Hi, I'm James Hoctor. I am a Machine Learning Engineer and Data Scientist with experience in natural language processing, computer vision, regression, time series classification, model explanability, and interpretable models. I’m on the job market, so check out my resume and Selected Repos (below) if you’re hiring.
- 🌐 My website
- 🌐 My old website, which is still a good way to explore my presence online
- ⚡ Fun fact: My GitHub bio contains code written in Brainfuck. You can run it with an interpreter such as beef.
- 📫 How to reach me: send a connection request to my account on LinkedIn. Mention "GitHub profile" in the message so that I'm sure to see it.
- My blog automation. I'm planning to write about how I automate my blog soon. The automation code is already published here.
- Advent of Code 2020 solutions in Python, a project with Alina Jade Barnett. We list our completion time for each problem in the readme. I never expected that we would be ranked 80th on the global leaderboard for one problem!
- Banner image generator in Python. This is what I used to make the banner for this readme, my banner on LinkedIn, my banner on Thingiverse, etc. Now with Gaussian process noise!
- My isosurface-based vase generator, a Python-and-VTK-powered 3D art project
- adventure-llm, playing a classic text adventure with a large language model API
- spelling-bee-cheat, a NYT Spelling Bee cheating tool, that was intended to use tf-idf and logistic regression, though never finished...