Projects that refuse the filing cabinet
Useful work also grows off-axis.
This is where I keep collaborations and curiosities that cross the borders between my other rooms—currently conservation technology, citizen science, and open-source tools for making complex systems easier to see.
working on now
Nature
SPAM Filter
When is a jaguar not a jaguar?
Newspaper coverage can reveal how people relate to wildlife—but searching for animal names produces a great deal of noise. A story about a Jaguar might concern a cat or a car; Puma might mean an animal or a sportswear company.
Nature SPAM Filter combines automated filtering with human judgement to assess which AI tools can reliably separate wildlife news from misleading namesakes. I’m working on the broader project at the meeting point of conservation, language data, and careful human evaluation.
a project to check out
HyperView
A geometric workbench for looking inside embedding spaces.
HyperView is an open-source tool from Hyper³Labs for exploring datasets and model behaviour across Euclidean and hyperbolic geometries. It makes clusters, weak separation, hierarchy, long-tail cases, and retrieval failures something you can inspect rather than infer from one aggregate score.
I’ve made a couple of small contributions, but the interesting story is the project itself—and the different way it lets you see what a model has learned.
and whatever comes next
A room for work with porous borders.
Conservation can become a data problem; geometry can become a way of understanding machine behaviour. “Other” is not an afterthought—it is where those crossings get to remain visible.