CS373 Spring 2020: Yichen Zhang
1. What did you do this past week?
For almost the whole Saturday and Sunday, I studied for a maths exam on Monday. I was pretty chill because it wasn’t a difficult exam. After that, I looked deeper into Docker, went through a couple of tutorials I found and played with a few toy examples. I think getting familiar with Docker will benefit the SWE project for phase II. For the rest of the week, I have been working on a Computer Vision programming assignment, which asks us to implement Hough Transform, RANSAC circle detections, and image segmentation with k-means. These are cool ideas people come up with, and I am pretty amazed with how accurately these algorithms can find circles in an image while being simple to implement.
2. What’s in your way?
I need more energy and time. I have three projects going on and three exams this coming week. I have to plan out my schedule and make the most out of my time.
3. What will you do next week?
Today is Friday. I will try to finish my Computer Vision assignment tonight. Starting from tomorrow, I will spend a large amount of time studying for the CV and SWE exam. Later, I will get a head start on my Cloud Computing project.
4. What was your experience of =, *, **, and decorators? (this question will vary, week to week)
Honestly, no experience with decorators or *, **. =, which allows for passing by name, does not seem to be very useful to me, because I am used to defining functions that take parameters by position in Java. Decorators introduced this morning were a little bit confusing. I was kind of lost in the middle. I will definitely look more into decorators this weekend.
5. What made you happy this week?
Getting more familiar with Docker and Kubernetes made me happy. Making sense of CV algorithms made me happy. Hanging out with my girlfriend made me happy.
6. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
Kubernetes is very important. With Kubernetes, we can run multiple containers on public cloud environments. Basically, Kubernetes helps manage containers for an application. It has a fancy term, container orchestration.
