Tag Archives: Programming

A Rant on Reasonable Expectations

With the semester wrapping up, I feel my status as a teaching assistant for a computational modeling course compels me to address something that we’ve encountered off and on the past several months. I’ll let Condescending Wonka introduce it. He … Continue reading

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Computer Science by any other name

In other words, what exactly is “computer science”? Regardless of the answer, it (and just about anything else you can think) is often confused as something else entirely by those who aren’t part of it. Throughout my years in college, … Continue reading

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Debugging and you!

I just completed an assignment for my machine learning class (which, in case you haven’t picked up from my lack of posting frequency, is a little challenging), for which I had a write a program that implements the concept of … Continue reading

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Know Thyself

I think this particular aphorism should go without saying, but it’s something I’m sure we all struggle with to a certain extent. Graduate school was eye-opening in more ways than one: in addition to receiving a world-class education on a … Continue reading

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How can I crack you? Let me count the ways…

I just received source code for a partially-implemented Hidden Markov Model. I took one look at the main() (it’s written in C++) and decided I just had to post it here for public review, critique, and general merrymaking. It’s not … Continue reading

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