Hakan Alpay — Blog

A mobile comparison of Yahoo Japan and Yahoo US, and what the evidence actually says about information density, visual complexity, and putting useful things above the fold.

A trading-agent experiment that started with FINSABER, wrapped ARIMA-style signals in Mercury 2, and ended with the analytical baseline winning.

Adjusting for population helps Japan a little.

Astro, Markdown, GitHub Pages, Cloudflare, and a publishing flow I can use from ChatGPT on my phone.

Give the model real context, generate less, and delete anything that explains what the reader can already see.

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is how in the early 2000s internet, people just posted what they wanted.

https://people.duke.edu/~dandan/webfiles/PapersUpside/Large%20Stakes%20Big%20Mistakes.pdf

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I’ve moved to NYC now from the bay area (and previously LA where I grew up) and talking with people here but especially back home who might be interested in urbanism reveals to me what i consider to be a slight misunderstanding of the…

Most of my theories I’ve arrived at alone, laying prostrate on my bed in my parent’s home, during summer in high school, in between bouts of biotech classes at Fullerton college or other extracurricular academic nonsense (not sure how…

kind of a weird question incoming

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Leetcode Link Problem Given an array rectangles where rectangles[i] = [x i , y i , a i , b i ] represents an axis aligned rectangle.

Leetcode Link Problem Design a simplified version of Twitter where users can post tweets, follow/unfollow another user, and is able to see the 10 most recent tweets in the user's news feed.

R18 = Rated 18 or older いらすと = illustration 垢 = アカウント but Japanese twitter people shorten it to 垢 because its あか and it saves a character.

Life has kind of entered a comfortable lull.

coding is like flying.

the thoughts come and come but they don’t go.

We all identify as… something.

I almost feel like I reference counter-strike too much as an influence in my life, but when you are locked in your room most of the time, save for school, math competitions, and science olympiad, you only have so many options.

how dreaming became my being

I was with a girl where the language of love between us was honest-to-goodness just English.

Many ask “Why am I here?”

But these days i don’t even have to snooze for me to lose

A two-line joke about pressure in the temples.

A sleepy cat says yo.

A conversation about fairness, equality, and the wording of the Constitution.

I spent a while writing this application and included some personal stuff so I thought I might as well make it a blog post as if I was being asked these questions in an interview lol.

So yeah its a little sad that its gonna be this empty for a while, but on the flip side, I’ve never gotten a photo of Royce with no people in it, so that’s nice 🙂

Counter strike is not a hero shooter, which means that all of the 5 players on your team have access to all the items in the game.

When people ask you to do something that you don’t want to do, or at least something that you lean towards not doing, or something that maybe you might want to do, but it would just give you stress to do (like start a startup), consider…

Rather than coding for a job, or worrying about getting users, or worrying about getting funding, or anything related to getting a startup off the ground.

This is a living document for my setups on my devices. my aero 14 gaming pc Mac I use a Mac for Unix compatibility + ease of use with various apps (e.g.

I learned about react hooks today, about a year late I know, and I got really excited.

Campus at dusk during midterms.

Umlaut = downward circumflex 你们都认识John吗？

I’m out a lot with family these last days of winter break.

Music for this post: superstar by bignic Aggressive people They come in all shapes and sizes.

First why blog at all?

I know grinding on the same project for a while can seem tiring but remember that people can’t see the unfinished projects you have, they can only see what you have finished.

hi uh It's been a rather long while since I wrote on this blog.

Microsoft: Implement a queue with two stacks with O(1) enqueue and O(1) dequeue.

I created a 10KB classless CSS framework Bahunya has responsive typography, navbar, syntax highlighting, and much more. https://kimeiga.github.io/bahunya/ Why I created Bahunya because I wanted a CSS framework that I…

Life is a Game Life has a series of innate game mechanics (like physics and human biology), and game mechanics created by its players (like international laws).

Either finish something as quickly as possible, or as completely as possible.

I know this has been said a thousand times but if you happen to be in a situation where you only have a low end laptop and you want to make a Vue app or code anything really, do give Vim a try.

Thinking a bunch can be useful when you need to come up with ideas or be creative in a short time frame.

I'm usually pretty critical of English.

I'm a computer science student I work on the computer every day, designing this Jekyll site or my portfolio, making an online fighting game or a multiplayer shooter, doing a hackathon project, etc.

This page exists just to say thank you to all the people whose work I've used and people who have supported me in life. 🙇‍ Thanks to Alexey Kryukov for designing Old Standard TT, the charming serif font that I use for…