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Funny thing: clicking the "past" button on this submission doesn't work—seems like Cloudflare doesn't like the query and blocks the request.

FYI for anyone on OS X Catalina (and likely Big Sur): this doesn't seem to work, as it's not detecting AVFoundation support in ffmpeg. See this issue: https://github.com/cytopia/ff…

I found Ada Palmer's post on the Renaissance a couple months ago to be a good read, though it's a bit long for one sitting and there are a few tangents: https://www.exurbe.com/blac…

Thanks for sharing this—I'd heard about the points system but I haven't seen any personal accounts of going through the process before, so it was illuminating to read one. Unfortun…

The city of Seattle commissioned a separate study on Uber and Lyft driver pay in Seattle (mentioned in the NYT article): https://irle.berkeley.edu/files/2020/07/Parrott-Reich-Seatt…

Northeastern University (in Boston) has announced that they're joining MIT and Harvard's lawsuit: https://twitter.com/Northeastern/status/1280961230233100297

But plenty of us are US-born! A glance often isn't enough to distinguish between international and domestic students.

They didn't mention political correctness, though...?

> I think the best way to pick what you want to do is to find [...] what the world values. > Don’t chase other people’s ideas of what matters. Er...

SF, Oakland, or Berkeley. My family and friends are in the Bay Area. The weather is nearly unparalleled. The food variety is solid. Transit is not that bad, if you compare the citi…

I'd be shocked if more than 5% (and even that's a stretch) of fresh high school graduates in the US knew what a Markov chain is.

I think that might speak more to the dismal state of cities in the rest of the country, rather than SF being particularly good.

I'm interested in hearing why it's a bad thing to disincentivize working more. Is it so bad for someone to not be working should they have enough money to live on? (I'm not sure if…

> I've built tiny servers, parsed plethora of file formats, calculated maths, wrote data, (de)compressed stuff, encrypted things, ... If you've written code to do all those things,…

For me, at least, the hardest part is actually executing on what you think you should do.

Is there any advantage (e.g. higher likelihood of admission, or earlier notification) to applying earlier, assuming you apply by the deadline?

CS3L hasn't been offered for the last couple of years. The catalog includes classes that haven't been offered for a long time.

I'm a CS sophomore at Berkeley, and I actually had the same choice. Sure, it would have been better to go to CMU based solely on the school, but the difference in tuition and fees …

This attitude likely resulted from the lack of TAs rather than the other way around...