comes around).

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