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These "awesome repos" are a little bit cringe and link farm-y but also very useful. I've made an awesome sat solvers as a introductory review of SAT and SAT solvers.

You can really tell when you're off the beat track …

This is a quick primer to key aspects of batteries for someone like me who knows a little about software but not very much about electrical engineering, power systems or embedding programming.

Introduction:¶

Batteries are key technological component in many …

Electricity markets can be quite complex. They have many features which are rarely discussed in econ 101. For instance, my microeconomics textbook has three chapters on the environment, pollution and natural resources (it’s a bit lefty) but has a …

I researched the limits of large language models (LLMs) in October last year. I'm not sure it's possible to have an interest in ML/AI and not be aware of the enormous surge in the public consciousness. It is truly …

Now and again I see people talking about foundation models for time series data. It's one of those things, like the puzzlement over the inability of deep learning models to outperform traditional models tabular data, that makes me think people …

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Sometimes, you read something unexpected. I was looking through this paper on statistical perspectives on representation learning and came across this family of methods: "sliced inverse regression." Sliced inverse regression? What the heck? I think I have a reasonable …

A brief riff on stable, mature tools. I've been playing around recently with a little project involving recommender systems. Anyway, for the website, I ended up reaching for Django. Man, it's been over a year since I've done any Django …

Computer graphics is full of wizardry but the demo scene is populated by arch-wizards. The community has some very talented people and there's lots to learn (like ray marching and signed distance functions). I tried my hand at a couple …

There's some wacky stuff in the Jupyter ecosystem. Still, one thing that really stood out for me was the extension of Jupyter notebooks into web development and their interaction with the JavaScript ecosystem. So web assembly is a thing, and …

Sometimes I like to write a little js in my blog posts. Here is an example of how to embed a javascript file in a pelican article.

Below the fold, is an example of embedding a js chart into a …

It's been a little while since I've updated my website. Here's some thoughts revisiting this older code. In particular I want to evaluate whether using Pelican has been worthwhile and record some answers to natural questions I had.

I enjoyed this talk introduction by Allison Kaptur - "Bytes in the Machine" which provides easy but insightful introduction to the CPython intepreter. Worth watching if you'd like to know more about how CPython is implemented and what exactly the interpreter …