That sounds tough and tiring. Nice. I guess that's a new record.
Well, there's a auditorium for classes of 100-300 students, and it got pretty full. We did have an overenrollment problem. The university wanted to keep growing, but they also didn't have the class infrastructure to support it. I still wonder to this day how I managed to survive that. Yep. Getting to know your professor in their office hours helps quite a bit, especially when it comes to finding opportunities.
I have a little experience with Linux from working with Raspberry Pi's, though I'm not entirely familiar with Linux.
They got rid of masks in the gym, which was a bit of a shock. Not sure how happy about that I am.
That's perplexing. Meanwhile my undergrad opened a new college and made new dorms so they could enroll more students, then they admitted so many that their acceptance rate rose like 25% We found that a little embarrassing, especially since it was ~25% when we enrolled.
Thankfully when one is a PhD student, most faculty are more willing to talk to you.
I brought it up because the python library my advisor is working with for some heavy computation (think beefed up pytorch) apparently only works on Linux... he seemed shocked that I didn't use Linux, I was like dude But the university might give me my own Linux machine for doing this stuff in my office, which is kind of cool.
Wow. Doesn't seem like a sanitary decision, but at least you can still wear your mask if it makes you feel more comfortable.
That's pretty cool that your college was able to make more dorms. My college just crammed more people inside the dorms. Many of the rooms for two people became rooms for three people, and rooms for three people became rooms for four people, though I got really lucky and only had one roommate when I was in dorms.
Ah yes, that's true. I guess it's also because some of the Ph.D students are also the TAs and the tutors for those professors sometimes.
Ooh, that's pretty neat. I think Linux was designed to be a very light-weight system so that people can run those heavy computations and other kinds of tasks. I think Linux might even be open-source or something. Have fun with your Linux machine.
They got rid of masks in the gym, which was a bit of a shock. Not sure how happy about that I am.
That's perplexing. Meanwhile my undergrad opened a new college and made new dorms so they could enroll more students, then they admitted so many that their acceptance rate rose like 25% We found that a little embarrassing, especially since it was ~25% when we enrolled.
Thankfully when one is a PhD student, most faculty are more willing to talk to you.
I brought it up because the python library my advisor is working with for some heavy computation (think beefed up pytorch) apparently only works on Linux... he seemed shocked that I didn't use Linux, I was like dude But the university might give me my own Linux machine for doing this stuff in my office, which is kind of cool.
Wow. Doesn't seem like a sanitary decision, but at least you can still wear your mask if it makes you feel more comfortable.
That's pretty cool that your college was able to make more dorms. My college just crammed more people inside the dorms. Many of the rooms for two people became rooms for three people, and rooms for three people became rooms for four people, though I got really lucky and only had one roommate when I was in dorms.
Ah yes, that's true. I guess it's also because some of the Ph.D students are also the TAs and the tutors for those professors sometimes.
Ooh, that's pretty neat. I think Linux was designed to be a very light-weight system so that people can run those heavy computations and other kinds of tasks. I think Linux might even be open-source or something. Have fun with your Linux machine.
Yes. Sometimes I wear it in the hopes that people will be more likely to avoid me.
Pretty sure my undergrad would brag about having the most undeveloped land of any school east of the Mississippi if I remember correctly, though most of it's on a mountain so it's not exactly the most useful land. Now here at grad school I think they've utilized every piece of land they have since we're in the city. My single dorm room sophomore year was larger than some schools' doubles.
Well, it's also going to look real bad if no professors want to take new PhD students, as it's their job to do so.
Haven't heard anything new about Linux, though I guess it'll happen sometime. He implied it'd be dual boot, though.
Wow. Doesn't seem like a sanitary decision, but at least you can still wear your mask if it makes you feel more comfortable.
That's pretty cool that your college was able to make more dorms. My college just crammed more people inside the dorms. Many of the rooms for two people became rooms for three people, and rooms for three people became rooms for four people, though I got really lucky and only had one roommate when I was in dorms.
Ah yes, that's true. I guess it's also because some of the Ph.D students are also the TAs and the tutors for those professors sometimes.
