this summer, i
- worked, organized hackathons, and did research
- ran a 10k
- visited NY and SF (waterloo rite of passage)
- baked a lot and spent time with people whom i adore
- read novels, textbooks, substack articles, and blogs
- thought about what i want from life
and just like that, Hack404 is over - the last 36 hours have simultaneously gone by so quickly yet so slowly, and i can officially say that i have the best organizing team ever, and that i’ve created my own hackathon!
cs is fun and all, but remember to read good books, to spend time with friends, to cook for your family, to have lovely conversations, and to sit in the sun.
time spent intentionally is never time wasted.
i made an autograd engine for backpropagation -
it's refreshing to understand what's going on behind the scenes in libraries like pytorch and tensorflow.
p.s. guess what we do use calc in real life :)
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