ntu im

courses I took in uni

IM

National Taiwan University, Information Management, Bachelors program

What is "information management"? :shrug:

1st Year

• Freshman English (I &II)
  • Professor really likes Bertrand Russell
  • Managed to skip most of these classes with the teacher's blessing
• Health Related Physical Fitness
  • I still don't like basketball
• Calculus (a)(1 & 2)
  • Mostly useless past ⅔ of 1st semester
  • Actuall failed Calculus a1 twice and a2 once
  • Only time I really needed it was halfway through Information Economy
• Accounting (a)(I)(1 & 2)
  • Double accounting is good
  • Simple formulas need fancy business-y names
• Student service education (I & II & III)
  • Spread over 3 years
  • We swept the floor of some common areas/offices???
• Introduction to Information Technology
  • What you should already know
  • Super long pointless report
• Management Mathematics
  • Linear algebra
  • Eigen...something
  • Next time I used it was in machine learning
• Logic
  • Logical fallacies & weird symbols
  • Bought teacher's book, reading chinese is painful
• Freshman Forum
  • Guest lectures on a wide range of topics
  • Write reports afterwards
  • I just needed the course credits
• Programming Design
  • Intro into programming
  • Why you should avoid c++ for getting stuff done
  • I sat at the back of the class gaming
• Discrete Mathematics
  • Graphs!
  • Useful background info for figuring out why my dependency manager never gets there right versions
• Operating Systems
  • Processes & threads, first class support in your language is important
  • Shared memory, only use if you really need performance
• One Asia: East Asian Literature and Culture
  • This sounded more interesting than it was
  • I think I wrote reports?
• Selected Readings of the Classics of Christian Thought
  • Religion and logic do not mix well when pushed to their logical conclusion
  • I think I almost failed because I didn't believe in God???

2nd Year

• Freshman Chinese (1 & 2)
  • Very nice teacher
  • Was supposed to do this in 1st year, but $reasons
• Economics (I)
  • High school economics, round 2
• Management
  • Business jargon and teaser to all the other classes
• Statistics (I) (1 & 2)
  • It's not easy to get right
  • Words have precise meanings that are lost on most people
  • Excel plugins must die
• Computer Organization and Structure
  • Low level CPU design overview
  • Handwritten assembly in MIPS
• Data Structures
  • You really only need arrays and hashmaps
  • Occasionally trees
• Database Management
  • How to pile up your tables (normalize them)
  • Why your queries are bog slow
• Programming Languages
  • Functional programming is interesting
  • Haskell is slow
  • Hoare
• Tennis-Basic
  • I still remember how to play
  • Mess around a bit
• Introduction to Information Management
  • Pitch your idea
  • I actually don't remember needing to do anything for this
• Algorithms
  • So that's why my code is slow
  • O(n...)
• Operations Research
  • Integer / Linear programming stuff
  • Scheduling is hard, leave it the pros
• Open Source System Software and Practice
  • OSS is a great mess

3rd Year

• Swimming-Intermediate
  • I saw someone get perfect grades, it was beautiful
• Computer Networks and Applications
  • Socket programming in C
  • Fun
• Operations Management
  • Case studies from books
  • What exactly are we supposed to report?
• An Introduction to Politics
  • Can't have been very interesting, I don't remember taking this class
• Constitution of Taiwan and Basic Law Education
  • Stories of weaving around the law
• Investigating the Earth
  • High school geophysics
• Introduction to Environment Pollution
  • Visit a water treatment plant (noisy)
  • Laws/Environmental policies???
  • Politicians swept negative research under the rug
• Introduction to Marine Science
  • The ocean is big
• Information Economy
  • Game theory and economics
  • Hard, I learned something, not sure what
  • Insight into contracts / pricing models
• Athletics and Jogging
  • Staying fit
  • lots of running
• Systems Analysis and Design
  • The overhead of these processes only make sense when your code/developers meet a critical mass
  • Who draws UML charts anyways???
• Project on Information Management (I & II)
  • Data sanitization is very important
  • Development estimates are 100% off
  • Efficient code is needed to get anything done on time
  • Practical Postgres and Tensorflow
• Financial Management
  • More business-y formulas
• Organizational Behavior
  • Common sense?
• Tea and Tea Industry
  • Taiwan has a lot of tea
  • Tea tasting! (if you wake up)
• Games, Information and Transaction
  • Stories and game theory
  • Have a sharp mind
  • Interesting
• Music Signal Analysis and Retrieval
  • Matlab is horrendous (only partially joking)
  • Audio signals are surprisingly simple

4th Year

• MIS Panel Discussion
  • How to churn out tangentially related reports
• Machine Learning
  • It is a large field
  • Simple algorithms are sometimes faster and better
• Machine Learning and Having it Deep and Structured
  • CNNs, RNNs, GANs
  • GPUs are a must
  • By the time you finished reading and implementing and training a state of the art NN, it's already out of date
  • AI is still dumb
• Software Development Methods
  • Hand rolled continuous integration / continuous deployment
  • Design is hard
• Introduction to Information Retrieval and Text Mining
  • Implementing search is still hard
  • It's not really "solved"
• Hands on Experience of Field Life (I)
  • Plant everything at the same time == everything ripens at the same time
  • I had so much salad