Ooh, that's pretty neat. I think Linux was designed to be a very light-weight system so that people can run those heavy computations and other kinds of tasks. I think Linux might even be open-source or something. Have fun with your Linux machine.
Yes. Sometimes I wear it in the hopes that people will be more likely to avoid me.
Pretty sure my undergrad would brag about having the most undeveloped land of any school east of the Mississippi if I remember correctly, though most of it's on a mountain so it's not exactly the most useful land. Now here at grad school I think they've utilized every piece of land they have since we're in the city. My single dorm room sophomore year was larger than some schools' doubles.
Well, it's also going to look real bad if no professors want to take new PhD students, as it's their job to do so.
Haven't heard anything new about Linux, though I guess it'll happen sometime. He implied it'd be dual boot, though.
I think that would be pretty effective. Even I tend to keep my distance from those who wear a mask even if social distancing measures aren't strictly enforced.
Very interesting. My school was in a forest, so there wasn't much room to expand without cutting down trees. That's pretty cool. I've visited a few campuses in the city environments and it's interesting how each one builds higher to fit more space in a smaller footprint of land. Wow, you got pretty lucky. That also sounded expensive.
Right. Back when I was in my Masters program I had to email and request a few professors to do research under them.
Ah, very cool. I think my colleague has something like that with both Windows and Linux and he could choose which one to use when his computer turns on.
Yes. Sometimes I wear it in the hopes that people will be more likely to avoid me.
Pretty sure my undergrad would brag about having the most undeveloped land of any school east of the Mississippi if I remember correctly, though most of it's on a mountain so it's not exactly the most useful land. Now here at grad school I think they've utilized every piece of land they have since we're in the city. My single dorm room sophomore year was larger than some schools' doubles.
Well, it's also going to look real bad if no professors want to take new PhD students, as it's their job to do so.
Haven't heard anything new about Linux, though I guess it'll happen sometime. He implied it'd be dual boot, though.
I think that would be pretty effective. Even I tend to keep my distance from those who wear a mask even if social distancing measures aren't strictly enforced.
Very interesting. My school was in a forest, so there wasn't much room to expand without cutting down trees. That's pretty cool. I've visited a few campuses in the city environments and it's interesting how each one builds higher to fit more space in a smaller footprint of land. Wow, you got pretty lucky. That also sounded expensive.
Right. Back when I was in my Masters program I had to email and request a few professors to do research under them.
Ah, very cool. I think my colleague has something like that with both Windows and Linux and he could choose which one to use when his computer turns on.
Today I was at a talk with food and someone had the bright idea to open the window to create some airflow since people didn't have masks... but it was snowing out Yes, my undergrad had a lot of trees to cut down if they wanted to use their land. Usually they just tear down lower income houses in the town instead... Thankfully nothing has been too expensive so far. Woo financial aid in undergrad.
Masters students and undergrads are good to have around to do the dirty work
I'm lowkey hoping I'll never have to use Linux, I'm already struggling enough to endeavor to learn Python.
I think that would be pretty effective. Even I tend to keep my distance from those who wear a mask even if social distancing measures aren't strictly enforced.
Very interesting. My school was in a forest, so there wasn't much room to expand without cutting down trees. That's pretty cool. I've visited a few campuses in the city environments and it's interesting how each one builds higher to fit more space in a smaller footprint of land. Wow, you got pretty lucky. That also sounded expensive.
Right. Back when I was in my Masters program I had to email and request a few professors to do research under them.
Ah, very cool. I think my colleague has something like that with both Windows and Linux and he could choose which one to use when his computer turns on.
Today I was at a talk with food and someone had the bright idea to open the window to create some airflow since people didn't have masks... but it was snowing out Yes, my undergrad had a lot of trees to cut down if they wanted to use their land. Usually they just tear down lower income houses in the town instead... Thankfully nothing has been too expensive so far. Woo financial aid in undergrad.
Masters students and undergrads are good to have around to do the dirty work
I'm lowkey hoping I'll never have to use Linux, I'm already struggling enough to endeavor to learn Python.
