The Blog
A collection of project updates, 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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Ashryver V1 Painting Classifier: Release Summary
Today, I finally finished setting up the Ashryver V1 Painting Classifier, my latest interactive web-based model, and placed a live embed on the AI, ML, and Web Projects page. You can now interact with the model right from your browser, and upload any painting you choose for the model to make predictions. Although the embed…
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Deep Learning Debacle: Deploying the Ashryver V1 Model (Painting Classifier)
Today (and this entire week) has been quite the adventure when it comes to deep learning AI models. I finally got off the ground on my latest project, the Ashryver model (the easy-to-remember codename for the 20-artist painting classifier). After building it locally with Jupyter Notebooks and Kaggle, I advanced to the next unit in…
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Site Update: New Creative Works, Comments, and Inspirations
I made some major changes to this website’s content and aesthetics this week, which you may or may not have noticed. First, I modified some of the fonts that are used, and installed a new minimalistic font that I felt went a bit better with the site’s theme. That font is now used on some…
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Reflection: 2026 Chamber Music Perspectives Workshop
It’s been quite a busy past couple of weeks. The 2026 Chamber Music Perspectives composition workshop mentioned in the previous blog post has now ended, so it’s time to dig into a brief reflection on what happened and the interesting skills I learned during this camp. This will be a “bite-sized” reflection, an interesting technique…
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Summer Update: AI Models, Flames of Rebellion, Chamber Music
With the academic year classes having come to a conclusion, the summer has officially started. I made a goal for myself back in late April, when things were still extremely busy, that I would try to push harder on the fourth and final book in the Flames of Rebellion series when classes ended. I had…
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Kaggle Titanic Random Forest Model: Summary and Comments
This month, I finished the final series of hyperparameter tuning and optimization on the Kaggle Titanic Random Forest Model. I constructed this model for the Kaggle Machine Learning from Disaster challenge, which is an introductory-level machine learning prediction competition. Users are supposed to construct a model that predicts whether or not a given person, among…
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Technology and Innovation: A Brief Remark
This week in chemistry, I discovered the benefits and drawbacks of fuel-cell technology and photovoltaic energy. However, the chemistry textbook we’re using is more than a few years out of date—and when it comes to modern technology, even the smallest time frames can make a huge difference. Although the primary fuel cell technology mentioned in…
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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…
