Musings on a Sankey diagram of FSGP/ASC 2018

On my flight back to Waterloo for my CS convocation ceremony, I was thinking about all the things I've accomplished throughout my undergraduate career at the University of Waterloo. One of the things I'm…

(Almost) Every Single Shell Command I've Used Since 2017

Ever since 2016, I started keeping track of my dotfiles. In my dotfiles, I had configured my ~/.bash_history file to keep an unlimited number of lines of history. Sometime in 2017, I reformatted my laptop…

Letters From Feridun

Our university president Feridun Hamdullahpur seems to send a lot of emails. But does he really send that much? That was a question that came to my mind one day as I was taking the bus home from work.…

Jobmined, Part II (ish) [2]

This is a continuation of my previous post. Let's take a look at the posting breakdowns by faculty. There were 94 unique disciplines represented during the first weekend of JobMine postings. This all goes…

Jobmined, Part II (ish)

The first round of JobMine postings closed last night at 11:59 EST, and although this isn't exactly Jobmined data, it still is tangentially related to JobMine. If you haven't read Lisa Zhang's post yet,…

Jobmined, Part I

Note: The first draft of this post was written way back in October, and was in part inspired by the work of Stephen Holiday and Lisa Zhang. Six years have passed since then, so it's interesting to see…