Made a few commits to Quilt. Man, programming is challenging. As I continue to struggle with this open-source project I'm slowly gaining skills :)
I really hope to be a good engineer. It's great to build things and intensely terrible to be incompetent.
Excited for winter break! A bit sad that I'm leaving CT, but I can't wait to meet my friends back home again.
Recently I discovered vaporwave wave. Oh man, what a dream. I've always had a fascination with computer glitches and cyberpunk.
Haha that's not the best description of the genre, is it?
In the center of the vaporwave movement is an artist called Vektroid.
I love her album "Neocali", check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbEaSHhQRe0
It's it nice how English is the preferred language of the programming world? Imagine having to learn French or Chinese in order to code.
Sometimes, when I study computer science, I feel like an acolyte sorceror, poring over my arcane tomes. But really, this is as close to sorcery as it gets. There's a chance that we will create, in this century, conscious artificial intelligence.
When I compare my coding ability with the grad student that I'm working under and the other undergraduate researchers, I come to the unsettling conclusion that I'm only an ant. Regardless, I wish to be a helpful ant. Maybe in doing that I can become stronger.
This is going to sound fictional, but a Native American chief told me (personally) that we become strong through helping others.
I am not productive.
I would like to be productive because one of the greatest joys in life is being and feeling helpful to other people.
At the Coakley's house right now for Thanksgiving Break. Long Island, NY.
Reading through Netsys/Quilt codebase right now, trying to understand so I can later contribute. I'm slowly getting better, I think.