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Ryan's personal blog on data science, personal projects, and various related topics

Eight Portions


Ryan's personal blog on data science, personal projects, and various related topics

Raspberry Pi dog deterrent robot

Training my dog to stay out of the kitchen with a Raspberry Pi and a flyswatter

Posted on October 6, 2025

My dog, Honey, has a long history of stealing food from our kitchen when we aren’t looking. She is particularly drawn to our skillet, often taking it upon herself to liberate the skillet of any meats or grease it may... [Read More]

The Question Is Everything

Who Will Thrive in the Age of AI

Posted on August 3, 2025

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Deep Thought spends 7.5 million years calculating the answer to life, the universe, and everything: 42. The problem wasn’t that Deep Thought was wrong but rather that nobody knew what question it was... [Read More]

Why You Should Strive for Lower Leverage Work

A counterintuitive approach to maximizing your impact in knowledge work

Posted on July 14, 2025

Everyone talks about finding “high-leverage” work. Build tools that automate tasks. Write code that gets reused. Create processes that scale. These are all great things that can help you land more impact with your finite time. But if we think... [Read More]

Screenshots are not proof of anything

A gentle reminder that screenshots are so easy to spoof that they mean absolutely nothing

Posted on July 7, 2024

Billions of dollars have been made and lost in recent months based on screenshots of Roaring Kitty’s account balances1. These screenshots were widely circulated and discussed, yet they could have easily been doctored. Some examples can be found here, here,... [Read More]

What is the true depreciation cost of driving one mile?

A multivariate analysis of used car prices

Posted on December 18, 2022

Many factors affect a vehicle’s market value but two of the most important factors are vehicle age and mileage. The average American vehicle travels about 14,000 miles per year, per the 2019 FHA data. Most publicly available depreciation estimates are... [Read More]
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