Wow. That must've also made the room quite cold.
I see. I wouldn't be surprised if my university did something like that, but I did live in a city that refused to grow so we had a pretty bad housing crisis. That's good. Does some of it carry over to your PhD program?
Pretty much. They're the ones doing the research while the professors prepares the course material. I remember there was a thing a while back where professors were taking the credit for their Masters students' research, though I don't know if any of them still do that now.
Interesting. I suppose you'll eventually get the hang of it. The two will probably go hand-in-hand at some point.
Today I was at a talk with food and someone had the bright idea to open the window to create some airflow since people didn't have masks... but it was snowing out Yes, my undergrad had a lot of trees to cut down if they wanted to use their land. Usually they just tear down lower income houses in the town instead... Thankfully nothing has been too expensive so far. Woo financial aid in undergrad.
Masters students and undergrads are good to have around to do the dirty work
I'm lowkey hoping I'll never have to use Linux, I'm already struggling enough to endeavor to learn Python.
Wow. That must've also made the room quite cold.
I see. I wouldn't be surprised if my university did something like that, but I did live in a city that refused to grow so we had a pretty bad housing crisis. That's good. Does some of it carry over to your PhD program?
Pretty much. They're the ones doing the research while the professors prepares the course material. I remember there was a thing a while back where professors were taking the credit for their Masters students' research, though I don't know if any of them still do that now.
Interesting. I suppose you'll eventually get the hang of it. The two will probably go hand-in-hand at some point.
I'd never considered putting my hat on inside before that, so that's saying something.
My undergrad was pretty constrained by the mountain, the river, and existing establishments, so off campus leases - particularly in "party zones" - would often fly off the market 10 months before move in. Meanwhile my building had me renew my lease 2 months before it expired. There wasn't much good public transit at undergrad either so it was more challenging for grad students to easily commute to campus, while here they can more easily live far afield if they wish.
Well, my program is fully funded and I get paid to be a teaching assist or research assistant, so it's basically a full time minimum wage job.
Oh yeah that's always a big thing. Professor gets first author on the paper despite the student doing the work. Student will go along with it because it gives the paper more visibility and they want that recommendation. Thankfully my advisor has plenty of papers with his students as first author... a red flag otherwise.
I'm just lazy and keep using MATLAB despite telling myself I'd start using Python. Whoops. I am using it for one class though, because the assignments are more statistically inclined.
I see. I wouldn't be surprised if my university did something like that, but I did live in a city that refused to grow so we had a pretty bad housing crisis. That's good. Does some of it carry over to your PhD program?
Pretty much. They're the ones doing the research while the professors prepares the course material. I remember there was a thing a while back where professors were taking the credit for their Masters students' research, though I don't know if any of them still do that now.
Interesting. I suppose you'll eventually get the hang of it. The two will probably go hand-in-hand at some point.
I'd never considered putting my hat on inside before that, so that's saying something.
My undergrad was pretty constrained by the mountain, the river, and existing establishments, so off campus leases - particularly in "party zones" - would often fly off the market 10 months before move in. Meanwhile my building had me renew my lease 2 months before it expired. There wasn't much good public transit at undergrad either so it was more challenging for grad students to easily commute to campus, while here they can more easily live far afield if they wish.
Well, my program is fully funded and I get paid to be a teaching assist or research assistant, so it's basically a full time minimum wage job.
Oh yeah that's always a big thing. Professor gets first author on the paper despite the student doing the work. Student will go along with it because it gives the paper more visibility and they want that recommendation. Thankfully my advisor has plenty of papers with his students as first author... a red flag otherwise.
I'm just lazy and keep using MATLAB despite telling myself I'd start using Python. Whoops. I am using it for one class though, because the assignments are more statistically inclined.
Wow. I don't usually wear hats, though in a situation like that I'd definitely keep it on indoors.
That's very fast. It's like they're planning housing a whole year in advance, and a lot can happen within that year. I guess it's better to secure the lease now than when it's closer to expiring. I see. I think my undergrad had a pretty decent public transportation system, but they did get full during critical hours of the day.
