Hobbies, Opinions, Fun Stuff

Here are my past projects relating to my hobbies, off-shoot projects, or musings. The content varies, so not everything in this page will appeal to you.

• My April Fool's Joke made it to the front page (of hackernews)
  A DNS resolver with advertisements
  April 03, 2024
  networking rust
  
• Failed Branchless Optimization - are we actually optimizing what we think we are?
  Profiling a toy study with DNS headers
  February 15, 2024
  optimizations profiling assembly rust
  
• Testing: A Tragedy
  A mediocre short story
  July 02, 2022
  short story mediocre
  
• Advice (and opinion) for Taking CS229
  December 27, 2021
  machine learning courses advice
  
• Purchasing USB-C Pro Micros
  (and other life updates)
  October 18, 2021
  arduino keyboards
  
• Random Nitpick - Placement Costs Barcharts
  Google's "Chip Placement with Deep Reinforcement Learning"
  September 28, 2021
  visualization misleading graphs scientific research short
  
• Other Practical Statistics Books
  September 22, 2021
  statistics books short
  
• Personal Dread: Migrating Away From Jekyll
  September 17, 2021
  SSG migrations headache complaining
  
• Why I Try Link As Much As Possible
  Citations Needed
  August 01, 2021
  opinion meta-blog casual
  
• Almost everything on this blog is TOO long
  May 20, 2021
  writing
  
• Hip-Hop's Diss Tracks As Graphs (or Networks)
  Analyzing beef in a genre
  January 17, 2021
  graph theory network analysis networkx d3
  
• Iterative & Tail Recursive Fast Fibonacci Sequence
  December 27, 2020
  fibonacci recursion TCO c c# python
  
• Thoughts On "Knowing Your Audience"
  July 01, 2020
  writing
  
• Movie Visualization Critique & Engineering: K-Means Based Visualization
  Critique of a popular visualization subgenre and a demonstration of my improved version
  June 12, 2020
  k-means color movies data visualizations machine learning
  
• Me in the New York Times ... sorta
  not really
  March 10, 2020
  news
  
• Engineering a Custom Chocolate Bar
  Trials and tribulations of an amateur chocolatier
  August 29, 2019
  cooking molding vector-graphics sugar
  
• Price Discrimination in (and with) the Tech Industry
  clever trick in tech (with examples)
  March 02, 2019
  price-discrimination segmentation pricing