nathan
engineer's notebook ÷ internet homepage
est. somewhere on the old web
hello.txt

hi, i'm nathan, a sophomore at UMD studying fire protection engineering. i like machines that fly, anything outdoors, and all kinds of music.

this site is half lab notebook, half hobbyist homepage — the kind of place the internet used to be full of. everything here is hand-written; if something looks broken, it's probably load-bearing.

currently: working on FPE projects, probably climbing, and pretending my project backlog is a feature.

start_here.lnk
  • projects — things i've built (start here)
  • notes — the engineering notebook
  • interests — what keeps me up at night
  • links — find me elsewhere
featured_projects — C:\nathan\projects

fire egress sim

agent-based building-evacuation sim built from scratch in python with mesa. occupants react on their own timelines, follow bfs shortest paths around real walls, and queue at capacity-limited stair doors — bottlenecks emerge instead of being scripted. v2 rebuilds the egress-deficient fourth floor of a real building i'd analyzed by hand under nfpa 101, runs it monte carlo, and independently lands on the same constraint the hand analysis flagged: the 32-inch stair doors.

pythonmesaagent-based-modelingfire-protection-engineeringnfpa-101bfs-pathfindingmonte-carlo

→ all projects

recent_notes.log

→ all notes

status.sys
  • uptime: most days
  • mood: nominal
  • reading: jojo's bizarre adventure — steel ball run, vol. 3
  • listening: 4th gen emo & post-hardcore
  • building: fire egress sim