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My thoughts and experiences Things I learned At the beginning of the year I started learning C++ through a group project for a course. In the same semester, I learned about Turing Machines (Theoretical CS) and the basics of web development. I also did some Multivariable Calculus which I almost entirely forgot. Then, during the summer I had...

Explanation of my solution Die Agony - December 2022 See the puzzle here Initial Brainstorming Here is a copy of the grid from the puzzle: My first assumption was that the die was numbered from 1 to 6. However, after the first move, landing on '5', we are already unable to move anymore. Then I considered allo...

MoreGlean This past weekend I attended the Morgan Stanley’s Code to Give Hackathon in Montreal. The main idea was to build a web application that could connect farmers, gleaners and food banks. Gleaners refers to a group of people who are willing to collect additional crops from the farmers to avoid food waste. The winning team would receiv...

Difficult but enjoyable nonetheless This semester I am taking 5 courses. I am already starting to feel the pressure of my workload slowly accumulating. However, a weird side of me is enjoying every moment of it. There is some sort of surreal feeling of being productive and getting some assignments and readings done. I cannot deny that the cou...

Scraping the SEC In the past few weeks, I have been exploring financial data made public by the SEC. The process is actually quite simple, using Python you can make requests to the already well-defined SEC REST API. Then using a parser such as BeautifulSoup you can extract any kind of data you wish from the endpoints. Finally, using a datafra...

Bye Bye Deloitte Yesterday was my last day at Deloitte for this summer. For the last month and a half, I joined a project as a non-billable support for the Consulting team. I was mostly using Powerpoint and Word. WCB AB project The client was Workers Compensation Board Alberta, a provincial workplace injury insurance provider. The project i...

Bibliomathica Today I will be discussing about my new personal project that I started a month ago with my fellow intern and friend Devan. You can find the source code under this respository. The details pertaining to the project will be displayed in the README of the code. This blog serves more as an overview of the process of building the s...

Getting started This is my story on how I got started contributing to Open Source projects such as Spark and Pandas. Initial Interest My first encounter with Open Source was finding out about popular frameworks and tools such as React, Kubernetes, and Tensorflow. Initially it did not make any sense to me. Why would big tech companies such a...