extra credit for Google presentation in Carrers in Math

I attended the Google presentation for Careers in Math. It was a fun presentation in which the woman presenting talked a bout the different tools, apps, and programs that Google participates in. She discussed the different career paths available, and the degree(s) necessary to get there. It was interesting that she plugged for the ACME program so much, and also that she described certain higher-level jobs as requiring either grad school or industry experience, and that she had decided to go for industry experience. I don't know where I want to end up, but I'm leaning towards academia. This was a good thing to go to to explore options, though.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

8.6, due Friday 12/8

Difficult: Honestly, this whole thing is a bit fuzzy to me. I'm not quite sure how it works. I feel like I won't fully understand until I do a lab on it. Application: well, the picture of the mandrill was interesting. How sure are we, though, that this is how the FBI does fingerprints?
Read more

8.7, due Monday dec 11

Difficult: I think I need to go back and review compact support. Also, much like the last section, I don't think I'll fully understand this one until I do the HW and/or code it up. Application: I feel like every section says, 'the last approximation is good for some things, but not for this new thing'. It's just interesting.
Read more

8.1, due Nov 27 17

Difficult: The hardest part was following all of the integrals going on. The idea of fourier transforms is interesting, but I don't know how well I'll actually be able to follow it. Also, how is having a basis for only a subset of F make a suitable basis for all of the functions/signals we care about? Application: I've seen some of what DFT/FFTs can do, and it's super cool. I'm excited to see how we can apply this to audio and visual conversions!
Read more