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Its My Data and I Want it Now!
“In the heyday of European imperialism, conquistadors and merchants bought entire islands and countries in exchange for coloured beads. In the twenty-first century our personal data is probably the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer, and we are giving it to the tech giants in exchange for email services and funny cat…
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My Time as an Undergrad Learning Assistant
When I started my CS degree I had just moved to California from New York, was in-between jobs due to the pandemic, and was spending most of my free time trying to learn and grasp CS fundamentals. I picked up work part time at Home Depot, but I felt I was wasting 24 hours a…
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An EBNF Auto-Completion Parser
After 3 months of programming I decided it was time to tackle my very own “first project” and boy was it terrible. My scope was a scientific calculator with a front facing GUI and after coding about 1500 lines of rubbish I made, for a lack of better words, something. It wasn’t total trash, but…
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Solutions Come to Me at 2 AM
A warm hello, greetings, and welcome Introductions are always weird, I feel like I never have anything to say which is shadowed by an overwhelming amount of experiences I wish I could share. To keep this conversation as close to my software journey as possible, well the beginning of it, we start off in November…