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its currently 00:21 and i just remembered i forgot to post a scrap ~~(rip my streak~~:notcool:)(my streak did NOT die somehow). yesterday i: 1. met a prospective sponsor 2. did lots of physics work, this was super fun 3. finally got ahead enough in my robotics class so i dont need to worry ab it for the next 3 weeks 4. prepped for some work stuff i have tday 5. changed the name for the evoque ysws to evoke lol

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github.com/gusruben/fortune-phone is fully functional! not #C0M8PUPU6|ping it yet because I want to add support for twilio, and maybe a few more animations or easter eggs, but now it's completely ready to be used at events like club fairs! also, I need a better name for this project--if you can think of anything please let me know!

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Added functionality to view blogs. (Anything to avoid styling)

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No coding today but I just started using the pomodoro technique

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sprig! sprig! sprig! sprig!

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Brushing up on some reinforcement learning from mitpress.mit.edu/9780262039246/reinforcement-learning

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Learning some figma

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hiii 1 more launch! this one's the kicker, and I don't see any reason I can't share it with you guys! this summer, I built BioRSP (Biological Radar Scanning Plots)—an open-source tool that took a huge amount of time, effort, and dedication LOL I barely got sleep working BioRSP is designed to enhance the analysis of single-cell gene expression patterns by simulating radar-like scanning across cell clusters. It’s a major step forward in bioinformatics, particularly for those of us focused on spatial transcriptomics and understanding cellular heterogeneity. What does that mean? Imagine trying to figure out what’s going on at a massive concert. You can hear some people singing loudly, others talking quietly, and some areas where it’s just silent. But if you were up in the sky with a radar, you could scan the crowd from different angles and figure out exactly where the loudest singers are, where groups of people are talking, and where it’s completely quiet. In a similar way, BioRSP helps scientists "scan" groups of cells to find out which ones are "singing" (expressing genes) the loudest, which ones are "whispering," and which ones are silent. This tool is super important for discovering new insights about how cells work together in tissues, like in our hearts or brains. Basically, I wanted it to be a completely new way to visualize and analyze spatial gene expression patterns. Currently, prelim results show that it outperforms traditional methods, like Polar Gini Curves, in detecting subtle and significant spatial patterns. I've also successfully used in a case study involving neonatal mouse heart tissue :blahaj-heart: I'm incredibly proud of this project, and I’m excited to share it with y'all FINALLY see how it can help researchers - I also published this as an actual preprint (doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.25.599250) (yes yes actually im legit researcher now much wow) GitHub: github.com/alphamind-club/biorsp Arcade: hackclub.com/arcade/showcase/project/recsjvs3JgjIAlb7w (if u get my project, I rly hope you can vote for it LAWL I submitted 2 projects that I felt were the most meaningful and technically me-representing instead of 20 coughs)

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finished all the phone stuff with my fortune phone project! for now... (twilio support eventually maybe) trying to keep up my streak :) github.com/gusruben/fortune-phone (readme is finished now too, take a look!)

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Mostly backend changes for today but in the frontend side, now if you don't have any published articles, it will not show published:

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today i worked on : 1. USD-fying the counterspell budget 2. not-so-secret secret ysws stuff (evoque) 3. arranging meetings with sponsors (HEARD BACK FROM MICROSOFT FINALLY!!!) 4. maths :notcool: 5. speedrunning robotics since i couldnt get an extension when i'll be going for ascend

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Made a minimum viable prototype for a general problem solver chatbot

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Join me at GitHub Universe 24! www.githubuniverse.com

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Created custom wall mount for my skis, since all of the ones I could find didn't display the art on the top sheet. Available on thingiverse: www.thingiverse.com/thing:6811562

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Was able to get the IDE to connect to my programmer after some help from #C015HANFLE5| and someone at an open house. Thanks

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made a website that lowkey ate :P its not done yet.

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Made more progress on the fortune phone site! polished the UI a little & got started on the telnyx (twilio alternative) integration

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I have become a little less boring and indiepilled

did some stuff for an unofficial ysws (will show once i get home) at a halloween event rn!

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I just got my arduinos I bought for my science fair experiment!

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Added multitency to openpages. (kind of hacky rn) Example -> hi.openpages.us.kg

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Started working on the Slack app for #C07SS5ED09K| today and set up SMTP with Postmark. Hack Overflow (Can't sign up with OAuth yet, only Hack Club owned email domains are accepted for the time being) Slack App Repo

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learning pygame!

