Notes
January 14, 2024
House of Reps
House of Reps is a project that explores apportionment in the U.S. House of Representatives.
January 13, 2024
Flipping House votes with apportionment data
How changing the method for seat apportionment in the House would reshape voting.
December 15, 2023
Metal shaders with PyTorch from end to end
Learn how to speed up PyTorch code with custom Metal shaders to take advantage of MPS support on Apple silicon.
December 15, 2023
Chamfer distance visualization in Python and JS
Exploring how Chamfer distance works in both Python and JS using `dash`.
November 23, 2023
The impact of 25 people on Congressional voting
This is the story of how Minnesota was just 25 people away from losing a representative.
November 12, 2023
Sorry, Delaware, America's most underrepresented state
Congratulations for losing the state population lottery, 70 years and counting.
October 20, 2023
Track your reading list with the safarireadinglist package
A little bit later, a little bit less reading done.
October 03, 2023
Effortless computer vision annotations in Dash with dash-annotate-cv
Unleashing the power of dash for effortless annotations.
August 30, 2023
Skimming through recommendation systems
My notes from a quick read of some background on recommendation systems
December 31, 2022
Yōuyǎ Jekyll theme
My own Jekyll theme - Yōuyǎ is an elegant profile theme for the static site generator Jekyll.
June 26, 2022
2 quick lessons from a C# coding exercise
This simple problem reminded me not to overthink — unless you have to.
December 27, 2021
Convolution calculator for neural networks
Easily choose parameters for convolution layers it neural networks.
November 12, 2021
Improve your Swift unit tests with async-like helpers
Take away the ugliness of expectations for dealing with completions using async-like helpers and lambda functions.
October 19, 2021
Flash larger SD card image onto smaller card on Mac for your Raspberry Pi
Finally, something that works.
October 2, 2021
Estimating constrained precision matrices with TensorFlow
Gaussian graphical models are defined by the structure of the precision matrix. From a fixed structure, how we estimate the values of the…
September 20, 2021
Swift documentation without long CI pipelines
The awesomeness of CI is that docs and tests run automatically. Requiring that tests pass on merges is probably the most critical CI…
July 8, 2021
A cheat sheet for custom TensorFlow layers and models
How to redefine everything from numpy, and some actually useful tricks for part assignment, saving custom layers, etc.
December 28, 2020
You've probably missed one of the greatest ML packages out there
And no, it’s not in Python. Or C++.
December 26, 2020
October 9, 2020
Share to social media on iOS with UIActivityViewController
From UIViewController to screenshot to social media.
October 2, 2020
RBMs revisited in TensorFlow 2
Back to the bulk of the cake — unsupervised learning — with the latest tools.
September 29, 2020
September 21, 2020
Regular backups for your Cloud Firestore database and Storage
How close do you have get to deleting everything in your database before you set this up?
August 25, 2020
Set up GitLab CI/CD for testing your Firebase functions
It’s all about those “pipeline: passed” badges.
August 18, 2020
Two ways to do regression with neural networks
Neural network have so many hidden tricks. Here are some practical tips for using neural networks to do regression.
July 30, 2020
Documenting your Python library, from zero to website
Documentation is quite a project, but your project is already a project, and who wants another project?
July 15, 2020
July 12, 2020
Speed up Python code with CARMA
Python is lovely, but what if you want something both lovely and fast?
July 9, 2020
Headless setup of Raspberry Pi -- once and for all
How to reduce headaches when configuring all those million options.
July 7, 2020
5 things the design of your keyboard got wrong
Your keyboard isn’t designed for you, and that’s bizarre.
July 5, 2020
Three advanced pybind11 features for wrapping C++ code into Python
Elegant features from a more civilized language.
July 3, 2020
Stop using Python's print for your library
A short guide to getting starting with Python’s logging module.
July 2, 2020
Setting up a C++/Python project with pybind11 and CMake
This tutorial shows how to set up a pybind11 project with CMake for wrapping a C++ library into Python.
July 2, 2020
C++ documentation with Doxygen/CMake/Sphinx/Breathe for those of use who are totally lost -- Part 3
Part 3, where your monstrous creation reaches the world.
July 1, 2020
C++ documentation with Doxygen/CMake/Sphinx/Breathe for those of use who are totally lost -- Part 2
Part 2 of the series where I’m the fool discovering how docs work.
July 1, 2020
C++ documentation with Doxygen/CMake/Sphinx/Breathe for those of use who are totally lost
It’s me. I’m the one who is totally lost.
