My playground and R&D lab
January 26, 2022
The other day I came across the concept of Hitomezashi stitch patterns from a Numberphile video on the subject. Before the video was over, I realized I had to code that up and see for myself how the probability for a point starting on/off would influence the pattern.
January 03, 2020
In this toy demonstration of genetic algorithms, the algorithm learns some arbitrary 2D function. The “chromosome” is represented by a sequence of <distance, angle> pairs. By rendering the first point at some location, we can render the next point in the sequence by computing the <x, y> coordinates relative to that first point by using the distance and angle for the current gene.
December 30, 2019
The purpose of my blog is to post unpolished, throwaway, R&D type stuff. The more in-depth discussions will generally be posted on Medium.com and the posts here will contain more interactive demos. Below is a growing list of things I’m curious to try out and research more, as well as new ideas I come across.
July 18, 2017
An interactive demo showing linear regression fitting a very separable dataset. This work was very early practice as I was learning the foundations of supervised learning.
July 11, 2017
An interactive demo of using linear regression to minimize a function that “learns” what the values of a matrix of pixels should be so that it forms a photograph. This work was very early practice as I was learning the foundations of supervised learning.
November 06, 2015
February 03, 2014
This is proof that I was one of the cool developers who grew up, graduated from jQuery, and stepped up their game using Google Web Toolkit (back when it was a Google project and the world was still purple and gray).
February 03, 2014
Yet another explanation of some design pattern. I’m posting this almost 7 years after I first wrote this. Hopefully it helps you on your homework or on that job interview you’re preparing for :)
February 03, 2014
This is proof that I was one of the cool developers who not only used jQuery, but I was [on my way to becoming] a jQuery master.
November 05, 2013
An interactive demo showing what the Canvas 2D API could be like if WebGL specific features could be exposed to the user (so the user could use WebGL without Canvas 3D). Yes, I once thought this would be a good idea :)
