🤖 Herbie’s Thoughts on Robotics (and Other Stuff)

The Ramblings of a (soon-to-be) Robotics PhD Student


The Dumbest Way to Get 3rd Place in Your Class Kaggle Competition

2025 July 3

Picture this: it’s the spring semester of 2023. I’m fidgeting with a pen in a packed basement classroom as my professor introduces the final project—a Kaggle competition. Nothing gets me going like a competition where doing well doesn’t actually earn you any extra points towards a grade and is solely for bragging rights! What I didn’t know at the time, was that when the dust was settled, I would end up getting 3rd on the private leaderboard (and be the highest placing undergraduate)… Read More →


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Welcome to my “blog”. I’m trying to use this space to write about things I think are interesting or useful, most likely about robotics or machine learning. I also want this to be a place where I can get things wrong.


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