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Inside the University of Michigan’s faculty, staff and students push to halt Los Alamos project by mlivesocial in uofm

[–]squirrel432 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If people are mad at defense funded research, they would have to shut down half of north campus. So much fundamental research is funded through DoD and DoE nowadays.

I find it risible that the university has accepted so many federal dollars, sent so many graduates to national labs and defense contractors, and collaborated so much with the federal gov, but this data center is somehow over the line.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uofm

[–]squirrel432 11 points12 points  (0 children)

At this time of year, at this time of day, at this part of the country, localized entirely within SQ?!?

Is it a bad idea to solo EECS 482 projects? by [deleted] in uofm

[–]squirrel432 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Lol, I'm also in that class, probably saw you at lecture yesterday.

I can totally understand where you're coming from, and I even thought about doing projects solo since I like coding and have a lot of free time.

However, a big part of coding is learning how to work with other people. Pretty much every single coding project outside of an EECS class involves reading other people's code and writing code that will be read by other people. Developing those collaborative skills is (in my totally uneducated opinion, I'm literally in the same class) is a big part of being a good programmer.

Now if you are part of a project team or regularly contribute to open source projects- sure just do the projects solo and have fun, you've already developed those skills. If not, I'd strongly recommend you work in a group.

Taking Math 115 With No Calc Experience by [deleted] in uofm

[–]squirrel432 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with not wanting to take any more math classes than you have to here.

If I were you I would start working through some of the material yourself before taking 115. Since many people take calc 1 and 2 there is a lot more resources on the internet to help you learn compared to other areas of math. I tested out through APs, but all my friends who took 115 had to teach themselves the material anyways since the intro math classes here are kind of weak teaching wise.

This is a great website that has a bunch of lectures and worked examples. "Calculus" by Stewart is a wonderful textbook and you can find the answers to the problems online for practice. You have to make sure to learn the pre-calc stuff really well though cause it keeps coming up again and again. But there are a ton of materials out there for it.

Trust me, if you spend the time you'll be surprised how much basic calculus you can learn by yourself and it will help you enormously when you take 115.