What did you do this past week? Friday, it was my roommate Justin’s birthday. My friend from UCLA flew down, and we showed him around our favorite Austin spots. And yesterday, we went to the TCU game, which was my first UT game. Unfortunately, the offense could’ve done better. What’s…

What did you do this past week? I spent a lot of time working on an NLP project so I didn’t have any time to work on phase 3 of IDB. …

What did you do this past week? Last week after I finished phase 2 of the project, I didn’t devote much time to this class, and my team decided to take a break before we start working on phase 3. What’s in your way? There isn’t anything in my way right…

What did you do this past week? Kept working on the backend for phase 2, the most interesting issue was getting the backend to accept CORS requests, and that took some experimentation in Flask to fix that issue. What’s in your way? Well other than finishing up the backend, my…

What did you do this past week? I started working on the project phase 2, getting some basic backend endpoints working and hosting it on AWS using Docker and Elastic Beanstalk. What’s in your way? I’m not sure about what steps need to be taken to connect a database to the…

What did you do this past week? I finished an NLP assignment that I thought was really interesting, as I’ve never worked with neural networks before, but got experience using PyTorch to train and test a network. I definitely recommend the class if NNs are something you are interested in. I…

What did you do this past week? I was travelling last weekend so this week I needed to catch up on a lot of homework and assignments. I was also doing interviews for Texas UCF (Undergraduate Computational Finance), which is an org that I’m interested in joining. …

Where did you grow up? I grew up in Plano, which is a suburb in North Dallas. What high school did you attend? I went to Plano East Senior High School. What was your favorite extracurricular activity in high school? Orchestra Why did you come to UT? I liked the idea…

How well do you think the course conveyed those takeaways? Very well, I really enjoyed how the in-class exercises as well as the lectures focused on testing, what-ifs, and incrementally building on the same code and ideas, as it helped ideas and topics stick as we approached the topics in a detail oriented way. Were there any other particular takeaways for you? Before this class, I never really…