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Loving Vincent and Mathematically Awakened Art

A few days ago, I watched this movie called Loving Vincent, and the visual beauty of the movie blew me away.

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259 artists over a five year stretch painted every single frame of the film. This was a project of passion and the passion brought Van Gogh’s paintings to life, each second a visual heartbeat for the film.

But this isn’t a movie review blog. I do numbers. Of course, there’s no replacement for the passion and artistry that it took to create a work of art like Loving Vincent. However, I did want to see there were a way to better bring paintings and artwork to life mathematically.

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Conditional Probability, the Danger of Data-Driven Decisions, and When to Stop Eating that Burrito

So there’s a local burrito joint near USC, whose primary demographic is the 3 AM student who is less than toxicated. This small shack was one of my favorite places in all of Los Angeles.

It was a normal Thursday night, and I was eating my Loaded Combination Burrito with a three meat blend of chicken, carne asada, and al pastor. It’s always a good night when you’re holding a monster like this in your hand

Mmmmmmmm Burro

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Aper.io: 36 hours of Pizza Rat

Hackathon #2. UCLA. 1000 people. I wanted to go big or go home. My team Nihar Sheth, Markie Wagner, and Zane Durante,  felt the same.

After a series of disputes and disagreement, we eventually found the perfect idea: using ML to improve frame rate of videos, by predicting what frame should come between any two given frames. It was complex, it was visual, it was potentially boom, and it was definitely potentially bust: Continue reading “Aper.io: 36 hours of Pizza Rat”

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Cool Stuff: Style Transfer

Merry Christmas ya’ll. Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and a Fortuitous Festivus for the rest of us! In the spirit of the holiday, I wanted to give my Mom a little gift.

She’s not the biggest fan of data analytics. I remember one day, we were on the phone and she was telling me this extremely sad story about one of her friends. Her friend was a doctor from the University of Tehran Continue reading “Cool Stuff: Style Transfer”

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Worksheet Reader: Post-Game

First round of college exams is now officially over :).  I had 3 exams: Calc III, Physics and Computer Science.  The grind was on: a friend of mine was in the same Math and Physics class as I was, and every day leading up to our exam, we locked ourselves in a classroom, chalk-boarded up, and ran through every textbook review problem and every past exam available.

Following my last exam, I crashed on the couch and binged a solid 4 hours of Seinfeld with some friends, and flew back home to Memphis the next morning. Following this type of grind, normally I’d give myself a nice break, but, having deprived from my jupyter notebook since exams started, I was itching to build some models. Continue reading “Worksheet Reader: Post-Game”