Benjamin J. Land

~BenLand100

Data scientist / Particle physicist / Computer nerd / Scifi superfan

Look me up: LinkedIn / GitHub / ORCID / PGP Public Key

Check out my: BeeCam / Photography / Astrophotography / Earth

Posts

2025/05/31 Receiving and decoding transmissions from weather satellites
2025/04/06 BeeLogger, an ESP32-based sensor platform for monitoring a beehive
2024/10/13 Deep-sky images vol. 2: galaxy edition
2024/09/29 Several ways to “add two number strings”
2024/09/28 Deep-sky images vol. 1: from the Philadelphia suburbs
2023/12/24 Astrophotography from light polluted skies
2023/12/15 Counting bees in a video feed with a neural network
2023/06/20 Hacking together a live stream video feed for a beehive
2023/02/12 Low level concepts in quantum computing
2023/01/29 Special Relativity, conceptually speaking
2023/01/12 DIY smart plug with integration to Home Assistant
2022/08/22 Photorealistic rendering with global illumination from scratch
2022/08/15 Raytracing and Raycasting with Signed Distance Functions
2022/03/17 Visualizing complex numbers and wavefunctions in one and two dimensions
2022/03/09 Simulating quantum mechanics with Python
2022/02/11 A possible optimal solution to Wordle
2021/12/02 Adding client-side search for a statically generated Hugo website
2021/10/31 Beginnings of a low frequency RF receiver with a MicroZed FPGA board
2021/10/28 Raspberry Pi IPv4/IPv6 router for a dual WAN household
2021/10/10 Do-it-yourself dimmable LED patio lights
2021/09/20 Leaving academia for industry: from physics to data science
2021/06/24 Deconvolving photon detector signals with convolution to count photons
2021/06/02 GDML importer for simulating DUNE in Chroma
2021/05/21 Automating computer games with a contemporary software stack
2021/05/11 Physics posters from graduate school and beyond
2021/05/04 Setting up a large Synology NAS for particle physics simulations
2021/04/25 WindMouse, an algorithm for generating human-like mouse motion
2021/04/18 Unbinned maximum likelihood fitting with kernel density estimation
2021/04/06 Computing π to many digits with a custom math library
2021/04/05 Floating point math algorithms without float datatypes or math-specific hardware
2021/03/31 Integer math algorithms without integer datatypes or math-specific hardware
2021/03/16 Spectral photon sorting for neutrino detection
2021/03/01 SNO+ experiment nearly full of scintillator
2021/02/24 Implementing exponentiation without a standard math library
2021/02/15 Reinforcement learning puzzle solving with a “Deep Q-Learning” neural network
2021/02/10 Machine learning puzzle solving with a deep neural network
2021/01/28 fastjson library for reading/writing JSON in C++
2021/01/25 Depth first search puzzle solving with heuristics
2021/01/21 L2, a Python emulation of a machine to execute LISP-like code
2021/01/09 Basic maximum likelihood fitting with two (or more) event classes in Python
2021/01/03 Rule 110 Cellular Automatons and Universality in Minecraft Redstone
2020/12/28 Prioritize network traffic by IP in Linux
2020/12/19 Mouse mover program for “working” from home
2020/12/14 Reconstructing neutrino interactions with Machine Learning and Likelihood methods
2020/12/10 Machine learning from scratch in Python with Numpy
2020/12/07 DUNE Warm Interface Board (WIB) Software
2020/12/07 Simulating optical physics with Chroma
2020/12/06 New website is live!