Design Decisions Behind Making a Simple Comments System With Express, Sqlite3, and jQuery
Written by Dylan on 13 April 2023
From the start of making this website I wanted to have a comments section, but I didn't want to use gross out-of-the-box solutions like Disqus. I was determined to make something I could host myself, and more importantly, wouldn't require one to create yet another just to post a comment …
Reflecting on The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
Written by Dylan on 25 March 2023
Have you ever been in awe of what other people have achieved and wondered: how do I get there with the million things I need to do already? How could I possibly find the time? I feel it's universal that we're all struggling to balance the complexity of life with …
GANs in Single Image Datasets: A Retrospective
Written by Dylan on 12 March 2023
With the recent publishing of my paper in the University of Minnesota Morris' Undergraduate Journal Scholarly Horizons, I thought now would be the perfect time for a retrospective of all the challenges I overcame in writing it and presenting it to my professors and peers. It was my first dip …
In the Future: A Revival
Written by Dylan on 08 March 2023
With the need for a website, I thought I would revive this little passion project of mine with a brand new spin using all the new tools at my disposal. Everything from the theme itself to the templates Jinja uses have been completely reimagined to pull it up to the …
Wheat Kernel Categorization Using a Neural Network
Written by Dylan on 01 May 2022
In Spring of 2022 I took a Neural Networks course that covered the field as a whole with the course textbook Deep Learning written by Ian Goodfellow et al. Goodfellow himself is a huge inspiration to me with him bringing Generative Adversarial Networks to the stage of machine learning and …