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I'm an experienced web developer and data scientist passionate about R and Laravel. Data visualization is my specialty.

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Recent Articles

DeepSeek R1 Distilled: Usable Local AI or Ban-Worthy Threat?

February 13th, 2025 — Released with an MIT license, DeepSeek-R1 is truly a breakthrough and a gift to the world. Curious about trying it locally?

Count Cards, not Parlay Legs: Lessons from my First Season of NBA and F1 Betting

January 24th, 2025 — Our society is now saturated with messaging encouraging you to make terrible bets on sports events. I've done my best to cultivate a data-driven approach instead

Breaking Free from Cloud-Based AI: My Hands-On Experience with LM Studio

December 12th, 2024 — Run AI on your computer with LM Studio: a review of its features, benefits, and limitations as a local LLM solution for personal and business use.

Shock Norris Q1 Exit comes amid otherwise Surging Qualifying Form: an Analysis

September 14th, 2024 — Lando Norris' failure to advance from Q1 in F1 Baku was dramatic. Equally dramatic has been the evolution of Norris’ qualifying form in 2024 vs. Verstappen.

Accessing the Cascade in Blade with Statamic’s @cascade Directive

August 30th, 2024 — Statamic 5.23.0 had an awesome PR from Jack Sleight which lets you access cascade data in Blade with a new `@cascade` directive. Let's look at a real example!