User:Rlaoprasert

About Me

My name is Rick Laoprasert, and I am a student at Pratt who is planning on double majoring in BME and ECE.

Name Pronunciation

Rick is pronounced exactly how it is spelled, and Laoprasert sounds like LAO-pruh-sert, with LAO sounding like L and then ow (as in the exclamation of pain), pruh sounding like piranha without the "i", "n", and last "a", and sert sounds like the end of insert.

Grand Challenge

Flexing the Brain: Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Scientists Discover Why Learning Tasks Can Be Difficult, Shilo Rea, Carnegie Mellon University, created 27 August 2014, accessed 13 September 2014 (Reverse-engineer the brain)

Favorite MATLAB Demo

My favorite demo was Conway's Game of Life. Besides looking interesting and pretty, the demo showed off what MATLAB is capable of. Additionally, looking at the source code for it (found after pressing the info button, then clicking on the link for the code) was interesting because you can see how graphics, the GUI and programming with matrices works.