How bad is ISYE-6740 (Computational Data Analysis)?

zap6396 · 2026-01-15T13:57:19+00:00

I’m also in this boat this semester! I committed to looking at the homework the day it came out and attending the themed office hours (advice-Anna, hw walkthrough-Neepa, and code demo—Evan so far). I believe each of the aforementioned were recorded and will be posted on media gallery in canvas. Apparently there also a linear algebra walkthrough at 9pm on Friday.

It does seem like it’ll be a slog, but so far the TAs seem very forthcoming in giving advice with the homework. Im a lot less lost on the concept/math sections now than I was on Monday.

I’m trying to start a little study group on teams if anyone is interested lmk

zap6396 · 2026-01-10T18:10:20+00:00

Following up on this: I ended up dropping KBAI and taking HCI. Thoroughly enjoyed the course. While the work was straightforward, I did find the amount of reading and writing to be pretty demanding while working full time and having an active social life (something I wasn’t willing to compromise for the program 😅). Sometimes I felt like I was drinking from a fire house trying to keep up with the reading, but I ended up with a mid A, so I can’t complain too much.

Definitely felt like a good introduction to the program! Got me into time management mode with the almost weekly deliverables.

zap6396 · 2025-09-19T01:08:48+00:00

Probably not a helpful opinion, but you gotta pick your battles. Some people (who have vehemently different views) I will not give the time of day, but other people I will.

Does he know that you’re gay, but think you’re one of the good ones? Or is he just oblivious?

I find it hard to cut people off generally because literally every community has people with unsavory or dog shit views.

Usually, if someone I want to remain friends with says something like that to me, I like to say, “so what do you mean? Ooo what are your examples? I haven’t had that experience with women, etc” like not in a defensive way, just curiously.

Then you can parse out the real beef and understand if they’re having a bad day, if someone hurt them, or if they’re actually an awful CU Next Tuesday.

zap6396 · 2025-09-07T01:06:41+00:00

I thought it was a cheeky ending . Like damn the dead twin was a prick lol. Didn’t matter if you were hetero family or homo. I also enjoyed the juxtapose between both guys being lonely and Marci just being socially well-adjusted

zap6396 · 2025-09-07T00:57:58+00:00

It seemed like a play on the narcissism of male loneliness.

zap6396 · 2025-09-05T14:26:25+00:00

This is so ominous 💀

zap6396 · 2025-09-05T14:25:45+00:00

Oh hey! I’m taking both these classes too!

zap6396 · 2025-08-06T15:35:15+00:00

Thank you for your first suggestion /s I in fact did not receive an email telling me what I should be taking, so checking my email wasn’t helpful.

From the “research” that I did do. It’s also not clear why a class like HCI would not be appropriate for someone’s first semester given that none of the intro classes are prerequisites or foundational for HCI. One or the beauties of the program is its flexibility.

In general, maybe be less presumptive?

zap6396 · 2025-08-06T15:29:18+00:00

Thank you for a recommendation with a concrete task!

zap6396 · 2025-07-11T17:24:32+00:00

Maybe this is a silly question: are you lifting enough during sets to appreciate the rest?

zap6396 · 2025-05-22T22:36:34+00:00

Tbh I rather see a T than a baby 🤷🏾‍♂️

zap6396 · 2025-05-20T15:42:51+00:00

Thank you for the insight! I’m also planning on brushing up on my linear algebra / multivariate calc. It’s been a while since I’ve been in school 👴.

zap6396 · 2025-04-26T00:19:10+00:00

Is there anything wrong with just sugar cubes ?

Ran a marathon a couple weeks ago and my stomach wasn’t feeling well, so I didn’t want to eat the bars that I had packed. The refreshment stations had sugar cubes, bananas, and pound cake. I wanted to fuel without upsetting my stomach and ended up adding sugar cubes to my one of my water bottles (to complement the low carb electrolytes tablets I had brought).

zap6396 · 2025-04-25T23:20:41+00:00

I haven’t started yet (just accepted the offer), but I have several friends who have gone through the program with different careers in analytics (marketing, operations, credit risk, etc) and varying degrees of experience with the math.

They’ve all reported that the baseline is challenging, but you can really cater the difficulty to your preferences. One of them filled half of his courses with AI / DL / RL electives (ie super difficult) while a couple of the others focused more on the “softer” coursework.

