User:Daf26

Daf26's name's Pronunciation

Daf26's name is Diego Alfredo Farias Canepa, according to his birth certificate. However, his maternal last name, Canepa, (See [Spanish Naming Customs]) is seldom used. Same with his middle name, Alfredo. As for the two words that are actually used off of his name, Diego is pronounced "Dee-EH-goh" and Farias is pronounced "fah-REE-ahs."

The History of Daf26

Daf26 is a student at Duke University for the class of 2016. He is enrolled in the Pratt School of Engineering and is currently leaning towards Biomedical Engineering as a major. He graduated from Wando High School in South Carolina in 2012. He was born in Chile in 1993, where he lived until his exodus to Argentina, where he lived until his exodus to the United States.

The beginning of his Duke career: homework for EGR103

Diego was given the assignment to find an article related to the "grand challenges of Engineering" and post it to his Pundit page during his first week of classes. After much searching, Diego finally found an article that fit the prompt perfectly. He found an article titled "Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain likely by 2030, Expert Predicts" on Wired Magazine. He immediately posted this article. The link can be found below.

[http ://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/reverse-engineering-brain-kurzweil/, "Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain Likely by 2030, Expert Predicts" ] , Priya Ganapati , Wired.com , August 14th 2010 , September 4th 2012(Reverse Engineering the Brain)

MATLAB Demonstrations

I liked the "2-D Plots" demonstration because it refreshed my mind with many of the concepts that we learned in class on Friday. This was especially helpful since, I am assuming, there will be plenty of work with graphs in lab #2, due Friday. The Loma Prieta Earthquake Demo also helped me in this aspect, since it also reinforced many of the concepts that will probably be necessary to complete Lab#2. It was not as helpful as the "2-D plots" demo since explained many concepts that will probably not be used soon, such as graphing data in 3 dimensions. It did reinforce the commands necessary to load files, so it was useful in that sense. The "3-D Plots" page was also cool because it showed the many different ways two-variable functions can be graphed by MATLAB, so that was nice. I had never seen a tool to graph slices of surfaces such as the one this demo presented.