(Part 2) Best products from r/UofT

I buy an academic calendar but not always the same one. Things I look for:
Weekly and monthly. So I can see ahead and look at the weeks.
Must do list.
Habbit tracker
Appointments & Dates
Notes

https://www.amazon.ca/Get-Your-Shit-Together-Notepad/dp/1542393094/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1505068209&sr=8-3&keywords=get+your+shit+together

https://www.amazon.ca/Student-Planner-2017-2018-Academic-Year/dp/1441316280/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505068247&sr=1-6&keywords=academic+planner

https://www.amazon.ca/2017-2018-Student-Planner-Academic-Organizer/dp/1973944456/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505068247&sr=1-10&keywords=academic+planner

https://www.amazon.ca/Planner-Awesomer-Orgnanizer-Reflection-motivational/dp/1537488910/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505068247&sr=1-11&keywords=academic+planner

I haven't seen the UofT agenda that comes free. I pick up an agenda early august and throw in major dates and my class schedule. If I wait until UofT hands them out, I won't get around to filling it out. Better to ride the enthusiasm earlier.

If you want to a job upon graduation, you need the following items:

• Work experience. No work experience, no job upon graduation. Sucks, right? But that's a fact. Try to get as many internships as possible.
  
• Languages: Python (fucking hot right now; NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow), SQL (you need to know this as the back of your hand), R, and SAS (maybe, depends from the employer; from what I have heard, SAS is dying out).
  
• Now, let's talk about cherry on top. Few things that may really spice up your resume are TA and research opportunities. Additionally, it would be nice to have some independent projects, e.g. Time Series analysis of the Toronto housing market.
  
  The problem with the Stats degree is that it is heavily theoretical. So, in order to balance it out, you need to get experience. Overall, I liked my experience with Stats, although I wish I spend more time on internships.
  
  To summarize: work experience, programming, research.
  
  Also, Machine Learning is hot right now. Pick up some books such as:
  
  
• Hands-On Machine Learning with ScikitLearn and TensorFlow
  
  
• Python for Data Analysis
  
  
• Python Data Science Handbook.
  
  Lastly, you gotta network like your life depends on it. Meetup.com and eventbrite.come have some pretty good Data Science/ML/Programming networking events where you can make connections and learn about the industry demands. Additionally, leverage the power of LinkedIn; create your profile and start asking people out for coffee in order to learn what they do, how they do it, what tools they use and for you to gain insight into the market demands and what you can expect upon graduation.
  
  May Central Limit Theorem work with all your distributions.
  
  Also, another thing that seems to be hot in financial markets is Risk Management. I would suggest you speaking with the Stats profs or Risk Management profs from Rotman in order to understand how you can leverage your Stats degree in Risk Management. Fantastic, here is one of the first things you can do for networking. Fuck, I wish I was back in uni.
  
  Sorry, just remembered. Hadoop is also pretty important as is Tableau (for data visualization).
  
  Ah, yes, experience. I don't know whether you spent the last part of 2017 and early part of 2018 on searching for internships. If not, keep searching you still have a slight chance to find some for this summer. Indeed and LinkedIn are pretty good sources. Lastly, try reaching out to recruiters from various organizations in order to learn if they have anything available. Now, if you don't find anything at all, like AT ALL, I would suggest either you take summer school and start looking for internships during either the Fall or Summer semesters OR contact the temp agencies to see what opportunities they have. Some opportunities may not be related to what you studied, but at least they will give you some work experience and your resume will not look as empty as it does now. Also, if I am correct, then U of T should have an alumni database. Try going through that database, find the alumni of interest, reach out to them, and ask them out for coffee to learn more about what they do and if they have anything available. Tick tock, tick tock.
  
  After some googling, indeed
  
  How am I doing? I am depressed man, I am fucking depressed. But, TensorFlow is keeping me awake.

Yes! It's very drying, so you have to take extra care to prevent breakouts. My skincare:

Toner: Fresh rosewater toner
Serum: vitamin c & hyaluronic acid serum
Moisturizer: Fresh rose deep hydration face cream

I hope this helps!!

Hey,

ECE212.


ECE241 - You learn C++ and OOP fundamentals in this course. We didn't have a textbook when I took it. Just online notes.

ECE241 - Stephen Brown is a prof at UofT and a great lecturer. I also still have this book if you are interested in buying from me!

ECE216 - Might still have this book if you're interested.

ECE221 - Professor Stickle probably will teach this course. Great lecturer but his tests/exams are notoriously hard.

ECE243 - Did not have a textbook when I took the course. Prof. Moshovos provided course notes online.

ECE297 - No textbook for this course. It's like a mini design project that lasts all semester where you have to build a concurrency based storage server in a team of 3. Picking a good team of programmers and technical writers is imperative.

Protip: Next time check TUSBE for textbook names and buying second-hand textbooks.

PS: Congrats on getting through 1st year, 2nd year will be tough.

I don't know what engineering students actually need, but assuming you'll use autocad or solidworks, then you'll probably need some sort of dedicated GPU. An MX150 or RX540 seems reasonable, without being overly expensive or power hungry. An integrated GPU is fine too, assuming you won't do anything too hard tbh.

As for CPUs, find something like an i7 or i5 that ends with a "U" (i7-***U). If you care about battery life, you will not do well with a high powered CPU (anything that ends with "H" or "HQ" or "HK"). The "U" indicates a low power consumption processor.

Some people might recommend getting a quadro, firepro, or an actual gaming GPU, but that's going to absolutely wreck your laptop battery life. Besides, I don't think you'll do anything that* intensive.

Here's and example of something I'd recommend. I didn't look at any reviews (and you definitely should), but from the specs, it looks prefect.

