I’ve been remiss about blogging my experiences at the Recurse Center, so I will try to make up for lost time here. Some of my highlights/accomplishments from the first two weeks are:
Submitting my first real pull request to a large open source project. It’s a small one, and it hasn’t been approved yet, but it did fix a bug and pass all of the tests!
Also kind of helped debug an issue with Zulip development environments on OS X.
Worked on the first half of MIT’s 6.006 with a group of other RCers. It’s a lot of fun to have a problem set discussion group again.
Paired with another RCer to implement a minheap in Python.
Learned some Go and started on the Cryptopals cryptography challenges using Go.
Helped debug an interesting issue in Docker, involving curious behavior with APFS and sparse files.
This was a prerequisite to help another RCer get started with automatic image captioning using neural networks.
Scanned dozens of documents, pamphlets, and hand-outs from tourist sites across the US, and am exploring spatial organization methods for browsing them.
Gave a non-technical presentation on the history of New York City’s water supply.
Dug into some open watershed data, interested in an interactive/browsable version of some of the comparison images I made in this presentation.
Learned a bit about shaders, made some pretty colors.
Started learning more about relational databases and how to manage them well.
Revived an old project with new input data (aerial photography) to generate “perspectiveless aerial photography.”