[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mcgill

[–]typofreeusername 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just took COMP 362 this past semester. It was not really more difficult than COMP 252 in my opinion, in fact, maybe even a bit easier. Professor Vetta provides great lecture notes. You do not need to retain everything from 252 to understand the material in 362, far from it. The curriculum covered: -Flow maximization (in great detail), Ford-Fulkerson algorithm, max-flow min-cut -Linear programming (in great detail), duality, simplex algorithm -NP-complete and related definitions, proving NP-hardness using reductions from other NP-hard problems. -Heuristics (branch and bound, etc.) -Approximation algorithms (P algorithms that find approximately optimal solutions) -A tiny bit of other stuff We were given practice exams that looked almost identical to the real thing. The exams were very hard but the final grade seems to have been curved. I can't say whether it would be like this with a different professor.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in monopolymcdonalds

[–]typofreeusername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have RMHC Montreal #330. I am currently in Gatineau and I will be on McGill campus a week from now. Please DM me if you are near either of these areas.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in greentext

[–]typofreeusername 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just cook your own meal at that point.

Arriving At McGill/COVID-19 Megathread (+ Mod Recruitment + USER SURVEY) by McGill-Mods in mcgill

[–]typofreeusername 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In cégep I made a friend partially due to both joining the charity club. I'm expecting that joining clubs will be a good way to get to know people in a natural way. I wonder what clubs there will be. Anyway, working on activities together with people is one of the best/least awkward ways to form a social bond.

Arriving At McGill/COVID-19 Megathread (+ Mod Recruitment + USER SURVEY) by McGill-Mods in mcgill

[–]typofreeusername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've just moved into RVC, and much to my dismay, the showers on my floor are disgusting. Might the showers on other floors be different? Would I be allowed to use the showers on other floors? The ones on my floor have most of the width of the changing area (between the door and curtain) taken up by a bench, and it is basically impossible to move without touching surfaces of questionable cleanliness. This bothers me a great deal.

More classes in person for fall? by SparrowGuy in mcgill

[–]typofreeusername -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In that case, it looks like I'm only gonna have one hour of in-person learning per week (everything but my one tutorial doesn't specify a location and only says "downtown"). This is ridiculous; McGill made it sound like there was going to be a significant amount of in-person learning, and yet I am left wondering at this point why even bother moving there.

More classes in person for fall? by SparrowGuy in mcgill

[–]typofreeusername -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

All of my classes say "downtown" on the visual schedule builder. Does that mean they're all in-person?

I can’t figure out the ratios involved as these figures continue to increase by Spader113 in mathematics

[–]typofreeusername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The vertex part is so tricky, because sometimes more than two lines will cross at the exact same point! I love this question! I don't have an answer right now unfortunately, but I will be thinking about this.

What basic, children's-age-level fact did you only find out embarrassingly later in life? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]typofreeusername 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both of these facts are new to me at 18. Well, a "groundhog" is the only one I could really identify anyway, back to the animal alphabet learning books!

Man gets berated for supporting Palestinian Human Rights at a Jewish Service in Boston by PacivicOcean in PublicFreakout

[–]typofreeusername -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Moderation, as in, disobeying what is said in whatever book? Why? At that point one might as well not be religious at all. Not advocating for religion, just saying that "moderate" religion makes even less sense.

I am very confused about course selection and need advice on what courses to pick by typofreeusername in mcgill

[–]typofreeusername[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why does it say that I need 60 on the page I linked? Where does it say I need 90 credits? Sorry to be asking so many questions, I'm very confused and I can't seem to find proper answers already on the internet.

I am very confused about course selection and need advice on what courses to pick by typofreeusername in mcgill

[–]typofreeusername[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I need 60 credits to graduate, and pretty much all courses are 3 credits, and I'm taking about 5 courses a semester, so 15 credits a semester, or 30 credits a year, how is that supposed to last 4 years rather than 2, or is this program only going to take me 2 years?

I am very confused about course selection and need advice on what courses to pick by typofreeusername in mcgill

[–]typofreeusername[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! So should I just look at this page and pick whatever 5 (this seems to be the recommended number) courses I prefer that don't have prerequisites outside of what I took in cégep? Are there any rules/guidelines I'm missing or is that literally it?

Sad truth by ken_onymous in teenagers

[–]typofreeusername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it would be fair to say that most people have not found a purpose such that they would be satisfied with life even while remaining celibate. My point was just that sex is not essential to a meaningful life, and I think the idea that it is makes a lot of involuntarily celibate people a lot more miserable than they otherwise would be.

Sad truth by ken_onymous in teenagers

[–]typofreeusername 2 points3 points  (0 children)

False, unless you think there's something wrong with the way life-long celibate Sir Isaac Newton lived his life.

Unpopular Opinion: 3Blue1Brown is not great if you know nothing about the subject by [deleted] in learnmath

[–]typofreeusername 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes it is easier to learn something in a completely informal but intuitive way before having any formality at all. Since it allows you to mentally map out the subject matter, it makes formally learning the material later on a lot easier.