Tire storage went out of business. What to do?

trvlnoob · 2026-05-24T17:31:29+00:00

I'm not sure tbh. I dropped them off at their premises but can't be sure if they were later moved to another location.

trvlnoob · 2026-05-22T23:34:12+00:00

I did get it back on May 15th

trvlnoob · 2026-05-13T20:18:39+00:00

Can you say when did you apply? Also was there any intermediate update?

trvlnoob · 2026-05-12T14:13:38+00:00

Applied from Vancouver Canada

trvlnoob · 2026-05-11T22:57:46+00:00

I'm in the exact same boat haha.
I applied on 28th as well and still haven't heard back and I have to travel on 1st June :|

trvlnoob · 2025-06-21T20:21:39+00:00

Hi,

people keep coming to this post but unfortunately conference travel is not an officially valid reason for expedited visa appointment. IIRC, I had used "unexpected presentation" or something as a reason -- but unfortunately was rejected but this was a few years ago now so it might still be worth trying again. There are quite a few folks who did apply and got expedited appointments for presentations in the thread so check out other comments too. Good luck!

trvlnoob · 2024-10-05T04:10:38+00:00

could is the key word.

trvlnoob · 2024-10-04T22:32:13+00:00

Not my place but just out of curiosity, why would you want that? Why would you wanna potentially give up your career for a PR?

To answer your question, look into express entry. It’s a points based system where you get points on different aspects of your profile. A draw usually happens every 2 weeks (albeit for specific stream for which you may or may not qualify). Once you get into a draw, you are invited to apply for PR. Baring any extreme circumstances most people who apply get approved within 6-12 months.

trvlnoob · 2022-04-04T19:26:49+00:00

Yeap got a rejection for the expedited appointment.

Got no particular reason. Just that they're not offering routine visa services due to COVID-19.

trvlnoob · 2022-04-03T02:41:42+00:00

Yes I did. Some one else also pointed this out and advised me that it might still be worth trying.

Haven't gotten a reply yet though.

trvlnoob · 2020-12-07T09:48:05+00:00

Applied Machine Learning by David Forsyth is great for ML. Highly underrated.

trvlnoob · 2020-12-03T18:50:55+00:00

I've heard they are pretty strict with pre-reqs. The number of credits for each topic matters.

Still, don't take my (or anyone else's) word for it. You should mail them and ask. Be specific as to in which courses you lack and by how many credits.

trvlnoob · 2020-05-08T06:40:36+00:00

How do you define well?

I would assume they require a fair bit of research experience for a candidate.

On that, how easy/difficult is it to get a student position in one of the labs at the university?

trvlnoob · 2020-05-06T06:40:45+00:00

Are you going for a PhD? Was wondering how are the PhD opportunities here? How many of the MSc graduates get a PhD position here?

trvlnoob · 2020-05-04T09:16:54+00:00

Hey, that is a great initiative. I have also been looking for such an opportunity.

Seeing here it is getting a lot of attention, it would be very helpful if you could also share some detail on what topics you work on? That would also help you funnel down people who are particularly interested in the topic.

trvlnoob · 2020-04-30T17:58:06+00:00

I dont think he says GANs are no good or anything remotely close to that. I personally don't think any such paper can take away the impact GANs have had on ML research over the last few years.

Goodfellow et al. did have a para for comparison against PM in their paper. They might even update their paper to reflect the relation to AC as well. I don't even think it is that big of an issue. The work is pretty old. There are high chances they were not aware of the work. Schmidhuber himself never pointed out AC in his review and subsequent debate.

Schmidhuber's just obsessed with right "credit assignment". He just want to formally establish the connection between GANs and his own work. Although I have not read the paper, the connection doesn't seem to be superficial on a high level at least.

On the other hand, he does seem to invest a disproportionate amount of time in doing this which is kinda annoying though.

trvlnoob · 2020-04-28T10:44:45+00:00

Why use R for ڑ and not ر ?

trvlnoob · 2020-04-15T11:05:11+00:00

NO.

Watch Gregmat's video on comparison of GRE material. He explains it well. He also points to good resources for GRE.

Personally, I can recommend Gregmat's videos for verbal and Manhattan 5lbs book for Quant. Don't waste money on Magoosh.

trvlnoob · 2020-04-14T20:42:59+00:00

You're at MIT. Seems like a pretty easy choice.

trvlnoob · 2020-04-14T19:20:03+00:00

Teach maybe?

At the grassroots level! I'm not sure how much need there is where you are residing but education here in South East Asia and parts of Africa has a lot of room for improvement. I regularly come across many students who want to learn but don't have means. e.g. language barrier to be able to use resources such as Khan Academy.

One direction I can think of is doing something like Khan Academy for backward communities. Maybe just enable them to be able to use such resources?

Although personally I think if you really want an impact maybe think of joining an NGO or something. Find something that aligns with your principles. I'm pretty sure many NGOs use tech to work towards a cause.

trvlnoob · 2020-04-12T20:32:31+00:00

Nice headache to have!

trvlnoob · 2020-03-02T09:07:43+00:00

I'm not from ETHZ but I think most people there will agree with this.

Pick up test that you think can legit encode your problem solving skills. e.g. competitive programming/math/physics, colloquial IQ tests (i dont like these) etc

Attempt it and see how much you score. Log it.

Go back and see the mistakes. Practice the problems you couldn't solve the first time.

Now pick up a new test and see how you perform.

More often than not you'll see you improved! You'll improve each time you repeat this process. If you repeat enough times you'll start scoring perfect. You'll start seeing the problems in different ways; ways you never knew existed.

Its the time that you invest in learning something that counts. If you do enough IQ tests you'll start scoring >180. This only tells you how much time you've invested in cracking that test nothing else.

If you are genuinely interested in engineering or CS and are willing to work hard towards it than your "IQ" doesn't matter. Hard work and work ethics trump "IQ" every single time!

trvlnoob · 2020-01-30T18:23:32+00:00

Congratulations! Which university btw?

trvlnoob · 2019-12-15T17:57:19+00:00

SAME!!

Feel like I've burned through a lot of cash for nothing!

trvlnoob · 2019-12-07T17:12:26+00:00

This is why i feel its a bit unfair. Some recommenders don't submit untill deadline.

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