Posts
2024-11-11 Weekly Update - Python, Inverse Machine Learning, Set Cardinality
Sabbatical Week 20 - Python structural pattern matchin and package logging, uv in Docker, inverse reinforcement learning, and Cantor's theory of cardinalityRead More →
2024-10-07 Weekly Update - Levenshtein, Hamming, and Jaccard Distances
Sabbatical Week 15 - General metric spaces, Levenshtein, Hamming, and Jaccard distances plus links on Python 3.13, inline functions, and The MANIACRead More →
2024-09-30 Weekly Update - Cleaning git history, blog meta-updates, and new developer line tools
Sabbatical Week 14 - Removing sensitive content from your git history, framework and title format updates for the blog, and new tools I've started using over the last 3 months.Read More →
2024-09-23 Weekly Update - Python syntax, Obsidian dataview, vim, and Python notebooks
Sabbatical Week 13 - python syntax, Obsidian dataview, LazyVim configs, and python notebooksRead More →
2024-09-09 Weekly Update - Evergreen notes, LLMs, programming taste
Sabbatical Week 11 - evergreen notes, LLMs, and programming tasteRead More →
2024-09-06 Weekly Update - Structured outputs for LLMs and proving the binomal theorem
Sabbatial Week 10 - structured outputs for LLMs and proving the binomial theoremRead More →
2024-08-30 Weekly Update - Web scrapting and prompt engineering
Sabbatical Week 8 - some web scraping and prompt engineeringRead More →
2024-08-23 Weekly Update - More math proofs, LeetCode, DuckDB, and networking
Sabbatical Week 7 - Some in-person events plus more proofs, LeetCode, and DuckDBRead More →
2024-08-16 Weekly Update - math proofs, LeetCode, DuckDB, and networking
Week 6 of my sabbatical - math proofs, LeetCode, DuckDB, and networkingRead More →
Migrating Posts From My GitHub Blog
Porting some old posts over from 2014-2017Read More →
Fumbling Into Floats
Down a rabbit hole of floating point numbersRead More →
The Data Chief Podcast Episode
Some thoughts on appearing on a professionally produced podcastRead More →
Practicing Jazz with the Linux Command Line
Using linux command line tools for jazz ear trainingRead More →
Notes on Chapter 1 and 2 of What are Embeddings
Notes on Chapter 1 and 2 of Vicki Boykis's "What Are Embeddings" paperRead More →
Finite Dimensiona Vector Spaces Ch. 1 Problem 2(c)
Working through problem 2(c) from chapter 1 of Halmos's "Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces"Read More →
The Best Math Advice I Ever Got
On turning hieroglyphics into picturesRead More →
Hello, Manjaro!
First steps with ArchRead More →
Hello, LaTeX!
Playing around with LaTeX formuals for funRead More →
Journal Club: Talking About Large Language Models
Notes on Murray Shanahan's "Talking About Larger Language Models"Read More →
I Love Computers
Working on computers for fun ... and not for profitRead More →
One Day Of Advent Of Code
Working on Advent of Code and learning to take only what you need from somethingRead More →
The Coconut Programing Language
A functional programming language that compiles to PythonRead More →
Where The Water Goes by David Owen
Life and death along the Colorado RiverRead More →
The Crystal Programming Language
A quick peek at at the Crystal programming languageRead More →
SQLite and DuckDB
Diving into a recent paper on running OLAP workloads on my favorite databaseRead More →
Hello, Darkness
My old Friend ...Read More →
Hello, World!
First Post!Read More →
An Intro to Regex
A presentation on using Regex for analystsRead More →
What The F*ck Is The Internet Vol. 1 - Bits, Encoding, Packets, and Protocols
A short presentation about how data is encoded over networksRead More →
Special Methods in Python
Exploring Python's build-in methodsRead More →
Setting Up Pelican with GitHub Pages
Obligatory metapost on setting up a blogRead More →
Exploring Python's 'in' operator
Digging into how the in operator worksRead More →
Writing a FITS File Bigger Than Your Memory
Getting in the weeds with the FITS file formatRead More →
Working with NumPy Arrays and SQL
Binary encoding in SQL for NumPy objectsRead More →
Fitting 2D Gaussians with agpy
Fitting 2 dimensionaly Gaussians with a small open source packageRead More →
Faster File Existence Testing with Sets
Using set membership to skip disk readsRead More →
2014 Summer Internship Opportunity
Call for submissions for my internship opportunity at STScIRead More →
Guilty As Charged
Just a little git humorRead More →
A Basic Automation Setup for Astronomy - Part 2
Part 2 of a automation pipeline for astronomy tasksRead More →
That Time I Made a Metaclass
I made a metaclass in Python (but should I have?)Read More →
The Joy of "Screen"
Using the screen command line untility to manage remote sessionsRead More →
A Basic Automation Setup for Astronomy - Part 1
A barebones automation setup for astronomy pipelinesRead More →
The Data are Inconclusive
Error bars change the interpretation of my stellar PSF projectRead More →
The First Thousand PSFs
Plotting one thousand stellar PSFsRead More →
Counting to 10 Million Stars
Working with large datasets of stellar PSFsRead More →
The Moving Target Pipeline
My reaseach grant proposal for a Hubble Space Telescope moving target pipelineRead More →
The Trouble with Tech Blogs
Starting a Pelican-based GitHub blogRead More →
