Articles

This is a pretty desolate page. When I originally transitioned blogs I intended to migrate the best pieces here after some updating and reformatting. Life gets in the way of the best laid plans, not to mention that strong self-criticism makes me evaluate that content so critically that it never hits the filter required for me to consider it worthy.

Recently my work has taken me to a lot of novel realms where there is a dearth of good resources, so I will strive to make the time to post more.

• Understanding Floating Point Numbers
  
  A very basic explanation of the operation and storage of floating point types, which I post purely as I've seen a lot of misunderstandings, particularly related to floating point numbers and their accuracy in representing integers
• Processing Wikipedia Extracts With Python
  
  Wikipedia provides monthly extracts of their corpus, providing a wonderful set of data for testing language models of all sorts, building knowledge ontologies, and so on. This article details how to process those dumps easily, efficiently, and quickly.
• Effortlessly Support Next Gen Image Formats
  
  Apple's announcement that their upcoming software releases will all support JPEG XL has given enormous momentum to the format. In mere months, a billion+ clients will natively support the format, giving it incredibly broad support. But how can you support it without leaving other platforms behind?
• My Data-Backed Battle and Defeat of Hypertension
  
  Come along with me on my journey taking steps to battle hypertension. Let me introduce you to the drugs I met along the way, and the impact they had on my life.