This month was exciting in a couple of ways.
hackernews-newsfeed made the front of page of Hacker News and the Github repository has over 300 stars. It was my first project that went viral on the internet and I find the stars to lines of code ratio absolutely hilarious, since my script for the chrome extension barely contains 60 lines of code. I guess creating something that people actually want is important, and it helps that I wrote hackernews-newsfeed...
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Saturday, July 22, 2017
A Sentimental Reflection on How I Love My Computer
I remember coming to MIT with an HP computer that was falling apart at the hinge and restarted every couple hours for Windows 10 updates. I bought my HP computer for a little over $600 in 2014. Back then, I didn't know anything about computers so I picked my computer based on its beats speakers and the light up keyboard (lol!). For a $600 computer, the HP computer was a rip off.
One of my first decisions made at MIT was to buy a new laptop and switch to Linux. There were three computers I was seriously considering: a Dell XPS 13, a MacBook Pro,...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
June 2017 Updates
I've recently started working at Dell. My official title is "Systems Engineering Intern", but I am basically doing benchmarking on server setups with machine learning algorithms. The pace of working at a large company is much slower than it is at MIT, and the work is easier. Therefore, I've been spending a lot of my free time reading about anything remotely cs related, and as a result I've improved my knowledge of the field.
So what have I been...