Since leaving ShopRunner in July of this year, I have wanted to spend some free time training up a GAN from scratch and doing something neat with the results. I had some initial ideas for applications for this, but never fully got around to doing them. And then NFTs happened. It turns out that when
Fetching Better Beer Recommendations with Collie
In 2021, I was fortunate enough to get the green light from my company, ShopRunner, to open-source Collie, a deep learning recommendations library I have been working on off-and-on since my internship two years ago. It has been a journey developing the library, but as I write this blog post now, we have officially A/B
Playing Deal or No Deal Better Than a Human Talk
On September 11th, 2020, I gave my second conference talk at OFFRootsTechapalooza 2020, a completely virtual conference hosted by ShopRunner. I spoke about a side-project I had been working on for the last few months to better gain some exposure to reinforcement learning (and give me an excuse to watch too much TV). Thanks for watching
Detecting, Recognizing, and Analyzing Animated Characters Talk
On July 23rd, 2020, I gave my first conference talk at the Animal Crossing Artificial Intelligence Workshop 2020, a completely virtual conference bringing scientists from around the world together during the Covid-19 pandemic, all hosted on Animal Crossing islands. I spoke about a side-project I had been working on for the last few months developing
Better Pandas DataFrame Visualization (with a Taco Bell Example)
As a data scientist at ShopRunner, I was able to write a blog open-sourcing a function I wrote to better visualize Pandas DataFrames. I think it’s a fun little post, so I wanted to share it here. I’ll link the post below! Better Pandas DataFrame Visualization (with a Taco Bell Example) TL;DR: The data science
Data Science is…
A final project for my Communications graduate course I figured would be a nice addition to my website, since editing it took… a long time. The assignment was to explain a technical topic to a non-technical audience (such as a group of children) in 2 minutes or less. Recorded and edited over a weekend in
Rate My Professor: is it always bad?
As a college student myself, you would have to hold me hostage with no internet-access in order for me to not check RateMyProfessor reviews before enrolling in any course. If a professor has negative review after negative review after negative review listed with a review saying “I would rate this professor 0/5 if I can, avoid him
an old blog post i wrote when i was (trying to be) a tutor…
During my freshman year of college, I was running low on money and wanted to get a job that had flexible enough hours for me to focus on school. After an anthropomorphically-named company reached out to me and told me I was the kind of student they were looking for to tutor students in the
Super Chano Bros. 79 – The Game
Press the green flag to start and use the arrow button or ‘WASD‘ controls to play. CLICK HERE TO PLAY THE GAME FULLSCREEN or play below in the minimized version (doesn’t work on mobile just yet, sorry guys – college students are busy). IGH! This game took hours upon hours to make and remix
WTF is up with Frank Ocean?
Wait. Why does anybody care about Frank Ocean? Ah, I see you don’t listen to good music much anymore if you’re asking this. But, let me quickly recap: In 2012, Frank Ocean dropped the Alternative R&B album Channel ORANGE, which produced smash hits such as “Thinkin’ Bout You” and “Super Rich Kids” and “Pink Matter”