I’m Cole Kurashige[1]. I’m a PhD student in UCSD’s Programming Systems group. I started Fall 2022. I graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 2020 and worked for Okta, Inc. in the years between undergraduate and graduate school. Every few years I remember I have a website and poke it, so don’t expect this to be the most up-to-date information on me. Interests (in no particular order) Music Writing Puzzles The programming languages Haskell, J, and ><> Code Golf and Coding Challenges Uncon...| www.cole-k.com
Original post (dated 07-13-2019) Like many people with a website, I am wont to forget that I have one most of the time. Well, I recently remembered. And this time, I have actually done things with this knowledge. I’ve gone and cleaned up my handling of the Project Euler posts, which I had hurriedly taken down when I learned of a change in policy. I also removed some hidden posts that were no longer needed and updated the tagline to be more pithy.| www.cole-k.com
Thought-provoking puzzles| www.cole-k.com
Project Euler solutions in J. These have been removed due to changes in Project Euler's policies.| www.cole-k.com
An incomplete guide| www.cole-k.com
It was about time for a new website My old website[1] had long been broken (albeit only in a minor way) by some sort of update to HTML. In its defense, it wasn’t a particularly bad website, especially for one that I hastily threw together for a hackathon application. But I had quite a few qualms with it, the biggest being that it was completely hand-written HTML and CSS: no frameworks, nothing.| www.cole-k.com
A gradual introduction| www.cole-k.com
People who somehow stumble across this website must wonder what motivates me to broadcast into the void. I don’t heavily advertise this website – I just link to it on various social media. As far as I can tell I don’t have a single follower, nor anyone using the RSS feed, which I don’t even know is actually working since I don’t use RSS. I can only assume that the only people reading these posts are those whose curiosity takes them here, briefly glancing through these somewhat long-...| www.cole-k.com
Review of a review of Help Us Stranger| www.cole-k.com
HackMIT Hackathons are always a blast, and HackMIT was no exception, but it was a different experience than most. All of the other hackathon projects I’ve worked on have been about taking a few things that our team is somewhat familiar with and combining them, but with HackMIT we were learning new technologies from scratch. That was still fun, don’t get me wrong, but it was a different kind of challenge than we were used to.| www.cole-k.com
Foreign names and foreigner pronunciations| www.cole-k.com
Prelude (07/13/2019) I am keeping this post up for legacy reasons after Project Euler has requested that solutions to their problems be kept off of the public web. I had over 50 commented solutions posted on my website, so I’m sort of sad to have to take them away. Most links here are broken, except the common J code link, which I reuploaded as it has no solutions. Project Euler solutions in J I’d known of the existence of both Project Euler and J for a long while now, but for various rea...| www.cole-k.com
Food for thought| www.cole-k.com
Call-by-push-block| www.cole-k.com