Coding, fast and slow
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I made a small side project (blog post, Github) to analyze international index funds, timeboxed to 4 hours. It makes a good spike since it has reasonable coverage of fullstack work: light but reasonable React frontend, NextJS backend routes, several different API integrations (yahoo finance, federal reserve economic data), and some basic caching. I m pretty Continue reading
It s tough for an aspiring Iron Man to work on creating their personal AI assistant on the weekends. Like any other time-pressured inventor without a PhD in computer science and linguistics, I decided to use a library for speech recognition and synthesis. Fortunately, Python offers several choices. Unfortunately, many of simply them don t work any Continue reading
I’m sure you’re all familiar with Nicolas Cage and his birdlike photoshopped hair. Or should I say… boidlike hair? Boids are just a digital attempt to recreate birds in computer simulations, be they in games or for academic purposes. The favored algorithm family to emulate the unpredictability of groups of animals – including birds – Continue reading