Experiments at different development stages
Growing Wild Gardens from The Nature of Code
Expanding on Daniel Shiffman's The Nature of Code with an interactive playground for real data.
CivicSpark AI
AI-enabled chat interface for Tulsa City Council. RAG over agendas, minutes, and budgets, plus topic alerts and district email drafting.
Digital Brain: Local RAG + Regenerable Wiki
Local-first personal knowledge stack: Obsidian vault → Postgres/pgvector → Ollama embeddings and chat → entity graph → Karpathy-style regenerable wiki, plus a daily brief.
Navigation across data landscapes
Waggle Dance
The honeybee waggle dance modeled algorithmically: a location encoded as a vector, decoded by follower bees. An animal embedding. Built with Nature of Code principles.
Machine Learning
Physics Simulation
seeding
Seismograph Cloth
A taut verlet cloth pinned along its border, struck by a week of real earthquakes so global seismicity replays as ripples. From The Nature of Code, Chapter 6: Physics Libraries.
Physics Simulation
seeding
River Tree
A real dendritic river network from OpenStreetMap around the Colorado-Green confluence, drawn by waterway class. From The Nature of Code, Chapter 8: Fractals.
Fractal Geometry
Geospatial Mapping
seeding
Tide Harmonics
Measured tide height at San Francisco with a two-constituent harmonic model (M2 plus S2). From The Nature of Code, Chapter 3: Oscillation.
Physics Simulation
seeding
Working notes on AI systems, safety research, labor, ethics, and governance policy
Literature Review of Core Quantization and Multilingual Safety Anchors
25 published papers across 17 venues (2023-2026), merging Lit Review 1.0 and 1.1.
Red Teaming
Quantization
growing
Jul 2026
Matt Pocock's Skills, Actually Explained: A Critical Guide for Current Usage
A dig through Matt Pocock’s mattpocock/skills repo (the real SKILL.md files, not the SEO blogspam about it): what the skills actually do, what the community has genuinely pushed back on, and what’s worth stealing.
Agents & Tooling
growing
Jul 2026
Research Log: Redteaming Quantized Models with Multilingual Inputs
Status report: measuring Δ_HL (low- vs high-resource jailbreak ASR) under GGUF and related quantization arms.
Red Teaming
Quantization
growing
Jul 2026
Research Log Terms: A Plain-Language Primer
Plain-English glossary for the technical terms in Lit Review 1.0 and 1.1: quantization, GGUF, refusal directions, middle layers, Δ_HL, and related measurement terms.
AI Safety
Quantization
growing
Jul 2026
Critical Weight Protection for Fairness and Safety under Quantization
ACL 2026 Findings: static/dynamic PTQ degrades fairness and MultiJail safety (worse in KO/AR); Critical Weight Protection keeps top FAIRSCORE+SAFESCORE weights in FP16.
AI Safety
Quantization
growing
Jul 2026
Q-resafe: Safety Risks and Patching for Quantized LLMs
ICML 2025: systematic English ASR eval across AWQ/AQLM/LLM-QAT/QLoRA at INT4/INT8; Q-resafe patches safety-critical weights to restore pre-quant refusal.
AI Safety
Quantization
growing
Jul 2026
Navigation across data landscapes
Waggle Dance
The honeybee waggle dance modeled algorithmically: a location encoded as a vector, decoded by follower bees. An animal embedding. Built with Nature of Code principles.
Machine Learning
Physics Simulation
seeding
Seismograph Cloth
A taut verlet cloth pinned along its border, struck by a week of real earthquakes so global seismicity replays as ripples. From The Nature of Code, Chapter 6: Physics Libraries.
Physics Simulation
seeding
River Tree
A real dendritic river network from OpenStreetMap around the Colorado-Green confluence, drawn by waterway class. From The Nature of Code, Chapter 8: Fractals.
Fractal Geometry
Geospatial Mapping
seeding
Tide Harmonics
Measured tide height at San Francisco with a two-constituent harmonic model (M2 plus S2). From The Nature of Code, Chapter 3: Oscillation.
Physics Simulation
seeding
A humble living gallery of creative tinkering
Nativist Birdfeeder
Our Berlin public art project: a birdfeeder that only opens its gates to European birds
Denver's Chinatown: An Erasure
Our augmented reality street theater piece for the Denver Fringe Festival
Animal Runs
Training for the NYC marathon
Emergence Atlas
An interactive playground for The Nature of Code
Electric Circus
Robots in the Singularity: A DIY circus/fabric art project
OuLiPo Variations
Playful variations on the N+7 machine
Computational Poetry
Seeding 🌱
