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I'm working on a journal that incorporates Bayesian learning on how aspects of my life affect my mental, physical and social well-being. Having used it for nearly 500 days I plan to turn it into a life accounting and auditing tool.
- Firmware for high-power EV chargers (Rust)
- CI/build systems on Raspberry Pi's (NixOS)
- Documentation for zk-STARK compiler (Rust)
- Software for insurance back-office (Elixir)
- Turtle graphics with HTML Canvas via WebAssembly (web-sys crate)
- NixOS configuration for my laptops and Raspberry Pi's at home
- SSH AuthorizedKeys management for distributing SSH keys
- A pinyin editor for creating flashcards based on corpuseshttps://github.com/falling-fruit/falling-fruit-web
We're looking for more contributions - it's a React / Redux app that tries to replace the current site and mobile app with one codebase, and then go from there - join us if you fancy!
In terms of my side projects recent developments are:
(1) made a fork of my "second brain" (third brain?) and loaded in a friend's notes from evernotes. I started putting tags on about 400 items one at a time assuming an ontology would emerge (it has in many projects I've done) but I got stuck. I am probably going to add some reports/visualizations and a simple comment facility and move forward.
(2) I made friends with someone who designs clothing who is interested in collaborating on print-on-demand fabrics. Turns out almost all printed fabric is silkscreened which is great in some respects but doesn't let you render the full range of colors that is possible in print-on-demand which is often inkjet. PoD fabric is about twice as expensive as silkscreen printed fabric so I'm feeling the need to make designs that are unlike anyone's ever seen before: photography-based images that don't make people feel they are "wearing a photograph".
It's a crazy competitive market with many different vendors that specialize in different kinds of fabrics, I am running 8x8 sample prints, ordering sample books as well as sets of color swatches so I can get a handle on color management.
I'm probably going to produce the first fabric based on an image I already have which I took of a flower field with a very wide aperture lens but I am thinking for this purpose I don't want to have any trouble making images that tile so I'm planning on photographing 20-50 flowers and cutting them out from the background and then procedurally generating infinite flower fields with the exact properties I want. I got into flower photography last year because I found the photos did really well on social but I was kinda bored doing it last year and would feel even more bored if I kept doing what I was doing last year without adding something to my technique and this is it.
Currently focusing on reading up on everything I can regarding NPC AI, and 80% done with a library for Bevy that allows one to program NPC AI via GOAP (Goal-Oriented Action Planning, probably made most famous by the AI in F.E.A.R), which has been a lot of fun. Although Rust is basically the opposite of my favorite language, so still taking some time to wrangle the code to my needs, but I'm sure it'll be fine in the end.
- Financial credit building for children via parent
- a better Siri (but many companies in this space is demotivating)
- a Capitol Hill Club, kind of like a country club for people, parents, kids to relax after work and which is not a restaurant
- I'm working on LLM-based detection of media bias for English and German (later perhaps other languages), which is more detailed (27 bias sub-types), fine-grained (sentence level instead of document-level) and accurate than the state of the art. The result is be a Web browser plug-in. I'm also thinking about that project's governance and how to deploy this technology to benefit the general public free of charge for end users.
- I'm thinking of knowledge management processes and tools (both for personal and organizational use) and ways to stimulate adoption because management seems to not see the sad state of affairs (everything is broken) and the value of this working.
My R&D work aims to cut across the traditional divide between "basic science - applied science - industry applications" in that I like to discover & play with pretty fundamental concepts that can be tried in practical (software) prototypes and then pushed into production use.
I'm on parental leave and working on the new site for a non-profit, Falling Fruit. https://github.com/falling-fruit/falling-fruit-web We're looking for more contributions - it's a React / Redux app that tries to replace the current site and mobile app with one codebase, and then go from there - join us if you fancy!