Ribosome inverts Microsoft PhotoDNA hashes using machine learning.


Inverting PhotoDNA

Periscope gives you "duplicate vision" to help you organize and de-duplicate your files without losing data.


Organizing Data Through the Lens of Deduplication

Basalt is system for graphic design that allows a designer to think in terms of relationships between objects, and it makes it easy to build and reuse abstractions.


Experiments in Constraint-based Graphic Design

Gemini is a modern LaTex beamerposter theme, with a focus on being clean, minimal, and looking great out of the box.


Gemini: A Modern LaTeX Poster Theme

We turned a MacBook into a touchscreen using only $1 of hardware and a little bit of computer vision.


Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware

Synthesizing adversarial examples for neural networks is surprisingly easy.


A Step-by-Step Guide to Synthesizing Adversarial Examples

Seashells is a service that lets you pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real-time.


Seashells

Testing distributed systems is challenging due to concurrency and nondeterminism.


Testing Distributed Systems for Linearizability

μWWVB is a watch stand that automatically sets the time on atomic wristwatches where regular WWVB signal isn't available.

μWWVB: A Tiny WWVB Station

Gavel is an automated end-to-end project expo judging system that has been used to automate judging at over 40 events.


Gavel: An Expo Judging System

Lumen is a menu bar application for macOS that magically sets the screen brightness based on your screen contents.


Lumen: Magic Auto Brightness Based on Screen Contents

OffiX is a WiFi-based presence tracking system for our office.


Who's in the Office? (Space-oriented Personal Location Sharing)

HackMIT has turned Slack into our centralized monitoring and command-and-control hub for our software and services.


ChatOps at HackMIT

I wrote an open-source implementation of neural style on top of TensorFlow, Google's new deep learning library.


An AI That Can Mimic Any Artist

Good competition judging methods are hard to scale.


Implementing a Scalable Judging System

HackMIT guaranteed every hacker a host by solving the host matching problem optimally.


Algorithms in the Real World: Host Matching

Now there is a good way of using Dropbox as a true Git remote: git-remote-dropbox.

git-remote-dropbox

Every year, HackMIT releases a puzzle as a fun thing for hackers to do over the summer.


Such Confuse: HackMIT 2015 Puzzle Guide

Coming up with fair methods to select rankings is difficult, and it's especially hard to design judging methods for large-scale events.


Designing a Better Judging System

I ran a simple social experiment to see how people interact with the blackboards in the Stata Center, the home of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.


Clickbait in the Physical World: A Social Experiment

An asynchronously updating shell prompt can lead to a smoother user experience.


An Asynchronous Shell Prompt

Git Live is a real-time visualization of interactions on GitHub from across the world.


Git Live

Your dotfiles will most likely be the longest project you ever work on. For this reason, it is worthwhile to organize your dotfiles project in a disciplined manner for maintainability and extensibility.
