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The value of engineering
- My last post was in March 2020, right before the pandemic. A lot has changed since then. The world isn’t the place it used it be - …
Watching videos instead of reading books
- Lately I’ve been consuming a lot more video media than I used to. Until recently, most of the media I’ve consumed was by …
Why I'll never get tired of Math
- One of the earliest memories of my mother was when I was a kid and she would teach me math in the living room. I was just old enough to talk …
Lessons in leadership: My last year and a half at Google
- For the last year and a half I’ve been working on the Cloud Logging Front end team in GCP at Google. The time I spend programming is …
My favorite parts of Pittsburgh
- I really didn’t like Pittsburgh when I first got here. I had no friends, and it was nothing like New York, where I spent most of my …
I Quit learning flow arts and juggling
- I first started glowsticking in my junior year of high school. I joined the stuy rave club, now known as stuy flow. It took me a really long …
How important is coding fast?
- Every once in a while I find myself in a conversation with a friend about typing. Sometimes they talk about their typing speeds, sometimes …
Books I read in the last year
- In the last year I actually ended up reading a few books (no, I don’t know how I did it either). Here I’m going to list out some …
My most useful git tips and tricks
- Most people see git as a nuisance when they first learn about it in school. There are a lot of commands to learn. Fetch, clone, push, …
How to learn coding without losing motivation
- Sometimes my friends ask me, “How long would it take for me to learn python?” or “Where do I start coding to get a …
Transfer Protocols
- In a world where the internet is becoming an increasingly integral part of our lives, the need for secure information transfer is greater …
My top 5 places to go in NYC
- When you’ve lived in queens for years and went to high school in manhattan you eventually run out of things to do, even in the big …
Should you go to a hackathon?
- About twice a semester I’ll go to a hackathon as a break from school to visit a new place, make some new friends, and see some …
Why I study computer science
- When I first started applying to colleges in late 2013, I had no idea what I wanted to major in. It was a big decision, for most people …
How I deal with procrastination
- Whether or not you’re willing to admit it, procrastination affects all of us. Some people brag about it, most people resent it, but …
How to start performing a flow art
- One of my main hobbies is spending time on some sort of flow art. Most of the time I’ll be spinning poi with some friends but you …
File Compression Part 2
- Here I continue to talk about methods used to compress files. The two discussed here are the Lempel-Ziv (1977) method and Huffman encoding. …
File Compression Part 1
- I have recently started working on my own file compressor titled ‘himanZip’. While working, I’ve had to do a lot of …
New website and Javascript
- After another long and hard semester, I have found myself with nothing to do. So, I decided to teach myself some more javascript to revamp …
The Hungarian Algorithm
- Here I’ll talk about the other side project I worked on and the lesson it taught me. This is one that I thought would be easy but …
The Minimal Perfect HashMap
- So over these past couple of weeks I’ve been working on two side projects that I thought were interesting so that I wouldn’t …
First blog post!
- I have a blog now! I will try to post here every once in a while about projects that I’m working on or even off topic things that I …