CS373 Fall 2020 Week 6: Anshuman Kumar
2 min readOct 5, 2020
- What did you do this past week?
This last week I worked on both IDB as well as a programming project for my Natural Language Processing class. I also spent a day working on a group project for my Personal Finance class. - What’s in your way?
I’ll need to finish with my next NLP project, as well as study for my exam coming up, before I can fully focus on working on phase 2 of IDB. - What will you do next week?
I have a Personal Finance exam on Monday morning, which I’ll be studying for. I also signed up to take - If you read it, what did you think of Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?
It was startling to realize that the percentage of women entering computer science had gone down so hard over the years, instead of getting better. - What was your experience of iterators, reduce(), and tuple? (this question will vary, week to week)
I was previously familiar with iterators, reduce, and tuples but it was interesting to learn about the way they worked in Python. Specifically, it was weird to learn that Python doesn’t have a hasNext method for iterators, and instead relies on exception catching to ensure that the iterator returns a valid object. - What’s it like working in a group? (this question will vary, week to week)
The group experience was good. I was able to use some of my experience from my internships with helping the team on the design for our site, as well as other things. Meanwhile, I was able to look into subjects that were new to me, like deploying with AWS Amplify. - What was your experience of the team contract? (this question will vary, week to week)
The team contract was pretty smooth — my team didn’t have any issues on deciding what to put. - What was your experience of the peer review? (this question will vary, week to week)
The peer review was different. It took some time to figure out ways that all of the team could improve on what they had done, including me. - What made you happy this week?
I bought a new game this week, Hades. It’s really good and I’m pretty happy with it — its got an interesting story and fun gameplay. - What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My pick of the week has to be XLaunch, which when properly configured, can allow Windows Subsystem for Linux users to properly utilize programs such as matplotlib from inside WSL. It acts as a virtual machine where the command line can output the image windows for graphs created by matplotlib and such.
