CS371p Spring 2020: Rahul Ramaswamy

Week of 17 Feb — 23 Feb

What did you do this past week?

This past week I made progress on the Voting project with my partner. We have implemented a simple solution and are currently working on optimizing it. The project has been moving fairly smoothly and we haven’t had too many issues. Outside of this class, this week has been pretty busy since next week is the deadline for applying to the South Eastern Hedge Fund competition. This has taken up almost three hours every day this past week.

What’s in your way?

For the Voting project, my partner and I have run into one issue that is really confusing us. It seems as though we are getting some sort of race condition, even though we aren’t using threads. Sometimes it passes all of our tests, and sometimes it just hangs and crashes.

What will you do next week?

This week I have a midterm in Stochastic Processes. I am a little worried about this test since the material is pretty confusing. I plan on studying for this test as much as I can, so I can do well. Besides that, I just want to finish the Voting project soon and finish up my application for the hedge fund competition.

What was your experience of arrays and iterators? (this question will vary, week to week)

Learning about arrays was really interesting for me since I did not know a lot of the intricacies we went over in class. With Iterators I did not know much about them besides what I learned in CS 314 about implementing them for linked lists and such.

What made you happy this week?

This week I had an algorithms exam and I was really stressed before taking it. However, to my surprise, it was not as bad as I expected, so I was really happy about that.

What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?

My pick of the week is Quantconnect for those who are interested in algorithmic trading or finance at all. It is a great platform to write and backtest trading strategies using a plethora of financial data from over the past twenty or so years.