Early Experiments

Old school, weekend, and hackathon projects. Some are rough, but I still like having them around.

AI / Search

ByteSize

2024

A Bitcamp prototype that searched a document collection by meaning and related language rather than exact wording.

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Hermes

2024

A command-line tool for sending code snippets and searching message history by meaning. I used it to experiment with BERT embeddings, vector search, and a developer workflow that stayed inside the terminal.

Music Similarity Search

An experiment in finding songs by how they sound rather than how they are labeled, using learned audio representations and vector search.

Movie Success Prediction

2024

An early data-science project using exploratory analysis, feature engineering, and XGBoost to predict whether a film would be commercially successful.

Systems

Unix-like Shell in C

2024

A small shell with tokenization into a command tree, pipes, file redirection, boolean operators, and process control. Building it made those operating-system concepts concrete.

Computer Vision

YOLO Parking Pass Detector

2022

A computer-vision system that detected vehicle parking passes at roughly 96 percent accuracy, then used OCR to read the pass number.

Platonic Rotation

2021

A linear algebra visualization that rotates Platonic solids in three dimensions and projects them into two using transformation matrices and OpenCV.

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