Kuru togas are the best pencils you can get. Your best bet to get a really good kuru toga is to become bros with a Japanese dude, and ask him to buy you a couple when he goes back.

So pretty much you're looking at playing some of the newer big ticket single player games. You'll probably be able to run those comfortably at 1080p 60fps with around a GTX1060 or an RX580 for a graphics card (going off Steam system requirements, didn't check benchmarks).

From a quick search on Amazon I found this laptop which seems to fit those requirements and is within your price range, even has 16gb ram and a nice bit of storage. I'm not saying this is a great price, you should absolutely do your own research and wait for a nice deal preferably, but yes, you should be able to get it for under/around 2k.

Actually any capacitative touchscreen without digitizer technology will also register your palm even if you use a stylus. The best option is for you to get something like this:

http://www.amazon.ca/Adonit-Script-Evernote-Edition-Stylus/dp/B00DQEB1V4

or this

http://www.amazon.ca/TruGlide-Apex-Electronic-Stylus-Leather/dp/B00IT1FSK4

and wear gloves while using it. It 'more or less' approximates note taking with a WACOM digitizer except pressure isn't registered. It's expensive but I assure you it's worth it. After a day or two of practicing your note taking will get almost as good as pen & paper.

OneNote on my laptop; drawing using the stylus doesn't work well because the mic is on the screen, but it's pretty clear while typing (even sitting at the back) so that's what I do for economics and a humanities course. I like it because you can click on what you've typed and listen to that part of the lecture to get some context.

If that's still not good enough then maybe a cheap portable mic may work.

Write. A lot. Read everything you can and keep writing. Have others deconstruct your work. Get a red pen and edit your work, a lot. Re-read and re-write everything you write. Read journal articles for your field and develop a writing style you want based on them. Get your head around the format your subject uses. I'm a historian, so I'm biased in favour of Turabian/Chicago. Get yourself an editing guide. I recommend James O. Baldwin's recently published "Fix your damn book", if for no other reason than it's free for kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Fix-Your-Damn-Book-Self-Editing-ebook/dp/B01FQOI1P0

Really there's no such thing as perfect writing, you only get better by doing.

https://www.amazon.ca/Self-Defense-Aluminum-Baseball-Defense-Silver/dp/B07CKBJDR7/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=baseball+bat&qid=1574747220&sr=8-3

Broke-internationals friendly yet powerful baseball bat can be found here, or if you play percussion/brass instruments, either hard mallets or your instruments work as well.

It sadly has been like 12 years since I started programming so my knowledge of where to start is rusty. The best thing I'd recommend is to go on Amazon and look for a python beginner book with high ratings.

I'm guessing if you want to start generically you can try:
http://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Absolute-Beginner-Edition/dp/1435455002

If you find any of the following areas interesting:

Pattern matching with regular expressions
Reading and writing files
Organizing files
Debugging
Web scraping
Working with Excel spreadsheets
Working with PDF and word documents
Working with CSV files and JSON data
Keeping time, scheduling, tasks, and launching programs
Sending email and text messages
Manipulating images
Controlling the keyboard and mouse with GUI automation

Then this may be interesting for you:
http://www.amazon.com/Automate-Boring-Stuff-Python-Programming/dp/1593275994/ref=pd_cp_14_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0PKBV1D3FY5M1JEMZM3P

There are many introductory books out there, and I have not read the above personally but to date I have not been let down by books with a high rating and > 100 reviews.

ALSO it probably is worth checking out CSC108 lectures.

Well I'm no expert on umbrellas, but I use a slightly newer (and greener) model of this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fulton-G-813-Huntsman-Umbrella/dp/B002PHM74S

Cost me $40 from Raindrops (within walking distance of UofT). Had it for about a year now, seems utterly immune to the wind (never inverted or come close). It's non-folding though (so you can't stow it away into a bag), and the handle gets chipped freakishly easily if you don't leave the plastic casing on it.

From what I gathered, a steel or fiberglass frame (not aluminum) and as few folds as you can tolerate (more folds means more compact, but also more points of possible failure) generally make for better umbrellas.

Based on your needs, I've got two recommendations for you:

• For your interpersonal skills
  
  
• To improve your writing
  
  Good luck, bro.

For the CPU you don't need an i7. The only distinct difference is that i5s don't usually have hyperthreading, but that's okay because most applications never use hyperthreading. Unless you do a lot of video editing, but I wouldn't recommend a laptop or even a sub $1100 solely to edit videos.


As for 7 hours of battery life, that'll be hard to find in general. Companies advertise x hours of battery life but that's with unrealistic scenarios like brightness at low, not connected to internet, with only video playback.


All in all I'd suggest something like this or similar: https://www.amazon.ca/Asus-UX330UA-AH54-i5-7200U-Windows-13-3-Inch/dp/B01M18UZF5/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1483381950&sr=1-2&th=1

You'll need to have some experience coding a few hundred lines and also have experience using a debugger. You'll also be expected to do readings which I highly recommend and the concepts are not that trivial; you'll need to wrap your head around concepts in 369 until it finally clicks. Implementing them in C isn't too bad, make good use of office hours and tutorials. Worst case scenario just get a good partner.

here's the textbook I was assigned, its a good read too: https://www.amazon.ca/Modern-Operating-Systems-Andrew-Tanenbaum/dp/013359162X

I was also thinking some kind of lock with a built-in audible alarm (like a Detex device) could be an effective deterrent. Not sure where you'd get one though...

This is the kind of lock I was referring to. For some reason the "related items" section includes back braces, lifting belts and chainmail lol

As a bonus, this model of lock can also be a deterrent against muggings!