Ryan Ye

first real blog post

2026-03-17T06:15:00+00:00

Hi! I finally found the time and the LLM credits to be able to claude code a website:P. Since I’ve been seeing so many of my other friends with blogs, I thought it’d be a waste to not put a blog on it too haha. I also need to practice writing as I’m quickly forgetting how to write anything other than LLM prompts.

So I guess here is my first blog? It’s a bit late as I’m writing it, and this is also a test blog to make sure my editing system (all vibe coded, thank you very much) works, so it’ll be quite short and quaint and empty and idk. I also don’t know how to write a blog because this is my first time doing this type of thing, and I currently don’t have anything wise to say, so this will be more of a life update. Here we go.

NYC

Last weekend, I went to NYC for a hackathon! (more details somewhere else, go fish). It really got me thinking about future plans and what I would do after graduation, and I quickly realized that this would take too long to think about. This will now be a spring break problem.

In NYC, we tried doing all the touristy things that people do in their free time (Times Square, Chinatown, SOHO, etc.), and other than draining my social battery, it was quite fun! Also got to see some good friends again, which is great, because I never get to see Grace Chen in her now natural habitat.

Sometimes, I almost want to move to a city after graduation, but I don’t know how that would work out, just for the energy and the people. I hear that in New York, you just see everyone you know around, even if you don’t want to. That’d be an interesting experience.

Anyways, here are some photos from the city:

if my album system works, there should be more photos down below too

Ithaca

It also snowed again! after the 3rd or 4th fake spring. Boaz says there’re 1 or 2 more to go, so I’m keeping my hopes down for real spring, which actually only begins during finals week when everyone is too busy to worry about it. Taking advantage of the snow, we played football in the snow after a FFA snowball fight. Tackle. With a yoga ball. It was chaotic. It might’ve been fun. Might do it again. Definitely a 10/10 experience though.

post yogaball pic

Conc (or sm)

So this concludes this post I guess? (is it really a post lol) Still debugging various parts of the website. Please do tell me if you spot any bugs etc., because that’d be helpful to know…

Abstract accepted to ADSA!

2026-03-12T05:00:00+00:00

My abstract on AI-assisted dairy calf behavior monitoring was accepted to the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) under the title “Automating pose detection in calves: a computer vision framework for non-invasive behavioral monitoring.” Thanks to all my advisors who helped me through this whole process!

I Was Part of an Art Exhibit

2025-12-01T16:14:00+00:00

Last month, I was part of an art exhibit. I wrote a short bio for my piece, but have had nowhere to publish it, so it’ll be here below.

Background

A bit of background: a group of about ~40 of us from Cru Cornell went to LA to help with cleanup after the tragic Palisades fire back in early april for our spring break. This was such a reflective and life-changing experience, contrasting the destruction of what were people’s homes and lives with the beautiful ocean. When I was approached by my friend Christina about being part of an art exhibit, I immediately replied with, “When is it?”

Below (writing and photos) are part of my work that I did for this exhibit, titled “What Remains — Traces of Fire, Memory and Renewal.”

My piece, titled “Though the Mountains Fall Into the Sea (Psalms 46:2)”

This installation emerged from my journey with Cru and Samaritan’s Purse to the scorched neighborhoods of the Palisades, where wildfires reduced homes, futures, and dreams to ash. Each transparent panel holds a fragment of that landscape, a visual testimony to both devastation and divine presence.

Like memory itself, these images overlap and intersect, creating new narratives as viewers move through the space, and in their layering, there is a quiet reminder that though everyone has had unique experiences, no one experienced these moments in isolation. The undulating arrangement echoes both destruction and cleansing, suggesting the nature of loss and renewal that Isaiah speaks to:

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland”

- Isaiah 43:18-19

No one carries memory alone; it gathers in the space between us, shaping and reshaping us as we move together toward what comes next.

The juxtaposition of charred earth against glimpses of the Pacific serves as a meditation on permanence and impermanence. While the blackened foundations speak to immediate loss, the enduring blue of the sea and sky remind us that some things remain constant—like the refuge and strength we find in our faith. Light passes through even the darkest images, transforming documentation into something more transcendent. We see in this the gospel: that out of devastation, restoration is possible; that light does not simply return but breaks through; and that we are never abandoned in our suffering. Christ entered into our brokenness and died for us, bearing the weight of loss and sin so that hope could take root even in the ashes. Because of Him, we are invited to live for something higher than ourselves, to know a peace that does not waver with circumstance, steady and enduring as the sea and the sky itself.

“Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea”

- Psalms 46:2

As witness and prayer, this work honors everything lost while reminding us that even in the midst of ashes, new, fuller, better, everlasting things can spring forth.