Joshua Cook

My notes on the book Deep Work by Cal Newport about how to maximize productivity and success on meaningful work.

Python package for interfacing with Boston 311 API.

A suite of projects for tracking my coffee consumption.

How to build a hierarchical model in PyMC3 with a mixture of centered and non-centered parameterizations to avoid the dreaded funnel degeneracies.

A brief description of the tools and process behind my recent analysis of data from a study of the ‘Facial Feedback Hypothesis’.

My own visualization and statistical analysis of the data from a replication study of this famous phsycology paper.

We trained a Progressive Growing GAN to produce realistic, yet novel, hand radiographs and explored its latent input space to identify an embedding of bone age.

A few useful notes for using the logging system in Swift apps on Apple platforms.

A web application that summarizing text down to an adjustable percentage of the the most important sentences.

A web application that solves [Sudoku puzzles] using linear integer programming.

A step-by-step tutorial on creating a web application with Streamlit, building a Docker image with GitHub Actions, and hosting on Heroku.

This links to my repository with my solutions to the Advent of Code 2020 programming challenges.

A Swift package for summarizing long text into the most important sentences or words.

How to fit a spline using the Bayesian modeling framework PyMC3.

How to use DeepAI’s Image Colorization API to colorize black-and-white photos using Python.

An iPhone app for tracking when plants have been watered.

An Apple Watch application for recording telemetry data during a workout and uploading the data to iCloud Drive.

An Apple Watch application that randomly selects quick exercises using a Wheel-of-Fortune-like spinning wheel.

A simple statistical solution to this Riddler accompanied by descriptive simulations.

I present a breif take on Dr.

Using simulation in R to solve this directionally-discombobulating puzzle.

How I used graph theory in R to solve a mathematical corn maze.

I used simulations in R to solve this Riddler about how long it takes for confuded ducks to find each other in a pond.

I used simulation with to approximate the solution an older Riddler.

I used graphs to solve this weeks Riddler to find the difference in shortest paths resulting from a change to the sidewalk layout of Riddler City.

This puzzle was to find the shortest paths of two indivduals sharing a sidewalk while obsering the COVID-19 6-foot social distancing guideline.

For this week’s Riddler, we were asked to solve the 3D structure given a series of cross-sections.

This week’s Riddler involves finding the path used by the knight to kill the opposing queen in a game of chess.

A brief look at the systems for caching in R.

A simple system for saving and loading objects in R.

An explanation of the caching system employed in ‘mustashe’.

A simple system for saving and loading objects in R.

Transforming the MSK OncoTree into a tidygraph object in R.

Use GitHub actions to design a workflow to test LaTeX compilation and to convert the LaTeX document using Pandoc.

A seemingly simple task took quite a bit of research and experimentation to figure out.

A simple app to help me record data on my seedlings.

How to add an animated GitHub corner to an R Markdown page.

How to find the point where two histograms overlap.

A LED lighting set-up for my indoors plants.

A in-depth tutorial on how to replicate the interactive zoom transition used in the native iOS Photos app.

‘ggasym’ (pronounced “gg-awesome”) plots a symmetric matrix with three different fill aesthetics.

An app to help my mom keep track of and care for her plants.