NASA image of Pioneer 10's famed Pioneer plaque features a design engraved into a gold-anodized aluminum plate, 152 by 229 millimeters (6 by 9 inches), attached to the spacecraft's antenna support struts to help shield it from erosion by interstellar dust. (see here)
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This repository contains some information about my work and GitHub activity. Means of contacting me are also provided.
Overview Of Public, Non-Work Repositories
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
O957 |
The author's personal GitHub profile. Contained therein are some resources and decisions that the author has made concerning his use of GitHub. This repository exists as a place for onlookers to provide the author with feedback. |
O957-Template |
A template I find useful for setting up Python and R repositories. |
paleo-labels |
A Python package for writing precisely formatted labels for natural specimens and related items, such as collections and excursions. |
Anki-Decks |
The author's personal Anki workflow, making use of genanki. |
Re-Wittmann-TDWMFC-2024 |
A partial replication in Python of the 2024 paper (The Demographic-Wealth model for cliodynamics) by Wittmann and Kuehn. |
Programming-Protocols |
Protocols for programming that I attempt to abide by. |
Genetic-Evolution-Tournament |
A Metaculus human judgment forecasting tournament established to generate forecasts and scenarios pertaining to the use of human genetic and reproductive technologies for treatment and enhancement. (Note: this has been transferred to another individual) |
sort-by-citations |
A streamlit application which uses pyalex (via OpenAlex) find the top N academic resources by citation count for researcher or keyword searches. |
fossil-species-references |
Streamlit application and standalone Python script for retrieving original publication data for fauna using the Paleobiology Database. |
awesome-astrobiology |
A curated list of awesome resources for astrobiology. |
awesome-cliodynamics |
A curated list of awesome resources for cliodynamics. |
awesome-genetic-engineering |
A curated list of awesome resources for genetic engineering. |
awesome-infectious-disease-modeling |
A curated list of awesome resources for infectious disease modeling. |
awesome-paleontology |
A curated list of awesome resources for paleontology. |
awesome-preimplantation-genetic-diagnosis |
A curated list of awesome resources for PGD, i.e. preimplantation genetic diagnosis. |
awesome-geology |
A curated list of awesome resources for geology. |
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
Quarto-Website-Materials |
Templates for Quarto websites (blog pages, projects, and data visualization dashboards) for the author to reference in his work. |
Personal-Helpers |
The author's various templates for tasks in research and data science. |
Forecasting-Tornadoes |
The authors' attempts at forecasting and modelling tornados in the US. |
Historical-Dynamics-Python |
Implementations in Python using Diffrax of the models described in Peter Turchin's 2003 book Historical Dynamics. |
Mathematics-Artwork |
The author's personal mathematical artworks. |
Aggregated-Model-Descriptions |
This repository contains a website with descriptions and some documentation for models that the author and friends have built. |
Overview Of Public, Work Repositories
| Repository | Description | Role |
|---|---|---|
forecasttools-py |
A Python package for common pre- and post-processing operations done by CFA Predict for short term forecasting, nowcasting, and scenario modeling. | Admin |
pyrenew |
Python package for multi-signal Bayesian renewal modeling with JAX and NumPyro. | Developer |
pyrenew-flu-light |
A replication in Python and PyRenew of a renewal model written in Epidemia for forecasting influenza hospital admissions. | Admin |
covid19-forecast-hub |
A repository run by the US CDC to collect forecasts of weekly incident COVID-19 hospital admissions. | Developer |
hubverse-annotator |
Locally-hosted web application for visualization of hubverse formatted observations and model forecasts and for annotation of data and models. | Admin |
rsv-forecast-hub |
A repository run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to collect forecasts of weekly incident respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalizations. | Admin |
External Repositories I Have Contributed To
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
longevity-paper |
Supporting code for the paper "Identifying Longevity Associated Genes by Integrating Gene Expression and Curated Annotations". |
paleobioDB |
R interface to the Paleobiology Database. |
rphylopic |
Get Silhouettes of Organisms from PhyloPic. |
hubTemplate |
Hubverse repository template. |
pylabrobot |
interactive & hardware agnostic SDK for lab automation. |
covid19-forecast-hub |
A repository run by the US CDC to collect forecasts of weekly incident COVID-19 hospital admissions. |
FluSight-forecast-hub |
A repository to collect forecasts of weekly incident influenza hospital admissions. |
Contributions Over The Years On GitHub
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2024
2023
Contact Me
To contact me with (greetings / criticism / advice / other remarks):
- Email [my-username] + [at-symbol] + [proton] + [dot-symbol] + [me]
Feel free also to create an issue or pull request into this repository with (greetings / criticism / advice / other remarks).
I am open to conversation and co-working and to conducting data science projects (in geology, paleontology, genetics, human reproduction, metascience, cliodynamics, forecasting, AI safety) together.