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About Me
I am Cole Arora, a student in the Pratt School of Engineering (obviously) with hopes of achieving a dual major in biomedical engineering and electrical/computer engineering, provided I don't crumble to pieces under the oppressive entity that is MATLAB.
Name Phonetic
Cole Arora = "Coal" "Ah-Roar-Ah"
Note: the pronunciation of my last name is analogous to that of Aurora in Aurora Borealis.
Interests
Coffee, the early morning, the positive feedback loop that accompanies getting work done.
Aside
I am always willing to consider the possibility that I am a fool.
What they say in Finland
"There's more than one way to roast a reindeer."
"Grand Challenges" article (Homework 1)
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/grand-plans-for-engineers/
This article, printed in the New York Times, discusses the Grand Challenges, with a slight focus on the exponential growth that the field of medicine will experience as it delves more into information technology.
A second article I found elaborates on these medical aspects - specifically, the Grand Challenge of "reverse-engineering" the brain (posted below). The article discusses how neuroscience and artificial intelligence are beginning to mix, and goes into detail on some current projects at MIT.
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17111
Matlab Demo Discussion (Homework 2)
The demo I found to be most interesting was the one titled "Inverses of Matrices" under the "Graphics" category. While not the most visually captivating of the demos, it highlighted how matrices can actually be visualized - something I had never thought of before. Seeing in color the differences between a matrix and its inverse, and then being able to see (pictorially) how the multiplication of the two can produce the graph of the identity matrix really served to strengthen my understanding of the concept. Additionally, the "2-D Plots" demo came in second for me, since it went through the exact steps necessary to produce a variety of different graph formats. The "2-D Plots" demo was such a nice repository of information that I will probably go back and refer to it when I do the 4th lab.
