Hi, I’m Austin. I post and capture anything that interests me.

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EPICURUS AND LUCRETIUS ON DEATH

Epicurus and Lucretius on how we may achieve happiness in face of inevitable death.

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ARISTOTLE ON HAPPINESS AND VIRTUE

An essay on Aristotle’s understanding of the supreme good, its role in human affairs, and where it situates in a context broader than ourselves.

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TROUBLESHOOTING PYINSTALLER

Roadblocks I encountered using PyInstaller with Windows and MacOS. As an extension of a casual request from work, I wrote a Python script.

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UE4 UI OPTIMIZATION GUIDES

A collection of websites that contains optimization guidelines and inspirations for Unreal Engine 4 UI performance.

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NOTES ON USABILITY ENGINEERING

Notes on Nielson’s Usability Engineering, including the definition of usability and usability trade-offs.

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EXTREME PROGRAMMING NOTES

XP Programming focuses on delivering business value in every iteration.

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PROGRAMMING LANGUAGUES STUDY NOTES

Notes I studied from before the PL final exam in Fall 2021.

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SPARK STREAMING OVERVIEW

A brief overview of Spark Streaming, an extension of the core Spark API.

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THOUGHTS ON MAPREDUCE

Overview and a bit of relection on the Google MapReduce paper.

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KANT'S CRITICISM OF THE FIRST PARALOGISM

Kant argues in the Transcendental Dialectic that the knowledge of the self as a substance as put forth by rationalists is in fact unreachable knowledge beyond human constitution.