When you join a company with legacy code, it’s easy to feel like you’ve stepped into a puzzle with half the pieces missing. At first, so much of it doesn’t make sense – strange design choices, outdated patterns, workarounds that […]
In my early days as a junior developer, I often felt the pressure to make my code perfect. I believed every line had to be flawless, and this focus sometimes left me feeling overwhelmed when my work didn’t meet my […]
It’s fall season – my favorite time of the year! And with that, comes something that most associate with this season: the smell of leaves. So I was thinking one day, there is a word to describe the smell of […]
Listening to my professor explain a concept using hill climbing for finding the maximum of a function in a regression problem, I realized the concept can be applied (philosophically) to life opportunities as well. Hill climbing, or gradient ascent, is […]