Jul 3, 2020
Return Statement: reflections on Spring 2'20 and beyond —
I spent the last 12 weeks in the Spring 2’20 batch at the Recurse Center. This was my second time at RC and between a pandemic, and the world being generally on fire, it’s been a wild ride.…
May 18, 2020
Full Circle —
When I applied to RC in 2015 I didn’t have any code that was public, so I wrote a small color-perception game in python. Here‘s the original repository.
It’s a pretty simple game.…
Apr 23, 2020
Visualising language complexity —
A little over a year ago, as part of my jobby-job as a consultant, I worked on a proof of concept that explored the possibility of using natural language processing to extract and analyse burdens (obligations) from the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) (more details about that in this article and this video).…
Apr 4, 2020
Javascript is Weird Part I: Comparing Arrays —
Javascript is weird.
I worked in Python for the last 5 years, and in R for the 3 years before, mostly for data science applications, and I didn’t realise how much I was taking for granted until I started playing around with Javascript and spending a lot of time just wondering why!…
Mar 30, 2020
RC batch 2 day 1 —
Today is the first day of my second batch at the Recurse Centre.
My first batch was in the spring of 2015 and it was a life-changing experience, not just for all the things I learned (a lot), but also for all the wonderful people I’ve met during and after my time in NYC.…