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Climb That Mountain
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing the lawn, climb that goddamn mountain.”
- Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums
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Notes from 2016:
We are about to enter a new year, with that will come new challenges and new accomplishments. There will be new projects, new people, and new experiences. I would like to go back and go through some of the things I learned in 2016, programming related and not: …
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Absurdism and the Pain of Existence.
Absurdism, as I choose to interpret it, is a philosophical belief that centers around the absurd meaninglessness of life and its surrounding chaos. It is fundamentally human to try and find meaning in life. Whether through God or Science humans try and dissect their surrounding world in order to find explanations and meaning for the random and absurd events that happen to them. …
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In Honor of Thomas Xavier Mackey
All computers have subsystem processes that run constantly in the background and enable the computer to function the way the human user expects. These Processes are called Daemons. The term has a strikingly similar sound and look to the word Demons. This is not on accident, to quote wikipedia: …
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Coding, Passion, and Deadlines
I am blessed. I get to work a job where I get to do something that if I wasn’t working I would probably be doing on my own. Life as a Career Programmer for many of us is a dream. So many of the Developers I have met in the NYC tech scene have a fundamental desire to program. For many of us this was a hobby we have engaged in since we were kids building Lego Robots. …
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Machine Learning, Emotion, and Python
Today embarked on my first Machine Learning Project. It was simple and could, if need be, be condensed down to just nine lines of python. The idea here was inspired by a blog post that gave instructions on how to build your very own neural network from scratch. Although mine wasn’t as much a network as it was just one Neuron. The code I wrote basically came down to just performing some Matrix multiplication on a few input nodes with a little back propagation thrown in there. I am still in the process of learning how to create Machines that think but the idea of the thinking machine has excited me since I was a young boy. …
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Why I am here.
I started this blog to talk about myself. I am a Full Stack developer at an agency in New York City. I moved to New York full time almost half a year ago. I live in Brooklyn and work in Times square. I have always had a passion for programming and have been programming since I was 14 years old and joined my high school’s robotics team. FIRST Team 28! I spend most of my time now doing web development. I enjoy both frontend and backend development, but I tend to favor backend work and server configuration. In fact despite being a developer myself I am using someone else’s jekyll theme for this, shout out to ‘joshgerdes’. …