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Do you have to declare a major when you apply? Can't you be ambivalent about it? Or apply for a different major and then switch to CS after you get in?

yangikanon Retool raises $45M at a $3.2B valuation

Are there any tools like Retool for developing mobile apps?

yangikanon After Obsidian and Logseq, I give Dendron a try

Interesting application. This video does not work for me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ilse-langnar/notebook/dev/...

yangikanon Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold

unhinged is absolutely the right word to describe him. Not just in terms of acting up, but also in terms of testing the boundaries of lawful behavior. A kind of behavior that can only be explained by the assumption that he thinks he is above the law (probably because he has a large number of fanboys and money). This is also similar to the behavior of the US politician that you are alluding to.

yangikanon My journey through the American immigration system as a computer engineer

You get enough diversity from the 85% of people who come in through family based immigration. So, the majority of immigrants are not coming from countries like China or India irrespective of whether this discrimination persists or not.

yangikanon My journey through the American immigration system as a computer engineer

The whole point is that if you were born anywhere else (except India or China), it is a fairly simple process which would take less than a year (one can file both I-140 and I-485 together).

yangikanon Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?

Which ones?

yangikanon Gains I'm seeing from my second brain tool

Logseq is pretty good too. https://logseq.com/

yangikanon Ask HN: How do I get over constant failure?

> I can always move projects when I get bored or something isn't right.

This comment is so underrated. In most big companies, if your manager is an asshole or the project is boring, you can always move to a different role.

yangikanon Building apps in minutes, not months

I guess what would be useful is a "Visual Basic for the web". Back in the day, one could bring up pretty large applications quite quickly using Visual Basic and Delphi.

yangikanon Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

Where do you park in the night?

yangikanon What Are Diffusion Models?

Well, I have bachelors degree in Computer Science and am fairly well versed with using the popular ML tools and libraries like Pytorch and Scikit. I have been using them professionally as part of my job. I can implement a VAE easily in Pytorch, but find the math hard to understand. My linear algebra is probably okay, but the math involving probability and calculus is the problem. I never learnt those topics properly. I am probably looking for a remedial math class that is specifically catered towards understanding machine learning theory or some other online math courses that assumes no more math background than from high school. Thanks for the offer to help.

yangikanon What Are Diffusion Models?

I find the math and all the integral signs intimidating. Is there a course that will help me learn all the background material to understand these things better?

yangikanon Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label

The ruling party released a fake document, suggesting that the opposition is engaging in subversive activities. It was fact checked by various independent agencies and found to be a fake document. Twitter added a "manipulated media" label to those tweets. Delhi police, which is directly controlled by the Indian government raided the office of Twitter. It is not done with the intention of finding anything. It is to harass and to "send a message" that such acts won't be tolerated.

yangikanon Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India

I don't know why twitter does this.

From https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/business/india-covid19-tw...

One of the tweets removed from view was posted by Moloy Ghatak, a labor minister in the opposition-ruled West Bengal state, where Mr. Modi’s party hopes to make big gains in an ongoing election. Mr. Ghatak accused Mr. Modi of “mismanagement” and held him directly responsible for the deaths. His tweet included images of Mr. Modi and his election rallies beside those of the cremations and compared him to Nero, the Roman emperor, for choosing to hold political gatherings and exporting vaccines during a “health crisis.” Another tweet from Revanth Reddy, a sitting member of the parliament, used a hashtag that blamed Mr. Modi for the “disaster.” “India recording over 2 lakh cases everyday,” it said, using an Indian numbering unit that means 200,000 cases. “Shortage of vaccines, shortage of medicines, increasing number of deaths.