This morning I felt bad about skimping out on low skies & having a weak GitHub graph, so I made the plan to make a project every day for the next week. This evening, I realized that this is possibly the worst week I could have picked in at least the surrounding 3 months. I still managed to make some good progress on a fun little idea, so here it is: I was inspired by Club Fair Attention Monopoly to make Fortune Phone (better name pending): A little website for club fairs, where when you text the phone number on screen, the last four digits of your phone number appear along with an ominous fortune generated by AI. So far, I've written pretty much all of the UI, but I've been staring at the screen so long I can't tell if it looks good or not. I genuinely think I spent the most time just working on the 'crystal ball'. anyway, yap over, here's day #1 of 'work on literally anything' for a week straight. anyone else is welcome to join me

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made some few changes on my emu but nothing significant for now :noooo: i did however work on some stuff for a ysws :D

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I have become boring and indiepilled

very busy today with school and some robotics work but on the brightside no assignments tmrw :) tmrw i plan to continue my emulator :D (image of one of the robotics assignments i did today, its rlly weird but interesting working on non-robot js on DDE)

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Shipping from my laptop straight to Nest (after this, going to setup systemd service unit file first) before #C07PZMBUNDS| ends (please vote for me to get some :sky-scales:), it's @HackClubLeeks ! It's a Slack app companion for #C06089401GT| for data sleuths at Hack Club Slack with a review queue similar to how #CNMU9L92Q| work to avoid abuse and false flags for those who want to spot the leaks minus the copy-and-paste-da-permalink part. Don't worry, leeks flagged through the bot are anonymous but logged the user ID of the first person to flag for moderation purposes. Simply react with :leeks: or privately flag as leek via message actions on channels like #C05SVRTCDGV| and #C054QL5JHU0| (or even #C01FXNNF6F2| if you seriously want to FAFO with the FD). Found a bug or want to coordinate a patch/merge request or just want to help review the possible leeks in the queue? No problemo, hop into #C07T2EP4PLZ|. The source code is licensed under MPL-2.0 with the block builder library from Prox2 under MPL-2.0 AND AGPL-3.0 (apologies for SPDX-License-Identifier speak), and even has a GitHub mirror for Low Skies and visibility reasons.

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I made a calculator in rust* github.com/AdrianRang/RustCalculator

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After an <https://apocalypse.hackclub.com/|apocalypse> comes a revolution. :revolution-logo: Revolution is a hackathon in the UK taking place in summer 2025. Not a Hack Club event. I created the branding and the website!

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i finished the website for my spooky boba. i'll try to make some improvements sometime soon but i think i like it a decent amt now. today i also went to the office and also met a sponsor which went decently well! i worked on some more budget still and did a bunch of school assignments. i also had a meeting with my progress manager (that's my homeschool's fancy name for homeroom tr) to change my maths schedule and i rlly like my maths schedule now!

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Just finished my high school admissions interview! I showed them this website I made way back then:

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nearly done w my site for the spooky manor, i think i can finish it by tmrw, just need to add the links and prettification :D github.com/v1peridae/spooky-manor

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Switched text editors from novel.sh to yoopta.dev

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Didn't do anything today (other than getting rejected by a SMTP service)

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very small ai test with pytorch

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did lots of maths work tday and worked on my spooky manor site a little today, ive realised i feel more productive if i try to get the general idea functional first before adding all the other coolsies and making the format prettier github.com/v1peridae/spooky-manor :)

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Worked on a website for Minecraft YSWS! Really happy with how this turned out :D

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Working on an academic progress tracker in Grafana! It will (hopefully) eventually log my grades and show me how they change over time using a graph

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quick research update :) that's c. elegans' neural activity & neuron structure stitched together from a dispim microscope. then some slides i've made to explain stuff

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made a few posters (while procrastinating) for one of my fav bands: bleachers :) <3 -- long time no update, was just reminded of this sites existence again.

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Working on ez-pass.vercel.app for the #C07QBJ39HTP|!

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today's been pretty interesting: 1. I taught(?) someone how to do scene kid makeup & hair (the question mark is bc i mightve overloaded them w info lol) 2. I worked on part of the keyboard for the emulator 3. i also found out theres a rock climbing place 10 mins from me so im gonna check that out tday or tmrw

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I just launched on producthunt yesterday - producthunt.com/posts/snowseo

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Sign your name to register a secret passport

wow, been a while since I’ve scrapbooked, I should really get back into this! Today I finished the schematic and PCB for my #C07LESGH0B0| submission! This is my first time doing anything like this and it was pretty fun! Tomorrow I'll be working on the case and, if I finish that, the firmware!

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Day 3 Intership Topic : Sept Functions • Addtolist • Calculatearea • Greetpeople • Is in set GitHub repo: github.com/imDarshanGK/IT-Ignition-DevOps/tree/main/Day%203/Sept%20Functions #intership #devops #Python #GitHub

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Added like an orgs thing to OpenPages. github.com/satindar31/openpages.

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