That's very nice. Enjoy your program while it lasts.
Ah, I see. That's good your professor puts their students first. I think my professor would have done that too, but then the pandemic hit and the conference we wanted to submit a paper to got cancelled.
At least MATLAB and Python are kind of close enough. I wanted to recreate one of my MATLAB programs in Python and most of the functions were the same. The only differences I needed to consider were the syntax and the classic "Index starts at 0 vs Index starts at 1" dilemma.
I'd never considered putting my hat on inside before that, so that's saying something.
My undergrad was pretty constrained by the mountain, the river, and existing establishments, so off campus leases - particularly in "party zones" - would often fly off the market 10 months before move in. Meanwhile my building had me renew my lease 2 months before it expired. There wasn't much good public transit at undergrad either so it was more challenging for grad students to easily commute to campus, while here they can more easily live far afield if they wish.
Well, my program is fully funded and I get paid to be a teaching assist or research assistant, so it's basically a full time minimum wage job.
Oh yeah that's always a big thing. Professor gets first author on the paper despite the student doing the work. Student will go along with it because it gives the paper more visibility and they want that recommendation. Thankfully my advisor has plenty of papers with his students as first author... a red flag otherwise.
I'm just lazy and keep using MATLAB despite telling myself I'd start using Python. Whoops. I am using it for one class though, because the assignments are more statistically inclined.
Wow. I don't usually wear hats, though in a situation like that I'd definitely keep it on indoors.
That's very fast. It's like they're planning housing a whole year in advance, and a lot can happen within that year. I guess it's better to secure the lease now than when it's closer to expiring. I see. I think my undergrad had a pretty decent public transportation system, but they did get full during critical hours of the day.
That's very nice. Enjoy your program while it lasts.
Ah, I see. That's good your professor puts their students first. I think my professor would have done that too, but then the pandemic hit and the conference we wanted to submit a paper to got cancelled.
At least MATLAB and Python are kind of close enough. I wanted to recreate one of my MATLAB programs in Python and most of the functions were the same. The only differences I needed to consider were the syntax and the classic "Index starts at 0 vs Index starts at 1" dilemma.
Do not get me started on my university's bus system. This entire semester it has let me down.
I'm not sure how much I can enjoy minimum wage and too much math, but the flexibility can be nice.
The indices give me an aneurysm every time. Similar enough to be transferrable, but not similar enough to save me from pain.
Did I tell you I was placed with an internship for the summer? Apparently it will be with NLP. I am excited... I'll tell you more when I know more.
Wow. I don't usually wear hats, though in a situation like that I'd definitely keep it on indoors.
That's very fast. It's like they're planning housing a whole year in advance, and a lot can happen within that year. I guess it's better to secure the lease now than when it's closer to expiring. I see. I think my undergrad had a pretty decent public transportation system, but they did get full during critical hours of the day.
That's very nice. Enjoy your program while it lasts.
Ah, I see. That's good your professor puts their students first. I think my professor would have done that too, but then the pandemic hit and the conference we wanted to submit a paper to got cancelled.
At least MATLAB and Python are kind of close enough. I wanted to recreate one of my MATLAB programs in Python and most of the functions were the same. The only differences I needed to consider were the syntax and the classic "Index starts at 0 vs Index starts at 1" dilemma.
Do not get me started on my university's bus system. This entire semester it has let me down.
I'm not sure how much I can enjoy minimum wage and too much math, but the flexibility can be nice.
The indices give me an aneurysm every time. Similar enough to be transferrable, but not similar enough to save me from pain.
Did I tell you I was placed with an internship for the summer? Apparently it will be with NLP. I am excited... I'll tell you more when I know more.
Ooh, that's unfortunate. Never on time and never on schedule?
For sure. I sometimes wish I could go back to school and learn new things or do new research. It was a good experience cut short by the pandemic.
Agreed. Which indices do you prefer or most used to? I sometimes think MATLAB is the odd one out despite counting from 1 like how people normally count.
