micnd90 [he/him,any]

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Cake day: August 17th, 2020

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  • That is a little bit different, international students in American universities do not get a US Social Security number. Working part-time in university library, dining hall, or other business is common way for international students to get US SSN - which makes you more integrated to the system and feel less of a 2nd class citizens. For example, you cannot get a mobile phone plan other than prepaid without SSN.

    Kamala is a US citizen, I would believe if she claimed she worked McDonalds part time in the summer as a teenager. But Law grad school is a highly stressful time, I doubt she’s working in McDonalds unless her relationship with her parents already fell apart (Kamala doesn’t talk to her dad these days, her dad is a Marxist economist and probably embarrassed that his daughter is a lib queen).





  • When you say the first element of a matrix, first implies one and not zero. This is how linear algebra was invented (on paper, by a human mathematician), taught, and passed down to fellow humans.

    Starting indexes at zero stem from the lineage of C programming and binary nature of computer. For example,

    Computer memory addresses have 2^N cells addressed by N bits. Now if we start counting at 1, 2^N cells would need N+1 address lines. The extra-bit is needed to access exactly 1 address. (1000 in the above case.). Another way to solve it would be to leave the last address inaccessible, and use N address lines.

    This is why, math and physics people who learn linear algebra and matrix calculus learn to index at 1 (on a piece of paper) while computer science programmers index at 0.


  • MATLAB is for matrix calcs. Matrix indices start at 1, fight me. Given a matrix X of m x n size, you write

    Matlab has many issues, amongst other accessibility (which can be remedied by piracy), closed-software, but as a program designed to do computational matrix manipulation, starting at index 1 is literally correct. This is how you learn matrix indices in intro linear algebra. How is it make sense then you use a software to assist computation and start indexing at 0, while you write the equations and indices on a piece of paper you start at 1. CS majors go home.