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7:18 AM
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Q: Getting a W on your transcript for grad school applications

shloakI am a Computer Engineering major at a top 15 engineering school. My goal is to get into grad school for Machine Learning. I have set very lofty goals and am aiming for places like MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, CMU etc. I will be applying for safeties too but these top tier colleges remain the goal. ...

 
7:34 AM
@rene: Thanks a lot for your feed, which we are using your feed for this chatroom. It may interest you that that it sometimes misses HNQs like the one above and also this one.
 
7:53 AM
I don't get superpinged often. Please don't scare me like that ;)
@Wrzlprmft it is strange it missed that one as it is in the feed now: i.stack.imgur.com/p0Rxw.png maybe the feed bot and my pubdate interfere there.
 
@rene I tried to counteract this by using thanks as the first word …
@rene Weird, and it’s been there for two hours, so caching should not be to blame.
 
The app has no logging whatsoever and relies on the free service Glitch offers. I'll see if I can add a bit of logging so we can start at least reason about missed posts based on facts instead of speculation. Give me 6 to 8 days to get that implemented
 
Well, but right now it seems like you are not to blame, but the feed bot is.
 
I do know the feed bot is rather picky but I have not managed to get details on its implementation. So I won't rule out we're both to "blame", if blaming is due ..
 
8:09 AM
@rene FWIW, there is report of a similar bug here.
 
Okay, I bountied that question.
and that other one as well
 
 
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5:11 PM
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Q: My advisor talks about me to his colleague

studentI am in a country where English is not their native language. I have some proficiency in that language but none of the team members know this since I always communicate with them in English. Recently, I have been struggling with certain tasks. During a lunch, my advisor was talking about my pro...

 
 
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7:47 PM
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Q: Should I dumb down my writing in a foreign country?

TimAs a native English speaker studying in the Netherlands, I often find myself writing (not published) English papers for a Dutch audience, and I worry I'm alienating my superiors with my writing. I put a sample of text from a letter I wrote for an admissions committee through an array of readabil...

 

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