CS373 Fall 2020: Week 12 Anshuman Kumar
2 min readNov 16, 2020
- What did you do this past week?
This past week I met with my IDB team in order to begin work on Phase 4, which will continue into this week. I also spent some time working on my last “normal” assignment for my Natural Language Processing class. - What’s in your way?
I’ll be driving back home next weekend, which will remove some of the time that I have to work on IDB. However, my group has decided to try to get everything done by this Friday, which should give us some leeway before the actual submission date. - What will you do next week?
I’ll be spending the next week working on Phase 4 of IDB along with my team. I also have a presentation tomorrow for my Behavioural Ethics class, where my group and I will be talking about Deepfakes — the technology behind them, as well as some of the ethical implications and dilemmas that arise from this technology. - If you read it, what did you think of The New Methodology?
I largely agree with this paper. Agile methodology is a good idea, in concept. While it isn’t perfect for all situations, it does a good job when implemented correctly, and can be tweaked in order to fit the particular situations of a specific project, team, or company. - What was your experience of SQL? (this question will vary, week to week)
SQL is pretty new to me, although I did know some of the basics due to the work we had to do for IDB. - What made you happy this week?
There was an F1 race this morning at 4:10 AM here, so I stayed up to watch that. I’m pretty happy that I did, as the race itself was quite exciting to watch. I was equally happy to go to sleep after it finished at 6 AM though — I like my sleep too. - What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My pick of the week is SWR — a data hook technology based on the term “stale-while-revalidate”. This technology allows you to hit an API and treat data as a state, automatically refreshing the information as necessary dependent on user input and your parameters quite easily. In conjunction with NextJS, my team uses it to populate data for our tables from our backend API.
