the blog
I’m Nathan, a data scientist at LTK in Chicago building AI-native software. I write here about data science, side projects and whatever else I’m into. See my projects, or say hi on LinkedIn.
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Using Computer Vision to Destroy My Childhood High Score in a DS Game
As a child, the Nintendo DS awoke something in me. It was the single greatest piece of technology I had ever owned up to that point (and probably ever will be, to be…
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These Bored Apes Do Not Exist
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Better Pandas DataFrame Visualization (with a Taco Bell Example)
As a data scientist at ShopRunner, I was able to write a blog post open-sourcing a function I wrote to better visualize Pandas DataFrames. I think it’s a fun little post, so…
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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…
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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…
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the crab from bachelor in paradise
this is my legacy.
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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…
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Super Chano Bros. 79 – The Game
Press the green flag to start and use the arrow keys or ‘WASD‘ controls to play. CLICK HERE TO PLAY THE GAME FULLSCREEN or play below in the minimized version (doesn’t work…
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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…