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Samast Varma
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Sep 22, 2021

What I Learned Running My First Half Marathon

At 9:17 am on Sunday, September 19, I ran past the Ferry Building in San Francisco ready to pass out. I spent hundreds of hours training for this race. Here’s what I learned. Mental is 50% of your training Everyone goes into running with a different goal in mind: weight loss, overall health, physique, etc. For…

Running

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What I Learned Running My First Half Marathon
What I Learned Running My First Half Marathon
Running

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May 21, 2019

Launching my First Consumer-Facing Service

The summer after my junior year of high school, I began working on a mobile application called Neighbor Ninja. The overarching purpose of it was to notify neighbors of suspicious activities in their communities. I used a crowdsourcing-based system and geolocation to achieve this. You can read more about it…

Machine Learning

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Launching my First Consumer-Facing Service
Launching my First Consumer-Facing Service
Machine Learning

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May 8, 2018

How Fortnite became more than just a ‘stupid game’

As one of the fourty-five million players around the world addicted to Fortnite, I can easily say it has had a large impact on my daily schedule. Fortnite, a video game on PC, consoles, and iOS, is a “mass online brawl where 100 players leap out of a plane on…

Marketing

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How Fortnite became more than just a ‘stupid game’
How Fortnite became more than just a ‘stupid game’
Marketing

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May 3, 2018

Explaining blockchain in three minutes

Regarding blockchain, there are three main types of people I have encountered: Person 1: Has no idea what blockchain is. Person 2: Blockchain enthusiast; doesn’t really know anything about it but thinks it will take over the world. Person 3: Actually understands the technology and has mixed thoughts about it. …

Bitcoin

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Explaining blockchain in three minutes
Explaining blockchain in three minutes
Bitcoin

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Samast Varma

Samast Varma

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Computer Science at the University of Michigan

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