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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 perfectly honest). I once played it for so long in a single sitting that my hands actually turned blue. Suffice to say, I loved my

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

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

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

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

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

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