Hi. My name is Josh, and I am a nerd. (A special hello to everyone who comes here from typing "Josh is a" into google and letting it autocomplete, and an extra special one for those who get here by searching for "nerd" in google images.)

Generally speaking, I'm an avid tinkerer and builder. The mechanics of things fascinate me; when I see something novel, my first thought is usually "How would I do that?" My mother likes to remind me that, as soon as I learned to get up and pull things off tabletops, there was never a working pen in the house. Since then, I've learned both restraint and how to put things back in working order. That said, one of the benefits of living by yourself is that nobody is around to catch you breaking something...

Lately, I have been spending a lot of time at noisebridge, San Francisco's hackerspace. I facilitate the Machine Learning meetup, and am usually leading another project, in addition to my usual tinkering.

In 2006, I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with two degrees: one in Mathematics, and the other in Linguistics. By day, I develop software and help machines learn.