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I’ve been limping around for the past week, pulling a muscle in my left thigh. No fault other than my own, though. One evening last week, Jess and I hit the gym together, exercising at the Northgate 24 hour fitness (which is apparently one of the more popular 24 hour fitnesses in Seattle, due to…
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Earlier this morning, before starting the work week, I took my first linear algebra exam at the nearby Northgate Testing center. The proctored exam covered the first four modules in the course, topics including: Gaussian elimination (row echelon) Gaussian Jordan elimination (row reduced echelon) Adding, subtracting, multiplying matrices Calculating the inverse of matrices (using identity…
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About a year has passed since I took computer organization and I’m a bit disappointed of how much of the material faded from my memory. I only realized this while reading about Exception Control Flow (ECF) in the book Computer Systems: A programmer’s perspective, when the authors mentioned: As with a procedure call, the processor pushes a…
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Last week, with just my iPhone and a camera tripod, I recorded myself hitting tennis balls launched by the ball machine and recording myself smacking a few serves. The idea of recording myself was inspired from several articles that I had read from tennisplayer.net. To elaborate, I wanted to objectively analyze my tennis strokes —…
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Right out the gate, I want to express my gratitude for the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel for publishing a wonderful video series titled Essentials of Linear Algebra. After watching, and rewatching, the first four beautifully animated videos, I can say that I’ve developed a much better understanding, much more intuitive, of what I’m been learning in my linear algebra…
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I’ve been sharpening my C programming skills because I’m now working on a team (i.e. EC2 Networking) within Amazon Web Services that requires skills in lower level software development. And I must say, I’m truly rusty. A noob. On top of that, my only experience with C in the past has been fairly superficial, me…
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I signed up for linear algebra online course through the University of North Iowa, where I’ll be taking my second university level math course, the first being discrete mathematics. I enrolled in this course because it’s a fundamental course that’s typically required of all aspiring computer science students. Moreover, linear algebra is essential (from what…
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On Tuesday, I received an e-mail notification from Georgia Tech, informing me that after 5:00 PM EST, I would be able to check the status of my OMSCS (Online Masters of Science in Computer Science) application, whether I was accepted or rejected. So during dinner, with Jess sitting next to me in the cozy booth…
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My wife’s parents told us that when they first moved in together, they noticed that when they argued with one another, the arguments normally took place on Friday evenings. And when they became aware of this pattern, the two of them agreed to shelve any important discussions for the next day. And surprisingly, this worked…
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Earlier this evening, I neatly stacked my unbounded 200 page textbook onto the document feeder of a waist high scanner, converting a college Linear Algebra book from physical form into a 40 megabyte colored PDF — all within 3 minutes. And best of all: it was free! That’s right, I didn’t pay a single penny,…