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This website is a collection of various resources for topics that I like learning about. It also has several curated collections of tools, suggestions, and commentaries. You can also find my blog here.

Why this website? I’m the kind of person who’s constantly exploring new ideas, topics, tools, and hobbies. This website is a place where I can organize and share what I find with others. I don’t have time to dive into everything I find, but the hope is that someone else may find it useful.

Recent Blog Posts

• 2023-01-17 - Scalar, Vector, and Matrix Derivatives Demystified

  If you’re working in the fields of machine learning, control theory, or any other STEM field that involves functions with multiple variables, you will almost certainly end up working with multi-variable derivatives at some point. Gradients and Jacobians can be fairly intuitive to work with once you wrap your head around them, but taking matrix-valued derivatives of matrices is a little more intimidating. What does that even look like? How do you implement that in code?

• 2022-12-15 - JuliaLang and Private Struct Fields

  TL;DR: There are none. But we can try anyways.

• 2022-04-03 - A Family Tradition

  My church holds a global conference twice a year. My wife and I have the tradition that on the weekend it takes place, we bake cinnamon rolls for our family (us and our two daughters). While we’re eating them, we each take turns telling the other members of our family what we appreciate about them. It can be anything from appreciating their individual talents to admiring character traits they have and more. This tradition actually was started by my Mom when I was much younger–my wife and I have continued it with our own kids.