Unintuitive Tips for Engineering Internships
April 06, 2021 | 1083 words | 6 min readThere's a lot of advice on how to land an internship, but not enough advice on how to perform well on the job itself.
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We should be working on this, now
November 04, 2020 | 400 words | 2 min readThoughts on misinformation, probably the largest (and most unprecedented) issue we're facing right now.
Mountain Climbers and Fishermen
November 04, 2020 | 689 words | 4 min readWhat Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has to say about living a happy life. Everyone's climbing a mountain, but there are good ways to climb and bad ways to climb.
4 Years of Job Search in Numbers
October 28, 2020 | 993 words | 5 min read200+ rejections, 50+ interviews, and just a few job offers. Some things are just a waste of time.
The Wizard of Oz Technique
October 05, 2020 | 1077 words | 6 min readL.F. Baum's Wizard of Oz has something to teach us about rapid prototyping.
Mistakes building My Desk Tour
September 19, 2020 | 954 words | 5 min readWhy mydesktour.com was a dumb idea and how you can learn from my mistakes.
How to not give a fuck
August 26, 2020 | 930 words | 5 min readI’m 21 as of 3 weeks ago. I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’ve spent a huge chunk of my life (especially during my late teens) worrying…
Feeling lost
August 20, 2020 | 424 words | 3 min readI’ve been having a series of what I would call “quarter-life crises” these past few months. It’s felt pretty shitty. And this is only after…
Experimentation With Sentiment Analysis Techniques
June 22, 2019 | 2339 words | 12 min readNaive attempt to achieve traditional stock market alpha from sentiment analysis performed on news articles, using techniques including a TensorFlow neural net, a custom subjectivity lexicon, and NLTK.