The Blog
A collection of irregular and eccentric commentaries (and sometimes travel logs) on the workings of life. If you enjoy this content, also consider reading my Substack, The Hatchery (invite only).
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AI & Machine Learning Project Update: A Fresh Start
Today I returned to the AI & Machine Learning project repository I’d worked on intermittently over the past few months. It’s a GitLab environment with some Jupyter Notebooks and AI projects created on an excursion in summer 2025. I’d managed to make some good progress towards a finished QuickDraw Webcam project last year, but after
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2026 Ivy League Tour Log 3: UPenn and Princeton
Here we are on the final log of the 2026 Ivy League Tour (although there might be a special fourth log containing some additional information about Columbia and Juilliard). On Wednesday, we visited the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton, which are about an hour and a half away from each other. I was thoroughly stunned
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2026 Ivy League Tour Log 2: MIT and Harvard Universities
Welcome back to Day Two of the 2026 Ivy League Tour. Today we visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard, both of which are pretty close to each other in the Boston area. In this post, find some comments and a review of the two colleges, in addition to some photos. On the
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2026 Ivy League Tour Log 1: Yale and Brown Universities
If you’ve been following the last few blog posts closely (and by last few, I mean the ones discussing the January New York trip), you’ll probably know that this week has been reserved for a Carnegie Hall performance and an Ivy League College Tour. The first portion of this trip, the Carnegie Hall recital, has
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Site Update: One Page Down, Four to Go
Yesterday I completed the construction and writing of the Flames of Rebellion page, which lists complete details concerning my young adult series Flames of Rebellion. It now has exclusive trivia and facts about the books, some background and insights into the inspirations, and links to the Amazon series page. This is timely, since I just
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Another Year Over
Yesterday was the first day of 2026. I know I’ve probably said this many times over the years, but it feels like 2025 just disappeared in a flash. Where did October, November, and December go? What about February and March and April? Already we’re more than halfway through this decade, and it seems like it
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Test Post
This is the first content post on Discordant Harmony, to test the featured image settings and the display on the page. We’re still setting up the apperance of this site, creating pages and links, and sorting things out. Please check back soon.
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