Today, I got to see displays of living people pretending to be mannequins. That is, today is a “Very Neenah Christmas.” Apparently what is ‘very Neenah’ is to be a mannequin: so fake, ostentatious, and oddly proportioned? Who ever would have thought, that, when moving from a big city to a small city like Neenah, […]
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Highlights Overall, I had a 3% offer rate, and a ~10% reply rate. Chances of getting a offer were actually fairly high (~30%) given a company that was willing to follow up on my application. Wisconsin was the stand-out best state for companies reaching out to me about my app, and then later offering to
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I have spent my last six years, indeed, my entire adult life, around and attending the University of Minnesota. And it’s amazing! I am really going to miss this place. No really, it is amazing. Most people around the world, when I talk with them, assume that Minnesota – which they have vaguely, maybe heard
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This book, Algorithms to Live By: What Computers Can Teach Us About Solving Human Problems, came to me via Amazon’s recommendation system and sold by being well-reviewed. The book’s premise is simple: take algorithms which are critical in various aspects of computing, explain them, and then connect them to human problems (such as parking, scheduling,
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I have just finished my first reading of Beowulf. It wasn’t an easy read, even in translation Reading Beowulf was inevitable for me. First brought to my attention in detail by Professor Nicholson in my late Latin class on Bede, it has since been on the periphery of my Early Medieval studies, trips to Denmark,
Kin, Rings, and Feuds: an Unlearned Reading of Beowulf Read More »
I own one of the best gaming laptops you can buy. I have owned it for a year and played less than 10 hours of games on it. Ah well, such is life. But while I currently use the GPU power to run neural nets, it used to be I did play games. Indeed, I
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