https://justingosses.com/blog Justin Gosses personal website & blog en-us jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:32:14 GMT https://justingosses.com/blog/generative-ai-turing-test-parameters https://justingosses.com/blog/generative-ai-turing-test-parameters Exploration of using the Turing tests imitation game as a conceptual model to think about different generative AI interactions in 2026 by varying the original game parameters to map to real-world scenarios. Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) AIgamegame-dynamicsgenerative-aimetaphorturing-testexperimentsparametersthought-experimentconceptual-modelsmental-modelsaicodetechnologytoolsllm https://justingosses.com/blog/instruction-files-to-help-copilot-use-less-risky-dependencies https://justingosses.com/blog/instruction-files-to-help-copilot-use-less-risky-dependencies Explains how to use instruction files to guide GitHub Copilot to help you consume less risky code dependencies. Also introduces different types of dependency risks and how they can be assessed. Fri, 28 Nov 2025 01:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) llmcopilotinstruction.mddependencyriskdependency-risksustainabilityopensourcesoftware https://justingosses.com/blog/what-people-are-getting-wrong-about-data-dot-gov https://justingosses.com/blog/what-people-are-getting-wrong-about-data-dot-gov A primer on data dot gov for people talking about it in the news and on social media Mon, 10 Feb 2025 01:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) open-datagovdatapythondata-dot-json https://justingosses.com/blog/measuring-changinges-in-gov-data-over-time https://justingosses.com/blog/measuring-changinges-in-gov-data-over-time Using Internet Archive Wayback Machine and data.json to detect missing datasets Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) open-datagovdatapythoninternet-archive'Internet Archivewayback-machinedata-dot-json https://justingosses.com/blog/why-buffalo-bayou-does-not-drain-to-the-sea https://justingosses.com/blog/why-buffalo-bayou-does-not-drain-to-the-sea What a relative elevation map referenced against large rivers and coastline can tell us about why Buffalo Bayou flows east instead of south south east like many rivers in the area. Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) floodplainopen-datagismapgeospatialtiffshapefilepythonhoustongeojsonriverhazardsdatarelative elevation mapDEM https://justingosses.com/blog/Metadata-and-open-source https://justingosses.com/blog/Metadata-and-open-source A look at how metadata from code repositories and package managers can be used to create new open source experience. Sat, 20 Apr 2024 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) datametadataopen-sourcerepositorydata-science'analyticsuser-interfaceuser-experiencecode-repositorypackage-managementsoftware-engineering https://justingosses.com/blog/LLM-AI-bot-for-geology-field-trips-PostMortem https://justingosses.com/blog/LLM-AI-bot-for-geology-field-trips-PostMortem A post mortem on a prototype web application that generates geology field trip statements for point locations. Plus, thoughts on how LLMs can improve geologic maps. Tue, 06 Feb 2024 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) AImachine-learningopen-aigeologybotnlpexperimentsside-projectsllmwebapplicationpost-mortemmapfield-tripslagdal https://justingosses.com/blog/share-what-you-build https://justingosses.com/blog/share-what-you-build Sharing what you build with those that you built upon puts energy back into the open source and open data systems. Free does not have to mean invisible. Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) open-dataNASAmapgeospatialdataopen-sourceopen-dataAPIs https://justingosses.com/blog/joining-public-interest-tech-webring https://justingosses.com/blog/joining-public-interest-tech-webring Why I joined the Public Interest Tech Webring. Plus, a little on the code necessary to add it to my website's footer Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) NASAgovgovtechblognext.jstailwindcsswebring https://justingosses.com/blog/thoughts-on-nasa-public-access-plan https://justingosses.com/blog/thoughts-on-nasa-public-access-plan Thoughts on request request for information on NASA's proposed public access plan Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) open-dataopen-sourcecodenasaRFIopen-science https://justingosses.com/blog/finding-repositories-within-large-organizations-ideal-for-contributions https://justingosses.com/blog/finding-repositories-within-large-organizations-ideal-for-contributions How to find repositories ideal for first-time contributions without having to read 2000 READMEs. Sat, 22 Apr 2023 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) side-projectsopen-sourcegithubsearchcontributionsadvicejob https://justingosses.com/blog/LLM-AI-bot-for-geology-field-trips https://justingosses.com/blog/LLM-AI-bot-for-geology-field-trips Learnings from an experiment to see if a large language model could be used to generate geologic descriptions of arbitrary point locations around the world. Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) AImachine-learningopen-aigeologybotnlpexperimentsside-projects https://justingosses.com/blog/what-eats-what-for-breakfast-in-an-enterprise-setting https://justingosses.com/blog/what-eats-what-for-breakfast-in-an-enterprise-setting Thoughts on why the traditional "What Eats What For Breakfast" thought pieces should be an ordered list rather than comparison of two items. Sat, 21 Jan 2023 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) changeenterprisestrategyinner-sourceprogram managementcultureprocesstools https://justingosses.com/blog/maps-that-speak https://justingosses.com/blog/maps-that-speak A hackathon project to get floodplain map data delivered as speech and experienced while on the move. Now wondering if another type of data would make more sense for this type of approach? Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) usefulnessvalueusertext-to-speechbrowser-apisgeolocationleaflet.jsnosleep.jswaterfloodplainopen-datagismapgeospatialgeojsonjavascripthoustonfema https://justingosses.com/blog/adding-rss-to-this-website https://justingosses.com/blog/adding-rss-to-this-website Learnings from adding RSS to this next.js website Sat, 26 Nov 2022 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) web-developmentRSSsocial-mediuawebsitetwittermeta https://justingosses.com/blog/finding-floodplain-geojsons https://justingosses.com/blog/finding-floodplain-geojsons Lessons learned trying to find GEOJSONs of FEMA floodplains. Sat, 10 Sep 2022 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) floodplainopen-datagismapgeospatialgeojsonjavascriptpythonhoustonfemahouston-hackathonhackathonriverhazardsdata https://justingosses.com/blog/website-migration https://justingosses.com/blog/website-migration A blog post describing moving this website from WordPress to Next.js & TailwindCSS. Tue, 17 May 2022 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) websitecodewordpressnext.jstailwindcssreactazureawstradeoffs https://justingosses.com/blog/finding-a-nasa-contractor-job https://justingosses.com/blog/finding-a-nasa-contractor-job A post laying out information useful for finding a NASA contractor position. Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) nasacareerinformationdevelopers https://justingosses.com/blog/visualization-of-awesome-lists https://justingosses.com/blog/visualization-of-awesome-lists What if Awesome Lists were not just lists, but enabled views of the open source community? Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) data-visuailzationawsome-listscommunityopen-sourcegithubdevelopersSWUNGideascodemetadataAPIreusenudge https://justingosses.com/blog/wellio-wellioviz https://justingosses.com/blog/wellio-wellioviz Wellio & Wellioviz are open source JavaScript libraries for converting LAS well log files into JSON and viewing them in the browser. Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) data-visuailzationgeologyvisualizationopen-sourced3.jsSWUNGideascodemetadataformatssciencefrictionwellslogswelliowellioviz https://justingosses.com/blog/reusing-metadata https://justingosses.com/blog/reusing-metadata Creating New Metadata from Old Metadata Using Machine-Learning: A Poster Presentation at American Geophysical Union Conference 2019 Wed, 11 Dec 2019 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) nasametadatamachine learningNLPopen dataopen sourcecatalogAGUposterF.A.I.R.Descriptionstext https://justingosses.com/blog/predictatops https://justingosses.com/blog/predictatops Stratigraphic pick prediction via supervised machine-learning: Predictatops Sat, 10 Aug 2019 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) machine learningfeaturesopen dataopen sourcegeologypresentationpython,LASwell logsstratigraphytopspredictionevaluation https://justingosses.com/blog/geoscience-to-datascience-starter-park https://justingosses.com/blog/geoscience-to-datascience-starter-park This post is directed at houston-based geoscience types starting off on a month to years long process of improving their skills in data science and maybe eventually getting a job in data science. It lays out the things I’ve found myself telling people in real life. Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) geologycareerinformationdevelopersdata sciencemachine learningsoftware engineeringprogrammercode https://justingosses.com/blog/thoughts-on-machine-learning-predictions-of-chronostratigraphic-surfaces https://justingosses.com/blog/thoughts-on-machine-learning-predictions-of-chronostratigraphic-surfaces A collection of hypotheses, ideas, and biases related to predicting chronostratigraphic surfaces in well logs. Thu, 17 May 2018 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) machine learningfeaturesopen dataopen sourcegeologypython,LASwell logsstratigraphytopspredictionevaluationbrainstormideas https://justingosses.com/blog/stratigraphicpicks https://justingosses.com/blog/stratigraphicpicks This weekend I finally got to do a hackathon project I have been wanting to try for more than two years. It leverages machine-learning to mimic human-created stratigraphic picks. Sun, 17 Sep 2017 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) hackathonmachine learningfeaturesopen dataopen sourcegeologypython,LASwell logsstratigraphytopspredictionevaluationbrainstormideas https://justingosses.com/blog/what-do-i-get-out-of-conferences https://justingosses.com/blog/what-do-i-get-out-of-conferences Four conferences, two hackathons, and a lot of meet-ups: Analyzing what I have gotten from technical gatherings outside of work this year. Wed, 17 May 2017 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) conferencelearningPyConPythoncodedata sciencePythonSWSXAustinHoustonAAPGJSCNASAhackathon https://justingosses.com/blog/presenting-at-johnson-space-center-data-science-day https://justingosses.com/blog/presenting-at-johnson-space-center-data-science-day Presenting at Johnson Space Center Data Science Day on the history of data visualization tooling. Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) meetupdatavisualizationtoolshoustoncodedata visualizationpresentationJavaScriptd3.jstableautimeline.jsexcelbusiness intelligencehistory https://justingosses.com/blog/nodebots https://justingosses.com/blog/nodebots Blog post about setting up my first personal seismometer. Raspberry Shake is built on top a Raspberry Pi and records earth quakes and other seismic waves. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) rasberry pirasberry shakedatatoolscodedata visualizationseismometerearthquakehardwaregeologygeophysicshouston https://justingosses.com/blog/raspberry-shake-personal-seismometer https://justingosses.com/blog/raspberry-shake-personal-seismometer Blog post about setting up my first personal seismometer. Raspberry Shake is built on top a Raspberry Pi and records earth quakes and other seismic waves. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) rasberry pirasberry shakedatatoolscodedata visualizationseismometerearthquakehardwaregeologygeophysicshouston https://justingosses.com/blog/talk-on-changing-landscape-of-data-viz-tools https://justingosses.com/blog/talk-on-changing-landscape-of-data-viz-tools Presented a talk at Houston Data Visualization Meetup on THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF DATA VISUALIZATION TOOLS IN LARGE ORGANIZATIONS. Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:32:14 GMT jgosses82@gmail.com (Justin Gosses) meetupdatavisualizationtoolshoustoncodedata visualizationpresentationJavaScriptd3.jstableautimeline.jsexcelbusiness intelligencehistory