How many companies offer internships longer than a summer? I have a co-op position for this summer but after my 3rd year I'm hoping to get something longer, a 12 or 16 month position.
Also -- are many American companies friendly towards Canadians who happen to have dual citizenship? To be honest ideally I'd work in Waterloo or Toronto (both are driving distance, ish, from my home) but I'd love to spend time in NYC or the Bay Area too.
Maybe I'm reading the graphs wrong, but they seem somewhat misleading to me: shouldn't the average (top of the blue bar, bottom of slightly greener blue bar) be what you're comparing to the others? The other columns are all strictly averages too, even though the prices are centrally set for many of the other countries.
The US does come out more expensive, but not as much as the graphs might lead you to believe. It's like saying: In Australia the average student scored 43 points on a standardized test, but in the US, students in the 95th percentile got 150 points! Yeah, not so convincing.
The charts show the average cost for each country, then for US it emphasizes the outrageous edge cases.
A more fair representation would show all 3 segments for all countries. With the data presented, if we look at just the average costs the change is still significant but not as dramatic and shocking.
Healthcare costs are a real issue and is totally jacked up in the US, but representations like this take away credibility from the argument they are trying to support.
The fact that he was reading his entire presentation verbatim should have tipped everybody off in the first minute or so. Nobody who's "at the forefront of the most advanced mathematics ever known to mankind" needs that much notes to talk about it. Shoot, I've never had a prof that needed that kind of help... and they're teaching 2nd year courses.
"The saying is that mathematics is the language of god, but until now, no one has been speaking gods language"
"What we have is the great unifying field theory, with it you can create and exhaust free energy, end all diseases, produce unlimited food, travel anywhere in the universe, build the ultimate supercomputer, artificial intelligence, and obsolete all existing technology."
All in the first minute. I don't think it was really necessary to take the presentation-style into account...
I've had an algebra professor who lectured by preparing notes for the class and then reading them and writing them on the board verbatim. After particularly difficult proofs he'd sometimes turn around to look at the class, to see if anyone had their hand up, before moving on.
Said professor has made serious contributions to modern algebra and is probably about as close to "the forefront of modern mathematics" as anyone. Not everyone who's good at math is good at lecturing.
> The fact that he was reading his entire presentation verbatim should have tipped everybody off in the first minute or so
His presentation is utter nonsense, but whether he reads verbatim has nothing to do with it. Someone presenting valid results could just be a poor public speaker and/or nervous.
I read from notes when I present simply because I don't present the same material enough times to memorize it, otherwise I'm sure to forget something. A lot of presenters take another approach and put so many words on their slides and that they basically end up reading from them.
Being in my second year of Electrical (and Biomedical) Engineering at McMaster University, I have to say I love CircuitLab.
My advice would be: Buy all the EE textbooks (they're expensive, I know...) and make sure that all the problems in the textbooks can be done with CircuitLab. Make it really easy for PSPICE instructions to be converted to CircuitLab. The education market is a huge one for you and I think you can really win out over PSPICE/MultiSim here.
You've already done a great job with PSPICE compatibility in terms of terminology. And I love how easy it is to modify MOSFET/BJT models. I'd prefer a bit more customization of the simulation plots, though.
I agree -- I've found myself in that exact case that he described (mindlessly adding and subtracting one on various loop indices until it worked) more than once.
My experience is that, if you're in a place where you want to work on a laptop, that place will probably have wifi. Sure, in the park, on the street, your chances are lower -- but that's where you'd be pulling out your phone or tablet instead of your laptop.
Most places where there's WiFi, speed is terrible. I always end up tethering to my phone. Heck, LTE ends up being faster than my home connection. (Obviously used judiciously given the small dataplans you can get)
A one-second video is seldom going to show more than a single photograph. Sure, there's a little motion, but the quality is worse and if you want to stop and take a look you have to pause the video. I'd stick with taking one photo a day.
I know there are counterexamples. But for those things, you'd probably want to take a longer video anyway. What kind of events is a 1-second video the best way to capture, anyway?
I would have to disagree with the general statement that "textbooks suck". Stewart's calculus ("the violin book") is really a great textbook, and it's used very widely. Serway Jewett is a superb Physics textbook. The examples, in particular, are excellent (sometimes humorous or intriguing.)
Also, textbooks are long. But most courses don't use the entire textbook. I took 3 math courses and 2 physics courses in first year using those two textbooks and we didn't use every section, nor did we have to read every page.
I think having example problems which have stood the test of time (more than 20 years for those 2 textbooks, I think) is worthwhile.
I'm taking the Serway and Jewett physics right now, and I actually hate it. Their explanations of tricky concepts kind of suck. For example, it doesn't even try to explain why a hot gas is less ordered than a cool one (it's the same amount of information, the same number of real numbers, right?). I only got a vague understanding after scouring Wikipedia and later portions of the chapter. Stewart is pretty decent though, AFAICT.
