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Unfortunately this is not lung transplant news . I’m still waiting and haven’t received a call in about 8 months. I did want to announce however, that as of today I no longer work at NVIDIA! While I worked there I was pretty strict about what the extracurricular projects I engaged in and therefore put on my blog. Part of this was the amount of work I did, part of it was the golden…
Welcome all readers from the non-technical lines of sight post The past 6 months of almost every moment of my free time has been spent developing an algorithm with my friend Tom Buckley-Houston to exhaustively prove that we’ve found the longest line of sight in the world. We both felt it was very doable algorithmically, but current options looked extremely computationally intensive. Since…
One fateful day I was browsing a tech forum, lobste.rs , and stumbled upon a message that would captivate me for 6 months. My good friend Tom Buckley-Houston , posted in a “what are you working on this week” thread that he was working on algorithmically finding the longest line of sight in the world. In other words, how far from a (likely) very tall point can you see another (likely)…
Monday night at 4pm I was spending time with my girlfriend for the last few moments of her trip when I received a phone call from a “Private Number”. She was about to head to the airport when I got wide-eyed and said I needed to answer a call. I knew this was likely to be a call informing me that a pair of lungs had been found for me, and I was right. The Coordinator told me it…
Special thanks to @tombh for proofing this blog post! Edit 5/28: added a link to the repo and corrected the solver I used Did you know that LinkedIn has games? I sure as hell didn’t until my Dad showed me that they in fact have 5 (!) different games that you can play. One of them stood out to me as somewhat interesting, Queens: Solved Queens board
Hello! My name is Ryan Berger, I’m a 24-year-old software developer living in Seattle, WA. This is the first real post of my blog, and oh boy is it a doozy! To cut it short: in the coming months, I will be undergoing a bilateral lung transplant at the University of Washington. I have—since I was 13—known this was coming, but my lung function and blood tests show that I am not too far off…