Thoughts and Notes

Code quality in academic research

As a computer science undergraduate, I am trained to write maintainable, refactored and well-documented high quality code because that’s the industry standard.

However, in academic research, writing code is about making experiments and proving a…

My First with Parallel Computing

Intro

“Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it…” — Dan Ariely

Machine Learning and Human Learning

What if we train machine learning models just like training babies?

What We Learn from the Cardinality of Infinity?

I took a math proof class last semester and we spend a huge chunk of time talking about cardinality, especially the cardinality of infinity, which is a rather new topic in the discussion of cardinality. Even though the proof is a lack of…