Josh Stein
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I spent 12 weeks at RC. I am most proud of the awesome people I met, and how I inspired I feel after having worked with them.

Here is a list of things I worked on:

  • Hacked a rotary phone to automatically play chosen poems/jokes based on the number you dial, using a raspberry pi. The project was inspired by Dial-A-Poem. Demo: https://youtu.be/enE1PwRzfh4
  • Implemented and deployed a web-server to handle uploading custom audio and URLs to the rotary phone
  • Helped build/refactor an app that uses machine learning to detect illegal parking in NYC and automatically files service requests with the NYPD
  • Click to ship
  • Helped implement Q-learning and DQN on a handwritten Mancala game
  • Built a real-time ASL detector that runs in the browser
  • Helped implement a Rust program that runs a custom shader in WGPU
  • Helped create a TooGoodToGo wrapper to display nearby results on the RCTV. Repo: https://github.com/joshestein/TooGoodToGo-RecurseTV
  • Learned about nix and switched my OSX and dotfiles setup to nix-darwin and home-manager
  • Learned about MRIs and created an interactive explorable using ThreeJS, HTML canvas and WebGL
  • Implemented ProtoPNet
  • Worked through a bunch of AI safety readings/discussions, finished BlueDot Impact’s AI Safety Fundamentals course
  • Fixed a problem in Flask-Moment that prevented strings being accepted as valid inputs. Relevant PR: https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/Flask-Moment/pull/94
  • Spent some time trying to get Quickscope and Sneak to work nicely in IdeaVim, working on a PR to fix the issue
  • Worked through several chapters of Crafting Interpreters, progress here
  • Wrote a time-blocker app to learn Svelte
  • Wrote a CLI tool to (start to) learn Rust
  • Helped a friend making a real landline phone ring when you call via a raspberry pi
  • Helped a friend design and build the initial circuitry for an interactive wearable glove
  • Implemented Pong on the Rapid Riter, an LED matrix in the hub
  • Upgraded and re-organised the community cluster
  • Fixed the Thundertube, a home-made LED strip within the space
  • Gave a non-programming talk on Hexaflexagons and Martin Gardner