Nov: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Finished CS50’s final pset which involved learning about Flask. I’ve just started on my final project – a site that displays accepted papers for EMNLP 2022. You can check it my work so far at emnlp2022.tomoe.asia I’m doing this as it’s a good opportunity to work with some real-world data and also respond to a problem I’m having – the list of accepted papers is currently only available in this massive Excel which is incredibly hard to read....
This month I’ve been working through CS50. I’ve also managed to get into a semi-routine, which is a big first and surprise to me. I learn/code for the first 1.5h of my day (whenever my waking time might be) before moving on to my work obligations. This might not work for everyone as I happen to be privileged enough to work from home + have a really understanding supervisor who gives me autonomy regarding work hours and recognises that learning is part of my job. This month I’ve coded on the following days in Oct: a = [6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28]. The dev console tells me that means it’s been 21 days (used a.length because I was too lazy to count it manually). Which means I’m almost halfway through the 100 days (in total, not in a row). ...
Learnt more about Chrome extensions by updating the manifest of a Chrome extension that wasn’t working for me. Was chatting with a friend (@kiittsuune) about how SimplyGo doesn’t total up transactions for you, and they put together a Chrome extension in a night. However, it wasn’t working for me (i.e. when I clicked the extension icon, nothing would happen) until I modified the manifest in line with Chrome’s dev documentation. You can check it out here
I returned to CS50 after a long time. I have a minor regret about not having finished it, so I’m going to try and get it done this time round. I usually feel terrible about my skills, but I’ve realised that I’ve grown a lot after attempting Mario (more) and realising I got it a lot faster than my younger self would have back then (although I had to keep looking up C syntax and dealing with the missing ;s)....
Tried out implementing a UI for question-answering with BERT (using functions written by Chris McCormick) on Streamlit at bert.tomoe.asia but it crashes when there are long spans of text entered – not sure if it’s due to memory constraints (free tier has 800MB of memory) or what. I’ll try using a smaller BERT model tomorrow and see if it makes a difference.
Took part in a Go workshop by Chuk organised by GeeksHacking, where we made a command line tool that interacts with the Boardgame Atlas API to search for board games. ...
Started learning Django out of necessity for work. ...
Touched more server-side stuff. Learned to use screen on a server to manage sessions and update sites.
Created reusable components in React for a volunteering project. ...
Joys of pair programming and fiddling with Liquid + Shopify metafields ...