Computing Life

Answers common questions about obtaining a private pilot certificate, covering benefits, aircraft rental costs, training expenses, and time commitment for becoming a certified airplane pilot.

Key takeaways on choosing a life partner: understanding what makes a good marriage, watching for red flags and green flags, the 7 Cs to look for, and why observing behavior under pressure matters.

Build cheap compute clusters on AWS using spot instances: automated system configuration, sshfs file transfer, and GNU parallel for job distribution.

A practical guide to scraping photos from Facebook groups when Graph API doesn't expose the endpoint - using Chrome dev tools, curl with cookies, grep and awk to extract image URLs from rendered HTML.

Building a web interface for MATLAB using Node.js and Express, enabling file upload, real-time status updates, and result download—useful for collaborative research and distributed computing.