Go on Tristan Rice

CSSS Exam Database

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 23:57:55 +0000

As the webmaster and VP Communications for the Computer Science Student Society I spent a lot of time updating the site this past year. I designed a web app from the ground up to replace the old “database”. The old database was merely a bunch of Drupal pages with manually uploaded files. During my time as webmaster, I received exactly zero of these.

Check out the new exam database! Reddit Post

I built this using Go. All of the exams are found using a custom webscraper. It can scrape all of the UBC CS websites, as well as Piazza and the files available on the department undergrad servers.

nwHacks Machine Learning

Sat, 08 Jul 2017 00:34:19 -0700

I’ve been doing a bunch of work during my internship with Machine Learning models so I figured I take a crack at applying them to some of my personal projects. Just for fun I wanted to see what would happen if I tried to train a model on the registration, check-in and submission data for nwHacks.

I decided to use Hector, a suite of algorithms completely written in Go since that’s what most of the nwHacks tooling is written in. Took a few hours to write a pipeline that would read in the nwHacks registration data from Firebase and output it into a format that Hector supports.

UBC Food Safety

Fri, 21 Apr 2017 20:20:58 -0700

A couple of my friends got food poisoning eating at places in the village in the past month or so. I decided to do some digging and find out which places have the best food safety records. To my horror, pretty much every place has food safety violations on campus.

nwHacks 2017 Tech Stack

Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:19:15 -0700

With nwHacks 2017 coming up this weekend I figured it would be a good time to do a writeup of the tech stack and all the different components that are used to make the hackathon a success. This covers all of the different components of the stack and what technologies were used.