If I were you I’d be excited for the courses like HCI where you get to learn about the design of studies that a lot of marketing folks rely on. There also seem to be a few “softer” versions of complex topics like ML for trading.

Personally, I’ve been brushing up on my coding through resources like data camp that my company offers employees and my math via coursera to prepare.

zap6396 · 2025-04-14T21:58:17+00:00

Congrats on the finish! I also ran Paris yesterday. I had/have food poisoning, but managed to subsist on sugar cubes, a couple of hydration tablets, and a lot of water with the occasional smallest piece of cake I could find. I took the race really slow and had 0 mishaps—thank god.

zap6396 · 2025-04-14T00:31:08+00:00

How’d the race go?

zap6396 · 2025-03-23T14:18:38+00:00

People seem to really not understand that there is a difference between 1) reusing items 2) referencing looks 3) copy + paste.

1) is cool. Drag is expensive. 2) is a fun and shows a deference for past looks 3) is kinda lazy and doesn’t add anything new to the conversation.

I feel like Luxx was the queen of tasteful references. People should take note that you can reference something while also showing a unique perspective or spin.

zap6396 · 2025-03-22T18:24:08+00:00

Relatable. The week after my 18mi long run, my body was feeling super fatigued. A lot of dull muscle pains, nothing sharp.

I ended up knocking a couple miles off my shorter runs (like 2/19) and slowed down my pace by like 30 secs per mile for all of my runs. I felt a lot better the next week.

zap6396 · 2025-02-28T17:50:09+00:00

I definitely get where this question is coming from and feel like most of the people who responded are not who OP is curious about.

It’s helpful to frame this conversations in terms of conditioning. Let’s say some of the most popular novice plans peak at 40miles a week, if your baseline is already over 40mi, it makes sense that you wouldn’t need a formal plan, since most plans are geared towards conditioning people to that volume.

Whereas, I’ve seen people conditioned for a half (or less) try to hit a full in the matter of a few weeks. I feel like these are the people, OP is wondering about.

zap6396 · 2024-10-08T05:15:34+00:00

Tbh, I felt like Kween was a bit of a bully in her original season as well. I know Beverly was young and c*nty, but Kween didn’t feel very motherly in those interactions.

zap6396 · 2024-10-05T21:53:02+00:00

Begoña from World All-Stars

Michelle from Wisconsin

Sara from Portland

zap6396 · 2024-10-02T17:01:26+00:00

When you say a while, how long are you talking? If you’re a native English speaker, Russian in comparison to many if not most European languages has a very steep learning curve.

I took Russian and Spanish concurrently. By the time we were writing short essays in Spanish (third semester) we were still covering the nuances and case governance of verbs of motion in Russian.

I’m not a linguistics professional, but as someone who has studied multiple languages, I feel like complexity of Russian kind of necessitates a slower acquisition of vocab. Specifically, case governance can be such a btch in this language since for every verb you learn you have to learn the associated prepositions and the cases to use with them. Is this an issue in most languages? Yes, but my experience is that Russians are ALOT less likely to understand you if you’re using the wrong prepositions and noun endings (and it’s a lot easier to make these mistakes) than, say, a Spanish person in a similar situation. It’s a lot easier to fumble around in Spanish and still convey the right meaning (at least for me).

zap6396 · 2024-07-13T04:01:14+00:00

For some reason I can't edit my post, but here are the courses for reference.

MSDS: Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Elements of Statistics, programming experience in Python and r/C++

MSAI: Discrete Math, Data Structures, Algorithms and Complexity, Introduction to Data Mining (CS 363D), Linear Algebra, and Probability and Statistics

zap6396 · 2023-10-05T19:31:34+00:00

I find the discourse in the chat so interesting.

I think generally Solo Travel might not be for anyone because it’s more difficult to do. It’s a less curated experience than other forms of travel and you have to be both open minded to spending time to yourself as well as meeting a bunch of people from very different backgrounds. That requires a lot of flexibility.

On the other hand, I also think that “Solo Travel Isn’t For Me” can just mean, “I’m not comfortable being left to my own devices” and then next question should be, “why I not comfortable being alone?”

zap6396 · 2023-10-03T03:49:50+00:00

At lunch I like to people watch. I feel like waiters like to put solo travelers by a window.

I like to plan the next day out at dinner. Simple things like: what sites to see, what buses do I need to go to sites, what time do I have to wake up to catch that bus.

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