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I dont think they skipped those, they just didn't become problems. They name any strain which is considered of "interest" or "concern" iirc. I believe lambda (λ) was a strain in Peru that was vaccine resistant and had been detected in quarantine in other countries, but it just never took hold...

Yeah, specific syntax and "programming" becomes routine after a while. It's only interesting if you are comparing language design and features across languages. In industry, it's more about software engineering than just programming. Rather than code, the focus starts to become about the...

Yep, it's the standard, but the competitors in that space are languages more like R and Matlab. Microsoft do have some ML stuff but even they support Python with Azure for ML as it's so prominent. Python is "slow" and C# is much faster, but C# still doesn't compile down to native machine code...

If you're interested in machine learning, i'd highly recommend Python for that. It's a great beginners language, but it's basically the standard for ML these days as there's a lot of good open source packages for stats, data science and machine learning E.g. NumPy, SciPy, pandas...

There were matches made on here long before Tinder was a thing!

Yep, all of the mods/smods/admins/webmaster on BoS are volunteers who started out as active users. Mods might be "biased" as they clearly like contributing and using the site, but they do not have a vested interest so it's not as much of a bias as it sounds like there. I agree with Jimmy...

Constance too, Chris O'Keefe from 9News says to expect more in the next few days. A couple with federal government ambitions, others retiring.

Umm, so we do we need a new thread for Barilaro's sudden resignation?

Yes, if anyone is interested, this is technically a side effect that's been around forever lol. Originally it was necessary for moderators to be premium members so they could access premium features (very few, if any, of which still exist) if necessary for testing and support, so moderators...

Nice! Looks like LaTeX, did you use Overleaf? If you need to use it for an assignment of some sort, i'd recommend trying to write the whole thing in LaTeX rather than just copying in your diagram too. Good practice for uni, most students won't touch LaTeX at all until their capstone/thesis or...

LaTeX is really just for typesetting, you'd use TikZ or something like pgfplots to make a graph, but it would be pretty awful to actually experiment with unless you already knew exactly what you needed to graph. While you can download it, it can be annoying to setup, so check out Overleaf if you...

LaTeX can be a bit of a pain for graphing and graphics, but definitely many maths textbooks are typeset using it. In uni, depending on the course you take, you might get exposure to some mathematical software package with graphing ability. For example, Matlab or its open source equivalent...

I know a few colleagues that retired like 6 months into the pandemic, both fairly wealthy - one at retirement age, but the other in their 40s. I reckon if it was business as usual, they would have stuck around longer. But the changes in working patterns made them re-evaluate if they actually...

Also worth considering that these vaccines were approved on the basis of reducing the chance of hospitalisation or death from a severe case. AZ, Pfizer and Moderna are all very good at that.

Nah, almost every decently sized workplace in Australia does on site flu vaccines and encourages them because it makes sense economically for businesses. It will be similar with the covid vaccine and boosters. A single anecdotal example of your cousin doesn't carry any more weight than the...

We won't really have good data like that for a long time. If you're open to getting one of these vaccines, I don't think it's a good idea to wait for more data about which one to pick if your concerns are mostly around efficacy. Before that data is available, we will likely be open to some...

Basically this. Pre-2019 the forum and website weren't very good on mobile devices, but everything now works well on phones. On Android devices you can also get push notifications from the BOS website. What would you expect to be different in an app than is on the current website?

Both are good universities. I assume your family must be USYD alumni which is why you have this dilemma. It looks like you've already made your decision to be honest (UNSW), the only real pros you've got listed for USYD are related to transport and location -- and as you've alluded to, there...

Yeah, for example: Joining student societies, particularly getting an exec position. Ideally a technical one, but you could even join one related to a hobby and do technical things like building/maintaining their website, building discord bots etc. Hackathons, competitive programming (ICPC and...

I think it depends on what you want to get out of uni, I've worked with students and graduates across basically all of the software courses at UNSW and UTS (including the co-op programs) and they all have their pros and cons. UNSW CompSci will give you a better theoretical grounding while UTS...