Programming
In my opinion, a bad internship only occurs if you did not learn something new from the internship. I’ve been pretty lucky at the company’s I’ve interned at and the mentors I got, but I can’t say the same for some of my friends. Unfortunately, poorly
Programming
Once you've scheduled the interview, the real show has begun. Solving the problem is a must, but interviews are also a chance for interviewers to understand someone's thought process and logical reasoning skills. But also, someone's success could depend on how good at communicating
Programming
Resumes are confusing. Most students don't have much experience going into internships, and somehow you need to fill a page up with qualifications. Given how easy it is to apply online, it is hard to fathom how many resumes each recruiter will review every recruiting cycle. Honestly, I
Programming
Note: I have never directly interviewed anyone for an internship, but alas, here are my thoughts :). Most coding challenges are pattern recognition tasks that take some time to learn. In my opinion, it is similar to the standardized testing that students use to apply to colleges. As a corollary to
Programming
Have you ever had the desire to journal but quit because it was too much effort? Amanda Deng and I always had this issue and attempted to find ways to do so. We tried bullet journaling, diaries (paper and digital), and iPhone apps. However, we could never get into a
Machine Learning
Part of this entire writeup Goal Find a model to accurately predict a relevant XKCD given multiple words (a reddit comment). This essentially gave me a bunch of positively single-labeled data since each comment usually only had one "relevant XKCD" sub-comment attached. Example: Searching "Python" would
Data
So I embarked on a machine learning quest. Here are my notes on how I obtained the data. My first attempt a few months ago was to download the entire Reddit Corpus (in CSV form) and manually parse the comments. However, it soon became clear the my computer took way
Machine Learning
So I embarked on a machine learning quest as a senior project. With all these advances in AI, I wanted to have some fun myself :P. You can view it here. I was inspired by Dan Zhang and Megan Ruthven's Relevant XKCD finder. They used ExplainXKCD to populate
Programming
This article requires knowledge of Ruby, the concept of webscraping, and HTML. Make sure you have Ruby installed (use RVM if you don't have it yet) -- I'm using 2.3.1 right now. If you want a reference sheet, I'm in the process
How To
My programming environment is quite nice on a chromebook. Although my chromebook is not the top of the line, ASUS C201 11.6 Inch, it does allow me to push some quick updates and do a bit of local testing for debugging. Note: When I compile and run, there is
Programming
So you want to do USACO? Make sure you actually like it and aren't doing it because you want it on your college resume! (See previous article) I'm going to assume that you understand USACO well enough and competed in some competitions/looked at some problems
Programming
I 100% admit that I don't know any programming language 100%. I have to look at a cheat sheet every single time I program. Especially for students in high school like me, I don't really see the point in memorizing all the functions and syntax structures