I just arrived in New York after a trip to Iceland - all part of a larger trip before I start working in February. Here are some highlights from Iceland. Snorkeling between two tectonic plates. My sister and I at the Blue Lagoon. Sunrises Waterfalls Last but not least, Icelandic horses.…

I recently started working through some Project Euler problems, and one that was particularly interesting to me so far was #7: By listing the first six prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13, we can see that the 6th prime is 13. What is the 10 001st prime number? The way I learned to generate prime number was by using the Sieve of Eratosthenes, and that can be used to solve this problem.…

Two semesters ago, I wrote a Lisp interpreter in my Programming Language & Design class. This was one of the most satisfying school projects that I have had the chance to work on. Looking back on it, I think I could have implemented some things much better - but that is an opportunity for future work. Here is a summary of some of the features that I was able to implement.…

I have not posted much besides travel photos on here so far, so here is something tech related. When searching for certain technical things on Google, such as Java or Python programming stuff, this box opens up: The challenges are a series of 5 levels of programming questions. There is 1 question for level 1, 2 for level 2 and so on, totaling 15 questions. They get progressively more difficult as you advance through the levels.…

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I attended my first hackathon over this past weekend at the UC Berkeley campus. With a team that I met at the event, we built and Android app that helps you to get the most out of the movie watching experience. We won for the best music/video app using the GraceNote API, which came as a surprise to the team. It was a great time. I learned a lot, and I would definitely do it again.…

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