Wedding Anniversary

Ariella and I just celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary. We’ve been living in Los Angeles for the past year. I’m continuing to work for Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, and Ariella is studying to be a Rabbi at the University of Judaism here in LA.

Personality plug-in for Eudora

The Personality plug-in for Eudora adds 3 stereotypical “personalities” to your Message Plug-ins menu in Eudora 3.x and 4.x for Windows. It translates English messages into either mock Swedish (like the Swedish Chef on the Muppet Show), mock Jive (a black dialect of the 70s), or B1FF-speak (a fictitious person who is “new” on the ‘Net who spells poorly and […]

Java Network File System

The Java Network File System was my Honors Thesis project at Brown University and second place winner for the 1997 ACM Quest for Java student programming contest. README See my contest README for an overview of the project and instructions for running the server and client. Paper We introduce and discuss the Java Network File System ( JNFS), a network file system for Network […]

Nearest-Neighbor Machine Learning Bakeoff

Introduction This document presents the results from my Topics in Machine Learning final project at Brown University, written in December 1996. The project was a “bakeoff” for machine learning algorithms that learned classification problems (categories instead of continuous functions). I discuss my implementation and results for Nearest-Neighbor and k-Nearest-Neighbor, two well-known machine learning algorithms, on three classification datasets. In addition, I […]