Author Archives: Nick

Rough Draft Done!

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Nick

I just finished the rough draft of my book. All 11 chapters. That's right, eleven chapters (not the planned ten). After 10 months of working on this book, I finally have a rough draft done. Also, ten months is a … Continue reading →

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I Started Writing a Technical Book... (part 3)

Posted on July 17, 2016 by Nick

I'm over halfway done with the book I've been writing. I just submitted chapter 5. I've written all the code for chapter 6 and am currently writing up the explanations and walk-throughs now for that chapter. A few weeks ago, … Continue reading →

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I Started Writing a Technical Book... (part 2)

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Nick

A lot has happened since I first decided to write a book. I quit my job, accepted a new job, and am currently taking about 6 weeks off to get a jump start on writing the hardest parts of the … Continue reading →

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I Started Writing a Technical Book... (part 1)

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Nick

I decided to write a book. Yikes. Just writing that now seems scary. You are making something pretty permanent that will forever reflect on how people view you. Anyone, anywhere (hopefully) will be able to pick up your book and … Continue reading →

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Trump + The Scream = ...

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Nick

I was inspired by the recent republican debate to use neural networks to merge a picture of Donald Trump with the style from "The Scream" by Edvard Munch. I modified a tensorflow neural style algorithm to output the results continuously … Continue reading →

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ImageNet CNN Architecture Image

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Nick

I'm getting really tired of this classic CNN ImageNet paper architecture image. Here is the original article from 2012: Imagenet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks You know the one, with the top 25% of the image is cutoff? I … Continue reading →

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Displaying Digits of Pi on Raspberry Pi in Python

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Nick

(Sorry for the long haitus of posts, I've been dealing with some health issues that appear to be going away finally.) NOW..... One of the most ePIc Pi-days is here today!  3-14-15!!!   What better way to celebrate this Pi-Day than … Continue reading →

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Random Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode Generator

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Nick

Let me first say that I'm a fan of everything Joss Whedon.  (EDIT: OOF, sorry somethings just don't age well. It's really tough to be a fan of something and later find out that that author/producer/artist/actor is a bad person. … Continue reading →

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Uber Taxi Bar Chart Fail

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Nick

I thought I would share something I found in an advertisement/marketing email from Uber Taxi.  See anything amiss about the bar charts? Let's hope Uber doesn't charge rates like they scale their bar charts.  Could be bad for business.

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The Hobbies of the Scripps 2014 Spelling Bee Contestants

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Nick

I downloaded text data from  http://public.spellingbee.com/public/results/2014/round_results  and performed some text mining on the contestant interviews and came up with some interesting results.  The hobby with the highest round average was Volunteering followed by Chess and Movies.  I filtered for hobbies … Continue reading →

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