Git and GitHub: Tips and Tricks

Feb 4, 2019 1 min read

Using Git to manage your code? We all know about git init, commit, etc. But here are some handy git commands for common scenarios: Clone…

Deploying an Angular 6+ Web App to Azure

Jan 30, 2019 10 min read

The process of deploying an Angular 6+ application to Azure is pretty Byzantine, but here are the basic steps to get it going. I really…

No, Denmark is not a Socialist Country.

Jan 17, 2019 3 min read

When socialists say they want to “abolish capitalism,” they are not saying they want to become more like Denmark or Germany, but they’d love for…

“Green New Deal”: Math Check

Jan 8, 2019 2 min read

The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein estimates that raising the marginal tax rate to between 60 and 70 percent on incomes above $10 million might raise…

Neural Style Transfer – Current Models

Dec 29, 2018 1 min read

I’m working on a neural-style transfer project, and have several machine learning models trained to render input photos in particularly styles. The current set is…

Elektro, the Smoking Robot of 1937

Dec 15, 2018 4 min read

I’ve always been fascinated by past visions of the future. Science fiction uses the future to tell us something about ourselves, so looking back on past…