User:Ky52
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About Me
I am an international student from Japan. I have lived in three countries: USA (2 yrs), Japan (6 yrs), and Singapore (10 yrs). I am currently a first year undergraduate student at Duke University, under the Pratt School of Engineering.
Name Pronunciation
Kei is like the letter 'K', and Yoshikoshi is like 'Yoshi' from 'Mario-Kart' but saying almost the same thing twice.
Current Courses
For the first semester of my freshman year (Fall 2013), I am taking: EGR 103, Writing 101, Math 212, Chem 201L
Grand Challenges for Engineering Articles
Fusion Energy Quest Faces Boundaries of Budget, Science, Tim Folger, National Geographic, created 26 July 2013, accessed 13 September 2013
MATLAB Demonstrations
My favorite MATLAB Demonstration is the 'Game of Life', which involves live and dead cells in a two-dimensional universe. I found this interesting because although the concept of having live and dead cells sounds complicated, in MATLAB, this is quite easy; it is simply the value 0 for dead cells and 1 for live cells. As the information file of the 'Game of Life' suggests, the state of the cells depend solely on whether their eight neighbors are alive or not. After a while, the simulation ceases to change; the colonies flicker in place, but does not move locations. The demonstration is my favorite because it shows that even a simple code can create such a complicated-looking simulation.
