Starting in the fall of 2021, Mines will have yet another new program to offer students. A Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering will be a new degree in an attempt to combine engineering with biology. The current QBE graduate degree has only been offered here at Mines since 2018, and now there…
Originally published on March 2nd, 2021. I watched in awe as a winter storm hit the South on February 13th. I’m from a town just north of Seattle, where we rarely get even a dusting of snow that sticks around, and I’ve always thought of hot-weather states like Texas as immune to harsh winter weather….
Originally published on March 2nd, 2021. Given you survived Wednesday evening’s snow blitz, welcome to the third issue of Updates in the CS World (really though, 9 inches of snow overnight?). As promised, this issue we’ll touch on spaCy, a natural language processing library for Python, given its major v3.0 release. Edu-macating your ComputerFor the…
Originally published on March 2nd, 2021. Mines, of course, has its reputation of being hard or, preferably by the admission’s team, “rigorous.” STEM degrees are expectedly challenging, but Mines comes with a hidden poison. We could debate the difficulty of courses compared to other schools, but one objective facet of Mines is unavoidable: unlike nearly…
Originally published on March 2, 2021. Unaffiliated and unofficial Colorado School of Mines Instagram accounts have been blowing up at an increasing exponential rate in the most recent months of this academic year. In the past only three months, there have been at least nine new unaffiliated Mines accounts. These accounts can be sorted into…