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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…

    Snapshotting my understanding before tackling homework assignment #1

  • Done with advanced operating systems refresher course

    I’ve finished watching the lectures and taking notes for the operating systems refresher course1 that covers operating system fundamentals, the course covering topics including virtual memory system (e.g. paging, virtually indexed physically tagged) and file systems (e.g. FAT, EXT, inodes) and multi-threaded program (e.g. mutexes, conditional variables, synchronization) and networking2. The notes can be found…

  • 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.

    Little Elliott has found her voice

  • 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…

    Advanced Operating System Notes (File Systems)

  • 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…

  • Daily Review – 2020/08/20

    This post reviews yesterday, Wednesday August 19th 2020. Should I change the title to yesterday’s date or keep today’s date? Not sure, but I should probably stay consistent in my posts moving forward. Although I’m physically exhausted and tired than usual from waking up early (around 04:30 to 05:00) every day to crank out studying…

  • Advanced Operating Systems – Day 3 Recap

    The below write up consists of notes that I took while watching Multi-Threaded programming module from the Advanced Operating system’s refresher course1. I watched this third module before the second module (on File Systems, the next lecture series I’ll watch) because I started tackling the homework assignment that has us students debug a buggy multi-threaded…

  • Advanced Operating System Notes – Memory Systems (2/2)

    Notes below are from my first study session at 05:00 AM, before I hit the rest of my morning routine: walking the dogs at the local park, blending a delicious fruit smoothy (see my blog post on best vegan smoothie), then jumping behind the desk for hours for work. In the evening, I detoured from…

  • Daily Review – 2020/08/18

    Seems like my mind and body know to wake me early in the morning (around 05:00 AM), a small window in time in which I can cram in a lot of work before everyone else wakes up Thinking about daily reviews rolling up into weekly reviews, into monthly reviews, etc Out of the corner of…

  • Advanced OS – Study Notes Reflection (from day 1)

    I divided studying into two sessions: one in the morning (around 04:30 am) and one in the evening after work and after my daughter has gone to bed.  In the morning, I completed the administrative tasks and watched lectures that cover new material and in the evening I refreshed my memory by taking the operating…