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Thanks that you liked it. I am working on a follow up that is more practical where I measure latency based on the architecture and report the data. But this one takes time to make.

Thanks for showing interest in this videos. To be honest, I was testing the water to see if people would be interested in that subject, but since you show interest, I will continue creating more videos on the subject. I already did all of the research and created a POC and will definitely focus on creating more videos.

Great question. Many students goes and pursue their Phd after OMSCS. Some student uses the OMSCS to figure out what subject they want to focus more. Since I did not go that path, it's hard for me to give a great answer, but many time, I get email for alumni to talk about their Phd experience. In those follow-up email, they want those who did not pursue Phd to also describe their experience. One of the weakness of OSMCS is they don't focus a lot on how to write research paper and how to approach Phd level works. Lately, I have seen they have created seminar classes that can help bridge that gap, but unfortunately, I did not take any of those courses because I knew I did not want to do Phd. Most of the courses in the program are like survey courses with depth. More actual doing and less writing. Lot of reading research paper and implementing those paper, but less writing. Some courses might have a lot of writing ( Machine Learning ) but my focus was on computing system.

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This can be hard to do. I honestly feel this is a human thing. I grew up in a all black country and they also have their own way of discriminating or of secluding other group of people based on other feature. However; at the same time, some other people don't do that. It's more of an individual thing than a group thing. It's hard for me to describe because I don't have real way of measuring it. Here is a pattern I am seeing that I feel it's hard to explain; each time there is a diverse leadership team, the person of color usually have the strongest education and strongest experience while the other people don't really need to have that strong experience or educational achievement.

@@techwitheds yeah it would be hard, uniting by race surely is too simplistic as a start, factors like religion and shared background is necessary. Malcomn x had muslim support while mlk christian for example. Starting small with like-minded in fundamental aspects is useful, for example i find Jews as a good example of this. trying to attract all 40 million at once is not a good idea. About being expected more than your peers, I Feel you there, Look at for example, the latest supreme court pick, check in google "Ketanji Brown Jackson's qualifications compared." Unfortunately this is common and I think the best that can be done is to play the game and whenever you have the chance, try to pick others like you (as long as they are competent) to slowly level the plainfield. Thats what i see many Indian software engineers do.

I would definitely take intro to operating system first because it's more practical. HPCA focuses only on the micro-processor side. Unless you plan to work at Intel, Nvida or any other hardware company, the skills you learn in HPCA become irrelevant. GIOS prepare you for system design interview and also makes you a better programer since you will be spending a lot of time dealing with multi threaded application.

@@techwitheds thanks alot for ur reponse. I do see some other reviews commenting that it would be ideal to take hpca first then gios cause hpca materials are at a lower level of abstraction. Hence taking hpca would be easier to understand. Would that be the case?

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Thank you, I will

You are so welcome!

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Thanks. I am glad you enjoyed it.

I remember they mentioned that class. It seems like something I would take but I remember I did not take it because I was consistently taking hard courses and wanted to get out of the program because i was mentally exhausted; I took an easier course. I honestly feel it's a great class, but unless I work at a big tech company that does cloud computing, I might not have a place where I could put it into practice. I ended up taking Digital Marketing instead because I wanted to venture into something easier. I would defiantly recommend this class. I took distributed systems instead of it in a later semester because at least the material would touch things that I could be asked at an interview to get a job.

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Glad it was helpful!

I am glad you can relate

This would definitely help. As long as you have basic programming skills, you should be fine.

@@techwithedsthanks for the reply! I Submitted my application last week and took the dsa mooc just in case and that should’ve showcased my java skills. Hopefully I can accomplish what you did

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About $10k for the master's degree. But honestly, the money is not the most expensive part... it's the time commitment. It's more like a second part time job and sometime could turn into another full time job. As far as which one is better (Data Analyst vs computer science) I think it's a personal choice. Both could lead to the same outcome. I prefer computer science because I found it more interesting and since I already worked as a software engineer, it's easier for me to ease into it. Data Science seems more in tune with people who like statistics and math. While I have a strong background in math, I still prefer computer science.

@@techwitheds Thanks for the reply.

I know; it's just that Golang has gotten so much love recently and it might be easier to find a golang job in my opinion than a c++ job in the USA. I have not verify the numbers but that's what my intuition is tell me.

Thanks. It was such a challenge, but one less thing for me to worry about

I did Computing Systems; part of me wanted to do Machine Learning but computing systems was closer to my actual daily job. I will be taking machine learning this summer as a non-degree seeking student.

@@techwitheds Oh great! So let's say you consumed all your 30 hours and graduated, can you take more classes beyond the 30 hours? Also, what computer specs do you think I need for OMSCS?

@@sethvillalon5616 Yes, you can remain as a non-degree student once you graduate. Your Graduation GPA will always remain the same; but new classes taken after graduation will change you cumulative GPA

@@techwitheds ideal computer specs for this program?

​@@sethvillalon5616 any modern computer should be fine. I remember Operating System needed a more powerful computer because of virtualization , but I did no hear any students complaining. Worst case scenario, using cloud computing.

