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  • depends on how motivated you are: the fact that you are going to university compared to a bootcamp, you’re already at an advantage. since universities have career events. if you go to career events, connect with recruiters or engineers, you’re guaranteed an interview spot, so long as you maintain a good educational background for the first few years of employment. Do you know how many CS majors have the same skills if not more than you? Too many to count. The difference is you have friends.

    one other note that is completely unrelated, I will mention CS is similar to a lot of other sciences. It’s broad in scope until maybe third or fourth year where you actually apply your knowledge to build (for example) an OS. I’m doing my third year in EE, the things I’ve learned the projects that I’ve done, brought me to a threshold where if I truly wanted to I could build my own assembly language in system verilog for my basys3 FPGA board.

    my point is, by the end of your program, you will see it’s all EECE and I will say “it always has been” [insert astronaught meme]. Both are excellent programs, just keep your mind open to options if you think CS is to broad like how physics for me was to broad.

    I have several CS majors in my electronics and circuits class because they enjoy working with microcontrollers, IC circuits, and embedded systems over X86 programming. The only things that’s stopping them from switching to EECE is their scholarships, which has only been approved for the CS program. With EECE you have an idea of what you want to do instead of just becoming a “software developer” or “web developer”. Whether that be the processing of rf signals for telecommunications, or using FPGA’s to capture collision events of particles inside a particle accelerator, you have the knowledge and practical experience with said knowledge to apply it to the problem at hand.




  • they don’t actually understand it. My guess is that if someone is interested in learning quantum mechanics they would talk about more niche things within the field than superposition and/or entanglement.

    similarly, when someone talks to me about the concept of calculus, that’s not what interests me. When I think of discussions in calculus I think of how gauss proved that for any 3 dimensional surface there is no 2 dimensional projection of it without distorting some areas of it. Hence why there is no perfect 2 dimensional representation of our globe, It’s been mathematically proven you can’t have a perfect map of earth. Theorems Egregium


  • I think he doesn’t understand “anti-ai”

    rhetorical question: when you’re anti-*, do you go out and do the thing you’re against? Like if you’re anti-smoking, do you go out and smoke a big fat vape? No, you do not. In other terminology, we call that hypocrisy.

    I’d say the majority of people’s reasons against AI isn’t just about the environmental impact but the offloading of your cognitive and mental ability, why would someone be anti-ai and still use ai when it directly hinders the ability to cognitively think in the first place.

    Anyways, the reason I’m pointing this out, is if you’re anti-ai, the philosophy assumes you don’t use LLM’s in the first place. So when someone asks this (redundant) question of “can you work without chatgpt?” or “if chatgpt disappeared, would you still be able to get through the day?” I’ve already been doing it.

    I can get through my day without using chatGPT. It’s a tool for the briefest of my circumstances (mostly for tedious work), and I could do my day without using it and without hindering my performance.







  • I like to think so.

    The entire premise developing agi isn’t about a “new scientific breakthrough” as much as it is a way to surveil and profile people.

    with web search, you have the option to opt out of cookies, which basically doesn’t allow trackers to track you on websites. were not even taking into account adblockers such as UblockOrigin or privacy badger, which has been an ongoing war with big tech.

    Anyways, with LLM’s, they have control of your prompts, they have access to your account and they can target advertisements or sell your data to the highest bidder.

    So, when google announced that search will be depreciated and replaced with their Gemini AGI, that to me was the first real indicator that their intentionally making search shitty to boost usage of their AI.








  • don’t forgot signal processing. Complex number theory is used a lot when it comes down to Fourier transforms of discrete or continuous functions.

    but yea the naming convention of “imaginary numbers” is pretty bad, we did the same thing for negative numbers (we called it imaginary) when people couldn’t comprehend of a negative quantity.

    negative numbers are defined from a conservative system, basically a gain/loss relationship: if I have 2 apples and I give away 1 to a friend, I have 1 apple left, that loss – that apple I gave to a friend – is the negative quantity. For imaginary numbers, we don’t really have a way to comprehend an imaginary quantity; what does it mean that I have sqrt(-1) apples.