This is a simple test blog to make sure that my offline CRM is working correctly and will automatically build and upload the site when new commits are pushed to the webpage repo.

In the second part of this series, we build a simple multilayer perceptron using some of the tools available in the vanilla jax library. Again, I've included a fully-functional notebook you can run on Google Colab and modify in any way you would like; a static copy is reproduced below …

Earlier this summer, I took some time to invest in getting more comfortable with the latest-and-greatest deep learning frameworks that had been released over the past two or so years. While my Keras-fu was serving me well with a lot of the toy deep learning projects I'd mess around …

GitHub Actions is a simple tool available with any repository you create on GitHub to create automated workflows to support your software development. As a scientist or a junior developer, this might seem like an esoteric feature -- I have enough terminal-fu to do what I need and I can write …

Although it's not 100% finished, I'm launching the new version of my homepage. This version departs significantly from my older versions in that I've chosen to move everything to static site generator. I think this gels a nicer with my current writing/tools workflow, which leans heavily on plain-text files …

The IPython Notebook and related media from my quick JP Student Luncheon talk is available on my GitHub page.

Slides (via nbviewer) -

30 days ago, the MIT Climate Change Conversation culminated in a Report outlining potential actions that MIT could take to address climate change. An open comment period on the Report ends today. I've been fortunate to have many conversations with my peers over the past month on the content of …

Seven years ago, when I first started working with climate model output and analysis within Python, the software stack we had available was pretty shoddy. Although direct interfaces to netCDF (the de facto standard data format in climate science) existed, they could be kind of clunky. They didn't have smart …

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Stormy Afternoon

Today's forecast is a bit of step down from yesterday. There's still a wind/rain threat later this afternoon, but there's a bit less energy for storms to tap into.

Storms should develop in Western KY and areas further West in …

Based on this notebook, which highlights some basics on reading in RTOFS/netCDF output into Python, manipulating that data, and plotting it. For additional examples, Filipe Fernandes has a great example of similar operations on his blog.

    import netCDF4 as nc
    import numpy as np

    %matplotlib inline
    import matplotlib.pyplot …

It gets really old having to create a site-specific .gitignore anytime I start a new project. It's especially troublesome since I tend to access the same repository when it's mounted on different filesystems, creating all sorts of superfluous, useless files (I'm talking about you, .DS_Store). Luckily, gitignore.io has …

For a long time, I've been looking for a good application of CUDA/GPGPU programming to some of the basic analysis I do in my research. Unfortunately, there really hasn't ever been any low-hanging fruit. That coupled with my desire to avoid pure C-programming at all costs was an ideal …

Divestment debate overshadows direct actions

By: Daniel Rothenberg, Alec Bogdanoff, Arthur Yip, and Paul Kishimoto

note - this essay originally appeared in the 2015 Commencement edition of The Tech

This week, the initial phase of the MIT Climate Change Conversation will conclude with the release of a committee report weighing the …