Blog posts
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Daily Review – 2020/08/25
What’s your chief aim for today Recover from waking up from 03:00 AM from being woken up from operational issue Write and publish one piece on this blog Review Inbox and Important projects sitting in OmniFocus Put in 1 hour study session before and after work for advanced operating systems Chip away at writing one-pager…
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Operating Systems – Memory Virtualization – Paging
In my other blog post on memory segmentation, I talked about diving the process’s virtual address space into segments: code, heap, stack. Memory segmentation is just one approach to memory virtualization and another approach is paging. Whereas segmentation divides the address space into segments, paging chops up the space into fixed-sized pieces. Each piece is…
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Word of the day “Notwithstanding”
Today’s word of the day is “Notwithstanding”. Definition – preposition – in spite of Example Sentences notwithstanding the evidence, the consensus is that the jury will not reach a verdict1 Notwithstanding his nervousness, the young man looked his interviewer directly in the eyes as he answered the questions2 His nervousness notwithstanding , the…
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Fear is a Guide
While driving to my tennis lesson, I listened to Jared’s (my guitar instructor) video on “Fear is a Guide” and I must say that I love the new direction he is taking on his YouTube channel. He was previously focusing on delivering guitar lessons. Now, he’s honing on what is important to him including song…
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Memory segmentation
This blog post contains notes I took on memory segmentation, from “OS in Three Easy Pieces Chapter 16”, one strategy for implementing virtual memory systems. In the next blog post, I’ll cover a different approach: paging. 16.1 Segmentation: Generalized Base / Bounds Summary We use segmentation to divide the virtual address space into three distinct…
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Weekly Review – 2020/08/17 – 2020/08/23
Writing Wrote and published close to a dozen blog posts over the past week, creating a new cadence of bite-sized posts instead of large pieces that sit in draft mode Feeling more confident about my digital organization system, storing all my books and articles and journals consistently, naming them author_year and storing them into DevonThink…
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My classmates syllabus in excel form
One of my virtual class mates took the poorly formatted syllabus living on Canvas and converted the document into a beautifully organized excel sheet (above). I appreciate him sharing this screenshot since it saves me at least 15 minutes from copying and pasting and wrestling with inevitable formatting issues. On top of that, I now…
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Snapshotting my understanding before tackling homework assignment #1
Before tackling the homework assignment, I’m going to rate myself on the questions (below), from a scale of 1 (no freaking clue) to 5 (truly understand). The point of this exercise that I just made up myself is that I want to capture my understanding (or lack thereof) at a moment and time. Why do…
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Little Elliott has found her voice
[fvplayer id=”1″] Just a short little video milestone of Elliott finding her voice, which sounds raspier than usual since I think she may have overdone it yesterday, making this “ah ah ah” noise for 14 hours.
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Advanced Operating System Notes (File Systems)
Although I’ve covered file systems in previous courses, including graduate introduction of operating systems, I really enjoy learning more about this concept in a little depth. The file system’s module is packed with great material, the material introducing a high level introduction of file system and then jumps into the deep end unveils what an…
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My First Research Paper: COVID19 and the impact on higher education
Abstract—This research paper explores the impact of the COVID-19 health crisis on the education sector by unpacking the challenges and successes of the forced migration of professors and their curricula onto online learning platforms. Quantitative research was conducted in the form of a domestically focused survey to determine the success of those teaching models and…
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Weekly Review – 2020/08/09 – 2020/08/16
Past Week Published 8 blog posts within a week. I’m developing a cadence, aiming for one (very) short blog posts a day and one medium blog post per week. I think this target is manageable and S.M.A.R.T and will help force me to get in the habit of shipping small fragments instead of never shipping…
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Creating my own digital library
After reading Daniel Wessel’s post1 on creating a virtual library, I’ve decided take the leap and convert the majority of my books — classic literature will remain sitting on my book shelf — into digital form. To accomplish this, I invested in a Fujitsu ScanScan IX500. The scanner runs for about $400.00. I selected this…
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I’m a messy person: it’s time for a change.
I’m pretty embarrassed of how disorganized and messy our house looks and feels. I forget the color of the bathroom tile since its hidden from view due to dirty clothes sprawled out across the entire floor. I’m afraid of raising my standing desk for fear of a monitor toppling over due a caught wire and…
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Guitar practice journal #1
Today I practiced my guitar for 20 minutes, a generous amount of time these days (if you are parent you’ll understand). During this practice session, I worked ear training: I looped the song The Funeral (Band of Horses) on my iPhone and played along, plucking the individuals notes in chord progression on my Traveler’s acoustic…