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Cake day: 2023年8月1日

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  • “Now, people, rise up, and let the storm break loose!” - Joseph Goebbels memorializing Horst Wessel, 1932

    “…And the warrior whispers back, I am the storm. Erika is the storm. We are the storm.” - Steven Miller memorializing Charlie Kirk, 2025

    Steven Miller looks just like Goebbels too, those dead eyes scare me.

    It’s as if God is doing a (history, colorized) meme on us, but the colors are just the black, white, and red of the Nazi swastika.









  • Over the years I have tried a handful of subfields.

    I always felt particularly adept at assembly language programming, so I had a couple projects doing that, and applied to every relevent job I could find.

    As a math nerd I enjoyed data science and machine learning, I had quite a few projects like a neutral network from scratch in Matlab, and many data analysis and computer vision projects in R. I was always aware this field is very competitive and my chances were low here.

    I had a friend get a job in the biomedical field, so I tried to follow that, I have Python projects doing basic gene sequencing and analysis, even a really cool project that replicated evolution.

    Another friend landed a government job, so I followed his advice and got some security certs.

    I also had smaller projects and attempts at databases, finance programming, and video games.




  • You’re right that my time was wasted, and knowing the outcome, I wish I could go back and do more project work before trying to enter the job market.

    But I don’t think that is a financial possibility for most Americans. Going to school drained my savings, when I graduated I had almost nothing except for school debt, medical debt, and high rent. Saying “I’m gonna take off and work for free for a year” never really seemed like a possibility.

    And as for my apps, the 3000 were not shotgun, they were all personalized, custom cover letters, keywords, etc. It only averaged out to 3/day. I did not track the apps where I used AI to submit them- the AI ones were definitely shotgun.