/sqt/ Stupid Questions Thread

cursive L

Awesome, thanks.

Not really a stupid question,but whatever

What are the signs of a good computer science program? What are the signs of a bad one?

why does running my space heater cost more than my computer?
the space heater is 1500W and my computer has a 700W psu. this means it takes more energy to run the heater vs the computer right? I would think a computer takes up a lot more energy than a space heater.

Will a person with age-induced hearing loss notice when you shout at him?

The underlying question is this : is partial hearing loss a kind of "dBm filter" where anything below a certain threshold isn't heard, and anything above the threshold is heard in full. Or is it more like a noise reduction filter where any sound will be lowered by x%?

Also note that your computer's PSU isn't drawing 700 watts off the wall at all times. In order for it to draw 700 watts, it must be at full load (unlikely, unless you have a mutli-GPU solution, and even then, it would draw more than 700 watts to compensate for the energy lost during AC to DC conversion).

Good:
* Microprocessors and computer architecture courses
* Program proof courses
* No OOP first year
* No C++ before at least one year of C
* Unix-like systems (a lot better suited for programming)
* Numerical analysis

Bad:
* Proud that the course "The Beauty and Joy of Computing" is over 50% attended by females
* Emphasizes on webdev
* "Don't worry about performances/memory/bandwidth, we've got plenty of resources in CURRENT_YEAR"
* Takes in people with no proficiency in math

If you have more than one class on intro programming, it's shit.
If you have dedicated classes to OOP, web dev, or GUIs; it's shit.
If you're not required to take Computer Architecture, Operating System Theory, and Compilers; it's shit
If you're not required to take Calculus, Linear Algebra, Proofs, (Calculus based) Probability, (Calculus based) Statistics, Combinatorics & Graph Theory, or took watered down versions in the CS department; it's shit.
If you're not required to take Programming Paradigms, Type and Programming Language Theory, Formal Languages & Automata, Computability Theory, and Complexity Theory; it's shit.
If you're don't at least do one of Networking, Databases, or Distributed Computing; it's shit.
If you don't have a capstone project to graduate, it's shit.

>* No C++ before at least one year of C

Fuck off /g/

It converges to 1/⌊log n_0⌋ because it telescopes and -1/⌊log n_f+1⌋ -> 0