CS 798Advanced Research Topics

Jul 3, 2024 Current UWaterloo MMath CS folks: Which courses did you take, what was the difficulty like and would you recommend it? 9 points, 4 comments

“Hey current UW MMath CS folks, hope your master's is going well. I am going to start my masters in CS this fall and I am hoping to get an idea of the courses other folks took, their …”

u/ac_1998: “I took CS 848, 654, 798 (multicore), 850. 800 level courses don't have final exams, only assignments and projects. 600 level courses are just 400 level undergrad courses that graduate students are allowed to take. …”

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Dec 27, 2021 Anything I should know about UW for a potential new faculty hire? 121 points, 91 comments

“Hi Warriors, I'm thinking of coming to UW as a faculty member. I am mostly impressed with everything I have seen and heard about UW, but wary that I am not necessarily getting the full picture. …”

u/DonaldTrumpd: “Hi, I am a third year CS PhD student here and I thought I should chime in. I will detail my experiences along the way and thus indirectly answer your questions. …”

u/DonaldTrumpd: “CS 798-001 and 002 🙂”

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Apr 28, 2021 cs798 Lecture Videos 1 point, 2 comments

u/kali_root2: “Hello, Can anyone give me the link to lectures for cs798 for the winter semester ? I would really appreciate your help.”

u/dkja: “Which CS798?”

u/kali_root2: “CS798-043 Multicore programming The one that was offered this term (i.e. Winter 2021)”

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May 25, 2019 CS 489 topic for Fall 2019 6 points, 3 comments

“What special topic will this be?”

u/TaIent: “it's probably Advanced Distributed Systems or Software Foundations based on it being held with CS 798.”

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Oct 30, 2017 Staying in CS to take machine learning courses only 8 points, 14 comments

“I am currently a CS student going to 2B this Winter. I want to drop out of CS and go into Stats/Pmath because I am more focused on going into academia for research in machine learning. …”

u/GenesisTK: “… CS 798: It's a topics course, but it was Optimization for ML once upon a time 2. CS 886 - Advanced Topics in AI (Summer it's RL and Fall 2018 it's NLP). 3. CS 848 (ML for data cleaning) - not my cup of tea, but seems cool. …”

u/GenesisTK: “… All of them are pretty cool, a good friend is taking CS 798 (boolean functions) this term and says it's super fun. Also, you may find that modern ML is very drab, it's basically testing a bunch of shit and seeing what sticks. …”

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Oct 28, 2017 Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments

“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”

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Aug 15, 2017 Enrolling in extra courses 0 points, 5 comments

u/wild_thunder: “… Can anyone recommend a resource for finding out more info about course content, especially the CS798 "Advanced research topics" courses?”

u/GenesisTK: “CS 798 is Boolean Function Analysis this upcoming term taught by Eric Blais, you have a drop period until which you will get full refund back. In essence, it's understanding functions of the form $f: [0,1]n -> [0,1]$ using fourier analysis or other analytical methods. …”

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Jul 26, 2017 What courses are you taking this fall? 28 points, 129 comments

“With course selection and add/drop happening this week I figured this would be a cool discussion post. …”

u/PPewt: “SCI 206: I want to graduate. CS 798 (Analysis of Boolean Functions) maybe? TBD.”

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Apr 19, 2017 Anyone feeling burned out about CS? 14 points, 29 comments

u/shine-wang: “Rant: I joined CS after doing CCC things, and now think I'm staying only because it pays well and I'm decent at it, rather than actually liking it. …”

u/GenesisTK: “… If this helps, there's a lot of fun theoretical CS courses which are fun to take, CS 798, CS 860 and CS 886 are extremely fun courses, the latter being more applied and the former(s) being really theory heavy.”

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Nov 28, 2016 Best CO courses? 6 points, 5 comments

“Took 250. Interested in upper year CO courses.”

u/maaaath: “… If you want to do this next term, consider CS 798 instead. CO 452 (integer programming): Depending on your offering of 250, you may have seen some of this already. IPs are way harder (NP-hard, even) to solve than LPs, and the theory of solving them is complex. …”

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