Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should! What started off as a (mostly) innocent attempt to mess around with code that modifies code ended as all such things tend to: simultaneously blessed and cursed. Read more about what unfortunately managed to be accomplished with Python codec abuse here here.

A handful of specific scraping scrapes for news and social media websites. Done mainly to collect data for word embedding models for use in the Neuroeconomics lab.

An overcomplicated way to send people birthday cards through the power of blockchain. The repo is an implementation of the accompanying paper here which is probably more interesting than the tooling itself :)

A Pokemon Showdown! client for Python 3.4 and 3.5. This was written to make it easier to write bots, interact with users, moderate chat rooms, and collect data. Takes advantages of Py3’s async features to allow multiple connections over websockets, maintain IO channels, and to integrate with existing IRC bots.

VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) is a lexicon and rule-based sentiment analysis tool that is specifically attuned to sentiments expressed in social media. It is fully open-sourced under the MIT License. This is a port of the original module, which was written in Python. If you’d like to make a contribution, please checkout the original author’s work here.

For more details, visit the website, navigate to the portfolio section, look for the “This Website” entry under the personal tab, and follow the directions listed there.

Designed and built app to recognize objects and text in the user’s field of view and display relevant language translations. Built on top of Android OpenCV and Google’s Vision API. Designed and released overnight for SodaHacks 2018, earning finalist position out of 100+ competitors.

An email bot that notifies the user whenever new items have been added to the UC Berkeley Lost and Found. Up-to-date data is synced with a Firebase database, and displayed on the interative webpage. Currently being run off of OCF infrastructure. In loving memory of the pair of glasses that I lost during orientation week :’(

Tools for developing optimal strategies for the game of Hog when complete information is available, and for approximating solutions when there is incomplete information. Includes visualization tools to watch strategies evolve between iterations. More details in this post