Scott Nelson

About Me

Scott Nelson

Hello! I'm Scott, a passionate AI enthusiast with a keen interest in philosophy and technology. I aim to shape the future by making current events more accessible, fostering civic awareness, and promoting democratic discussions.

My expertise lies in natural language processing, machine learning, and prompt engineering. I'm continuously exploring new frontiers in AI to augment human potential and drive innovation.

Projects

Multi-Armed Bandit Agents
Multi-Armed Bandit Agents

Exploring reinforcement learning through the classic multi-armed bandit problem.

The Speedy, Q-learning Crawler
The Speedy, Q-learning Crawler

Simulating a reinforcement learning environment for a robot crawler.

NER with Viterbi HMM
NER with Viterbi HMM

Using Hidden Markov Models for natural language entity recognition.

Knowledge Source Scrapers

Three complementary Python scrapers forming the raw-sources layer of an LLM knowledge pipeline for cognitive science.

Wikipedia Scraper

Bounded BFS crawl with canonical page keys, SQLite graph store, and a 6-point soup validator. 834 outlinks from a single seed article.

SEP Scraper

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: peer-reviewed concept backbone with hand-curated cross-references and a built-in query layer.

arXiv Scraper

Atom API metadata ingest with category-driven queries, PDF download, and text extraction across 35 CS subcategories.

Resume

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Contact

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