I’m learning computer vision in support of a career pivot. In graduate school I worked in numerical algebraic geometry, which can be boiled down to a collection of numerical algorithms for solving systems of polynomial equations, together with data structures and additional algorithms for describing …

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I just came across this post in which the author makes 12 resolutions for the new year, one for each month. I thought it was such a good idea that I would make one for each month of the rest of 2021. I have a list of goals on my about page, but I want to focus strictly on technical goals for this post, ones that can be …

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I’m building an application for real-time spike sorting on high-density electrode arrays. In order to actually detect action potentials, it’s necessary to determine a threshold above which the samples are considered a part of an action potential. One approach for doing this is called the median absolute …

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The following is a Stack Overflow question I asked (and answer I subsequently gave). I thought it was a well-researched and potentially useful, if somewhat niche, Q&A pair. If nothing else, IMO it’s a model Stack Overflow question and I want to signal-boost it. (If you’re not in the know, JetBrains …

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Visitors to this site might have noticed a lengthy but obviously incomplete post called “Binary Search Tree for a Streaming MAD”. This is embarassing enough to write a post about. When using Hugo, if you don’t want your drafts published, don’t pass the -D flag. (And don’t forget to rm -r …

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Hello, world! Go look at my about page.

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