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When I went, there were always a few companies where the representatives had a badge that said "I hire frosh." My advice would be to check it out to get a feel for what's going on. I wouldn't expect a whole lot, but at the very least it'll be good prep for the frosh/soph fair.
A word of advice - when I went to the fall career fair during my freshman year, I actually found it quite stressful. I ran into a couple of recruiters who came off as condescending, and the overall atmosphere seemed pretty stressful (gotta hustle for that internship). It was a bit of a contrast from the dorms and even office hours, where people are generally happy to lend a helping hand.
When I took CS 103 later, Keith Schwarz actually had a fairly negative view of the effect/messaging of the fall career fair towards freshmen. He felt that the competitiveness and the inevitable rejection of certain internships would not really provide a positive view of one's learning. Learning is a long process, and getting rejected from a dream CS internship might lead some to feel that their classes were for nothing. It's ultimately up to you whether you want to view your CS education as more of a pipeline into a good job, or an opportunity to intellectually explore (you can of course balance both, and there is no right way to do it).
So if you wanna hustle for an internship, then by all means go for it. However, keep in mind that the career fair is only one way to get your foot in the door. If you wanna be a real snek, network around and find people who can give you referrals for companies you're interested in. Also code up a project or two and put it on GitHub (with a link on your resume). Most importantly, read the good book.
There's a pallet going around where Grad students are sharing their concerns. Please feel free to add on.
https://padlet.com/laurenepope96/lx2woi44163y5m7t
I believe some student government folk are going to share these concerns with the university staff in charge of the compact on Monday.
Who is your ISP? If your ISP is stanford, they are really tight. Any DMCA notice they get goes against your 3 strikes. and 3rd strike you loose all university network privileges.
Do you download popular TV shows and movies? if so, you're going to get fucked. What they do is crawl around the torrent swarms and grab IP and spam the ISPs that own those IP.
How DMCA notices are handled depends on the ISP.
I use Private Internet Access as a VPN. Stanford also doesn't encrypt their wifi, which means anyone can theoretically snoop your unencrypted communication. So 40 bucks a year is a good investment.
The link is broken; this is apparently what it should be: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/five-men-who-raped-danish-tourist-in-india-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-2014-attack
I don't think it's helpful or convincing to compare Turner's sentence to a judicial penalty from another country. Every country has different standards and laws; or else why not point out that every single day, Stanford students go scot-free for constantly doing what gets people in Thailand thrown into prison for a dozen years?
That said, the main reason why India is an irrelevant comparison is because Turner's sentence is unusually light compared to U.S. and California state standards.
Hi Brilliantezza,
There are a few libraries in the US that have this pamphlet. Here is a link to the WorldCat record: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7476248
If you have access to a university or public library that offers interlibrary loan privileges, you may be able to have a copy sent to you directly, should you want to see it for yourself.
Sincerely, a librarian :)
This 'unofficial' app is even better: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=interprone.caltrain&hl=en_US
Can't buy tickets, but the schedule is very easy to understand and it hooks into the caltrain twitter so you can look up delays.
my 2 cent
- Bike is much better, but on foot is also feasible. I walk from grad housing to the office every day, and the undergrad dorms are closer in general.
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- It's good, certainly good enough for games. Ethernet in on campus housing is even better https://www.speedtest.net/result/8154372043
- +1 for a good ulock. There's a -lot- of bike theft.
It's a 10 min drive from campus, but Black Mountain via the Rhus Ridge Trailhead is a hell of work out with great views, and not too many people. (There's a brutal 25% grade stretch along a fire road right at the beginning, but it's relatively short; the rest of the trail is a bit more chill and scenic)
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/black-mountain-via-rhus-ridge
>starting point grading basis
I am not sure I understand what this means
The curve for a course all depends on the professor. If there's really no curve at all, the professor usually will mention it. Sometimes the Carta reviews for a course might talk about the curve. You can also check the grade distributions (no guarantee that this is accurate tho).
Agreed, Jerry is a lovely guy. My concern is that he (very explicitly) structures the class such that if you fail any assignment, you fail the class. See his "One very large caveat" here: https://quip.com/EbO1A1PjJXqN. I think he lets you resubmit and redo assignments, but this may not suffice here.
Evaporative cooling works somewhat in this climate since it's usually dry heat, but it probably can't get you below ~75 F on a hot day, maybe even 80 during a major heatwave (when it's 100 outside), and it can get pretty muggy inside if you don't have cross-ventilation. It's more trouble than AC because you have to keep refilling the water tank, but it uses a lot less electricity if that matters to you and it lets you circulate fresh air. This model could be okay for a studio.
