User:Mbl22

Hey all,

My name is Miles, I'm a 2016 at Duke who is interested in Civil and Environmental Engineering. I'm from White River Junction, Vermont.

I live on a farm.

I like nature, writing, art and football.

I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it.

Here's an article about providing clean water for impoverished communities:

Engineering students make it easy, low-tech / Solving the problem of clean water for poor communities, Rick Delvecchio, San Francisco Chronicle, updated 13 May 2006, accessed 03 February 2013 (Grand Challenge)

My favorite Matlab Demo was the portion on creating random number generation. I think the concept of attempting to generate a random number using code written by man on a man-made machine is pretty interesting. Obviously Matlab can't generate truly random numbers, but using the rng shuffle command it is possible to manipulate a seeded random number system so that, for the intended purposes, it is random. That's a neat idea, and must have been an interesting challenge for the people who wrote that code.

Thanks for looking.