Projects

Where I break the inertia of reading / research / work to HAve fun testing an idea or exploring a concept more deeply...

Cloning Yourself as a Chat Bot on a Budget

Creating a “decent” AI clone to auto respond to texts for $10 in a weekend
May 21, 2023

Like Mike: Becoming One With the Goat

Making a childhood dream come true via the power of off-the-shelf generative models
November 15, 2020

Thousands of Hours and More: My Never Ending Journey to Master Mandarin

Retrospective entry on investing thousands of hours into developing fluency in Mandarin
June 24, 2020

Predicting USA COVID-19 Cases as if States were Their own Nations

Adapting to a "[COVID] New World" with data and good 'ole EDA + KNNs - why California's cases look more like Switzerland's on the decline while Alabama's resemble Sweden at it's apex.
April 16, 2020

Player Embiidings, A New Force in NBA Analytics

Leveraging Deep NN Embeddings to Augment Coaching and Identify True Offense/Defense
December 28, 2019

Look no more, the data driven baby name generator

Leveraging Recurrent Neural Nets (RNNs) with registered Social Security names to generate a name for my niece
September 7, 2019

The Story of Me - As told by Checkins

My journey to experience our planet and its many cultures as told by maps, data-driven exhibits, and personal reflections.
September 3, 2019