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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 12:19:22 JST Evan Prodromou

   I just finished my last exam for the semester in my master's degree courses at Georgia Tech. I have from now until Jan 6 to watch TV, listen to podcasts, and read any book I want. 🎉

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 12:22:40 JST Evan Prodromou

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     My class was CS6400, Database Systems Concepts and Design. As has become a pattern, I came into the class thinking I knew all there was to know about database systems, and I walked away significantly more informed than I was when I started. It was a tough class, with a really sizeable group project, but I really got a lot out of it.

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     KimberlyN (kimberlyn@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 12:24:00 JST KimberlyN

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     Congratulations! I know the relief of finishing that last exam/paper of the semester. Enjoy your holidays.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 12:26:16 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I think if I'm going to work on a side project over the holidays, it would be to design an EERD (extended Entity-Relationship Diagram) for the Activity Streams 2.0 data structures, which have been notoriously difficult to map to a relational database. If I can get it to work, I can use some mechanical mapping procedures to generate a normalized relational database schema. That might be a helpful guide for folks who are building new ActivityPub implementations from scratch.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 12:27:06 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Dave Neary

     @dneary Yes, I have learned a lot of new things. Every class so far, from Human-Computer Interface, to Software Architecture and Design, to Database Systems, has been something I thought I knew a lot about, and was surprised to find that I had a lot to learn. Of the three, the HCI one has been the most interesting, since the professor included many journal papers in the reading, including very recent ones.

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     Dave Neary (dneary@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 12:27:08 JST Dave Neary

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     @evan Congratulations! Ça se fête!

     I would be interested to know, once you have earned your master's, whether (a) you learned anything new, and (b) whether you feel that it was worth it for you.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 12:31:42 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Dave Neary

     @dneary Whether it was worth it to me, I don't yet know. One thing I wanted to do is make sure my chosen field of interest, software engineering, appeared on my resume as a formal degree. We'll see if that changes my hiring prospects. Georgia Tech is a well-respected computer science program, #7 in the US, so I hope it helps. If not, I still have the benefits of learning, but the hiring boost from the degree would be nice.

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     Bruce Elrick (virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 13:07:22 JST Bruce Elrick

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     A person who learns mostly learns the intensity of their ignorance.