Early Experiments
These are old school, weekend, and hackathon projects. Some were useful; some were mainly excuses to learn a model or system by building the smallest thing that made it concrete.
I keep them because they show the path, not because they represent my best work.
AI / Search
ByteSize
2024A Bitcamp prototype for semantic document search: query a collection by meaning and related language rather than exact wording.
Hermes
2024A 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
2024An 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
2024A small shell with tokenization into a command tree, pipes, file redirection, boolean operators, and process control. Building it made operating-system abstractions considerably less abstract.
Computer Vision
YOLO Parking Pass Detector
2022A computer-vision system that detected vehicle parking passes at roughly 96 percent accuracy, then used OCR to read the pass number.
Platonic Rotation
2021A visualization of linear algebra: rotate Platonic solids in three dimensions and project them into two using transformation matrices and OpenCV.