Cornell Engineering is incredibly difficult, so I don’t write much. There is, however, much to tell on the recruiting front as I have seen some amazing offices and companies. I will update my readers in December or January.
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Book Sale
I actually really love used books. The Ithaca Library System was having their annual sale and it’s quite something. I picked up Edward Tufte’s ‘Visual Display of Quantitative Information’ for $4.50 and a couple volumes of Plato and Virgil as well.
Rubik’s
I solved my first couple Rubik’s cubes this week, obviously while staring at algorithms for them, but hopefully I can commit these to memory at some point.
Cornell
Well, I’ve been a few weeks here at Cornell’s M.Eng program and I’m loving it. It’s amazing actually being with some of the smartest an innovative engineers in one place. We have so many great resources here to use too. I’m currently taking AI, which I think will be good to brush up on my [...]
Euclidean Algorithm
One of my favorite algorithms is the simple, elegant Euclidean algorithm for finding the greatest common denominator of two numbers. In ML or another functional language it really is beautiful:
Recursive Fibonacci
Here are two recursive fibonacci functions in ML I did for CS243. Can you tell which one is more efficient?
Circle Calculator
For my first code post I thought it might be appropriate to put the first code from the first lab of my first computer science class at Wheaton.