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  • Gardening 2025

    Gardening 2025

    It was pretty fun gardening this year. Take a look at how some of my vegetables turned out. The weather was nice enough for a small photo shoot. πŸ˜„πŸ…πŸŒ±

  • MBA student reflection – August 12, 2025

    MBA student reflection – August 12, 2025

    MBA Student Random Thoughts I recently finished my last class in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign MBA program. It feels great to accomplish this feat. I graduated with a 3.92 out of a 4.0 GPA. I feel quite accomplished. Previous to this MBA program, I graduated from University of Florida in 2014 with a bachelor’s
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  • MBA student reflection – July 22, 2025

    MBA student reflection – July 22, 2025

    Website Performance Review I wanted to test how ehackz.com was performing compared to comparable websites. I looked at the load speed performance test on PageSpeed insights. Please take a look at how the performance test did. ehackz.com foxnews.com It seems like the performance of my ehackz.com is pretty good but it is not perfect. One
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  • MBA student reflection – July 21, 2025

    MBA student reflection – July 21, 2025

    Robotics Conferences: RoboCup 2025 Salvador What do you think of robots? This was a pretty interesting conference that happened this past week: RoboCup 2025 Salvador. This is the video recording of the events that happened this week: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2517563463?filter=all&sort=time. Please take a look. I personally think that robotics is still in its infancy. I feel like
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  • MBA student reflection – June 27, 2025

    MBA student reflection – June 27, 2025

    I am about half way through my last class at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The class is called Operations Management. It has been a pretty exciting 3 years in this online MBA program. As I start applying to jobs that require skills of my education background, I am also exploring further education and training. Three
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  • MBA student reflection – May 14, 2025

    MBA student reflection – May 14, 2025

    I’m coming to the end of my MBA program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It has been a pretty good experience so far. It has taken me about 3 years to complete the coursework in this MBA program. I just have 1 more class and the program capstone before I graduate. I am learning
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  • How to jump in a 2d Unity Game

    How to jump in a 2d Unity Game

    If you are making a 2d unity project, whether it be a platformer or another type of game, jumping is a common mechanism. Lets start by creating an empty C# class called PlayerJump. In this C# class, lets first grab the rigid body which allows our character to move around. Also, lets create a jumpSpeed
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  • How is Coding Used in Data Science & Analytics

    How is Coding Used in Data Science & Analytics

    How is Coding Used in Data Science & Analytics What is Data Science? In recent years the phrase β€œdata science” has become a buzzword in the tech industry. The demand for data scientists has surged since the late 1990s, presenting new job opportunities and research areas for computer scientists. Before we delve into the computer
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  • Unity click to move with navmesh and navmesh agent

    Unity click to move with navmesh and navmesh agent

    If you’ve played any classic rpg where the character moves around the level by click on the ground to navigate to that location, then you are in for a treat. In this blog post, I’ll give you an example of how implement this functionality in Unity using navmesh agents. Let’s take a look at this
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  • Unity lifecycle callback functions

    Unity lifecycle callback functions

    If you create a unity project, you will most likely create a class that inherits from MonoBehaviour. I’ll talk a bit about some of the most important MonoBehaviour methods since they will be driving a majority of game functionalities. The most important methods will be: Start, Update, Awake and LateUpdate. You won’t need to use
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