Hi, my name is Alex. I'm an Engineering student at the University of British Columbia. In my spare time I love to play the piano, climb mountains, and document my experiences.
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Summer 2022
This is a now page. I post one every month, and you should too. It’s the best way to connect with people you don’t talk to often. You can read them all here.
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SPICE-Y
This year, my friends and I placed second out of sixteen teams in the annual Engineering Physics summer robot competition. Each team had 10 weeks to design and build a fully-autonomous treasure hunting robot from scratch. Here’s the story. Quick links In-depth competition overview and rules Central GitHub repository with firmware, electrical simulations and PCB designs My interview with Today in BC Serhii’s LinkedIn post Our robot SPICE-Y with her trophy.
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April 2022
This is a now page. I post one every month, and you should too. It’s the best way to connect with people you don’t talk to often. You can read them all here.
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The St. Petersburg Paradox
A paper I wrote for my game theory class about a fascinating paradox. The St. Petersburg paradox is a famous problem in decision theory about a simple game, played as follows: A coin is flipped repeatedly until, on turn n, it lands on heads. The player is awarded $2n. Therefore, in each round the player has a 50% chance of winning $2, a 25% chance of winning $4, a 12.
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This site was built from scratch over countless hours to serve as a replacement for social media. While I'm very proud of it, I do miss the community of Instagram. Therefore, if you find anything here interesting or simply want to say hi, please send me a message. I'd be delighted to hear from you—there's nothing I enjoy more than meeting new people.