Hello, I’m Fred Kozlowski

I have way too many interests

Projects

Web Dev Dictionary

I had an urge to learn web development, except the sheer amount of stuff out there available to build a website with was incredibly disorientating. As I went around researching each ...

Implementing the Harris Corner Detector

Implementing the Harris Corner Detector As an introduction to OpenCV and using it with modern C++, I decided to code a Harris corner detector. I’d previously only used MexOpenCV so ...

Blog Posts

Making Cheap Furniture In My Tiny NYC Apartment

This is going to be a guide by a beginner, but hopefully this will be useful to those with even less experience than me. When I decided to start building furniture, most of the inter...

Notation and Learning

I have a gut feeling that notation is more essential/central to learning than most presume. In this stackoverflow question the idea is that changing the notation of logarithms and e...

Links I Like

This post on salary negotiation by Patrick McKenzie. Thanks to this advice I got $6000 more at my first job. Networking for Nerds by Benjamin Reinhardt. I’ve been t...

Media That Has Made Me Who I Am

Obviously, each of these works influenced me at most by ~0.5% on an imaginary scale. That still is a lot in my opinion for just reading a book or watching a movie. I’m going to try t...

What Is A Logistical Genius

I read Dormin’s post on Napoleon and wait… what does it MEAN that Napoleon was good at logistics. He didn’t go around farming and delivering food to people after all. What was so spe...

Reading List

What I want to read Dune and Dune Messiah - I read Dune a few years ago and I absolutely loved it, but I never got around to reading the sequel. With the movie coming out th...

Modern Art Isn't Bullshit

I took ARH 206 at Stony Brook back in Fall 2019 with Prof. David Mather and it was the most impactful class I took in college. I specifically took the class because I thought modern ...