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Hello and welcome to my Coronavirus Genome Walkthrough.

(Hoping someone comes out with that Vaccine Speedrun soon. This boss battle is really shaping up to be an intense one...

If you meet me in person, you might notice that I’m carrying around one of these knitting projects. Both projects bear patterns that are imbued with deeper mathematical stories.

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Pilot, the startup I work at, announced our Series B today.

This is really exciting for me. I’ve been here for a little over a year and a...

If you’ve seen my other posts, you probably already know that I am a sucker for good visual notations. Some of my favorites include circuitry for lambda calculus...

Last April, I attended GaryConf WATCON Deconstruct 2017, got to listen to some excellent speakers, and enjoyed the opportunity to give a talk of my own:...

Lately, I’ve been playing around with inventing a visual writing system for lambda calculus.

Lambda calculus (λ-calculus) is a sort of proto-functional-programming, originally invented by Alonzo Church while...

Cross-posted from the Khan Academy engineering blog.

If you’re trying to bring the best learning experience to people around the world, it’s important to, well, think about the...

I enjoyed reading Andrej Karpathy’s The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks lately – it’s got some fascinating examples and some good explanations. I’ve been playing around with...

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Tengwar is a writing system invented by J.R.R. Tolkien for use...

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