Lucas Amoudruz – Blog

How I built intuition about Gaussian processes from a PDE.

A look at my academic lineage.

Simulating the deformation of red blood cells and how they would look under DIC microscopy.

My Raspberry Pi watches a plant grow.

A two week experiment with my new Raspberry Pi.

Simulating sedimenting particles in Stokes flow with Barnes–Hut.

Simulating a Newton’s cradle with magnetic interactions, and how long-range forces break the clean transfer of energy.

Combining GPS and topographic data to find the perfect winter walk time for my parents.

From topographic data and solar geometry to the optimal reading time on my parent's terrace.

Using elevation data from my watch to analyze pacing strategies at the Harvard Stadium, and finding out what my best runs have in common.

A probability model for how many times you need to toss potatoes in a pan so each side gets cooked.

Modeling run time using temperature, sleep, and training history, with linear regression and Sobol indices.

A 3D-printed robot for testing learned fluid controllers: from simulations to a robotics prize.

How I built a custom site with code snippets, citations, and full control.

How I downloaded, cleaned, and merged my Garmin and weather data to build a useful personal dataset.