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Image taken from Nigeria (by Benita in 2018).

DESIGNS

Showcasing the intersection of math and art; the 4th image illustrating a Maurer rose. The poker chip table image was from 2014, while I was living in the Air Force dormitories at Fort Meade.

Captured from METOP-C Satellite using Python and SATNOGS



EXPERIENCES

Captured moments from my childhood memories.

Photos from my 15A Operations Research Officer Training. Images 1-4: were on our C-130 tour; Image 5 is my OASIS patch; Image 6 was a cool picture of Mariana’s dog, and the 7th image was our class meme.

The 1st image was taken from my first skydiving trip. The other images were respectively taken from the Baltimore Inner Harbor, and somewhere near the Naval Academy in Annapolis.

1st photo: (Fort Meade –> Virginia); 2nd photo: (Keesler AFB –> Houston, TX)

1st photo: reflecting my time at a flight simulation; 2nd photo: puzzle I started/finished during a weekend; 3rd photo: from Goddard Space Flight Center.


1st photo: Rose working on a puzzle (super fast); 2nd photo: was taken at the Renaissance Festival (2022)

1st photo: Taken at the Texas Capitol Building. 2nd photo: Bowling (first months in Texas). 3rd photo: Gym photo. 4th photo: Suicide Awareness Course completed.

Photos taken while running in Texas.


DRAWINGS

This was a bull sketch from 2014. I remember wanting to practice shading, and thought this would be a great way to demonstrate it.


PAINTINGS


I painted this while on a temporary deployment in Georgia. The second image was a sketch from many years ago, of a snake I saw in a dream.

ORIGAMI




MATHEMATICS


Created for my Maximum Likelihood Estimation post. The one on the left represents the iterative process of estimating the mean of the sample data, and the one on the right is estimating its covariance.

In the first image, I considered using MLE to fit a von Mises — Fisher distribution over this random sample. 2nd image: my draft code for using the Expectation Maximization algorithm for Gaussian Mixtures. 3rd image: my draft code for random Singular Value Decomposition (in 2019). At some point, I will read more about the optimal singular values threshold, but I thought it would be interesting to put it to use. The last photo displays QQ plots (test for normality).

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