Roman Kuhn CS373 — Blog Spring April 12th
1. What did you do this past week?
This past week I focused most of my time and energy on finishing up a CLI tool I’m making for bioinformatics researcher that is essentially a data visualization pipeline so researchers can better understand the underlying technical variation present in their data. I think I will ultimately have to rewrite it in another language so that sucks. Besides that I did some work on my personal projects, read some, and worked on a few other things.
2. What’s in your way?
Honestly nothing is really in my way. I think that for the most part school has actually done a decent job of keeping me on track to focus on my academic goals and my goals outside of academics. It does a good job of getting me to my desk in the morning and not leaving until the sun has set. One thing that does suck is not having access to a gym. Body weight exercises it is then… groan…
3. What will you do next week?
Next week I will continue working on my CLI tool and then hopefully teach my girlfriend some programming. I will try to do more Leetcode next week and continue working on my personal projects.
4. What was your experience of SQL? (this question will vary, week to week)
I don’t think we had that much exposure to SQL just yet but I have worked with SQL in the past. Honestly to me I imagine SQL is one of those things that has a lot of things you can do with it, but I will end up just using like the very basic bare minimum functionalities (tables, primary keys left joins etc).
5. What was your experience of the ethics material? (this question will vary, week to week)
It was okay. I have never actually enjoyed any lecture on ethics. I think discussions on ethics can sometimes be fun but they’re often so high level that they fail to be productive.
6. What made you happy this week?
This week I got some good work done and that makes me happy. I was able to spend some quality time with my girlfriend (we live together) which is nice too.
7. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My tip of the week is to set a time to get to your desk everyday and to set a time to leave. This is personally how I like to do things so it’s not for everybody but it forces me to get out of bed and be fast about my morning routine so I can focus on what’s important and it also allows me to step back from my work and enjoy other things in life at the end of the day.