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#24 A question about the length of people's papers in Off Topic

Echoing others upthread, I did my master's thesis in around 50 pages. In general, math papers tend to be shorter, since five lines of formulae can contain a month of focused thinking. It also sort of depends on what you're including when counting pages -- for computer scientists or engineers, most of the work of the thesis may be part of one or more appendices which you may not want to count as part of the actual body of text.

Generally speaking, if you're worried about your thesis not being long enough, it indicates that you yourself aren't fully convinced by the ideas you're presenting in the text, which is sort of a bad sign. With that said, putting up a hard lower limit on the length of a paper seems like a bad idea to me, but my experience at university has been that most of the staff is very willing to accommodate students who are able to argue that they need some kind of exception from a rule. I imagine an advisor would be open to waiving a page limit if he or she felt that the matter was thoroughly discussed in a student's work.

For the purposes of a paper, it's far more important that the text forms a coherent whole than that it reaches some arbitrary length. I cut about a dozen proofs from my master's thesis -- they were neat, but didn't ultimately contribute to the unified treatment I wanted to present.

posted about 5 years ago
#13 crusts in Off Topic

Maybe the solution to not liking crusts would be getting some decently high quality bread for once.

posted about 5 years ago
#209 Item giveaway in TF2 General Discussion

hoping to get in on this

posted about 6 years ago
#25 Good Single-Player Games? in Other Games

I've been replaying Borderlands 2 recently and it's still a lot of fun. You can do pretty much everything solo, no need to try co-op.

posted about 6 years ago
#13 What are Cornpop, Turbo, and Ombrack looking at? in Off Topic

ombrack is a fucking HUNK

that is all

posted about 6 years ago
#25 look at my poop in The Dumpster

please don't give this kid attention

posted about 6 years ago
#49 what r yr politicals in Off Topic

I appreciate the appropriately gay looking flag.

https://i.imgur.com/0Bg1OqP.png

posted about 6 years ago
#157 Eleague Boston Major in CSGO General Discussion

Man, Guardian has to feel like shit right now.

What an unbelievable run.

posted about 6 years ago
#148 Eleague Boston Major in CSGO General Discussion

thats it

posted about 6 years ago
#141 Eleague Boston Major in CSGO General Discussion

oh my god these clutches

my heart

posted about 6 years ago
#121 Eleague Boston Major in CSGO General Discussion

It saddens me greatly that major finalists still don't come out to custom entrance themes and cut promos on their opponents.

posted about 6 years ago
#119 Eleague Boston Major in CSGO General Discussion
riotbz
  1. had to play a 5 hr series earlier that day
  2. got their plays called out by the crowd

are fair "excuses"

That post was sort of tongue-in-cheek. However, I do think that a major can never be 100% competitive - if you wanted to provide perfect conditions, you'd let the teams play in a hotel room somewhere in a multi-day round-robin format without playoffs. The majors are as much a celebration of the game and an opportunity to interact with fans as they are a pure sporting contest.
Of course, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't do all in your power to put teams on equal standing, like provide soundproof booths. But excessiveky lamenting some team's results misses the point of the major imo, and the other dozens of random things that influence who wins.

posted about 6 years ago
#105 Eleague Boston Major in CSGO General Discussion

Huge props to C9, it didn't even look close by the end. I don't think they can take down Faze, but then again I'd have said the same about this series. Good stuff.

And now for a list of meaningless and inappropriate excuses for SK:

  1. standin
  2. had to play a 5 hr series earlier that day
  3. got their plays called out by the crowd
  4. 100T attended the major undercover and trapped SK in a week-long drug-fueled bacchanal
posted about 6 years ago
#89 Eleague Boston Major in CSGO General Discussion

I was rooting hard for Fnatic, but you can't take anything away from SK, those guys got nerves of steel.

posted about 6 years ago
#70 Eleague Boston Major in CSGO General Discussion

G2 to get eliminated with a 2-3 records when there are no NA teams left to win against

posted about 6 years ago
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