Brainstorm — A Neural Chess Engine
Rust + libtorch engine that fuses deep network evaluation with alpha-beta search, hitting ~50k nodes/sec on an M1 and speaking UCI. Ships with a Python toolkit for self-play and PGN analysis.
Joel Maldonado-Ruiz
I’m an Electrical & Computer Engineering student at Oregon State University with a minor in Computer Science.
I primarily work with embedded systems, low-level C/C++, and hardware-software interfaces.
I’m also interested in AI/ML, especially where it meets constrained hardware.
Most of my work is on GitHub. I also write occasionally on my blog and keep notes on some projects I make.
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Selected work
Projects
Logic Gates Playground
Desktop sandbox for wiring basic logic gates into live circuits, complete with clocked inputs, truth-table export, and cross-platform build scripts (CMake + raylib).
Vision-Based Fight Detection
TensorFlow pipeline trained on the RWF-2000 dataset to flag aggressive motion in surveillance footage. Provides clip-level confidence, frame heatmaps, and a lightweight review dashboard.
Latest writing
Blog
How a Compiler Compiles Itself
Self-hosting, bootstrapping, a compiler that prints itself, and the Thompson Hack.
GANs - A Deep Dive Into Automatic Image Colorization
The obvious approach to AI image colorization fails. Here's why, and what actually works.