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Updates From Graduate School

After my last layoff, I decided it was time to change my plan. I’ve reinvented myself professionally a few times, most notably, going from special education teacher to software engineer. Rather than opting for a complete career change, I decided to pivot to the promising field of biological data science. ASU offers a graduate certificationContinue reading “Updates From Graduate School”

The Weird World of AI Evangelism Feels Like An MLM

I was struggling to pay attention to the last presenter at an AI Tech Summit hosted by Mindvalley, when the presenter introduced his next slide: “Design A New Religion For Humanity”. I did a double take as I watched as the co-founder and CEO of Mindvalley went through a live demonstration in which he hadContinue reading “The Weird World of AI Evangelism Feels Like An MLM”

New Site, New Look

Welcome to my new and improved website! I’ve been pretty busy, so I haven’t gotten around to posting, but I’m back on the hunt for work, so I’ll be using this site to publish some longer-form content that interests me in the tech and biological science fields. While that’s in the hopper, I’ll tell youContinue reading “New Site, New Look”

HyperCube

Hypercube is a Doctor Who themed web application hosted on Heroku, and is based on Twitter, and The Ruby On Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl. Click the image below to try it out for yourself! About the App The app itself is modified from The Ruby On Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl. If you haven’tContinue reading “HyperCube”

Challenge 13: Compound Interest

Right now Phoenix, AZ is in the darkest depths of winter, and the temperature is hovering around a frosty 54 degrees F. If I turn on the heater, it means Winter has won. In light of that, and the new year, let’s talk about everybody’s favorite subject: Compound Interest. Challenge 13 asks the programmer toContinue reading “Challenge 13: Compound Interest”

Challenge 18: Temperature Converter

Temperature conversion, like volume or any other unit conversion is typically a trivial, but necessary calculation that we have to do on a daily or weekly basis. This challenge asks the developer to write a program that asks the user what temperature they’re converting to, and what the recorded temperature is, and then spit outContinue reading “Challenge 18: Temperature Converter”

Challenge 12: Computing Simple Interest

Challenge 12 is all about calculating simple interest. It asks that the program prompt for the principal, the rate as a percentage, and the amount of time. This is also a useful program, and good for working with the math operators of your language. Once again, I used Ruby. The first time through this IContinue reading “Challenge 12: Computing Simple Interest”

Challenge 17: Blood Alcohol Calculator

This one was back to the more plug-and-chug kind of process. It provides a formula for calculating your BAC based on a few factors, including weight, sex, amount of alcohol consumed, and time since the last drink. I’m not sure the results are correct, but the entire thing was pretty basic: ask the user forContinue reading “Challenge 17: Blood Alcohol Calculator”

Challenge 11: Currency Conversion

Okay, this one was fun. It had the feel of an actual, genuine application. The book asks the programmer to build an app that converts currency, and provides the equation to do so. That equation is: amount_to = (amount_from * rate_from) / rate_to I was confused about the need for the rate_to part of theContinue reading “Challenge 11: Currency Conversion”

Challenge 10: Self-Checkout

This one is comparatively easy. It wants the user to do a self-checkout with items at a store, where it prompts for a quantity of items and their individual price, and then it figures out the subtotal, applies the tax, and then the total, and prints out each. Now that I’m looking at it again,Continue reading “Challenge 10: Self-Checkout”