Analyzing Email Data

I’ve always been a bit of a data nut, I love it. It can predict the future, improve understanding, and provide insight into… well, anything! Recently, I was watching FRONTLINE: United States of Secrets, a documentary about what led up to Snowden’s leaks. It is really interesting, and even though I read a ton about the NSA…

Edge Detection in Computer Vision

Edge detection is one of the most important concepts in computer vision. It’s a pretty straight forward idea, running edge detection on an image should output only edges, similar to a sketch. My goal is to explain, not only how edge detection works very clearly, but also to provide a new and easy way to improve…

Building a Kickstarter: What I Learned

It has often been said, that filling out a Y Combinator application is an excellent way to gain perspective about your startup, regardless of making it to interviews. Although I wouldn’t argue with that, I’m here to inform you that building a Kickstarter has (at least for us) helped far more. To put this in perspective, we have…