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Procedurally Modeling Flowers in Blender
technical blog

16 January 2026

I abstract flowers into a set of parameters that describe floral charateristics such as petal shape, petal droop, color, number of whorls, sepals, stamen, anther, pistil etc. I use Geometry Nodes in Blender to convert these parameters (about 100 of them) into 3D flower models.

A Model to Predict LLM Effectiveness
technical blog

18 July 2025

What problems are LLMs good at and what problems do they struggle with? We break down problem-solving into four techniques, and compare LLMs to traditional computing and human reasoning on each technique. Only qualitative discussion. It has an interactive visualization! :)

The God of the Gaps
story

1 February 2025

"God of the Gaps" is a theological idea that describes the tendency to attribute gaps in scientific knowledge to the direct action of a divine creator. See Wikipeida. But what if The God of the Gaps was real?

Using deep CNNs to prove that I look better than Tom Cruise and Shah Rukh Khan combined
sigbovik

1 April 2022

(Paper written for SIGBOVIK 2022) In this paper, I use a novel deep CNN architecture, Image2Float, and conduct surveys to prove conclusively that I look better than Tom Cruise and Shah Rukh Khan combined.