A Current Biology correspondence (Li et al, 2013 Current Biology Vol 23 No 8 R308) recently discussed a novel treatment for ambylopia, a vision problem which a quick Google search…
Bullet Kinematics & Fun in Shooter Games
I happened to be thinking about games this weekend and was surprised at how differently I rated a number of first person shooters re: fun factor. After reflecting, I think…
HearthStone: the super-fun frontier for card game AI
Blizzard's latest title, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft , is pretty entertaining. For the game theorist's out there, it's also a stochastic game with imperfect information of complexity similar to online poker---which…
Vlog Inaugurated
I started a vlog channel! Video #1 is pretty shaky so I'll be trying to improve my camera work in the next few videos. Vlog…
A Flux-y weekend
Well I had been meaning to finish up my about page this weekend but got the bug to relate to my javascript-slinging friends. So I spent the weekend working on…
A Few Changes Around Here
I just moved to Santa Monica to take a job with the awesome Red Bull Media House! I'll be helping out the analytics side of the business. I had time…
Announcing New Venture: Ship Data Science
Just a quick post announcing my new venture: Ship Data Science. It's a platform for continuous model monitoring; the vision is to make model monitoring as widely adopted as CI…
Calculating the ages of giant bears!
In the spirit of job interview preparation, I've been deriving and implementing a few popular machine learning algorithms in my spare time. Of course no machine learning demo is complete…
DIY Search & Rec Engine
Here's a tutorial video I prepared for some students on building search and recommendation platforms for web companies using an open source stack. Github Repository…
Throwback Data Science - Hold Em Forge
An old video explaining our implementation of poker AI and some concepts from game theory from Hold Em Forge, my first startup. That's my midwestern twang on the microphone.…
GitSET - One Big Rush!
Back in May 2013, I stepped away from running a profitable recruiting startup with my amazing cofounder Adam Sherwin. We had an incredible adventure runing the company and here's part…