diff --git a/blogContent/posts/other/2020-in-review.md b/blogContent/posts/other/2020-in-review.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea13208 --- /dev/null +++ b/blogContent/posts/other/2020-in-review.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +2020; this year will likely live in infamy due to covid. +Reflecting on this year compared to 2019 is very solemn. +Not necessarily because I didn't accomplish anything; I completed more this year than in 2019. +But, 2020 lacks so much travel and in-person events that frequently serve as the milestones for my year. + +In my 2019 post, I reflect on all the trips that I took, the hackathons I attended, and the places I gave presentations. +However, this year I feel like I can sum up everything I did in a single sentence. +I graduated from RIT after taking two consecutive semesters of 18 credit hours, I presented my first published paper at a virtual conference, and I started a full-time job as a software engineer. + +Although concise and to the point, this single sentence obviously can't sum up my entire year since it glosses over all the work I've done. +I must summarize 2020 by reflecting on what I've learned: both at school, at work, and in my free time. +This year, I have learned so much about artificial intelligence and data mining; it feels liberating. +Nevertheless, it is impracticable to share those feats since they are not singular events but innumerable hours of work. + +However, in this post, I can share some of the personal projects, blog posts, and photos that I cherish the most this year. + + +# Blog Posts + +This year I was amazed at how much I wrote for my blog-- writing a total of 34 blog posts! Going into 2021, I hope to write a blog post every other week. Below, I listed my top 7 favorite blog posts that I wrote in 2020. + +- [Segmenting Images with Quadtrees](https://jrtechs.net/photography/segmenting-images-with-quadtrees) +- [Parallel Java Performance Overview](https://jrtechs.net/java/parallel-java-performance-overview) +- [Node2vec with Steam Data](https://jrtechs.net/data-science/node2vec-with-steam-data) +- [Flirting with Burnout at RIT](https://jrtechs.net/other/flirting-with-burnout-at-rit) +- [Word Embeddings](https://jrtechs.net/data-science/word-embeddings) +- [Graphing my Life with Matplotlib](https://jrtechs.net/data-science/graphing-my-life-with-matplotlib) +- [Towards a new Hacker Ethic](https://jrtechs.net/open-source/towards-a-new-hacker-ethic) + + +# Photography + +Although I didn't travel a lot this year, I did manage to do a lot of photography. Below are my six favorite photos of 2020. + +![leaf with sunrise in background](media/2020-review/leaf.jpg) + +![Night photograph of a bus](media/2020-review/bus.jpg) + +![Person wrapped in Christmas lights](media/2020-review/christmas_lights.jpg) + +![Person running at park with sunset in background](media/2020-review/stranger.jpg) + +![image of a fence with the background blurred out](media/2020-review/power.jpg) + +![Rubber duck in puddle](media/2020-review/duck.jpg) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/bus.jpg b/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/bus.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c9ee47f Binary files /dev/null and b/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/bus.jpg differ diff --git a/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/christmas_lights.jpg b/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/christmas_lights.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e3f293 Binary files /dev/null and b/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/christmas_lights.jpg differ diff --git a/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/duck.jpg b/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/duck.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea71016 Binary files /dev/null and b/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/duck.jpg differ diff --git a/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/leaf.jpg b/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/leaf.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3de1a4a Binary files /dev/null and b/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/leaf.jpg differ diff --git a/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/power.jpg b/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/power.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..239458a Binary files /dev/null and b/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/power.jpg differ diff --git a/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/stranger.jpg b/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/stranger.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e30e47 Binary files /dev/null and b/blogContent/posts/other/media/2020-review/stranger.jpg differ