User:Cynthia.b.94
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Welcome to the most fabulous Pundit page ever!
My name is Cynthia Bai. (Bai like bye, not bay) I've always wanted a Wikipedia page about me, but I suppose this is the closest I will ever get.
10 Things You Should Know About Me
- I am from Delaware, and we have no sales tax. I miss home already.
- I have never read Harry Potter, but no worries, it's on my bucket list.
- For my senior research project, I wrote a fifteen paged paper and gave a seven minute presentation on the history of bananas.
- I absolutely detest drivers who don't use turn signals.
- Mountain Dew is the best soda.
- I am 1/16 Russian.
- Even though I'm on the path to become an engineer, I secretly want to go to culinary school and work as a chef in Italy.
- Eat. Sleep. Laugh. Repeat.
- I would give up anything to meet Ellen DeGeneres.
- I have never been to Europe, but being at Duke is the best alternative because I can still meet guys with British accents.
Grand Challenges for Engineering Article
One of the goals in the Grand Challenges for Engineering deals with solar energy, more specifically how to economically create and utilize it. The following article talks about one company and its switch to solar energy:
- PG&E to tap into solar projects, Los Angeles Times, updated 15 August 2008, accessed 8 September 2012
MATLAB Demonstrations
First off, I would like to point out that by "demos," I was expecting nice, easy-to-watch 3-5 minute videos about MATLAB. I was quite disappointed when I realized I had to actually read it. However, there was a demo called Inverses of Matrices that I did not mind reading, and in fact, quite thoroughly enjoyed reading. The demo showed maxtrices as visual images with color by using the commands 'imagesc' and 'colormap'. Who knew that numbers had color?
As if that wasn't enough, the demo proceeded to calculate the inverse matrix in the same format, multiply the two matrices together, and viola! the identity matrix IN COLORED IMAGE FORM. You could literally see the diagonal line that is characteristic of identity matrices. Needless to say, my mind was blown.
