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TimmyMac
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada499 Posts
December 08 2009 22:55 GMT
#21
lol, I did this my first semester of my M.Sc. ez. Spent like 25 hours a week on school maybe.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
December 08 2009 23:04 GMT
#22
I thought this would be another guide to masturbation.
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
m3rciless
Profile Joined August 2009
United States1476 Posts
December 08 2009 23:50 GMT
#23
On December 09 2009 07:06 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
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On December 09 2009 06:38 Myrmidon wrote:
I knew people that took 3 graduate classes and worked as a TA, but nobody does research on top of that. Wtf are you doing, actually doing a significant amount of research your first semester?


I don't know anyone else who tried to juggle this many commitments their first semester either, but I bet I'm not the only one. I dunno dude, somehow everything has worked out very well minus one terrible exam. I was able to manipulate things somewhat in that I'm substituting a project in one of my courses with my research which has worked out nicely. As for significant... I wouldn't call it all that significant yet. A lot of the stuff I've been doing is empirical work testing out an algorithm that was developed in my lab. Though, I have come up with some theory on my own as well, but I don't know yet if it will wind up being useful.

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And how'd you get through undergrad in a technical major (and I'm assuming CS or something very related) without having to take some linear algebra?


I did CS as an undergrad. I did take a "linear algebra" course my first year, but I'm putting it in quotes because it was utter shit and didn't teach me anything. The only thing that made it linear algebra-ish was we memorized how to find eigen values. And by memorized I mean we did it without even being shown what they are and what they are useful for. So I might as well have had no linear algebra background. On a sidenote, I learned the subject on my own a couple months ago by watching Gilbert Strang's lectures on MIT courseware, if anyone is interested you should check it out: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/VideoLectures/


Yeah dawg, you probably should have caught up with linear algebra at some point. I'm only a senior in high school and i'm taking Linear algebra with multivariate calculus, as i was told it's absolutely fundamental to a CS degree.
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AcrossFiveJulys
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States3612 Posts
December 09 2009 02:27 GMT
#24
On December 09 2009 08:50 m3rciless wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 09 2009 07:06 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
On December 09 2009 06:38 Myrmidon wrote:
I knew people that took 3 graduate classes and worked as a TA, but nobody does research on top of that. Wtf are you doing, actually doing a significant amount of research your first semester?


I don't know anyone else who tried to juggle this many commitments their first semester either, but I bet I'm not the only one. I dunno dude, somehow everything has worked out very well minus one terrible exam. I was able to manipulate things somewhat in that I'm substituting a project in one of my courses with my research which has worked out nicely. As for significant... I wouldn't call it all that significant yet. A lot of the stuff I've been doing is empirical work testing out an algorithm that was developed in my lab. Though, I have come up with some theory on my own as well, but I don't know yet if it will wind up being useful.


And how'd you get through undergrad in a technical major (and I'm assuming CS or something very related) without having to take some linear algebra?


I did CS as an undergrad. I did take a "linear algebra" course my first year, but I'm putting it in quotes because it was utter shit and didn't teach me anything. The only thing that made it linear algebra-ish was we memorized how to find eigen values. And by memorized I mean we did it without even being shown what they are and what they are useful for. So I might as well have had no linear algebra background. On a sidenote, I learned the subject on my own a couple months ago by watching Gilbert Strang's lectures on MIT courseware, if anyone is interested you should check it out: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/VideoLectures/


Yeah dawg, you probably should have caught up with linear algebra at some point. I'm only a senior in high school and i'm taking Linear algebra with multivariate calculus, as i was told it's absolutely fundamental to a CS degree.


Well, congrats on being such a smarty pants and taking that material only being in high school. I was able to skip the first two courses in calculus because of the AP course I took in high school, but I guess the bar is being raised nowadays for kids in math, which is a good thing.

