Ok, Regex, You Win!

Regular Expression or Regex is used in programming to indicate patterns in strings (of characters). My most frequent encounters with Regex are when I’m parsing a string in Java and I call the split() function. When Regex has been useful: Let’s say I wanted to count how many times all the words in the Bible occur. … Continue reading →

Studying Computer Science Taught Me How to Understand Myself

After years of working on a PhD, I’ve realized that my real motivation to go into Computer Science was to understand myself. As a child, I always struggled to answer the question, “how are you?” There was no quick way to capture how I was. Things seemed more black and white for other people than … Continue reading →