Idealism, Passion, Curiosity

Every so often, while listening to a podcast, an idea resonates so powerfully with me that I need to stop and replay the segment a few times. I’d like to share once such idea that was raised in a conversation between Lex Fridman and Yaron Brook. But a warning, things will get dark and gloomy … Continue reading Idealism, Passion, Curiosity →

Top 5 Concepts I Learned by “Learning How To Learn”

“Plan to Process the Diffuse Pomodoro Chunks.” This obscure phrase is a mnemonic I devised to help me remember the 5 most important concepts I learned in the course “Learning How To Learn”. More specifically, these concepts are: Importance of PlanningProcess over ProductDiffuse versus Focused ThinkingPomodoro TechniqueBuild a Chunk Library In this post, I’d like … Continue reading Top 5 Concepts I Learned by “Learning How To Learn” →

My Learning Failure

While I continue my self-teaching Computer Science fundamentals, I started to doubt the efficacy and efficiency of my approach to learning. While I have a high level understanding of the topics I've learned, my ability to recall details is not as good as I'd hoped. I began wondering if there were a better approach to … Continue reading My Learning Failure →

Computer Science Transcript

Around the beginning of 2018, I began self-teaching Computer Science. Although I understood the basics of CS, I realized I would need to dive deeper and strengthen my CS fundamentals. I've made steady progress through a course list that is a combination of Open Source Society University (OSSU) and Teach Yourself Computer Science. When I … Continue reading Computer Science Transcript →

Quick Update On ‘Bookmark Web Service’, And Building The Full Application

It's been a few weeks since I've been able to work on my Bookmark Web Service. I'd taken a short hiatus from Python to study JavaScript some more, and put this project on a temporary hold during that time. This week, I've had some time to jump back into my Bookmark service and launched an … Continue reading Quick Update On ‘Bookmark Web Service’, And Building The Full Application →

Implementing a Microservices Architecture on my ‘Bookmarks’ Application

For the last few weeks, I've been developing a bookmarking and link shortening application. (Click here to view the latest commit as of the time of this writing) I'd built out most of the backend logic, but ran into an issue with the frontend. As I started introducing frontend tools, frameworks, and libraries, my application started … Continue reading Implementing a Microservices Architecture on my ‘Bookmarks’ Application →

My Flask Configuration Handling

I've built a few applications using Flask, but I've had trouble handling configuration, especially when it comes to handling different environments. But I've found a way that works, is simple, and is easy even when using multiple environments. I'll share the details below, or you can go view it on Gist. The Problem As mentioned, … Continue reading My Flask Configuration Handling →

Building a Simple Chess AI

I've been wanting to build a chess AI for a few years now. I was excited by the idea of building a program that could make decisions ,and maybe in the future, learn from those decisions. With the help of Lauri Hartikka’s tutorial "A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI ", I was finally able to build my … Continue reading Building a Simple Chess AI →

Building A Program That Actually Learns

I decided to build a program that can learn. Technically, it is a 2 layer neural network that is able to take a set of inputs and desired outputs, and learn how to predict those outputs. I'm already 3 months into the Deep Learning Nanodegree at Udacity, so I've already built this a few times. … Continue reading Building A Program That Actually Learns →

Simple Blog: A Multi-User Blogging Framework

As part of my Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree at Udacity, we were assigned the project of building a multi-user blogging software. Its intent is to teach an intro to backend programming. I built Simple Blog, a simple blogging framework. It is built with Python using Jinja2 template engine, and can be deployed to Google App Engine. … Continue reading Simple Blog: A Multi-User Blogging Framework →