That aside, whoever told you it's absolutely fundamental to a CS degree has no idea what they're talking about. Linear algebra is only extremely important in machine learning, my area of specialty. The only other areas of CS I know about that use Linear algebra are bioinformatics (because bioinformatics uses some machine learning algorithms) and scientific computing (part of which aims to do common scientific computations really fast, such as computing eigen values, etc). Some linear algebra might come up in graphics and/or vision but I'm not sure because I haven't taken courses in those areas. These are just a few of the many areas of CS. Saying linear algebra is fundamental to CS is like saying being able to mutalisk micro against scourge is fundamental to being a starcraft player-- you only need to know how to do it if you're a zerg player.
m3rciless
Profile Joined August 2009
United States1476 Posts
December 09 2009 03:15 GMT
#25
On December 09 2009 11:27 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 09 2009 08:50 m3rciless wrote:
On December 09 2009 07:06 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
On December 09 2009 06:38 Myrmidon wrote:
I knew people that took 3 graduate classes and worked as a TA, but nobody does research on top of that. Wtf are you doing, actually doing a significant amount of research your first semester?


I don't know anyone else who tried to juggle this many commitments their first semester either, but I bet I'm not the only one. I dunno dude, somehow everything has worked out very well minus one terrible exam. I was able to manipulate things somewhat in that I'm substituting a project in one of my courses with my research which has worked out nicely. As for significant... I wouldn't call it all that significant yet. A lot of the stuff I've been doing is empirical work testing out an algorithm that was developed in my lab. Though, I have come up with some theory on my own as well, but I don't know yet if it will wind up being useful.


And how'd you get through undergrad in a technical major (and I'm assuming CS or something very related) without having to take some linear algebra?


I did CS as an undergrad. I did take a "linear algebra" course my first year, but I'm putting it in quotes because it was utter shit and didn't teach me anything. The only thing that made it linear algebra-ish was we memorized how to find eigen values. And by memorized I mean we did it without even being shown what they are and what they are useful for. So I might as well have had no linear algebra background. On a sidenote, I learned the subject on my own a couple months ago by watching Gilbert Strang's lectures on MIT courseware, if anyone is interested you should check it out: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/VideoLectures/


Yeah dawg, you probably should have caught up with linear algebra at some point. I'm only a senior in high school and i'm taking Linear algebra with multivariate calculus, as i was told it's absolutely fundamental to a CS degree.


Well, congrats on being such a smarty pants and taking that material only being in high school. I was able to skip the first two courses in calculus because of the AP course I took in high school, but I guess the bar is being raised nowadays for kids in math, which is a good thing.

That aside, whoever told you it's absolutely fundamental to a CS degree has no idea what they're talking about. Linear algebra is only extremely important in machine learning, my area of specialty. The only other areas of CS I know about that use Linear algebra are bioinformatics (because bioinformatics uses some machine learning algorithms) and scientific computing (part of which aims to do common scientific computations really fast, such as computing eigen values, etc). Some linear algebra might come up in graphics and/or vision but I'm not sure because I haven't taken courses in those areas. These are just a few of the many areas of CS. Saying linear algebra is fundamental to CS is like saying being able to mutalisk micro against scourge is fundamental to being a starcraft player-- you only need to know how to do it if you're a zerg player.


I see. Well, i suppose it looks good for colleges anyway. Not a total loss.
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Slaughter
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
United States20254 Posts
December 09 2009 04:43 GMT
#26
This seriously makes me dreading next semester as my story will be Very similar, except change it to Anthropology instead of CS.
Never Knows Best.
zer0das
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States8519 Posts
December 09 2009 05:36 GMT
#27
I empathize. Chemistry here. Hello 40 hours a week of electronics when the most I had ever done before was like two days of bread boarding in an undergraduate class! Then teaching... research (hardly ever though... sigh)... more classes, 3-6 hour oral exams every other week.

So glad electronics is over and life will be more normal (or at least one where I don't have to run off of 4-5 hours a sleep for most of the week).
Frits
Profile Joined March 2003
11782 Posts
December 10 2009 01:51 GMT
#28
greeetings gfrom a psych major lmao helllooo 6 weeks of vacatiosn and 2 weeks of work lol

though im probably gonna transfer to medicine since its to easy, dunno

ggl with your major thoughhg xx
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