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Guru of Grok; Lover of Lifts; Constantly Consuming Caffeine; Crafter of Code, Containers, and Clouds!

Explanation by Analogy Attempt: On-Premise Infrastructure vs. Cloud Infrastructure vs. Cloud Services

Jan 11, 2020

It is incredibly important in technical communication to be able to cross domains and get "the point" across. I work and deal with incredibly talented people who are not concerned with the technical differences between On-Premise infrastructure, Clou...

Why I Fell in Love With the Cloud

Dec 4, 2019

I was just getting into some coding in college and decided it would be cool to build and maintain my own website. "Surely I would learn a lot by doing that, and I would have a cool new way to demonstrate my technology skills!" I looked into Wordpress...

Plan of Study (Fall 2019) @ Virginia Tech DLRL

Sep 14, 2019

September Paper Reading: Q-Learning Recurrent Neural Networks Get Familiar With: Markov Models (as well as Hidden Variants) Neural Networks Cloud Machine Learning Pipelines (likely AWS) October Paper Reading: Additional papers on Recurrent Neura...

Attempting a Move: Hugo to Hashnode

Aug 27, 2019

I'm trying to write more consistently. Also inspired by James Clear's excellent book Atomic Habits he states one component of his habit-building framework that really stuck with me Make it easy Effectively, he details this as the effort to remove ...

Geographic Information in the Browser

Dec 12, 20182 min read

I took an introduction to GIS class through Grad School and it was pretty cool! Even though a majority of what we learned was in ArcGIS, I made some cool maps using Leaflet.js that I wanted to share. Tree Survey The class collected data using a nove...

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