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.
Creative Coding
seeding
Mar 17
CivicSpark AI
AI-enabled chat interface for Tulsa City Council. RAG over agendas, minutes, and budgets, plus topic alerts and district email drafting.
civic tech
RAG
growing
Jul 23
Digital Brain: Local RAG + Regenerable Wiki
Local-first personal knowledge stack: Obsidian vault → Postgres/pgvector → Ollama embeddings → entity graph → Karpathy-style regenerable wiki, with Claude Code over stdio MCP and a daily brief. Working for daily use; several surfaces still under active development.
RAG
pgvector
growing
Jul 16
Navigation across relational landscapes
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.
Nature of Code
Harmonic Motion
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.
Nature of Code
Verlet Integration
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.
Nature of Code
Fractals
seeding
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.
Nature of Code
Vectors
seeding
Working notes on AI systems, safety research, labor, ethics, and governance policy
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.
AI Agents & Tools
Claude Code
growing
Jul 2026
My Google Interview, or Curriculum at Model Speed: A Multi-Agent System for Staying Ahead of AI
A design for a multi-agent pipeline that sources, vets, and scaffolds AI curriculum as fast as the field actually moves, plus metrics for measuring behavior change instead of course completions, plus a filterable table of the actual sources worth watching.
AI Agents & Tools
Knowledge Management
growing
Jul 2026
Setting up my Digital Brain Karpathy Wiki with RAG system and local DB, running on local models
How I turned my CarbonInterface learning journal into a locally-run RAG system: Postgres + pgvector, Ollama embeddings, a Karpathy-style regenerable wiki, and a daily brief that reads my calendar, email, and Scholar alerts for me.
Knowledge Management
RAG
growing
Jul 2026
Literature Review of Core Quantization and Multilingual Safety Anchors
25 published (non-preprint) papers across 17 venues (2023-2026), merging Lit Review 1.0 and 1.1.
Literature Review
Survey
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.
Quantization
Multilingual
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.
Primer
Quantization
growing
Jul 2026
Navigation across relational landscapes
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.
Nature of Code
Harmonic Motion
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.
Nature of Code
Verlet Integration
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.
Nature of Code
Fractals
seeding
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.
Nature of Code
Vectors
seeding
Creative tinkering I do in my free time
Nativist Birdfeeder
Our Berlin public art project: a birdfeeder that only opens its gates to European birds
machine learning
public art
interactive sculpture
diy circuits
Berlin
migrant justice
immersive art
urban space
Blooming 🌻
Denver's Chinatown: An Erasure
Our augmented reality street theater piece for the Denver Fringe Festival
forensic architecture
augmented reality
immersive art
street theater
Fringe Festival
public art
Denver
Chinatowns
migrant justice
sex work is work
Buzzing 🐝
Animal Runs
Training for the NYC marathon
data visualization
urban space
Strava Art Club
running
RBG
NYC
Growing 🌿
Emergence Atlas
An interactive playground for The Nature of Code
Creative Coding
p5.js
generative art
Blooming 🌻
Electric Circus
Robots in the Singularity: A DIY circus/fabric art project
circus art
diy circuits
wearable tech
fabric art
Toronto
Montreal
Fringe Festival
Beijing
Growing 🌿
OuLiPo Variations
Playful variations on the N+7 machine
computational poetry
spaCy for NLP
School for Poetic Computation
Seeding 🌱
