PyTorch Headfirst

Sun Jun 14 2020

This post dives headfirst into PyTorch: a powerful open-source ML library for Python. Google’s flagship ML library is TensorFlow, whereas Facebook developed PyTorch. Researchers are gravitating towards PyTorch due to its flexibility and efficiency. This tutorial goes over the basics of PyTorch, including tensors and a simple perceptron. This tutorial requires knowledge of Python, Numpy, and neural networks. If you don’t know anything about neural networks, I suggest that you watch this amazing video by 3Blue1Brown:

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Word Embeddings Part 2

Mon Jun 08 2020

Let’s get right into this post! Before you read this post, be sure to check out my original post on word embeddings. In this post, we will be using data from this blog to create and visualize a word embedding.

To recap, let’s first examine a small example using the Gensim Word2Vec model:

from gensim.models import Word2Vec

# defines some dummy data
sentences = [["cat", "say", "meow"], ["dog", "say", "woof"], ["man", "say", "dam"]]

# creates and trains model
model = Word2Vec(min_count=1, size=10)
model.build_vocab(sentences)
model.train(sentences, total_examples=model.corpus_count, epochs=model.epochs) 

# saves the model so that you can load it later with model.load
model.save("basic-word2vec.model")

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Coming Out as Bisexual

Mon Jun 01 2020

I don’t know exactly who I’m writing this post for: maybe it’s for me, maybe it’s for that guy I’m trying to impress, maybe, it’s for the LGBTQ+ community this pride month. I’m not a elegant storyteller, but I wanted to share my coming out experience.

I’ve seen other blog posts and videos on the subject, but they never fully encapsulate what I went through. Maybe that is the point, not everyone is the same. Labels are convenient but, they are not perfect. Sexuality isn’t a spectrum where totally gay and totally straight are on different sides. Sexuality: it’s fluid, it’s complicated, it’s love… it’s exciting.

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College Cookbook Part 3

Sat May 30 2020

Woah, I’m making part three!! They say good things come in threes– unless it’s a Disney franchise. This continues my last post and goes over some easy-to-prepared and palatable foods that I have cooked.

1 Pork Chops

When done right, pork chops are probably the best meat you can cook – I enjoy pork chops more than steak. I start by seasoning the chops in a rub consisting of salt, pepper, garlic, onion powder, paprika, cayenne powder.

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Flirting with Burnout at RIT

Fri May 22 2020

“Your absolutely crazy,” my boyfriend exclaimed as he gazed at my schedule. Eighteen credit hours, two part-time jobs, and three clubs– my spring semester was shaping up to be one hell of a ride. That semester I flew too high, burned my wings, and was then was saved by Covid-19.

Indulge me as I recount what happened during this crazy semester and reconcile what I’ve learned while pushing my limits at RIT.

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