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Nathan Rooy is a data scientist with interests in ML, minimalism, and privacy, transitioning from CFD engineering in motorsport to ML and data science.

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2025-03-22

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The text discusses the author's participation in the annual pen plotter postcard exchange (PTPX) and the process of creating a postcard design inspired by aerodynamics using Lattice Boltzmann Methods. The author also shares their ...
The author discusses the relationship between food, calories, and exercise, and the lack of intuition in understanding these relationships. He shares his experience of building a service called yams.energy to develop caloric intui...
The author describes his trip to the Natchez Trace, a parkway in the southern United States. He and his friend biked over 100 miles a day, enjoying the food and hospitality of Mississippi. The trip was challenging but satisfying, ...
The author discusses his lack of artistic ability and his interest in the generative art community, particularly pen plotters. He describes his journey of converting his 3D printer into a pen plotter, including the decision to pri...
The author discusses his experience running a small web service, refactoring it into a serverless architecture, and his transition from Python to Go. He also shares his thoughts on Go's potential as a cloud service and compares it...
The author describes his experience of kayaking around Manhattan, sharing his thoughts and observations along the way.
The author describes his experience of circumnavigating Manhattan in a 3D printed kayak, sharing details of the journey, including the ideal launch time, the sights along the way, and the challenges faced.
The author discusses his conjecture that used book stores are superior to commercial book outlets for discovering books, due to the way exploratory suggestions are sourced and the layout of the stores. He shares his first attempt ...
The author discusses his experience of building a 3D printed kayak during the lockdown. He describes the design process, the challenges he faced, and the field testing of the kayak. He also outlines his future plans for refining t...
The author discusses the implementation of the Myers bit-vector algorithm for computing Levenshtein edit distance in Python, and the performance comparison with other popular libraries. The implementation is available on PyPI and ...
The text is about the author's experience with the new Dall·E 2 model by OpenAI, sharing some of the images he generated using the model.
The text is about Nathan Rooy's attempt to get a Long Tiny Loop score of 40. He discusses the path design process, the use of QGIS Python plugin, and the genetic algorithm for finding the optimal path. He also details the implemen...
The author discusses his experience exploring New York City by bike, using GitHub Actions, OpenStreetMap, and Strava. He explains the process of tracking his bike exploration progress, including scraping latitude/longitude pairs f...
The text is about Long Tiny Loop, a challenge to travel the longest path while minimizing the overall footprint and following specific rules. The author created a route using QGIS and Python, and discusses the challenges and futur...
The text discusses the process of normalizing aerodynamic properties against a reference area, particularly when dealing with non-parametric, triangulated geometry (STL) files. The author introduces a CLI called pArea to simplify ...
The text introduces the OSMnx Python package and discusses its routing functionality. The author then introduces his own routing module called Taxicab, which uses a combination of OpenStreetMap graph and road/sidewalk geometry. Th...
The text describes a four-day bike ride from Cleveland to Cincinnati, with details of the journey, including the route, stops, and experiences along the way.
The text is a tutorial on simulated annealing, a probabilistic optimization scheme, and its implementation in code. It covers the background, implementation for combinatorial and continuous problems, and different cooling schedule...
The author discusses the process of georeferencing old maps of Cincinnati and compares them to modern maps. The author highlights the development of Washington Park, the impact of the University of Cincinnati on Burnet Woods, and ...
The author discusses the visual similarity of movie posters and the common tropes movie studios use for their movie covers. They used deep learning to automate the process of finding new visual relationships and discovered interes...