After seven years as a WordPress site, I am finally getting around to rebuilding the page with a different toolset. You can see the new page at https://www.justingosses.com/ While this page is WordPress that lives on AWS. The new site Read more…
Table of Contents What Led to this Blog Post Why Work for a NASA Contractor? Problem this document attempts to impact Who Are NASA Contractor Companies Other Related Information Internships Remote NASA Contractor Jobs Can Foreign Nationals be NASA Contractors Read more…
Awesome lists are…. awesome. But could they be even more useful? What if instead of just a curated list you also got a view into a wider community? NOTE 1: this is was also written up on Medium and is Read more…
Wellio & Wellioviz are open source JavaScript libraries for converting LAS well log files into JSON and viewing them in the browser. Why? Like many side projects, they were built around the idea that certain experiences could be a little Read more…
Recently I was able to present at the American Geophysical Union’s annual conference. Not everything I work on is as easily made public, so this was a nice chance to share some of the team’s work and have good discussions Read more…
Stratigraphic pick prediction via supervised machine-learning: Predictatops Back in May, I presented a talk at the 2019 AAPG ACE (American Association of Petroleum Geologist Annual Conference and Exhibit) on using machine-learning to predict stratigraphic surfaces in well logs. I described Read more…
Why Write this and Who is it targeting? I wrote a post, LEARNING TO CODE, in early 2016, three years ago. The premise of that blog post was a summary of the different styles of learning you could pick from when Read more…
Inspiration Bret Victor is a well known thinker on the future and possibilities of human – computer interface. His website contains a variety of thought provoking projects, and his talks have inspired many other works. Currently, he’s leading development of Read more…
EDIT: Released a package for predicting well log tops called, Predictatops ——————- Why make half-baked thoughts public? / Disclaimer I think predicting stratigraphic surfaces in well logs programmatically is a really interesting, if difficult, problem. I’ve been working on it Read more…
[BLOG POST COMING SOON] This weekend I finally got to do a hackathon project I’ve been wanting to try for more than two years. It leverages machine-learning to mimic human-created stratigraphic picks. It uses a dataset of 2000 wells with Read more…