u/yagellaaether

Hi,

So I am living outside of EU, and I am studying in arguably the best school in my country. From what I understand by stalking other people, students around 3.80/4.00 GPA gets accepted to ETH from where I study.

I've applied to ETH EEIT program with a 3.50 GPA with no publication record and I got rejected. However, within 2 semesters, I had the opportunity to publish at an IEEE conference as a first author and my GPA ramped up to 3.59/4.00.

I know that it is impossible to know, but I wonder, if rather my current state is actually have a very higher chance to be accepted to the EEIT program in ETH? I got accepted into TUM, should I just go there?

What are your thoughts?

This is less about MCPs and more about the AI hype around everything, which includes MCPs.

For context, I work in this domain. And genuinely, I think most "founders" in SF are smart enough to see how ridiculous things have gotten. How does Silicon Valley, an ecosystem that produced hundreds of actual breakthroughs, from Intel to Apple to Facebook to countless others, come down to a bunch of dropouts trying to sell AI agents to each other and trying to seem excited about it? It's an endless feed of AI-generated apps and B2B SaaS API orchestrator, and all you see on social is people "focused on the problem they're solving." Dude, the problem you're solving will still be there long after your nonsensical company crashes. And don't even get me started on everyone chasing YC like it's the new Stanford acceptance letter.

How does anyone participate in this with a straight face? What kind of bullshit is actually going on here, and how does it end? Curious what you all think.

https://www.bavul.app/

Before flights I'd always end up scribbling lists on paper and ticking them off mentally to not forget anything.

Bavul is in a similar fashion: tap once to check, tap twice to mark as not-applicable for this trip (strikethrough), tap again to reset. That way the same list works for a domestic weekend and an international move without any configuration.

Built it for my flight to Amsterdam, so it's not done for profit! I hope you will find it useful

Before flights I'd always end up scribbling lists on paper and ticking them off mentally to not forget anything.

Every existing tool makes you fill out a ton of configurations or download something I'll only use once every few months. I wanted to just open a URL, see a list, and tick things off.

Bavul is simple: tap once to check, tap twice to mark as not-applicable for this trip (strikethrough), tap again to reset. That way the same list works for a domestic weekend and an international move without any configuration.

Built it for my flight to Amsterdam, might be useful so I've decided to post it too.