<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>LJS</title><description>A disparate collection of thoughts and ideas</description><link>https://lauriejoslin.com/</link><item><title>Working with Cauldron: researching political prediction</title><link>https://lauriejoslin.com/blog/cauldron/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lauriejoslin.com/blog/cauldron/</guid><description>Last summer, I worked for a London-based startup on a research project concering the impact of gamification features (e.g. points, leaderboard) on the usage and interaction of a political prediction platform</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>TBD - economics related, analysis of debt burden? </title><link>https://lauriejoslin.com/blog/economics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lauriejoslin.com/blog/economics/</guid><description>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building a full-stack medical drone app</title><link>https://lauriejoslin.com/blog/medical-mapping/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lauriejoslin.com/blog/medical-mapping/</guid><description>In the first semester of this year, I took a software-engineering project oriented course at university. The premise was to build a REST-based API for medical drone usage using Java Spring Boot (you could query available drones, their base points, constraints, etc.), and then use that API to build whatever you liked.</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>TBD - music related, Max MSP plugin?</title><link>https://lauriejoslin.com/blog/music/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lauriejoslin.com/blog/music/</guid><description>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Constructing a self-playing piano</title><link>https://lauriejoslin.com/blog/open-octave/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lauriejoslin.com/blog/open-octave/</guid><description>I recently participated the seminal course for my Computer Science degree, the System Design Project. The course essentially is a group robotics project, with the vague theme of building an &quot;assistive robot&quot; meaning practically as long as your idea had some robotic element (use of an actuator) it would work.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>