One Lap of America 2024
My dad and I recently completed our third year of Brock Yates’ One Lap of America 2024 driving competition. For some reason, we keep coming back 🤪. I’m just ...
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2023
One Lap of America 2023
Last year, my dad and I competed in Brock Yates’ One Lap of America 2023 driving competition. This is our second time entering this driving competition; the...
2022
LaTeX + Inkscape + Beamer + Latexmk
This is the slide deck to a presentation I gave on LaTeX + Inkscape + Beamer + Latexmk to Hacker’s Cafe at ORNL.
Advanced Vim
This is the slide deck to a presentation I gave on Advance Vim to the Hacker’s Cafe Brown Bag at ORNL.
Paper Writing—How to Take Smart Notes
This is the slide deck to a presentation I gave on Paper Writing—How to Take Smart Notes to APG at ORNL.
My Dotfiles Storage using Git and Shared Dotfile Repo
When I started heavily using Linux in college and started customizing and creating configuration files, I quickly needed a way to store, backup, and set up m...
My Favorite Vim Plugins
I use Vim and Visual Studio Code as my main text editors, and I have found multiple plugins to both which add nice features to the respective program. In thi...
Personal Knowledge Base and Productivity Presentation
In October last year, I gave a presentation to the my group at ORNL on my productivity/notetaking/engineering-notebook system. Another word for this system i...
2021
Changing from Disqus to Utterances
I have been having an issue where Disqus would not send me any emails when new comments are posted to the website. After going through all the settings in Di...
Dr. Dean to Serve on National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force
My PhD advisor, Mark Dean, was recentally selected to server on the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force. Read more about i...
Brother’s Acting Demo Reel
I helped my brother Preston edit together an acting demo reel using DaVinci Resolve. Check it out on his website at https://volweb.utk.edu/~pyoung15/acting/ ...
Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day! Below is a blender animation I made a few years ago after following the Blender Guru’s Donut Tutorial.
ASCR Workshop on Reimagining Codesign Whitepaper
My whitepaper titled Emerging Heterogeneous Systems Provide Great Opportunities for Codesign for the ASCR Workshop on Reimagining Codesign was accepted.
Getting started with Ctags with Vim and Git.
Ctags with Vim are incredibly useful for quickly navigating around code. With them, Vim can jump between symbols to quickly go to the definition of symbols o...
Dr. Dean featured in PC Gamer
My PhD advisor, Mark Dean, was recentally featured in PC Gamer for his work on the first IBM PC. Read the article at https://www.pcgamer.com/dr-mark-dean-int...
Moving Website from web.eecs.utk.edu to Github.io
After graduating last May, I decided to migrate my website from hosting on the EECS servers at UTK to GitHub Pages. I always planned on migrating to GitHub p...
PhD Dissertation and Artifacts Available
My dissertation titled SNACC: The Scaled-up Neuromorphic Array Communications Controller is now available at https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/5843/.
2020
Sourdough Bread
My favorite type of bread is a fresh, warm loaf of sourdough. I can almost go through a whole loaf by myself when it is fresh from the oven. Sourdough bread ...
Reorder
I recently created a reorder python script to rename, reorder, add, and remove files/directories in a directory with a numerical naming scheme.
2019
The Big Orange Bramble
This year marks the three-year anniversary of the 64 node Raspberry Pi cluster known as the Big Orange Bramble or BOB. I am happy to report that BOB is still...
A Review of Spiking Neuromorphic Hardware Communication Systems
Aaron R. Young, Mark E. Dean, James S. Plank, and Garrett S. Rose
TENNLab—Neuromorphic Architectures, Learning, Applications
I am part of the TENNLab—Neuromorphic Architectures, Learning, Applications research group at the University of Tennessee. We are researching a new paradigm ...
One Lap of America 2019
Recently my dad and I competed in Brock Yates’ One Lap of America driving competition. The official website for the event is found at onelapofamerica.com. ...
Skip Barber 3-Day Racing School
Recently my Dad and I attended a Skip Barber 3-Day Racing School at Road Atlanta in Georgia. The trip was a blast and driving on the track in a Mustang GT...
Challenges with New Website Deployment (Jekyll and Subdomains)
When I was deploying my website to the web server, I ran into a few challenges. I will talk about them here in case anyone happens to run into similar chal...
New Website using Jekyll
I decided that my project over Christmas break would be to create a new website. Although setting up the website overflowed past Christmas break, it is final...
2013
Engineering in England
A Weekend in Cardiff, Wales—June 15–17 (2013) by Josh Penney and Aaron Young