{"id":21,"date":"2022-05-19T06:46:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/therumblingants\/?p=21"},"modified":"2022-05-19T06:46:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:46:56","slug":"lucky-8-ball-%f0%9f%8e%b1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/therumblingants\/2022\/05\/19\/lucky-8-ball-%f0%9f%8e%b1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky 8-ball \ud83c\udfb1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fallout 3 will probably always have a special place in my heart.  When I was younger me and my friend used to walk up to Blockbuster in the summer to rent games and movies.  One day we rented Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360 and ever since then the game has held a special place in my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Fallout 3 there is a in game item called Lucky 8-ball which is obtainable by the player.  The ball increases your &#8220;Luck&#8221; stat by 1 point as long as its carried on the player&#8217;s inventory.  There have definitely been times I wish I had the Lucky 8-ball on me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just had developer interview where I talked about how Flutter was one of my favorite programming languages that I have learned.  This is while knowing full well that Flutter not a programming language by itself and instead uses the programming language dart for development.  I felt ashamed because I understood that but when two words are similar or have a similar context I involuntarily mix them up into a word salad that makes me well sound dumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I try not to think about it often but it has gotten more pronounced as I get older.  I guess during stressful times like these I wish I had a Lucky 8-ball on me during my developer interviews.  Aside from interviewing for jobs I have been making progress on my capstone project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For my senior capstone project I have started writing my own trading algorithm in Python.  I&#8217;m using the web interface of QuantConnect Lean because I personally like it and prefer the user interface compared to the locally run one that uses a command terminal for a user interface.  When I use the website front-end I can visually see the performance graphs which is nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope to have a well performing and decent algorithm by the time I finish the capstone project.  I think doing so will be able to help me eventually land an internship or a job since coding trading algorithms is an impressive feat and its one of many I can add to my portfolio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fallout 3 will probably always have a special place in my heart. When I was younger me and my friend used to walk up to Blockbuster in the summer to rent games and movies. One day we rented Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360 and ever since then the game has held a special place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/therumblingants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/therumblingants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/therumblingants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/therumblingants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/therumblingants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/therumblingants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/therumblingants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/therumblingants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/therumblingants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/therumblingants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}