I used simple NLP to write a search function that will compare a user query to each line of dialogue in ~600 episodes of The Simpsons, and deployed it in a live web application. This was a one-week team project with other data scientists and web developers at Lambda School,... [Read More]

The State of Durango, in northern Mexico, is one of those affected with significant natural presence of arsenic in groundwater. One of the problems with studying arsenic is that it’s expensive to measure it accurately. But what if we could reliably predict the arsenic content of a water sample, based... [Read More]

Synthetic minimal cells (synells) are microscopic bioreactors that allow scientists to study many of the molecules and processes of life. These artificial cells are built from the same materials as living cells (proteins and small molecules, encased in a phospholipid liposome). But unlike regular cells, synells can be built to... [Read More]

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