College AI - Part 1 - Scraping Scandals

Chapter 0 - I’m Tired Boss

Inordinate amount of boredom fell upon me, after getting tired of the usual routine of going through multiple pages just to check my cafeteria menu, I decided to do the most convenient thing. Create a chatbot that can scrape the online menu data and provide an instant answer to whether or not they have sweet potato fries! How does one go about this journey? Well your enlightenment begins my dear padawan and soon you can scrape and create your own college cafeteria answering chatbot so all your friends (now existent) think you’re cool!

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Optimized Real Time N-Body Simulation - Part 1 Brute Force Method

N-body Shenanigans (Writing In Progress)

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We’ve all seen those cool simulations colliding or a black hole sucking everything up. I find them pretty cool to look at. Wondering how every particle gets simulated made me even more interested and also broke my brain. Eager to satisfy this curiosity and not let my brain cells die in vain, I put myself through the long, arduous journey of trying to make my own. Of course the fruits of this quest blessed the world with the fantastically written (you have been warned) N-body simulation optimized with parallelized quad-tree constructions using morton order sorting capable of running 200,000 independent particles in real-time!

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About Page

Who am I?

Hola, my name is Nick, a 20 year old student from Ghana studying in the state of Washington! I started this blog to document my programming journey, fun little side projects I make along the way, and whatever interesting stuff happens in my life, which you can find in the French Blog section (mon français est un peu rudimentaire. Soyez gentil ,svp, les francophones. :)).

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