Call me a nerd, but cultivating various forms of tasty fungus in my basement is a thing that I do. It is my dream someday to live way out in the woods, way off grid, and grow as much of my food as possible; and an automated underground mushroom farm is a part of that plan. This is the current iteration of my mushroom bubble: Materials Needed Its construction is cheap, simple, and effective. If you want to try something similar, you will need: ...

Building a comprehensive dataset of U.S. carceral facilities using geospatial data, satellite imagery, APIs, and machine learning to support historical research on hyper-incarceration.

An exploration into building a fully automated system that generates news articles using LLMs based on real-time GDELT data, highlighting the prevalence and potential of AI-generated content.

It was fairly early on in my data science explorations that I discovered ‘remote sensing’. I have always known that satellite imaging was extant tech, and that most people interact with it in one way or another, probably through something akin to Google Maps. Though I had never given it much ‘formal’ thought, I assumed that this type of space age tech was limited to governments and powerful corporations. That assumption was markedly false—I was interested to learn. ...