Congratulations on getting into an internship! NLP is definitely one of the biggest growing topics in ML, and I think you'll really enjoy it.
Do not get me started on my university's bus system. This entire semester it has let me down.
I'm not sure how much I can enjoy minimum wage and too much math, but the flexibility can be nice.
The indices give me an aneurysm every time. Similar enough to be transferrable, but not similar enough to save me from pain.
Did I tell you I was placed with an internship for the summer? Apparently it will be with NLP. I am excited... I'll tell you more when I know more.
Ooh, that's unfortunate. Never on time and never on schedule?
For sure. I sometimes wish I could go back to school and learn new things or do new research. It was a good experience cut short by the pandemic.
Agreed. Which indices do you prefer or most used to? I sometimes think MATLAB is the odd one out despite counting from 1 like how people normally count.
Congratulations on getting into an internship! NLP is definitely one of the biggest growing topics in ML, and I think you'll really enjoy it.
Last fall I never had any issues with them, but it feels like this spring they've been conspiring against me.
I mean, plenty of people go back to school after years of work to get a PhD. That could always be you.
Indexing from 1 is the most intuitive to me, though I understand why indexing from 0 is prevalent, it still hurts my brain.
They still haven't sent me any additional info, but since the funding is coming from a grant affiliated with the university I can't be too surprised. They have a lot of clinical textual data and I'm pretty excited about the amount of opportunity being presented.
Ooh, that's unfortunate. Never on time and never on schedule?
For sure. I sometimes wish I could go back to school and learn new things or do new research. It was a good experience cut short by the pandemic.
Agreed. Which indices do you prefer or most used to? I sometimes think MATLAB is the odd one out despite counting from 1 like how people normally count.
Congratulations on getting into an internship! NLP is definitely one of the biggest growing topics in ML, and I think you'll really enjoy it.
Last fall I never had any issues with them, but it feels like this spring they've been conspiring against me.
I mean, plenty of people go back to school after years of work to get a PhD. That could always be you.
Indexing from 1 is the most intuitive to me, though I understand why indexing from 0 is prevalent, it still hurts my brain.
They still haven't sent me any additional info, but since the funding is coming from a grant affiliated with the university I can't be too surprised. They have a lot of clinical textual data and I'm pretty excited about the amount of opportunity being presented.
Interesting. I wonder if it's a seasonal thing. Gonna need more data to confirm.
I suppose, maybe I'll consider it in the future. Will probably have to earn a lot more money to pay for tuition though.
It hurts my brain at times too, especially the one time I was translating my MATLAB code into Python.
That sounds pretty good. Lots of interesting and fun work seems to be coming your way. I hope it's just as exciting once you begin the internship.
Last fall I never had any issues with them, but it feels like this spring they've been conspiring against me.
I mean, plenty of people go back to school after years of work to get a PhD. That could always be you.
Indexing from 1 is the most intuitive to me, though I understand why indexing from 0 is prevalent, it still hurts my brain.
They still haven't sent me any additional info, but since the funding is coming from a grant affiliated with the university I can't be too surprised. They have a lot of clinical textual data and I'm pretty excited about the amount of opportunity being presented.
Interesting. I wonder if it's a seasonal thing. Gonna need more data to confirm.
I suppose, maybe I'll consider it in the future. Will probably have to earn a lot more money to pay for tuition though.
It hurts my brain at times too, especially the one time I was translating my MATLAB code into Python.
That sounds pretty good. Lots of interesting and fun work seems to be coming your way. I hope it's just as exciting once you begin the internship.
I was on the city bus on Friday, going to a baseball game, and the bus driver not only made us stop so he could take a break, but we also had to transfer buses. It was kind of funny... the price to pay for free public transit
I guess your company isn't the kind to pay for you to continue your education?
Oh jeez, that sounds rough. Hopefully you could ctrl+f and automatically reindex some stuff
In the past week they still haven't told me anything so hopefully I will get some updates on this situation very soon
Interesting. I wonder if it's a seasonal thing. Gonna need more data to confirm.
I suppose, maybe I'll consider it in the future. Will probably have to earn a lot more money to pay for tuition though.
