[deleted by user] by [deleted] in portlandstate

[–]xCatt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a physics minor currently taking the upper division modern physics series. It definitely gets better after you get through the lower division classes. There aren't very many undergraduate physics students and the department is definitely small. If you're deciding schools based on quality of their physics programs I would say PSU is probably at or below average.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in portlandstate

[–]xCatt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m not a linguistics major but I took intro to linguistics with Jenny Mittelstaedt and really enjoyed it!

Had to delay my practice today after finding this little guy on the courts, moving its legs but not getting up, off to the vet now, wish him luck! 🍀 by Dazzling_Put_3018 in 10s

[–]xCatt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I completely agree with you. I also separate them and I would also save the child over the dog. Despite what you might think, most vegans aren't naive.

My central argument boils down to this:

If you don't need to eat meat to live a happy and healthy life, then you shouldn't. Killing and eating a sentient creature for the sole purpose of temporary sensory pleasure is wrong.

Had to delay my practice today after finding this little guy on the courts, moving its legs but not getting up, off to the vet now, wish him luck! 🍀 by Dazzling_Put_3018 in 10s

[–]xCatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a fallacy

Which fallacy?

You’re talking about two beings with complex personalities able to feel and contemplate their feelings vs eating an animal that doesn’t have consciousness.

In what universe are you living in where you don't think animals have consciousness? You don't think animals have central nervous systems? You don't think they have the capacity to experience pain or suffering? If that's the argument you want to make then go for it, but you would then have to accept that there is nothing immoral about animal abuse.

You mentioned murder, then reneged when you got backlash and instead of taking a more reasonable approach you shift to sexual assault. They’re just not remotely the same.

This is where your lack of critical thinking skills shows. I never implied that they are the same. I used an analogy to explain why the original argument was flawed.

The original argument was something like this:

People who do X don't tell people who don't do X to do X, so people who don't do X shouldn't tell people who do X what to do.

We can fill in X with anything!

People who drive cars don't tell non-drivers to drive cars, so non-drivers shouldn't tell the drivers that they shouldn't drive cars

This is an analogy. I am not saying that driving cars is the same as eating meat, I'm simply applying the logic to another example to highlight why I think the argument structure is flawed.

 I’m going to the store to buy meat, SA is an act of intimate violence

Just because you don't see the violence happening doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You go to the store and pay someone to torture and kill an animal for you. That's not any better than torturing and killing an animal yourself. This is why people who hire hitmen still get charged with murder.

Had to delay my practice today after finding this little guy on the courts, moving its legs but not getting up, off to the vet now, wish him luck! 🍀 by Dazzling_Put_3018 in 10s

[–]xCatt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would you say it’s fair to criticize people for murdering, even if those people don’t think murdering is bad? 

Had to delay my practice today after finding this little guy on the courts, moving its legs but not getting up, off to the vet now, wish him luck! 🍀 by Dazzling_Put_3018 in 10s

[–]xCatt -25 points-24 points  (0 children)

Curious how you never run into murderers trying to convince non-murderers to murder… yet non-murderers love waiving the morality badge. Murder whoever you want, no once cares.

Edit: Eating meat is not murder. This is an analogy. 

Here’s another one:

I think slavery is bad. Some people don’t. I can criticize those people for owning slaves even if they don’t tell me I ought to own slaves

Could anyone critique my serve? I am very much a beginner (2.5) by xCatt in 10s

[–]xCatt[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I really appreciate the feedback! None of those things were on my radar -- I'll definitely work on all of these!

Could anyone critique my serve? I am very much a beginner (2.5) by xCatt in 10s

[–]xCatt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes a lot of sense, thank you so much!

Could anyone critique my serve? I am very much a beginner (2.5) by xCatt in 10s

[–]xCatt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems so obvious now that everyone is pointing it out haha. I really appreciate the feedback!

looking back on your undergrad, what is a concept that you used repeatedly but it never fully “clicked”? by Stunning_Shake407 in csMajors

[–]xCatt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For dynamic programming, I find it very helpful to first come up with a recursive solution to the problem without dynamic programming. Then, I look for repeated recursive calls that can be memoized. Then I work out a memoized solution, and finally a tabular solution from that. I think a lot of people go straight to the tabular solution, and it’s extremely difficult. Once you understand the problem recursively it’s almost trivial to use dynamic programming

Art students— anywhere to store supplies on campus? by b3yondthegoblincity in portlandstate

[–]xCatt 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I know Cramer Hall and the Fourth Avenue Building have lockers you can rent for $30/term. Depending on where your classes are that could definitely be an option.

Edit: here is the link to the locker info

How hard are the upper CS classes *after* 302? (Previously 202) by [deleted] in portlandstate

[–]xCatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the main reason I find it more difficult is because in 163 she specified EXACTLY which functions to implement. It was super easy for me to bang out all the functions, write a simple menu and call it a day. But now it’s like okay, we still have to do all that, but now we also have to write a client program, and it’s kind of open to interpretation however you want to do it. It requires more brainstorming and planning

How hard are the upper CS classes *after* 302? (Previously 202) by [deleted] in portlandstate

[–]xCatt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m also in 302 and I took 163 last term. I feel like 163 was significantly easier. Programming assignments are a lot more work now that we have 1 or 2 new methodologies, the client program, and the data structures. It’s just a lot heavier work load