Little Coding Corner

Hi, I'm Jasmine! I'll be graduating Spring 2018 at the University of Washington with a degree in Computer Science

[madewithcode]

True friends are there from <h1> to <h6>. 👩🏿‍💻👩🏽‍💻👩🏻‍💻 So excited for National Women’s Friendship Day this weekend.

— 📸 Our Binary Life (two software engineers in Seattle)

[mathprofessorquotes]

I should be teaching you about sets today, but honestly, you all know how to Google. If you have any questions on the homework, Google it.

Discrete Structures professor, on showing the class complicated proofs instead of teaching about sets

[song-of-the-spheres]

DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR

You know what’s awesome?  Research.  You know what’s not awesome?  Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.

FEAR NOT.

Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects.  Feel free to add if you like!

GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.

Directory of Open Access Journals- A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.

Directory of Open Access Books- Like the above, but for ebooks.  Also multidisciplinary.

Ubiquity Press- Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more.  Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.

Europeana-  Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.

Digital Public Library of America- American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.

Internet Archive- In addition to books, they have music and videos, too.  Free!  And legal!  They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.

College and Research Libraries- Library science and information studies.  Because that’s what I do.

Library of Congress Digital Collections- American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.

LSE Digital Library- London history, women’s history.

Wiley Open Access- Science things!  Neurology, medicine, chemistry, ecology, engineering, food science, biology, psychology, veterinary medicine.

SpringerOpen-  Mainly STEM journals, looooong list.

Elsevier Open Access-  Elsevier’s kind of the devil but you might as well take advantage of this.  Mainly STEM, also a linguistics journal and a medical journal in Spanish.

[mindful-minds]

[gracespdf]

{sunday, 9.16.18} my handwriting is going through some changes at the moment… 

[gracespdf]

loving this red theme for september ♡ 

- ipad pro 10.5″ and apple pencil. app is goodnotes x

[gracespdf]

last digital spread of august! would you ever consider going digital? 

i love it!

to get my washi tape/to do list digital stickers visit my etsy shop here ♡ 

[gracespdf]

back to taking notes on my professors’ slides - i usually type my notes during lectures for my information heavy classes and then transfer them later when I have time to really sit and then I write the important information down! ♡ 

[falastinniya]

you’ve gotta stat romanticizing your life. you gotta start believing that your morning commute is cute and fun, that every cup of coffee is the best you’ve ever had, that even the smallest and most mundane things are exciting and new. you have to, because that’s when you start truly living. that’s when you look forward to every day. 

[veterki]

this is the worst thing ive ever made, tired software engineer moodboard

[derrickcodes]

Math and Me

As a mathematics tutor, I often come across the question “What has math ever done for me?” Well, a lot, actually. For example, your phone does calculus every time you make a call.

For your phone to make a call, your cell phone transmits small amounts of electromagnetic signals via radio waves either to a cell tower for short-distance calls or a satellite for international calls which then gets sent to the receiver in the other person’s device. In order for this to happen, your voice needs to be transformed into an audio signal. When you speak, sound waves are produced. Unfortunately, those sound waves are not something a computer knows how to handle. Fortunately, a French mathematician by the name of Joseph Fourier gave the world a theorem that would help us do just that back in the early 1800s. His theorem, known as the Fourier theorem, states that any wavelike function can be represented as the sum of simple sine waves, and it is the key to taking the waveform signal that is our voice and transforming it into a digitized signal that can be handled by a computer.

Keep reading

[readmyquiet]

The 11:59 pm deadline ain't no joke in college.

[nubiana-americana-deactivated20]

listen to me. look me in the eyes. that blackboard link will close on your procrastinating ass

[medmood]

Tuesday, 9:52 am

Hope everyone enjoyed their summer break! Hard to believe that it’s September already.

I’m moving on from neurology to psychiatry this module. Still haven’t finished those neurology notes though 😅 But I did rearrange my desk (somewhat). Hopefully this notice board and calender will help me stay a bit more on top of things.

Thank you to everyone who has messaged me, I appreciate you for taking the time 😊

[terpsikeraunos]

the main piece of advice i have for students is this: learn how to fail and persevere. it is a skill that will help you in life far more than perfect grades. think of failure impersonally. when you fail, you have just eliminated one method that doesn’t work for you, so you need to try a different method in the future. figure out which factors contributed to the undesirable result, and change them. (teachers, advisors, and academic counselors can help you with this if you aren’t sure where to start). i know from personal experience that fear of failure is often a self-fulfilling prophecy, because it leads to self-sabotage. if you can learn not to think of it as an inherent personal flaw, but rather as a strategy that didn’t work for you and can be changed, you will be well-equipped to face the inevitable failures and rejections that are part of life.

[kingjaffejoffer]

Now that I’ve been directly involved in the hiring process at two tech companies, I can confirm you should definitely ignore the “must have 73 years of BlahBlah experience” in job postings you see online.

A lot of shit is put into that description arbitrarily.

Your interviewer will reveal what they really want from you, just follow what they inquire about and tell them what you think they want to hear.

[kingjaffejoffer]

And let me clarify this in case someone decides to be extra af and take my words out of context.

Don’t apply for a Director level job if you fresh out of college. Be realistic. 

I’m just saying, if you do have experience but you don’t exactly meet the requirements, pull up from 30 and try it anyway. 

[onclickonload]

[xenlith]

As a coder this frightens me so and also is a good reminder on why you need to add notes on what each part does

[ohrabrivanje]