Intellectual Pursuits

Recent projects, learning journeys, and technical writing.

Finding Beauty in Algorithms - From LeetCode to Engineering Applications

How the Minimum Edit Distance Algorithm Can Guide Engineering System Design

December 23, 2024

This article explores how a classic dynamic programming problem - minimum edit distance - can be repurposed to help engineers navigate system constraints. Using…

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Learning Networking Through Setting Up A Home Server

My Journey and Instructions to Follow Along Yourself

November 23, 2024

This article explores my journey learning networking while creating my homelab and setting up my home network. I currently have AdGuardHome as a local DNS serve…

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Learning React Through Building a Lab Data Visualization Tool

Creating Chronolab - A Desktop Application for Synchronized Video and Data Visualization

October 30, 2024

This article explores my journey learning React while building Chronolab, a desktop application that enables synchronized visualization of laboratory video and …

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Dance DJ Assistant - A Web Development Learning Journey

Building My First Python Web Application

September 22, 2024

This article explores my journey learning web development while creating a tool for dance DJs using Spotify. The project combines algorithmic optimization with …

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From Python to Rust - Building a Production Web Application

Learning Modern Web Development Through Dancexam

September 22, 2024

This article explores my journey learning production-grade web development while creating Dancexam, a tool for dance communities to administer and grade progres…

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Supersonic Airfoil Flowfield Resolution

Writing a CFD Solver in Python & Rust

January 26, 2024

This article explores writing a third-order inviscid Euler solver as the final project for Georgia Tech's AE6042 Computational Fluid Dynamics.

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Visualizing & Animating Equilibrium Combustion Products vs. Equivalence Ratio

Using Cantera and Plotly Animations

January 21, 2024

This was a homework assignment for the class AE6766 Combustion at Georgia Tech, but I wanted to hone my visualization skills using Plotly so I put a little extr…

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Denoising Time Series Data with Variational Mode Decomposition In Python

A Precursor to Steady State Detection

January 15, 2024

Variational mode decomposition VMD was explored as a methodology for denoising data, based on prior work by Chen et al. the-steady-state-detection-paper . An ar…

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Fourier Time Series Analysis In Python

Data Segmentation with the STFT and DBSCAN Clustering

December 17, 2023

This article explores separating parts of a signal based on the dominant frequency in that part of the signal. All the material used to create this is within th…

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