It hurts my brain at times too, especially the one time I was translating my MATLAB code into Python.
That sounds pretty good. Lots of interesting and fun work seems to be coming your way. I hope it's just as exciting once you begin the internship.
I was on the city bus on Friday, going to a baseball game, and the bus driver not only made us stop so he could take a break, but we also had to transfer buses. It was kind of funny... the price to pay for free public transit
I guess your company isn't the kind to pay for you to continue your education?
Oh jeez, that sounds rough. Hopefully you could ctrl+f and automatically reindex some stuff
In the past week they still haven't told me anything so hopefully I will get some updates on this situation very soon
Wow. I suppose something happened to the bus? Well, someone's taxes gotta pay for the maintenance and the bus drivers.
My company is kind of small with many young employees around my age, so if everyone wanted to continue their education we'd probably go bankrupt. Though I think they'd be willing to support a portion of it.
Yeah, that kind of worked. It was mainly adjusting the starting and ending indexes in the for-loops that was annoying.
That'll be cool. Hopefully something will come up.
I was on the city bus on Friday, going to a baseball game, and the bus driver not only made us stop so he could take a break, but we also had to transfer buses. It was kind of funny... the price to pay for free public transit
I guess your company isn't the kind to pay for you to continue your education?
Oh jeez, that sounds rough. Hopefully you could ctrl+f and automatically reindex some stuff
In the past week they still haven't told me anything so hopefully I will get some updates on this situation very soon
Wow. I suppose something happened to the bus? Well, someone's taxes gotta pay for the maintenance and the bus drivers.
My company is kind of small with many young employees around my age, so if everyone wanted to continue their education we'd probably go bankrupt. Though I think they'd be willing to support a portion of it.
Yeah, that kind of worked. It was mainly adjusting the starting and ending indexes in the for-loops that was annoying.
That'll be cool. Hopefully something will come up.
No, I think it was just time for the driver's shift to end?? Mysteries of the transit system.
Thankfully I have no desire for more education after I'm done this degree so I don't have to worry about that when applying for jobs. I know it was a factor for AP, though. He's starting his full-time role within the next month, he just finished school. (this has been your former LMBEer update of the day)
Typing "in" for python always throws me off, though somehow I always make typos in my MATLAB for loops and it ends up only looping over one number then it takes me an hour to figure out what I screwed up.
I'll be starting on the 23rd (so soon) but I don't have anything beyond that.
Wow. I suppose something happened to the bus? Well, someone's taxes gotta pay for the maintenance and the bus drivers.
My company is kind of small with many young employees around my age, so if everyone wanted to continue their education we'd probably go bankrupt. Though I think they'd be willing to support a portion of it.
Yeah, that kind of worked. It was mainly adjusting the starting and ending indexes in the for-loops that was annoying.
That'll be cool. Hopefully something will come up.
No, I think it was just time for the driver's shift to end?? Mysteries of the transit system.
Thankfully I have no desire for more education after I'm done this degree so I don't have to worry about that when applying for jobs. I know it was a factor for AP, though. He's starting his full-time role within the next month, he just finished school. (this has been your former LMBEer update of the day)
Typing "in" for python always throws me off, though somehow I always make typos in my MATLAB for loops and it ends up only looping over one number then it takes me an hour to figure out what I screwed up.
I'll be starting on the 23rd (so soon) but I don't have anything beyond that.
Mysterious indeed. I miss when my local buses used to be able to ride for free during the pandemic, but now they brought back the payment system.
That makes sense, you are going for one of the highest forms of education anyway. Nice to hear that AP is doing well. I hope he enjoys his new job!
The "in" command is so strange cause there's no indices, yet it just works so nicely. I'll admit, even though I've done MATLAB for quite a while, I still end up searching online to figure out syntax, even for for loops and other simple things.
Sounds good. Looks like you have a week to relax and prepare before starting on your internship.
Nice. I guess that's a new record. 
Thankfully nothing has been too expensive so far. 
Thankfully nothing has been too expensive so far. 