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Forever Grateful

This last blog definitely snuck up on me. I’m at a loss for words as I think back to all the people that I’ve shared this journey with in the Presidential Leadership Academy. The opportunities for traveling to other cities wasn’t just for us to see...

hi this is flume

Flume (is an electronic music producer from Australia known for essentially launching an entire new sound and era in electronic music. I can comfortably say that the novelty and freshness of Flume’s music back in 2014 played a huge role in shifting the entire...

Disco Demolition Night

Music connects very deeply to current social and economic sentiments and it’s very interesting to see how the currently charting hits reflect broad trends in society. Recently, it seems like there haven’t been any major conflicts between genres and I...

Subnautica = Thalassaphobia + Clever Design

This week, we will begin actually using our air tanks and regulators in scuba, something I have been looking forward to since the beginning of the semester. Coincidentally, I have been playing Subnautica, an open-world survival game set in the oceans of an alien...

SwuM

Most of you who use Spotify Premium have probably heard of Spotify Wrapped a small presentation of your listening habits for the calendar year, summing up your favorite tracks, artists, and albums. Here is mine for 2018. It truly was a huge year for Asian American...

Final Stretch

I can’t believe that I’ve already reached the last semester of my undergraduate adventure, one filled with growth and joy. As I’m slowly wrapping my mind around the fact that it’s only a matter of months before I move on from Penn State,...

PAINT NUTS ORANGE!!!

When it comes to leading a hyper competitive organization, whether it’s a trillion dollar company. a cycling team, or even your own body during a marathon, optimization is one of the most crucial steps for improving your performance. I recently came across a...

The incubating impacts of Style Transfer

Taking the style of one image and applying it to another one digitally, all without the help of an artist, is something that we’ve seen accomplished over the past couple of years. Machine learning algorithms have been developed that actually “learn”...

We all have slot machines in our pockets

I have a love-hate relationship with social media, and by extension, most user-facing technologies. The average young adult has a multitude of apps and social media platforms installed on their smartphones. Whether we like it or not, our smartphones have become a...

In pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence

Science fiction has been obsessed with the concept for decades. The original Westworld movie, the basis for the modern television adaptation, came out in 1973, and explored the idea of robots, “androids”, having the capacity to reason and behave exactly...