You welcome. I will be making more videos like this in the future

One thing that I have leaned was the importance of consistency and pushing myself hard when I face problem that require a lot of brain power. This program is like going to the gym but for the brain.

It honestly depend on the class you are taking but I could say for sure, I sometime worked harder in some courses than my regular job. It would take the same level of commitment of another part-time job . For some courses, it's a full time job where you might need to spend 30 to 40 hours a week. Some project really needs a lot of time to get right and if you don't spend that much time on them, it would be impossible to complete the project perfectly. Each student has their own learning rate but most student would tell you that at least 20 hours a week is the minimum for most courses.

Nice; thanks. I hope you gained some insight from the video

I honestly don't know how the credit transfer work so it might be hard for me to answer that one. From my observation, it seems like each class is individual and the same class taken somewhere else might be completely different. I took operating systems during my undergraduate and wanted to skip it, but when I took it at Gatech, it was completely different. The content of the course was more in depth and the project was more challenging. As such, I did not regret retaking it even-though I have already taken that class as an undergraduate student

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Sure thing! Honestly, I only took a few courses in to OMSA and it's completely outside of my expertise. The courses are geared toward people who would like to be a data scientist or data engineer. The students from that track had a good grasp of statistics and data visualization. Those are outside of my field of interest, so it would be hard for me to give it a honest review.

Thank you so much!

Great, At the end of the day, the Journey is what matter. Good luck on your MS in computer science

Yes, you can. But usually, you might need to convince admission to get accepted. There are many ways you could do that. one option would be to enroll in a few undergraduate computer science courses before seeking admission. Another option might be to get a job as an entry level software engineer and use that experience to gain admission. Finally, if you took some computer science courses during your BSC then that could be enough to convince admission. Getting admitted is not impossible, it would just require some convincing.

@@techwitheds Thanks mate, I really appreciate.

Great, I am glad you are about to be over. Once you are done, you will get back your free time and this is such a great feeling

I am in my second course (HCI, GIOS)

Those are really good courses; Specially GIOS. I did computing system for my specialization because it seems more related to what I was doing day to day at work. Back then AI and machine learning was still limited. I feel now that so many people are talking about it, taking a few machine learning courses as elective would be advantageous. At least, you will have some context in conversation and have an idea of how they work. I don't think that would be enough to be are real AI or Machine learning scientist, but I feel taking a few elective might be enough to get an entry level machine learning job. I am just speculating because no one knows the future but part of me feel that sooner or later, knowing machine learning might open new doors.

​@@techwitheds My job also aligns with the systems spec and I love the courses listed there. However, your advice now is to leave room for 2-3 ML courses as electives?

@@Mmustafa-v4j Same here. I already graduated, but would be taking some ML courses as non degree seeking student. I honestly only care about learning then the degree itself. As far a getting a job as a ML engineer with only 3 courses, I don't know yet if that would happen, but the worse case scenario would be for me to be able to evaluate ML technology and deploy them. Not sure I want to build those tech myself

Hello. As far as the notes I took, unfortunately, I cannot share them because the course changes all of the time and my notes might not reflect the latest version of the course. The TA usually post the best note from another student who is definitely better at note taking then I am. They used to call those notes Jove's Note. They are really good. He used to share it publicly but he had to remove them because students would quote his notes and uses them as authoritative notes for the class. The teacher did not like that. However; his notes are still publish internally after he revised them and polished them to a gold standard. The best notes would be his note. Yes, I had to repay for the credits :-( however, now the credits are way cheaper than what I used to pay at the beginning of the program. Seems like they have changed vendor for hosting their platform and this has reduced the cost to a point where it's very cheap for the student. 3 credit used to be $800 and by the time I was done, it was lowered to about $500 or $600. Don't remember. I cannot find a public calendar of the course content online. I am not sure why but the course is divided into 3 big chunk. Dynamic Programing Divide and conquer. Graph NP-Proof

Hi Vinod, I added everyone who sent me an invite request on my Linked In. You should see that I have accepted; otherwise, let me know. I have an email for that channel that I look and reply to other people. It should be in the contact me portion. I don't know it by heart. edson the software engineer @ gmail .com might be it but I am not sure. Good luck on your studies.

Thanks for the feedback. I tried my best to explain it but seems like something did not translate correctly from my brain to the screen. If you tell me what part I was wrong, I could definitely learn from the experience.

@Rookt00r . I hope to hear from you on the part that I got wrong so I can do some more research about it and improve my understanding on the topic. I am trying to be as factual as possible and want to be sure I don't say things that is not correct.

Here is the link I have used to get the PDF version of the book: Algorithm Dasgupta Papadimitriou Vazirani algorithmics.lsi.upc.edu/docs/Dasgupta-Papadimitriou-Vazirani.pdf

My pleasure! I hope you enjoyed watching it.

Great to know. How are you handling so far?

@@techwitheds So far so good. I completed IIS and CN for my first two classes. I am taking ML4T now and it seems a bit more difficult but hopefully not too bad. The program as a whole seems pretty comparable to my undergrad CS degree in terms of difficulty

Thanks, I am glad I was able to help.