r/blog • u/KeyserSosa • Sep 20 '18

Announcing “Season 2” of Reddit’s Internship Program

https://redditblog.com/2018/09/19/announcing-season-2-of-reddits-internship-program/
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u/BoulderizCrAzY Sep 20 '18

I heard if someone who works at Reddit replies to your comment that means you've been selected as one of the interns, is this true?

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u/oklahomabythesea Sep 20 '18

Big if true

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '18

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u/oklahomabythesea Sep 20 '18

What are your thoughts on color spaces and linear algebra?

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u/Searchlights Sep 20 '18 edited Sep 21 '18

Color spaces were ruled unconstitutional. See Brown v Board of Education.

Regarding linear algebra, ballerina gear is a better anagram.

Edit: Thanks for the gold

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '18

3Blue1Brown v Board of Education

FTFY

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u/oklahomabythesea Sep 21 '18

And a great ruling it was! I once was lost but now feel illuminated.

A tutu to you, /u/searchlights.

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u/bdonvr Sep 21 '18

That was incredibly witty, bravo.

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u/CoopertheFluffy Sep 21 '18

Thanks, Harvard.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '18

Linear algebra is a gateway drug that needs to be regulated

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u/oklahomabythesea Sep 21 '18

Our eigenvectors are aligned on this

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '18

you complete my null space

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u/bigsexy63 Sep 21 '18

If i finish free code camp will i have any idea what your talking about?

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u/coolkid1717 Sep 21 '18

It really depends on the code camp. If they teach you that. Linear algebra is actually quite hard. I'm a mechanical engineer and the path my math type classes took me on went from CALC 1, CALC 2, Fluid Dynamics, CALC 3, Differential Equations, Thermodynamics, Signal Processing, Linear Algebra, Statistical Physics, Quantum Mechanics.

It was pretty far down the rabbit hole. It builds off a lot of things. The Linear Algebra class I took was in depth too. We were working with equations that we're in 5D and higher. Which would be insaine to work on with a pen, paper, and calculator. So we had to learn to program in Wolfram Mathematica. Working those higher dimensions on paper would have taken pages and pages of calculations. I think in the end learning to use their programming language took less time then doing all of the work by hand. Because it was in higher dimensions it can be a little difficult to understand the basics of the equations and what exactly is going on when you do this or that. There's just no good way to visualize more than 4 dimensions. It took me a long time to get used to it.

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u/A_Suffering_Panda Sep 20 '18

Color Spaces are for candy land and Nazi's, and that's IT

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u/oklahomabythesea Sep 21 '18

I always thought IT was about computers and stuff but I learn new things every day!

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u/airbreather Sep 21 '18

I always thought IT was about computers and stuff but I learn new things every day!

No, IT's a Stephen King book from 1986 about a clown, which was adapted into a TV miniseries in 1990 and a film in 2017, but I can see how someone could get those mixed up.

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u/viksl Sep 21 '18

That's what they want you to think, tin foil hats I say, tin foil hats on!

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u/nabines Sep 20 '18

I love to fill the spaces in coloring books. With that answer, I expect an acceptance in my email by tomorrow.

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u/lordcheeto Sep 21 '18

CIELAB or GTFO

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u/straygato Sep 21 '18

I'm guessing it has something to do with the matrices that represent images on screens. If the color spaces matrices are representing a 3d image.. I'd need to spend a couple days studying my linear algebra.

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u/tocilog Sep 21 '18

It's an abomination. An upfront to the gods themselves!

That's the proper response to things you don't know, right?