the to-learn list

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    Let's say, hypothetically, that I were to apply for an internship at something like Neuralink. The website says I need to submit a cover letter (whatever that is), a resume, and need to give at LEAST 3 examples of “exceptional ability” in the field you're applying in. If I wanna apply for the Software Engineering or Mechanical Engineering, my requirements for these internships are as follows:

Software Engineering:

Required Qualifications: 

  • Ability to design and implement simple and elegant software solutions
  • Proven track record of shipping software with real-world impact
  • Enthusiasm for technology and software
  • Understanding of how systems work at a fundamental level

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Familiarity with Ruby, Python, and/or JavaScript
  • Experience with C/C++/Rust
  • Knowledge of container management and orchestration
  • Experience with full-stack application frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Django
  • Understanding of web development
  • Experience in infrastructure development

Mechanical Engineering:

Required Qualifications:

  • Strong understanding of engineering first principles.
  • Strong communication skills.
  • Strong design skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 1+ years of mechanical engineering industry experience, including owning products from concept to production.
  • Experience with conventional machining and rapid prototyping technologies.
  • Experience with precision design and manufacturing.
  • Experience with advanced imaging techniques.

    Obviously, these things I have nearly no understanding of at the moment, but one of the hires they have (I don't know which department) is Kognise.

    Looking through their website and projects gives me an idea of what I want to do and what I can do at the moment (mostly nothing, which is okay for the time being). Their website and projects show that they have that “exceptional ability” in the fields they are interested in. I only show that “exceptional ability” in the classroom where no one else really knows what they're doing, which is like a big fish in an absolutely tiny pond. I would like to fix this.

    My transition from a big fish in a small pond to a tiny fish in a big pond will not be enjoyable. I will feel like I know absolutely nothing about the fields of computer science, biology, physics, and chemistry which, knowing me, I will despise.

    Knowledge is like that, though. So I've made a quick and tentative list of things I would like to learn and understand beyond a superficial level:

  1. Computer Science (Software)
  2. Computer Engineering (Hardware)
  3. Chemistry:
    1. Undergrad Chemistry
    2. Computational Chemistry
    3. Graduate Chemistry
  4. Biology:
    1. Undergrad Biology
    2. Computational Biology
    3. Graduate Biology
  5. Mathematics:
    1. Undergrad Math
    2. Computational Math
    3. Graduate Math
  6. Physics:
    1. Undergrad Physics
    2. Computational Physics
    3. Graduate Physics

    I will learn these through not just reading, but doing. So my website can also have a 30 fucking item long list of complete and useful projects I've made. Plus, there are some cool books I've found that I would like to read from cover to cover and understand everything in them.

    I've found some cool places to cover all of them as well. There's this cool website called OpenStax that provides all the necessary literature for these science subjects for free! Which is like yay Open access resources!!

    Next time I'll talk about the Raspberry Pi 4 adventures and what I wanna do with the Pi I was graciously gifted :3

 

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Florence & Interactive Narrative Design

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While researching for this blog, I learned about the allegations against the  lead developer Ken Wong of abusing his fellow staff members. I, sadly, only found out about this after buying the game. He should be condemned for his actions and face legal consequences.  [source]      Florence  (2018) is a game published by Annapurna Interactive   and released on February 14th, 2018.        The game follows our protagonist, a 25-year-old “Florence Yeoh” and the experience of her first romantic relationship. The game employs internal focalization for its narrative. Events are viewed through the perspective of Florence. The game is designed around a linear narrative, with choices made by the player not affecting the outcome of the main narrative.       The story is split into 6 acts, which are further divided into 20 chapters. Diegetic UI is used throughout the course of the story to build a relationship between t...
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       Welcome back everyone! Apologies for being gone for sooo long :3      I was working on a bunch of long ass blogs and then realized it was all for nothing, because I didn’t know enough about the topic to be able to write something worth writing. And so I started reading about all of it. That didn’t help either because the research for “The game development of darksouls” is going to take longer than a day! So I kind of needed a break before going back in again.         Now, though, I have an idea for the blog and how I want to do stuff in the future. Currently, I just write and do stuff or make stuff whenever I feel like it, which isn’t very productive or helpful or efficient or anything else other than “quick and easy”.      Through my ~17 years of existence, I’ve come to learn that I enjoy learning things and using that knowledge (by making something or teaching) than anything else I’ve done. And I wa...
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     Pick for a second, an arbitrarily small unit of time like the second. How much can you do in one second? What does your body do in one second if you do not consider involuntary tasks to be your doing? What can two people do in one second? What can eight billion people do in one second? What can more than eight billion people do in two seconds? In a day? In a year? In twenty thousand years? Forget people. What can a near infinite amount of atoms and molecules do in 13 billion years?      They can do today, right now.      You stand bare, in front of you is a large jagged structure with medium-large bright-colored spheres dangling off of each branch. Your stomach makes a familiar pain. You are starving. You pick off a sphere, and it is plump and coarse. You, out of necessity, take a bite. It is bitter and hard, but your teeth reach it’s soft and sweet innards. You eat it. You do not know your name. You do not know where the orange tree ...
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