About me
I'm Shaunak. I live in Cambridge, MA and work at $BIGCO.
Projects
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I estimated whether voting is worth it for an altruistic person.
Conclusion: it probably is, based on this theoretical analysis, as well as other empirical ones.
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Combinos
(source):
A Tetris variant in which the average piece size increases as you play.
In the battle mode, clearing lines sends opponents bigger pieces.
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Make Me a Hanzi
(source):
Open-source Chinese character stroke order dataset. Uses heuristics and
machine-learning to extract data from a font.
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Matchmaking:
A variety cryptic I wrote, in the style of The Atlantic's puzzles,
about making good pairings. (Note: the deceptive byline is intentional.)
Contact
You can email me at kshaunak [at] gmail [dot] com.