Happy New Year!! — Hi everyone! Happy New Year!! I hope you had a pleasant 2021 and have an absolutely amazing 2022. Here’s a quick recap of some major events that took place in my life in 2021: I graduated from NYU with a degree with Computer Science and Data Science. I got a…

Happy New Year! — At the start of the new year, I wanted to reflect on how the past year went and what my goals and plans are for the new year. This past year I changed my goals from yearly to monthly, and shared my monthly updates and progress on this blog. This…

So I just finished midterms last week, and since I didn’t have an October update, I thought I would combine my October and November updates in one Fall post. The past two months have been incredibly busy, but mainly with school work. …

Well, summer break is already over… it went by so fast! While I started the summer with a lot less certainty about what I would be doing, it’s safe to say that I spent my summer being as productive as I possibly could be while also taking time to relax. …

So it’s been 5 weeks since my last update. I had lofty goals for the past month, so let’s see how I did: — Work for my internship I definitely did a lot of work for my internship over this past month. I learned about the entire data analysis pipeline…

So I’m a little late on the update for this month but better late than never. In my last update, I mentioned a bunch of different tasks and projects I had planned for this summer. A month later I am happy to say I’ve made steady progress towards many of…

Like many others, I had an internship lined up for this summer which I was really excited for. Unfortunately, it was cancelled due to COVID-19. But, while pandemics don’t happen every so often, unforeseen circumstances arise all the time. …

At the beginning of the year, I said that every month I would be reflecting on how well I did in regards to accomplishing the previous month’s goals. Additionally, I would set new goals and update my progress on my long term goals. So here we are… one month later… …

John Searle’s paper “Minds, Brains, and Programs” explores the relation between computers and understanding. Specifically, it addresses whether or not a computer appearing to understand a language equates to the computer actually understanding a language. But, Searle’s omission of a clear definition of the term “understanding” makes it difficult to…