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TLDR: Barcodes
Medium
The need-to-know for working with barcodes
19 February 2023
Salt
This salty kitten reincarnated post-adoption into a fearless strawberry catamaran captain.
With crew, they sail from boulder to boulder at 6pm Pacific Monday/Friday and eat vegetables.
31 October 2021
Scalable Detection and Drill-down of Cybersecurity Events
Technical Disclosure Commons
Cybersecurity analysts detect malicious activities using rules that process and correlate events from log files.
This disclosure describes techniques to determine and to display all the events from all detections from any rule in near real-time.
22 July 2021
Introduction to Distributed Data Storage
Towards Data Science
Data is today’s foundation! It supports everything from your favorite cat videos to the billions of financial transactions that happen everyday. At the heart of all this is distributed data storage.
In this article, we’ll learn what distributed data storage is, why we need it, and how to use it effectively.
7 July 2021
Wild reindeer eating snow
Turns out that reindeer are quite friendly. They just want to eat snow actually.
18 October 2020
Branches with water droplets
The water droplets are so pristine and vivid. It's nice to sit under the tree and be in the moment.
18 October 2020
Point Sublime via Artist Point
The divide between the clay slope, sandy cliffs, evergreen pines, and snowy sky is even more dramatic in person.
18 October 2020
Bacterial Mat of Yellowstone
The colors are so bright, but the steam from the geysers and hot springs fog the lens.
Walking through the billowing steam feels like what it must be like to be in a cloud.
18 October 2020
Traveling House
When you first step out into the darkness, you will be taken aback by the stars.
They really feel like a blanket over you.
15 October 2020
Wild berries at Mccredie Hot Springs
Hot springs are scalding springs.
I should have heated my tea using the hot spring.
4 October 2020
7 day old Alpaca
We looked at each other for a good while. Maybe five minutes or so.
He seemed to be watching me, contemplating my existence.
4 October 2020
View of Smith Rock from a nearby farm
Idyllic view of what must have been classic America
3 October 2020
Few miles past Tumalo Falls
The water is unforgivingly cold yet alluring in the way mountain snowmelt is.
The sounds of waterfalls are almost perpetual out there
20 September 2020
San Francisco 11am
It was so interesting to wake up to this beautifully dystopic red sky. The smoke smell was relatively weak
Felt like a dream, a surreal experience
9 September 2020
Little purple flowers from the tree
Beautiful flowers in the light, especially with their translucency
5 August 2020
Bromeliad Aechmea
The flower begins as a pink spike. The blue appears later. The pink is thick and rough, just like the green leaves
It can be grown without much trouble in a pot at home
5 August 2020
Southern California Beaches
It was quite windy and cold but beautiful regardless
11 June 2020
Uncertainty Calculator
Propagate uncertainty for any expression step by step
1 May 2020
New Years in Vietnam
Love how hectic life there is
1 January 2020
Introduction to Quantum Programming
Towards Data Science
In depth walkthrough of quantum programming for beginners, building up from the mathematical foundations of qubits to how to run on a real quantum computer.
5 August 2019
Q-Learning, Deep Q-Network, and REINFORCE on Keras
UCLA ECE239AS-W19
Implementation applied to Cartpole problem
Project for my Neural Networks and Deep Learning course where we started from KNN and built up to convolutional neural networks for classifying on CIFAR-10
7 January - 17 March 2019
Flaming Sambuca
Also made blue lagoon, kombucha, soju/jager/sake/Irish bombs, white russian, strawberry daiquiri, caipirinha, long island iced tea, sex on the beach, calpico/yakult soju, limoncello, flaming lambo, scooby snack, Irish coffee, etc.
15 February 2019
Light roast of the Green Tip Gesha from Elida in Panama by Sey Coffee
Brewed via the Scott Rao Method on a Hario v60
Distinctly balanced, sweet, floral, and pleasant
22 December 2018
Coursera Machine Learning taught by Professor Andrew Ng
Visualization of artificial neural network weights for handwritten digit recognition
Was a thoroughly enjoyable course
20 June - 21 July 2017
Night-blooming Cereus
Blooms once a year, opening at dusk and closing at dawn
Timelapse of the latter half of one flower's closing
22 June 2017
3D Printed Carousel
Merry-go-round which rotates around the Z axis and undulates animals vertically
Proof of concept for splitting one input motion into multiple output motions
20 February 2017
Interval Scheduling through Simulated Annealing
Schedules conflicting, variable-length events with multiple possible start times to achieve near-optimal use of time, using simulated annealing and greedy algorithms
11 February 2017
Roadtripping LA <-> Squamish
Jumped out of a car to take this shot, was pretty cold but not snowing
We did this 2600+ mile trip in exactly seven days. It was amazing
13 December 2016 at 16:21
Pike Place Fish Market
These fruits and vegetables are beautiful
Seattle is great
12 December 2016 at 10:37
A sunny and windy cliff facing the Pacific
We found some little wild succulents growing on the cliffside
Not seen here is the sidepath down to the water
11 December 2016 at 09:20
Damnation Creek Trail
Caught some streaks in the early morning before hiking Damnation Creek Trail (which is great, by the way, I definitely recommend it)
(41 39'13.9''N, 124 07'37.6''W)
11 December 2016 at 07:10
Math Model 1
Heavily modified math model based on a torus
I ended up printing this in flexible resin using the Formlabs Form 2 at Powell
27 October 2016
Bigger Swirly
Light-emitting particles animated with forces and rendered using ray tracing
Just for fun
14 September 2016
Significant Figures Calculator
Web app built in HTML, CSS, JS, and PHP which evaluates typed expressions with respect to significant figures
250k+ pageviews per peak month
c. 2014-2016
Minecraft Assets
A bunch of 3D models, skins, and rigs for Blender
Includes shape keys for characters
c. 2015
Pop
Lightning ball animated by mapping to a video of static
Fire made through particle systems
31 May 2015
Minecraft Self Building Town
Self building structures through digital logic from Minecraft Redstone and pistons
1000+ pistons working in sync
31 August 2012
Minecraft Mob Arena
Game where you fight waves of monsters, buy gear, and advance into new arenas
One of my first projects in Redstone
30 July 2012