January 11, 2012
I love winter break. It's my chance to recover from final exams, visit family and friends, and spend time doing things I've had to put off all quarter. This year I got a lot of reading done in between interviewing for summer internships and watching Stanford CS 193P lectures. Here are the books I read, and a quick review of each of them: Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson: Though I think Isaacson's unfamiliarity with Silicon Valley was detrimental to the biography, his unprecedented access helps give the reader good insights into the complex person that Steve really was. Hackers and Painters,... Read more
October 30, 2011
(Before I start this post, I have a confession to make: I'm probably the last person on Earth to realize that this blogging thing is hard to get into regularly. I've been doing a lot lately that's worth blogging about--research, hackathons, and the like--but you wouldn't know it by my lack of posts. I'll try to be better in the future, I promise!) After recovering from an unpleasant case of pneumonia, last Saturday I was lucky enough to attend Startup School 2011. Produced by Y Combinator and Stanford University's BASES and held this year at Stanford's Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Startup School... Read more
July 13, 2011
The Setup, curated by @waferbaby, is a fascinating collection of interviews with people from all over the Internet. In one of these interviews the subject simply describes the software and hardware that they use in their personal and professional lives. I've been following site since its genesis and I am inexplicably fascinated by each and every detail shared by the site's often Internet-famous interviewees. In the spirit of introduction, I humbly present my own answers to the questions posed by The Setup. UPDATE: @waferbaby was kind enough to link to this post on the Community page of The Setup. Thanks... Read more
July 05, 2011
Internet, you and I been acquainted for several years now and a formal introduction on my part is long overdue. I'm Dylan, a third year computer science major at UCLA. My passion for building things began in my adolescence when my grandfather, a retired electrical engineer, would take me into his office on summer afternoons to show me how circuits worked. In my freshman year of high school I downloaded the installer for Python 2.4 and the rest, as they say, is history. I've got a long way to go before I reach neckbeard status, though, and that's why I've... Read more
