Blogs
Random long thoughts I had over the years...
Topics range from programming, math, to my views of school
Does Audting Courses at CarletonU Fullfill Required Course Load?
November 20, 2022
tldr: Auditing courses does not fullfill 4 courses per semester requirement for co-op and for student health insurance
Debugging Symbols - A Basic Look at Separating Debug Symbols
October 31, 2022
As a note to myself, I would like to explore how to generate a symbols file but ship to
the customer a stripped binary lacking of any debugging symbols but still be able to
debug customer’s issue.
Shellbang Character limit
October 4, 2022
A short blog, more like a note to myself about the character limit on shebang.
Shebang in the UNIX-like world is the characters #! at the beginning of a script
to indicate the interpreter’s path.
Testing GithubPages Repo and Directory Conflict Resolution
September 4, 2022
A question arosed in my head when I was answering some questions about Github Pages to a student.
What happens when you have a github page that corresponds to your Github name that contains a
directory with the same name as another repository on your account. To elaborate, all Github pages
on your account is a directory under a domain name reserved for each account which follows the
following pattern:
PHYS1004 - A Review on Introductory Electromagnetism and Wave Motion
August 30, 2022
TLDR:
Be comfortable with Math
Labs take a lot of effort and time
MATH2107 - Linear Algebra II
August 25, 2022
This is a course review of MATH2107 - Linear Algebra II taken at CarletonU in
the summer of 2022. The course took a “reverse-style” classroom teaching where the lectures were
pre-recorded and students were expected (but was optional) to attend lectures to solve problems
relating to the lectures. The tutorials were also in-person. The review will be split
into two main sections, a long commentary about what the course is about and
a section dedicated to reviewing and discussing the organization of the course and how I studied for the course.
Document Feeder and PDF Utilities - How to Scan Big Documents with the help of Document Feeder and PDF Utilities
August 23, 2022
When the semester ends I often scan my notes but it has always been a huge pain to scan large amounts of papers.
A few months ago my brother was telling me how he scan his old notes and introduced me to the document feeder
where you can place your notes into the feeder and all the pages will be scanned automatically. This amazed me
because I’ve been painstakingly scanning each page individually, scanning the same paper twice but on a different
face (side).
Rust - Invoking Closures in a Struct
June 28, 2022
Closures are very neat and are similar to Javascript’s arrow functions or anonymous
functions in other languages. The neat thing about closures is the
ability to capture the environment or take
a snapshot of the state of the environment within its scope (i.e. the environment outside the closure but
within the scope it is defined in).
CarletonU QNX License Request Policy
June 17, 2022
tldr: licenses will only be distributed for the use in the classroom or faculty-led research
Rust - Exploring the Assembly Code between Mutable and Shadow Variables
May 10, 2022
Recently I have started to learn Rust through a program called Summer of Rust led by a Computer Science student
at Carleton University. While I had plans to explore C++ and assembly for the summer, I thought it would be a good time
to learn Rust instead with a group of students since learning anything by yourself requires a lot of effort.