Music
Minuet Quartet (Minuet and Trio)
Download the score here! Listen to my new song here! That's it. Enjoy!
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College
Misconceptions on Admission Tours (4/30 @ MIT)
During my four years at MIT, I would enjoy occasionally giving tours to prospective MIT students. It reminded me of when I was in their shoes, looking at potential colleges back in high school. My parents dragged me across the country and I honestly felt disinterested on tours when the
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A welcome back from a empty campus
Well, maybe it’s that time of year again. I think it’s time to set aside my gaming addiction and attempt to begin my writing hobby (career?) once again. It’s not like I haven’t tried this before. However, this time will be different (well I told myself
College
Swimming and PE Fencing over IAP (3/30 @ MIT)
For many students at MIT, winter break and winter semester blur into one long break from school. During this time, students aren’t required to be on campus or do anything productive. However, many use this time to extern (month long internship), learn some coding, catch up on sleep, or
College
Forrest in the Libraries (2/30 @ MIT)
What’s great: MIT Libraries. What’s not great: MIT’s Library Search System. (Also my ability to write everyday) Maybe because I don’t know what I want to read… when I decide I finally want to read. I actually don’t read much coming here because I get
College
FOP, the pre-orientation orientation (1/30 @ MIT)
Me: “Yeah, I did FOP” “Wait FLP?” Me: “No, F-O-P. The outdoors program.” “Oh” FPOPs: http://uaap.mit.edu/first-year-mit/orientation/pre-orientation-programs-fpops FPOPs are pre-orientation camps that are optional for prefrosh. The number of times I had this conversation is astounding. Few people know about what I did the week
College
30 in 30 about MIT (0/30 @ MIT)
Spring break has passed. After finally getting some time for myself I realized I should start writing more. So I’m going to write 30 articles in the 30 days of April about something I know pretty well… MIT. There are many things that I want to rant or remember
How To
Replacing iPad Air Screen
Replacing an iPad Air screen turned out to be much simpler than what iFixit made it seem to be (43 steps!) and probably the most accomplished thing I did all winter break. However it did take a long time (maybe because I was just being to precautious). But to be
College
AP Tests are Worth it
AP Tests are supposed to get you ahead in college, and in some cases, it does. However, overloading on AP credit doesn't really help you as much: be wise in what you take, and if you decide to take it, study! Going to college I was surprised by
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Projects
Parsing Shorthand Dictionary with RMagick and RTesseract [Ruby]
Ruby Wrappers: RMagick, RTesseract (image manipulation and image recognition respectively) You can Google how to install those gems. Here was an example page of the dictionary. The shorthand translation was pretty much adjacent to the English word. require 'RMagick' require 'RTesseract' im = Magick::Image.read(file_
Ruby
Force Selenium to not load images [Ruby]
Sometimes it is unnecessary to load images in my selenium scripts. It takes time for the images (especially large ones) to load and messes up my sleep functions. Here's how to prevent it from loading. There are more options and it's listed in the All Profile
Machine Learning
Final Thoughts About RelevantXKCD project
Part of my RelevantXKCD project writeup After I wrapped a simple Django server and posted it on Reddit in the subreddit /r/xkcd, I got some great feedback! For the Model As /u/drcopus helpfully enlightened me, I should've done data augmentation on the original training set. I