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| Backing up your data is easily done with the use of a traditional hard drive |
Monday, February 24, 2020
Tech Tip: Backing up data
Over the past week, I attempted to undervolt the processor in my laptop. In turn, this gives better battery life and reduces the overall heat in the laptop. However, I ended up going too far and corrupted the data on my laptop. What a shame. The tech tip that I have for this week is backing up your data. There's many of programs on the market that make backing up data incredibly simple and easy. For my own use, I am using "Macrium Reflect Free", but any backup programs are sure to be useful. Just a quick side note: if you're running your PC using a traditional hard drive instead of an SSD, that is your greatest bottleneck. SSD's are much faster than traditional hard drives in terms of speed. However, SSD's are more volatile and have a lower lifespan than traditional hard drives, although they're still pretty safe to use. In my opinion, when using an SSD for your computer, it's a really good idea to run a backup schedule that backs up your data to a traditional hard drive. This setup combines the speed of an SSD along with the reliability of a traditional hard drive.
Monday, February 17, 2020
Tech Tip: Online Typing Test
I would say that I'm a pretty proficient typer. While KeyHero is the typing test that is being outlined in the tech tip on the course page, I'm a big fan of typeracer. There's not much different between different online typing tests in my honest opinion. However, typeracer lets me compete with other people in my typing. There's just something about competition to me that really appeals to me. You can even share links to your friends and race in real time. But I've been typing for most of my life, so it's always fun to compare myself with others. I also have a $100 keyboard for "the feels". It's much more comfortable than many other keyboards. There's actually a large enthusiast community behind mechanical keyboards. $100 is on the cheaper end. Some of the keyboards can be as much as $1000. I would definitely agree with the sentiment that a better keyboard can make you a more efficient typer. So if you type a lot for school or work, just know that there's a market out there for nicer keyboards. On a sidenote, I've actually also built a keyboard from scratch using a microcontroller, diodes, switches, and wires, which was really fun to do.
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| The IBM Model M keyboard. Regarded as the "holy grail" of keyboards due to its build quality and tactile feel |
Monday, February 10, 2020
Monday, February 3, 2020
Feedback Strategies
Why Do So Many Managers Avoid Giving Praise?:
The statistics of the article are interesting. I think it's strange that managers who believe that they have good feedback are usually the ones with negative feedback. It's kind of like a loop. Generally, managers are the leaders over their employees. One of their main jobs is to give feedback to their subordinates. But it's interesting that for a manager to give good feedback, that they also need to receive feedback from their employees. Without feedback from employees, they have almost zero clue whether or not their feedback is even helpful or not.
The Trouble with “Amazing”:
I can agree with the reasoning for the dislike of the word "amazing". For me personally, I correlate the word "amazing" sometimes with sarcasm. In my opinion, the word "amazing" is used usually in only two ways: sarcasm and pure awe. Both of which don't contribute much to anything. Sarcasm is just in bad taste. Pure awe sends off the message that "nothing needs to change". In both cases, there is no feedback that aims to improve the work of the other person.
The statistics of the article are interesting. I think it's strange that managers who believe that they have good feedback are usually the ones with negative feedback. It's kind of like a loop. Generally, managers are the leaders over their employees. One of their main jobs is to give feedback to their subordinates. But it's interesting that for a manager to give good feedback, that they also need to receive feedback from their employees. Without feedback from employees, they have almost zero clue whether or not their feedback is even helpful or not.
The Trouble with “Amazing”:
I can agree with the reasoning for the dislike of the word "amazing". For me personally, I correlate the word "amazing" sometimes with sarcasm. In my opinion, the word "amazing" is used usually in only two ways: sarcasm and pure awe. Both of which don't contribute much to anything. Sarcasm is just in bad taste. Pure awe sends off the message that "nothing needs to change". In both cases, there is no feedback that aims to improve the work of the other person.
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| Similarly to the manager-employee example, feedback should also be a loop. |
Topic Brainstorm
The Gods / Devas: Overview article of Vishnu's avatars
This topic is interesting because it's a big general topic. Rather than focusing on and limiting myself on just one topic, I can go over a big variety. I don't have too much prior information on the topic. A couple ideas would be to either do a story involving many different deities from the culture or even focusing on Vishnu and his avatars.
Supernatural Characters of the Ramayana: Ramayana PDE
I think that this topic would be good because we're already reading the Ramayana and I can just do a more "focused" viewpoint from a project. I've read part of the Ramayana, and it seems like it'd be possible to do a project over a selection of the characters and have them intertwined in a different story.
The Ramayana Told Your Way: Ramayana PDE
This topic is interesting similarly to how the "Supernatural Characters" topic would be interesting. The difference, however, is that the previous topic would be more focused on the characters (writing a story with the characters as a base). This topic would be more focused on having the Ramayana stories told in a different perspective, perhaps with different characters involved in the Ramayana story.
Creation Stories: Samudra Manthan
Creation stories are always interesting, I feel, because there's always a similarity between different cultures. Reading about the Samudra Manthan, there is comparative mythology with it. So there's a possibility to have a project that plays off of that idea where, for example, you could have a combination of the different stories into a compilation story.
This topic is interesting because it's a big general topic. Rather than focusing on and limiting myself on just one topic, I can go over a big variety. I don't have too much prior information on the topic. A couple ideas would be to either do a story involving many different deities from the culture or even focusing on Vishnu and his avatars.
Supernatural Characters of the Ramayana: Ramayana PDE
I think that this topic would be good because we're already reading the Ramayana and I can just do a more "focused" viewpoint from a project. I've read part of the Ramayana, and it seems like it'd be possible to do a project over a selection of the characters and have them intertwined in a different story.
The Ramayana Told Your Way: Ramayana PDE
This topic is interesting similarly to how the "Supernatural Characters" topic would be interesting. The difference, however, is that the previous topic would be more focused on the characters (writing a story with the characters as a base). This topic would be more focused on having the Ramayana stories told in a different perspective, perhaps with different characters involved in the Ramayana story.
Creation Stories: Samudra Manthan
Creation stories are always interesting, I feel, because there's always a similarity between different cultures. Reading about the Samudra Manthan, there is comparative mythology with it. So there's a possibility to have a project that plays off of that idea where, for example, you could have a combination of the different stories into a compilation story.
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| Artwork depicting the creation story, Samudra Manthan |
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