#cs in school

[evelili]

What's your college major (if you feel comfortable answering obviously)?

on paper? computer science. tho recently ive been feeling like this image:

[moastudiess]

Daily Productivity Challenge: 5/10

04.26.2025~ It’s finals week! Working on my take home Intro to AI final by relearning a unit of multi variable calculus (total pain) and powering through the concepts of a neural network ~.~

[attex]

[demoralised]

BMW 2800 CS sitting on BBS E50 magnesium racing wheels.

[seekerwithsneakers]

went to the library after a 30 minute commute to realize that i dont have a pen

heartbreaking

but hopefully i get the work i plan to do done ->

2 leetcode questions

reward modelling for my research project

oh yea and see how i can push from the ssh machine

[datapilled]

Going to go on a little rant but my god I'm sick of how undervalued maths is. I hate that for the past 10 years, including primary school, whenever I tell people I like maths I get asked if I'm insane. I hate that in a country that has made major contributions to maths, there's barely any effort to keep up that history and support new mathematicians.

I hate that I can't criticise people who also do stem that go on and on about how everything relating to maths is stupid and useless because "that's just how they feel"...Even when they're doing computer science. And said computer scientists complain every. Single. Time. When a maths equation appears.

I hate that I can't point out how it's weird how people demonize mathematics itself instead of how it's taught, which is where the problem usually lies. I hate that I'm expected to drop mathematics entirely to go into a "proper" job like programming instead of research into population models and simulations. I hate how maths is being co-opted by people making points about "how simple the world is" when maths is nothing like they portray it to be. I hate that maths is seen as a field only of white, cishet men when there's been so many women, poc and queer people that have done groundbreaking work.

I hate that we're in a world where mathematics is so important to everyday life, and yet the idea of actually studying maths and continuing research into it is frowned upon.

[iputbigsnake]

Eepy zzzz zzz zzzz

[carmenscarnations]

Crackle: Our class is obviously apart of an evil romantic school comedy.

Crackle: Carmen and I are the main characters. So that means we are love interests.

El Topo and Le Chevre: Yeah, then what are we?

Crackle: You boys, are the homosexual supporting cast!

[pidgefudge]

now im thinking about it and. if i didnt have to worry about getting a job/having a place to live/paying bills/other survival things/etc. and could just. go to college and major in whatever totally optionally. i'm not entirely sure i would go at all?

[mauxanhduong]

augh. the horrors (disinterest in my current major) have me thinking of switching my career path and going to med school

[aezuria]

im sorry every single song is abt u 😞

[swimmingwithfish]

to the Fence readers I don't know if you know but most, if not all the other schools in State Championships are Sydney/Melbourne schools and if you're an Australian reader it is just so funny

like imagine you just see your high school in one of your favourite fictional comics where fencing is a state recognised high school sport IT'S SO STUPID pacat could have used any other fictional school names but no-

[attex]

i was too lazy to render everything else

[random-lil-illing]

screenshot redraw of everyone’s favourite hacker!! i may have gone a little overboard with the neon, haha. do i regret it though? not at all.

[redreadretale]

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[sometimeswritingsometimesdying]

What's this Fence comic you're posting about? The art and the passion have got me intrigued.

ohohohohoho you don't know what floodgates you've just opened.

so basically it's a series of graphic novels (and 2 novels) detailing the life and times of nicholas cox, who is the illegitimate son of a US fencing champion and wants to become the best at the sport to be noticed by his father, but also its INSANELY gay and full of both sillies and angst and like gay people being crazy about having a crush

the main ship is between nicholas and his rival seiji katayama who is this perfectionist, overachieving (in my opinion) complex character with a dramatic backstory who doesn't really care for nicholas all that much UNTIL they end up being roommates (!!!!!). it's basically set up to be a rivals to lovers but since theres like 4 volumes a year its the slowest slowburn i've ever read. seiji is also my personal favorite character so im kind of insane about him. im also insane about nicholas but like in a hes so me way yk?

then you have like every other ship dynamic imaginable: childhood friends with seemingly unrequited love who try to ignore their feelings for each other, sunshine little dude and giant who doesn't talk to anyone, over-protective and super-supportive boyfriend with quiet, studious partner who has to keep him in line, and one that isn't really confirmed but i personally think it's gonna be canon: enthusiastic jock who loves his friends vs spoiled rich kid who is actually incredibly lonely (i hope they head this way with his characterization but i feel like we haven't seen enough). and all of them are queer!

it's also obviously a sports series, and as a fencer it's the first time i've seen the, i think, very complex dynamics that exist in this sport portrayed so well!!! i definitely identify with the characters a lot and i think they're easy to get attached to, and i feel like the sport is also well explained (except my qualms with the epeè slander, it's the best weapon). the writing is also witty and just plain fun. i know i focus a lot on ships here but there's truly a lot to mine about the importance of sports and team efforts and the relationship an athlete can cultivate with their desire to win that can either be positive or turn sour. or maybe i'm just hyperfixating

either way, if you have the chance, i'd definitely check it out!!! it's gotten me back into writing and has me in a chokehold rn. i love all the characters and theres a LOT of amazing works of writing and art in this tiny but mighty fandom!!!