My Notebook

Notebook 3.0

A fun place to jot down my thoughts and ideas! You'll find everything from my favorite music to political thoughts! Have a stroll, and stay a while!

Featured

my "favorite" year recapped!

2024-01-01maybe favorite is just a word i shouldn't use as often
#featured#new years#reflection#article
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one more day

2023-06-01what do you do when it really is the last day?
#featured#my take#school
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2023 more like 2020p

2023-01-02truly my resolution for this year (ie. this is my resolution post for this year but this is the best pun i could think of).
#new years#featured
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The Hacker Zephyr.

2021-07-2542 people. The worlds longest hackathon (3,502 miles). A life changing adventure.
#hackathons#programming#hack club#summer#featured
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Motivation

2021-06-27What is motivation, and how can people get more of it? Learn a bit about my perspective!
#featured#my take#article#philosophy
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End Of School Reflection

2021-06-10What are some things I could do better, things I liked, and my plans for summer!
#featured#school#reflection
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AI on Politics and Philosophy

2021-04-16Using GPT-3 to generate some cool insights into current topics, from police brutality, philosophical metaphysics, and back to its thoughts on AGI!
#ai#fun#featured#philosophy
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Polarization

2021-01-10My take on an increasingly polarizing political landscape, how we got here, and my ideas of how to get out of it.
#politics#my take#article#featured
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Political Empathy and the Importance of Frameworks

2020-11-06An in depth analysis on unstructured debates, and techniques to make sure you can get the most out of them.
#article#politics#my take#featured
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Education

2020-09-04The state of our current education system, and reforms that might work
#article#education#my take#featured
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How to Learn

2020-04-27My take on how to teach people in general
#my take#education#article#featured
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Recent

ucla so farrrr

2023-11-12a brief not so brief update on life
#fun#updates
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Kairos!!

2023-07-08I went to my first 🐀 camp (rationality is so very cool)
#fun#camp#hackathons
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human relationality

2023-01-15a new perspective on how to view life (taken from paul kalanith's when breath becomes air)
#philosophy#my take
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switching around custom firmware

2023-01-08my personal history with custom firmwares & gaming consoles.
#fun#games
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MyWebsite 2.0

2022-12-18Updating my website for the first time in 4 years!
#programming#fun#project#releases
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consciousness

2022-12-13a little blog post about Ender's Game
#philosophy
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The Hidden Political Party

2022-06-20A cluster analysis of tweet sentiments to find sub-political parties! Hopefully this can help people understand the political landscape a little more & understand humans just a little more.
#politics#programming# fun
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Simulations

2021-10-24What is a simulation, and how do they serve us in our day to day lives?
#philosophy#fun#my take
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Memories

2021-09-08Sentence fragments on the nature of memories. Trying out a new writing style, read at your own risk...
#experiment#philosophy#my take
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TARDIS - The Conrad Challenge

2021-05-08A cool new side project, and my experience submitting it to Conrad Challenge and winning!
#project#competition#conrad-challenge#programming
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LeishNN: AI based Drug Discovery for Leishmania

2021-04-21Using neural networks to develop novel molecules to target Leishmaniasis. A documentation of my science fair project!
#science fair#project#programming#ai
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Education Part 2: Why Nothing Gets Done

2021-03-04Here I take a look at why the education system as a whole is doomed to repeat its cycle, and how we need a strong force of change.
#education#article#my take
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16th Birthday

2021-03-02Woot woot! Its my birthhhhddaaayyyyy!
#birthday#covid19
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TypeScript: Yay or Nay?

2021-02-24My thoughts on whether or not to use typescript, and if its an all around good language.
#programming#review#fun
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Capitalism

2021-02-10The age old debate of whether capitalism is the best economic system.
#my take#politics#article
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CoviDB 4 Kids

2021-01-31My story on how I helped TeachAids in developing CoviDB 4 Kids, a COVID-19 (a new coronavirus) educational resource database for kids!
#internship#covid19#project#programming#education
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Skepticism

2021-01-26What is skepticism, is it good, and is there such a thing as too much skepticism?
#my take#philosophy
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Stickers

2021-01-17STICKER STICKER! Why stickers are so great for hackathons, and generally some of the best swag if done right.
#hackathons#my take#fun#hack club
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End of 2020

2021-01-03Reflecting on 2020, and setting up new goals for 2021!
#new years#fun
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Summer of Making

2020-11-10This summer, I helped organize the Summer of Making, with Hack Club!
#summer#programming#hack club
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Starting at CoviDB & TeachAids

2020-06-30A fun internship where I'm working on many cool things, and learning about new technologies!
#internship#programming#project#fun#summer#covid19
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Templater

2020-06-09A fast, easy way to organize and share code templates.
#golang#cli#programming#fun#project
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AnimeLSTM

2020-05-17A project where I generated my own anime music using AI!
#ai#project#music#anime#programming
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AI from Scratch: Flappy Bird

2020-05-11A cool game where an AI teaches itself to play flappy bird.... built from scratch with JS Core libraries!
#ai#project#programming
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goJSON

2020-05-10A fun project I wrote that's a simple and lightning fast database written in Golang!
#project#go#programming#fun
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Elon Musk AMA

2020-05-04My highlights from being on an AMA with Elon musk, and some amazing points that I took from it!
#article#hack club#ai#my take#education#ama
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Notebook v2.0

2020-05-03My new and improved notebook!
#releases#programming#project
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Best Anime Music

2020-04-28My favorite anime music, all put into one place!
#anime#music#fun
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Hack University

2020-04-07Hack University! A great way to learn/teach during quarantine!
#project#education#programming
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Global COVID19 Hackathon

2020-04-06A global hackathon for COVID19 which I participated in!
#hackathons#covid19#project
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COVID19

2020-03-31My take on COVID19 and how it'll progress.
#covid19#my take
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Science Fair

2020-03-31This years science fair project!
#science fair#project#programming#ai#covid19
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(LATE) New Years! 🎉

2020-03-31Happy New Years! I haven't posted in a while, so here it is!
#fun#new years
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15th Birthday!

2020-03-31My 15th Birthday!
#birthday#fun#covid19
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Hack Merced

2020-03-31My first collegiate hackathon!
#hackathons
0

Google Code In!

2019-12-02A awesome competition from Google that I got to compete in for a week!
#competition#programming#fun
0

New Website

2019-11-19A new and upgraded personal website! Full with Next.js and React!
#personal website#programming#project
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Marker

2019-11-19An upgrade from LinkShort, better with custom pages, and redirects!
#project#programming#fun
0

TheDebateTimer

2019-11-03A cool project where I built a timer for debate!
#programming#project#fun
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AngelHacks

2019-10-28My experiences from hosting my first ever hackathon, from 0-10!
#hack club#hackathons
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npm - My First Package!

2019-10-28The first ever JS package I created on npm!
#project#programming#fun
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Airtable

2019-09-14A review of a cool productivity application, which also can double as a database!
#review#programming
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LinkShort

2019-09-13A small simple URL shortener
#project#programming#fun
1

Glitch vs Repl.it

2019-09-05An honest comparison between Glitch and Repl.it
#programming#review
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Running C++ & Other Languages on OSX

2019-09-04A quick tutorial on how to run other languages locally, instead of in an IDE or online!
#tutorial#programming
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Flagship Summit

2019-09-03One of the best experiences of the Summer of 2019 and where I met future best friends!
#summer#fun#hack club#education
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Notebook

2019-09-02Creating a new platform to write on!
#releases#fun#programming
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