&Hacks Writeup # This weekend I participated in the Annual William & Mary Hackathon. I gave a talk about my chrome extension, Bombparty Defuser. I met three people who had played the game before, and one girl came up to me after and told me her friend was mad at me for ruining the game for everybody. It’s gratfifying to know I’ve had an impact on the world even if it was something stupid like writing a cheat for a game. ...
What is this # In spring 2024, I did my school’s hackathon with my friends. The following is copied from our Devpost page for posterity. We won the Best Financial Hack award, sponsored by Capital One, and recieved a prize of $600. View Our Site, Capital Savvy! # Why # We are a group of close friends who are very passionate about machine learning and its application in real problem spaces. ...
Social reinforcement is one of the mechanisms that communities use to regulate behavior. It is a great tool for mutual improvement in a community. At the same time, we have to be careful to use it correctly, and not to hurt others. If you do a good thing, you get positive feedback, and if you do a bad thing, you get negative feedback. You do the same for other people. The more you pay attention to a metric of success, the more you will analyze and understand what causes you to succeed or fail. ...
linkdump # forums Hacker News LessWrong Twitter be very careful with twitter. tap “Not Interested” on content that is dopamine-inducing. I use it briefly every few days to discover new machine learning papers or technologies, but you have got to be careful not to scroll for longer than a couple minutes. at that point, there’s diminishing returns, and you’re wasting your time. if you can’t resist scrolling, the app is a net negative and you are obligated to cease usage immediately. ...
(Attempted) All Nighter Productivity Log # I am going to stay up as long as I’m able to be productive. I am working in the ISC with Michael sitting a few feet behind me, so he’s able to see my screen. I hope that this will stop me when I am tempted to stop working. Tasks # Implement graphing visualization for recursive feature elimination of side channel leakage dataset Set up programmatic email sending with Gmail and custom domain for Griffin Events Do Project 3 for Applied Machine Learning, which involves implementing a selection of machine learning classifiers Upload my updated website once the ftp server is back up Log # 21:16 - I begin working on my research project. ...
I updated my hugo site. I fixed some problems, updated the content on index.html, and added a blog. Having multiple outlets for my creative energy is important to me. I have a lot of ideas and type A LOT, so I’ve had a few blogs and talk a lot to friends over SMS or Discord. However! I have too much to say, and not enough people that care to read every single thought I have. ...
24 HOUR RAGE HYPERFOCUS DEEP WORK SESSION # Purpose I am going to spend the next 24 hours working on technical tasks for all of the projects that I am currently working on with other people. I am very interested in seeing how my productivity improves or worsens as time progresses. I am also curious about how much work I am actually able to accomplish in a long period of time of arbitrary length. ...