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  • 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…

  • 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…

    Fear is a Guide
  • 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…

    Memory segmentation
  • 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…

    Weekly Review – 2020/08/17 – 2020/08/23
  • 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…

    My classmates syllabus in excel form
  • 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
  • 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…

  • [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
  • 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)
  • 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…