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Nathaniel Budijono
I studied computer science, math, computational biology, and computational chemistry at the University of Minnesota. My professional experience has spanned building ETL pipelines, researching genetic interaction networks, productionalizing explainable machine learning models to serve millions of students, and using language models to study the linguistics of incels.
Learning Python exceptions through Lenstra's algorithm
Note This is part two of my series on Lenstraās Algorithm. See part one here for the intuition for the algorithm. In part one, we saw that Lenstraās Algorithm can intuitively be understood as an algorithm literally built to fail.
What is the Meta logo?
Today, the Facebook company rebranded itself as Meta. PR aside, what mathematically describes its new Lemniscate-like loop logo (try saying that quickly three times)? Answer: A Lissajous curve (also called a Bowditch curve), part of a family of parametric equations where the x and y coordinates are sinusoids.
The algorithm built to fail
Note This is my entry for 3blue1brownās first summer of math exposition (SoME1). Iām glad to report it was one of the top 100/1200+ entries and that Grant Sanderson ranked it as one of his favorite written entries! Thereās no question that elliptic curves are incredibly important to math and cryptography.
Celebrating Aleksandr Lyapunov
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Hacking the Normie Test
The Normie Test is a quiz with ~40 questions that places the taker on a two-axes plot relative to internet culture personality classes like ānormiesā and āsimps.ā Notably, the quiz ...
Unexpected lessons from breaking webgames
One of the reasons I started programming was to code exploits in webgames. The other reason involves a certain 1980s text adventure, but that is a story for another day.
How I used Manim with WSL and data points
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