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Distributed Computing/Graduate School

What are good models and what models are good?

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Matt Chung

Schneider, F. B. (1993). What good are models and what models are good. Distributed Systems, 2, 17–26. Paper Summary In his seminal paper on models (as they app...

Distributed Computing/Graduate School

Distributed Computing – Lesson 1 Summary

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Matt Chung

Summary Distributed systems are everywhere: social media, internet of things, single server systems — all part of larger, distributed systems. But how do you de...

Career Growth/Featured/Graduate School/Parenting/Personal Development/Self-Improvement/Yearly Reviews

2020 year in review

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Matt Chung

Survival First things first: I’m grateful for surviving this difficult, weird and straight-up dystopian year. 2020 was the absolute worst; although the year wil...

Graduate School/Personal Development/Thinking out loud

Failure: I want more of it.

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Matt Chung

Students in the Georgia Tech program collaborate with one another — and collaborate with professors and teacher assistants — through a platform called Piazza. B...

Graduate School/Home Organization/Parenting/Weekly Reviews/Writing

Weekly Review – Week ending in 2020/11/01

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Matt Chung

No Halloween this year I used to love Halloween growing up, not so much the dressing up part but the knocking on doors and getting handed fist fulls of candy. N...

Graduate School

Five tips for surviving (or thriving) in the OMSCS program as a computer science graduate student

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Matt Chung

Overview In this post, I’m sharing five tips that I’ve picked up over the last 2 years in the program. At the time of this writing, I’m wrappi...

Algorithms/Daily Reviews/Data Structures/Graduate School/Mental Health/Writing

Finally clean air & Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/18

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Matt Chung

Hooray! Today is the first day in a couple weeks that air quality is considered good, at least according to the EPA. I’m so pleased and so grateful for cl...

Algorithms/Daily Reviews/Data Structures/Graduate School/Mental Health/Writing

On letting go & Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/17

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Matt Chung

With working remote and establishing a (somewhat) daily routine (that has become pretty monotonous), it’s sometimes easy to forget that we’re in the...

Advanced Operating Systems/Data Structures/Graduate School/Notes/Thinking out loud

Making sense of the “sense reversing barrier” (synchronization)

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Matt Chung

What’s the deal with a sense reversing barrier? Even after watching the lectures on the topic, I was still confused as to how a single flag could toggle b...

Algorithms/Daily Reviews/Data Structures/Graduate School/Mental Health/Writing

Crashing and burning during lunch & Daily Review – Day ending in 2020/09/16

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Matt Chung

I had mentioned yesterday that I slept horribly, waking up early and starting day off at around 03:45 AM. That wake up time was brutal and as a result, I crashe...

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