If you're passing coding challenges and getting interviews, I think that's a very good sign. Getting the interview is half the battle since it means you've passed the resume filter and any initial screening stages. So I wouldn't be too worried about the resume.
If you aren't passing interviews, then honestly you may just need more practice with them. At least for the big tech companies, I think it would be pretty unusual for them to reject you for resume/experience reasons once you are already at the interview stage for an internship position. It tends to be all about interview performance.
Make sure you are doing all of the typical things expected in coding interviews - explaining your thought process and design choices, clarifying assumptions, talking through edge cases, and writing neat and efficient code. Also keep in mind that your own perception of how an interview went is likely unreliable - the correlation between how well an interview candidate thinks they did and how well the interviewer thinks they did is a lot weaker than you might expect.
This is updated as of 2016, perhaps you can find the later versions with some searching :)
I took 106A this same quarter, and median for both exams was an A-. The professor explicitly said that if more people get A's, then they'll just give more A's, which seems to be hinting that this class isn't graded based on distributions, or else, roughly the same number of people will be getting A's regardless.
I'm almost certain 106A did not have a B median. Going by this: http://txti.es/stanford-grades-2020/images, around 50-60%ish people get some sort of an A. Also, departments like Chemistry which are notoriously disliked for tougher grading and pre-med weedout curve to a B median. I doubt CS would be the same.
I don't know if it's just me, but over the past three years I feel like Stanford Residences has gotten worse and worse. I remember running a speedtest on speedtest.net in my freshman year and getting like 10 ping > 500 down >100 up (without ethernet) in the freshman dorms. I've never reached that since then. I ran one a few minutes ago and well... just look at it: https://www.speedtest.net/result/9028170483. It's horrible and/or horribly inconsistent. I don't know if my dorm just has exceptionally bad connection (been in the same dorm two years in a row now, casper quad area), but I've had a bad experience with it. I recently started playing League of Legends again, and Stanford Residences disconnects and ping spikes exceptionally often (at least once a game). Should probably switch to ethernet, assuming the closest router has gone through some shit.
Yeah, these days the popular CS topics in programming, dev ops, and basic machine learning topics are way easier to do online than in the traditional quarter or semester class situation. I tutor Python online, and do get the occasional Stanford undergrad, and it's always more efficient for them to take an online self-study approach. Honestly, some of the certification credential programs (e.g. LinkedIn Learning) can easily better than traditional classes. For good independent learners I've found https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/python is perhaps the best out there.
I think I misspoke slightly. Disabling interrupts to implement spin locks would work, but as you pointed out it might not be a great idea if you still want to handle interrupts that occur during the critical section. What you'd most likely want to do, and what Linux does for uniprocessor systems, is disable preemption. That way interrupts will still be handled, but no other threads will preempt the thread running in the critical section.
The only case where you'd need to disable interrupts while holding a lock is if the critical section shared memory with an interrupt handler. In that case you'd need to disable interrupts to prevent a data race.
Take a look here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/kernel-locking/uniprocessor.html
Their book https://www.amazon.com/System-Error-Where-Wrong-Reboot-ebook/dp/B08R3WG5FB (which seems to be based on similar things) is an interesting quick read.
Have you considered a bidet? They expedite the wiping process and make it all much more sanitary! They're available for $36 on Amazon and can be installed quite easily on any toilet using basic tools. https://www.amazon.com/Luxe-Bidet-Neo-120-Non-Electric/dp/B00A0RHSJO/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=bidet&qid=1571242073&sr=8-4
Usually go with an iPad, next is pads of engineering paper (example) as a backup, and sometimes type on my laptop.
Before I got my iPad, I really liked pads like this one that had large left margins where I could put topics and stuff on the left and notes on the right. It’s nice for finding stuff when the find command isn’t a thing
> 5 ounces of uranium ore
If it's unrefined that would be pretty much harmless. You can buy it on amazon. Now if you had 5 ounces of pure uranium? That could cause some issues.
Yes, especially some of the organic chemistry classes. they typically use this one: http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-Student-Lab-Notebook/dp/1429275995
Although this is not 100% consistent as it varies from instructor to instructor. Some other labs i've done only had the requirement that the notebook was bound and that pages were labeled and cannot be removed.