I just launched my first Kickstarter project! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/411355421/battle-map-explorer

I have a pet hamster named Baka. Baka spends most of his free time running on a hamster wheel. I put together a device to track the hamst...

I have been attempting to do aerial photography with a GoPro. My first attempt was using a quadcopter (Parrot AR.Drone): Unfortunately t...

I just released cmix v7 . I spent a long time fixing a bug which caused cmix v6 to crash in Windows. For v7 I focused on improving image com...

During a meeting with some coworkers we started debating if it was possible to find a better meeting location. Given the starting location o...

I finally own a VR device: Google Cardboard . It works surprisingly well! I am using it with a Nexus 5, which has a nice display. Cardboar...

I recently started a fun activity called wargaming. Wargames are a set of computer science related challenges/puzzles. So far I have complet...

I recently beat GTA V , so I was looking for a new game to play. GTA V is the most expensive video game ever made and has amazing producti...

I have released a new version of my visibility polygon library . One of the constraints in the old version was that none of the input line...

I have released cmix version 3 . This version is over twice as fast, uses less memory, and gets better compression ratio.

Today I derived backpropagation for a logistic activation function and a cross entropy loss function. This has been done before, but I could...

I have released cmix version 2 . It is now first place on the Large Text Compression Benchmark .

I have released cmix version 1 . It is now ranked first place on the Silesia Benchmark and second place on the Large Text Compression Bench...

I added a new HTML5 experiment to my website: Vector Earth . Inspired by the xkcd now comic , I downloaded some vector map data and tried...

I liked the clock in today's xkcd . However, it only has a 15 minute granularity. Well, this is something I can fix in HTML5 canvas ! ...

Can you guess what this is? It is a zoomed in picture of the lid to a container of yogurt I ate yesterday. It reminded me of the patt...

cmix has now surpassed paq8l on both the calgary corpus and enwik8. cmix is probably now one of the most powerful general purpose compress...

There is a cool game being developed called Nothing To Hide . It uses the visibility polygon library that I wrote. Review at rockpapershotg...

A few months ago I wrote a review of the Oculus Rift . There is another similar product coming out soon which I am even more excited about...

I spent most of my christmas break working on a data compression project. It is a lossless compression program called "cmix" writt...