var store = [{
        "title": "January 2, 2021",
        "excerpt":"Writing What I did: Finished draft 1! It is… okay. Lots of run on sentences and needs editing.What comes next: Some serious editing. I’ve been lazy with editing in the past, but I think doing it for real is going to help me become a better writer. IllustrationsMusic What I...","categories": ["daily"],
        "tags": ["daily","learninpublic","journal"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/daily/2jan2021/"
      },{
        "title": "January 3, 2021",
        "excerpt":"Writing What I did: finished editing the post!What comes next: illustrations. There’s 5, and I think I can knock those out as soon as tomorrow. New post on Tuesday!What I struggled with: editing sucks when the raw material isn’t good. Here’s some ideas on making the raw material better: Trust...","categories": ["daily"],
        "tags": ["daily","learninpublic","journal"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/daily/3jan2021/"
      },{
        "title": "August 11, 2020",
        "excerpt":"What I did: Writing Published a new postMusic Recorded the instrumental section for a cover of “Somewhere Only We Know” by KeaneParth Saraswat · SOWK - instrumental climax Made good progress on a jingle I’m writing with a friend for a secret project!Technical Set up this Daily Dispatch page to...","categories": ["daily"],
        "tags": ["content","project","guide"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/daily/daily1/"
      },{
        "title": "August 12, 2020",
        "excerpt":"What I did: Writing Began writing the post for next week - it’s about my writing process!Music Recorded the vocals for my Somewhere Only We Know cover (I’m not a singer)Parth Saraswat · SOWK VocalTechnical Finally enabled sitewide commments using Disqus! The problem was with properly naming the site as...","categories": ["daily"],
        "tags": ["daily","learninpublic","journal"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/daily/daily2/"
      },{
        "title": "August 21, 2020",
        "excerpt":"Last week was full of moving and administration, but we’re back now! What I did: Writing Finished outlining a post about my writing processMusic Uploaded the final version of my Somewhere Only We Know cover!Technical Added a tag archive to the website. This should help separate posts by categories. :)What...","categories": ["daily"],
        "tags": ["daily","learninpublic","journal"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/daily/daily3/"
      },{
        "title": "August 22, 2020",
        "excerpt":"What I did: A bunch of admin work that was important, urgent, and mindnumbingly boring. Other exciting things: Writing Successful recording session on a secret project I’m working on with a friendOther Set up a Discord server I have big plans for. Exciting! I will open up the invite link...","categories": ["daily"],
        "tags": ["daily","learninpublic","journal"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/daily/daily4/"
      },{
        "title": "November 7, 2020",
        "excerpt":"Happy Saturday! Today I made a quick guitar chord progression and recorded random footage, put it together and called it a ‘project’. Here’s ‘Fall’, put together in 1 hour! Not all projects and compositions need to be long and well thought out. This was fun just because of how short...","categories": ["daily"],
        "tags": ["daily","learninpublic","journal"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/daily/daily5/"
      },{
        "title": "November 9, 2020",
        "excerpt":"What I did: Writing There are 2 posts scheduled to come out in the next 2 weeks. I spent some time thinknig about what each post was going to be. I had the idea in my head and a basic seed of the content, but today was about populating the...","categories": ["daily"],
        "tags": ["daily","learninpublic","journal"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/daily/daily6/"
      },{
        "title": "January 1, 2021",
        "excerpt":"Announcement! I just released a new podcast I have been working on with my friend! We are super excited about it, and you can find the first episode and trailer here! A good way to start the year. Writing What I did: Typed out the outline for the next post...","categories": ["daily"],
        "tags": ["daily","learninpublic","journal"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/daily/daily7/"
      },{
        "title": "August 23, 2020",
        "excerpt":"What I did: Logistics Sundays are for logistics. I redid my entire project management system and cleaned out some templates that help me with writing, music production and other projects. Discord I’m working on a Discord server that enhances how I interact with my friends and how I share and...","categories": ["daily"],
        "tags": ["daily","learninpublic","journal"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/daily/daily8/"
      },{
        "title": "August 24, 2020",
        "excerpt":"What I did: Writing Considering a series of posts along a similar theme. We shall see. Music Trying to learn a song by ear. Also really challenging vocals for me. I always start with a feel for how much I enjoy the song and then record bits and pieces on...","categories": ["daily"],
        "tags": ["daily","learninpublic","journal"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/daily/daily9/"
      },{
        "title": "Hello Website!",
        "excerpt":"Hey visitor! Thanks for visiting my website! This is my first post, and I want to outline what I’m trying to achieve with this website. As I get closer and closer to finishing up my Master’s degree, I want to ensure I keep learning new things and continue to keep...","categories": ["general"],
        "tags": [],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/general/2020/05/16/hello-world.html"
      },{
        "title": "Saying Goodbye To Cornell",
