Posts
2018
How to understand the big, wide codebase, and your place in it
·1297 words·7 mins
Learning
Data Science
Python
Someone wants you to contribute to some giant, new codebase. Now what?
Git history is written by the victors
·1204 words·6 mins
Tutorial
Git

Jacobi(a)n stuff
·880 words·5 mins
Math
Linear Algebra
Learning
Art
Or, making that which is non-linear, linear.
Making a Twitter bot
·900 words·5 mins
Python
Learning
Tutorial
Fun
I made my first Twitter bot today. It was surprisingly easy! I was worried I’d have to get all up in Oauth’s business (please God no), but I didn’t. Instead, I managed to go from zero to bot in the length of Philip Glass’s Koyaanisqatsi. Aw yiss.
2017
Drawing- Anxiety
·49 words·1 min
Art
Drawing
Ink + colored pencils.
Drawing- My commute
·72 words·1 min
Art
Drawing
Pencil -> inked -> final.
Clojure + cryptography = maximum fun
·1989 words·10 mins
Learning
Cryptography
Clojure
A report on my ClojureBridge experience.
TIL- Multiple cursors in Jupyter
·157 words·1 min
Python
Learning
Aw yiss, finally.
2017 in review- Books
·763 words·4 mins
Books
Fun
It’s time for Official Book Reflection Time.
Data is my co-pilot
·850 words·4 mins
Stats
Data Science
Article report time! Today I read this, Five Ways to Fix Statistics, Nature (Nov 2017). It interviews six statistics luminaries about what’s ‘wrong’ with modern statistics.