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Month: June 2016

Modding Command & Conquer: Generals on OSX

Tim June 17, 2016 Gaming, Tech, Tutorial 4 Comments
Modding Command & Conquer: Generals on OSX

Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy game released in 2003 on Windows. I remember playing the game at 1/6 speed on my father’s original-model Dell Inspiron laptop, never winning a match until I repurchased the game in a bundle

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Measuring Rap Lyric Clarity Part 1

Tim June 17, 2016 Hip hop, Tech No Comments
Measuring Rap Lyric Clarity Part 1

I love rap music. Chances are, you do too. With the popularization of Genius, we now have a crowdsourced library of not only song lyrics, but also the meaning behind those lyrics sometimes provided by the artists themselves. This is

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Re: Please don’t learn to code

Tim June 16, 2016 Essay, Tech No Comments
Re: Please don’t learn to code

About a month ago, a TechCrunch contributor named Basel Farag published an article titled Please don’t learn to code. In it, he criticizes the “Learn to Code” movement, or, broadly, the idea pulsating through society that everybody should learn how to

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An Optimal Runescape Staking Build

Tim June 9, 2016 Gaming, Tech 9 Comments
An Optimal Runescape Staking Build

September 2018 Update: Staking has changed significantly due to recent game updates. I wrote a follow-up article covering that. I will leave this unedited, though I have come to suspect I made an error in my calculations and also dislike the verbosity. If

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A Hackathon Sponsor’s Duty

Tim June 8, 2016 Tech No Comments
A Hackathon Sponsor’s Duty

Update: After first publishing this post in June, the student director of LehighHacks reached out almost immediately with his side of the story. Though my team was frustrated by Well’s Fargo’s apparent Houdini act, it turns out that the hackathon

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Can Entrepreneurship be Taught?

Tim June 4, 2016 Entrepreneurship, Essay No Comments
Can Entrepreneurship be Taught?

While a sophomore at Lehigh, I noticed a massive increase in interest in the school’s entrepreneurship classes. Offered through the Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Lehigh’s ever-expanding roster of experiential and classroom engagement courses is offered to students from all three colleges: Engineering, Business,

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Buying Twitter Followers

Tim June 1, 2016 Essay, Social Media, Soft Skills No Comments
Buying Twitter Followers

I used to be really into Twitter. Up until the end of my sophomore year of college, which was not as long ago as I’d like to believe, I was tweeting regularly. Today, aside from the accessibility of popular users and the

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My Most Recent Books

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
liked it
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
by William Poundstone
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
by Antony C. Sutton
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
it was ok
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
by Emanuel Derman
Slaughterhouse-Five
it was amazing
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
liked it
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by Benjamin Wallace
Pulphead
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Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
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The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
by Taylor Larimore

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