        "excerpt":"It’s safe to say that there has always been a gap between the person I am and the person I want to be. I believe most people feel this way too. I am at point A, and I want to be at point B. There have always been guidelines on...","categories": ["general"],
        "tags": ["thoughts","college","personal"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/general/2020/05/30/saying.html"
      },{
        "title": "Learn Something New Every Week",
        "excerpt":"Colleges and universities are great environments to learn new skills and techniques in. Course instructors prepare learning goals, concepts and projects such that students get to learn a lot of information and develop strong skills in a short period of time. I’ve had many friends tell me that constant learning...","categories": ["general"],
        "tags": ["content","project","guide"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/general/2020/06/06/lsnew.html"
      },{
        "title": "Getting Ready to Start a Career",
        "excerpt":"I recently graduated from a Master’s program. This signals the end of my formal education (for now?)! At this age, most of my friends are also finishing up college and getting ready to enter the workforce. Given this trend of transitioning from formal education into beginning our careers, most of...","categories": ["general"],
        "tags": ["career","blog","thoughts"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/general/2020/07/01/career.html"
      },{
        "title": "What do I do With My Life?",
        "excerpt":"One of the most common problems I have seen college students face is the anxiety and fear that comes with not knowing what it is that they want to do with their lives. For some reason, we are expected to know exactly what we want to do with our lives...","categories": ["general"],
        "tags": ["career","blog","thoughts","college"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/general/2020/08/11/what-do-i-do.html"
      },{
        "title": "My Writing Process",
        "excerpt":"Writing blog posts / YouTube videos / anything creative can be a frustrating process. There is a lot of friction which can cause severe discouragement which leads to people stopping (trust me, I gave up doing YouTube videos because I just didn’t have a fun time making them anymore —...","categories": ["general"],
        "tags": ["writing","guide","so you want to"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/general/2020/08/27/writing-process.html"
      },{
        "title": "The Best Way to Keep in Touch (Digitally)",
        "excerpt":"Do I even need to mention why keeping in touch digitally is more important than ever today? With people moving across globes for education and work, being good at keeping in touch has been important even before the pandemic. There is a running joke among my friends about my ineptitude...","categories": ["general"],
        "tags": ["guide"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/general/2020/09/23/discord.html"
      },{
        "title": "Applying to Grad Schools in The US: a primer",
        "excerpt":"Applying to the US for a Master’s degree in a STEM major can be daunting. It isn’t that there is a lack of information, but the opposite. The internet is flooded with information about this - all of which seems relevant. The process can be overwhelming and stressful. This post...","categories": ["general"],
        "tags": ["guide","so you want to"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/general/2020/10/23/masters.html"
      },{
        "title": "Contextual Book Recommendations 2020",
        "excerpt":"Most book recommendations are along the lines of ‘If you liked (book 1), you will like (book 2)’ or ‘this was a very well written book’. This is a perfectly good way to recommend books, but I also think the books people enjoy reading depends on what sort of mood/state...","categories": ["general"],
        "tags": [],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/general/2020/11/01/bookrecs.html"
      },{
        "title": "How to Approach Side Projects",
        "excerpt":"Almost everyone has great ideas for side projects. Over the past 3-4 years, I have had numerous good ideas, but have only started on a fraction of them, finished even fewer, and been happy with maybe 1 or 2 out of 20. This post is an attempt at crystallizing what...","categories": ["general"],
        "tags": ["guide","thoughts"],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/general/2020/11/13/side-proj.html"
      },{
        "title": "Branch Predictor FL models",
        "excerpt":"In computer architecture, a branch predictor is a digital circuit that tries to guess which way a branch (e.g. an if–then–else structure) will go before this is known definitively. The purpose of the branch predictor is to improve the flow in the instruction pipeline. Branch predictors play a critical role...","categories": [],
        "tags": [],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/projects/branch-pred-fl/"
      },{
        "title": "Object Oriented MNIST Classifier in C++",
        "excerpt":"In this project, I implemented, tested, and evaluated a system capable of classifying MNIST images using thoroughly unit-tested data structures and algorithms in C++. I implemented templated List, Vector, Tree, and Table data structures to store and process information. I also wrote directed and random unit-tests for each of the...","categories": [],
        "tags": [],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/projects/mnist-c/"
      },{
        "title": "Medium Grain Sorting Accelerator",
        "excerpt":"In this project, we worked to implement a medium-grain hardware accelerator for sorting a variable length integer array. The baseline design consists of a pure-software sorting microbenchmark, in which a quicksort algorithm is implemented. This program is run on a pipelined processor with its own instruction and data cache. The...","categories": [],
        "tags": [],
        "url": "http://localhost:4000/projects/sorting-accelerator/"
      }]
