Hazel Duvall's Blog

Recently, with the extra free time provided by being off the internship & not allowed to exercise, I resumed my quest to sign into unix.andrew.cmu.edu without needing to enter my password every time.

So as I mentioned two posts ago, I had a pacemaker put in.

This is sort of a tradition how: I get more free time, decide to work on my blog, and instead of actually writing posts I work on the backend and don’t actually post about it until I’m done, at which point I’ve started to run out of free time.

Recently, I was admitted to the hospital because I felt my heart start to beat wrong, and it turns out I was right: a combination of skipped beats and lowering heart rate led to low blood pressure and led to me almost fainting while still lying down (in t…

I think I’ve mentioned this in a previous blog, but ya I have summer internship at Facebook.

2023 Update: This Site Is No Longer Online rest of post preseved for posterity :) I’d like to formally announce that my fork of ret2jazzy’s disasm.pro is back up and being hosted on AWS Lambda!

For the past couple of days, I have been searching for off-campus housing.

Can’t believe the day has finally come!

Wow that was fast!

The scene: someone in the CMU Discord, #scs channel, posted a link to a fairly cool article about a misuse of algorithmic complexity in social sciences.

I ran my first sub-6 mile today, a 5:59!

At 4:32PM today, it was 3/14 15:92, which is approximately π\piπ.

Alright, so this is a bit silly, but it’s one of those things I think about often enough that I’m writing about here lol.

As a college student with ample amounts of free time, I have taken up cooking as a semi-hobby to pass the time and remind me of home.

So, it happened.

All in all, not too bad of a week at all!

Wow I can’t believe winter break is over!

Near the beginning of winter break, I had an idea to contribute an implementation to ONNX, Microsoft’s Open Source neural network accelerator.

The slow burn project I mentioned earlier has concluded for now at least.

Recently, I had the idea to look through some old AP Literature writing I did.

One project that’s been on slow burn throughout this winter break has been an attempt to get a Live2D Cubism avatar animated using OpenCV facial detection routines.

What am I going to do with myself?

Thanksgiving break, woo!

[insert joke about japanese “three faces” or native american “two wolves” idk] So do I have two faces?

Hi.

Title says it.

TL;DR - So among other things, I am participating in a very strange Artober challenge titled “Cringetober” and I have not posted for a while mainly due to an overwhelming amount of homework and other responsibilities.

So much for “daily” thoughts amirite?

So one reason I’ve not updated this blog in a while has been school.

“I feel sad, so I will resolve a 60-file merge conflict in OpenAFS.

Going to out and say it: I don’t like the current state of America.

A summary: the paper in question talks about the theory of programming, what causes programs to become “complex” and hard to maintain, and proposes solutions towards that end.

Here’s a videogame I’ve been playing a lot recently: Skullgirls (warning: some of the characters have… questionable clothing, so only click the link if you are not at work).

So, as you may know from the about page, I am starting my sophomore year at Carnegie Mellon University this fall.

After writing the code for my previous blog post, today I put it into a separate Haskell package so my code doesn’t smell too bad anymore.

In case you are one of the few people who know about this blog, you might have noticed that I changed from titles of posts as the HTML filenames to just the “post ID” as the filename.

Wow that was rough.

Wow the blog sure looks snazzy now!

Hi!

I was lucky enough that my summer internship let me work remote.

Like look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value#Calculation Literally just “plug your data into a formula and get out a p” how crazy is that?

Wow, a lot sure has happened since I went to college and stopped updating this blog!

Hey so sorry I haven’t posted lately.

“Guess this is the last time I’ll see you for a while, huh?”

Uh, it’s super hard and I failed in the 2 hours I gave myself.

So here’s an excercise for you reader: picture a cube with a face flat towards you.

Me and Pokémon, like any child of my generation, or the previous, go waaaay back.

So one reason I haven’t been posting as often is that I’ve kinda fallen out of the routine of it.

It was actually easier than I thought.