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Case studies and notes on data engineering, AI, and full-stack builds.
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I Simulated a Fly's Escape Reflex on Its Real Wiring, Then Started Cutting Neurons
Google/HHMI Janelia just mapped a fruit fly's entire nervous system down to the synapse. I turned its escape circuit into a spiking simulator and measured exactly how many neurons you can silence before the fly stops dodging — almost none.
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Jersey City Bikeshare
Production-style data platform over 230K Citibike trips (Jersey City) — dbt medallion architecture, Kafka streaming, Terraform-provisioned Snowflake, and Airflow orchestration.
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NYC Taxi Data Pipeline
320M NYC yellow taxi trips across 7 years, processed through a Bronze/Silver/Gold pipeline on Snowflake and dbt with a quarantine layer gating data quality — total compute cost: $9.94.
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An On-Chain Factory for One-Transaction NFT Collections
A Solidity factory contract that deploys a fresh ERC-721 collection, mints the first token, and hands over ownership — all in a single transaction, verified on Sepolia and wired up with wagmi.
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I Tried to Predict Apple's Stock Price With Linear Regression. Here's Why You Shouldn't.
A backtest showed 0.78 R² and 77.5% directional accuracy. Then I ran it on real future data and it barely beat a coin flip.
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World ID SSO: On-Chain vs. Cloud, Side by Side
A Bachelor's thesis project comparing two ways to let a user prove they're a unique human — a Solidity contract verifying a World ID zero-knowledge proof on-chain, and a NextAuth OIDC flow doing the same in the cloud.
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A Vanilla GAN on MNIST, and What FID Actually Told Me
A fully-connected generator and discriminator trained for 500 epochs on MNIST — plus the numerical instability FID hits at small batch sizes, and how I dealt with it.