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A really late New Year’s resolutions post 1. Spend quality time with my close friends An important factor in making friendships work is being located physically close to each other. Currently, most of the people who I care about are no more than a 15 minute walk away. But in just a couple months, I’ll be leaving the institution that has kept us together for all these years. And while I hope to continue to maintain these ties post-graduation, living in different cities will make it really really difficult. So I’m going to really cherish this last semester, and of course we’re gonna have an epic, unforgettable spring break road trip. ...

Running is hard when there are people in your way Last weekend a couple friends and I played in Journey to the End of the Night (San Francisco edition) for the first time. For those who aren’t familiar with it, Journey is a city-wide game of virus tag, in which you try to visit as many checkpoints as possible without getting tagged. (If you get tagged, you become a chaser.) Here’s what went down. ...

Featuring: Computer Vision! Deep Learning! In April 2014, my friends and I attended Big Hack, a Cal vs. Stanford hackathon. We were wide-eyed freshmen back then, and we threw around the term “machine learning” as if we were Yann LeCun himself. Naturally, we decided to build something that was completely out of our league: an app that would recognize individual chess pieces in a picture of a chessboard, and then tell you who was winning and what the best move was. ...