In this snowpack lecture from an avalanche level 1 course organized by the Bryan Mountain Nordic Ski Patrol I talk about the ways that the snowpack changes over time, and how that impacts avalanche safety.
Description: Video presentation of a new network science based technique inspired by the Wikipedia Game for question answering.
In this video talk I discuss recent work which uses a network science technique inspired by the Wikipedia Game to answer trivia questions. This was also a final course project for Aaron Clauset's Network Models course
This research is supported by an NSF Grant, and more …
Description: Presentation slides from CU Boulder lecture on AI for trivia games
On October 25, 2016 I gave a guest lecture to the machine learning course at CU Boulder. The lecture was an adapted version of my STEMinar talk earlier this year, and aimed at an audience of students just getting into machine learning.The lecture highlights our research's group work on …
Description: How to make a python package to plot AWS Spot Price History and send it to Slack using Airflow
For the past year or so I have been using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and have consistently desired to have an easy way to find recent spot price trends.
For those unaware, AWS has a service called Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) which allows you to rent compute resources at an …
Description: Presentation slides from CU Boulder STEMinar talk on question answering AI
On March 3, 2016 I gave a talk as part of the CU Boulder STEMinar talk series. The talk was aimed at a general STEM audience, and discussed our research's group work on creating an artificial intelligence for playing Quiz Bowl. The talk covers basic machine learning algorithms like Logistic …
Description: Guide for creating website with Github Pages and Pelican
The (PhD) intern application season fast approaching which means its about time to refresh all those websites, resumes, and cvs out there, including mine. In the process of working on my website, I decided to switch my hosting and workflow.
Before my recent changes, I had two websites: a Ghost …
Description: Using ScalaFunctional to do functional programming in Python
In January I started working as a data scientist at Trulia (which recently merged with Zillow). Most of my data science work at Trulia involves writing Python with a smattering of SQL/Java for good measure. Prior to that and graduating from UC Berkeley, I worked in the UCB AMPLab …
