Midnight Reflection: Epiphany while studying for first-year finals
It’s pretty late right now, but I feel the need to write. So let’s do it. In high school, my Prime Directive was to... Read more
Author: Lenny Cheng
Midnight Reflection: Ambition
Many years ago, I remembered reading an article that lamented about how people’s ambitions tended to diminish as they aged because they became... Read more
Blurb on GNU, GDB, GCC, and Linux
GNU GNU stands for the recursive acronym “GNU is Not Unix”. It started in the 1980s with the goal of providing free software and tools... Read more
From Ed to Vim to Neovim
In the beginning was ed, a simple bare-bones line editor developed in 1969 and shipped with Unix. Back then, personal computers didn’t exist and most... Read more
1A & 1B Course Overviews
I wrote this overview a little over two years ago. With exception to some minor editing, I am posting it here almost verbatim. Looking back,... Read more
Tidbits about Bitcoin
In 2009, a group of programmers under the alias of Satoshi Nakamoto created the first type of decentralized cryptocurrency – Bitcoin. Unlike traditional currencies, the... Read more
A Brief History of Silicon Valley
Today, we tend to associate the words “Silicon Valley” with the hundreds of Internet giants and billion-dollar startups headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.... Read more
3A Course Overview
Introduction This term, we had one seminar and five courses, one of which was an elective and two of which were shared with Electrical Engineering... Read more
A Short Rant on Overpromising
Every day we are bombarded with hundred of ads promising to solve our deepest worries, some sincere and some ludicrous. Have wrinkles? Don’t worry, we... Read more
Interview Highlights for Fourth Coop
Funny Exchanges Interviewer: Can you write 42 in binary? [I write it in binary] Interviewer: Do you know what’s the significance of this number? Me... Read more