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German Museum

I recently went on a trip to Germany and decided to visit the German Museum in Munich. Currently, the museum houses a variety of exhibits on robotics, cryptography, mathematics, physics, and more! The pictures above show two pieces I learned more about in the robotics and physics exhibits. The first picture shows a fin ray…
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First Glance “Under the Hood”: A Closer Look at Computer Hardware

One weekend, I was given an old MacBook Pro and an external hard drive that were supposed to get destroyed for data security reasons. I took this opportunity to not just make sure that the data is unrecoverable, but to look closer at the hardware. I could see and measure how components are put together…
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Stanford course: Introduction to Mathematical Thinking

I recently completed a course on Coursera called “Introduction to Mathematical Thinking”. The course is offered by Stanford and is taught by Dr. Keith Devlin. I enjoyed the course very much, and it gave me a good perspective on what it would be like to study mathematics. While the course was fun, it did consume…