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• "Not all who wander are lost": Can a UAV learn a city by heart — no GPS, no map on board, just a $4 flight computer? Yes! We found a special-purpose neural memory architecture that 'remembers' an exact geo-location, given an in-flight daytime picture of Berlin. The typical miss is 27 m — no GPS, no internet, no map… Note · Discovery Loops · Jul 21, 2026 · on this site
• "The snuggle is real": Evolving quadcopter frame geometry for Wh/km, with Claude as an occasional co-designer I let a genetic algorithm loose on the geometry of a 7-inch quadcopter frame — the real, open-source Source One V6 plate drawings, morphed by fourteen genes and flown through six simulated weather sc… Note · Discovery Loops · Jul 13, 2026 · on this site
• "We don't write the rules. We just discover them. With AI.": How an autonomous agent searches for the groundrule, and what makes the loop different A job-shop scheduling problem dressed up as a lunch rush: one grill, one shared range, and sequencing as my only lever. Rather than hand-write the rule, I let an agent propose candidates, run them ac… Note · Discovery Loops · Jun 5, 2026 · on this site
• "Which city in Paris are you staying in?": Can an LLM autoresearch loop teach a phone-sized small language model (SLM) to ask frontier-quality questions? Can it? Does it? Let's find out! We discovered a technique that enables Apple's native 2025 3B Foundation Model to come within about one rubric point of a frontier cloud model (Claude Sonnet 4.6) on every quality dimension. It took … Note · Discovery Loops · Apr 30, 2026 · on this site

• Freakonomics Experiments Let a coin decide — then measure what happens. 20,000 subjects · 85% retention over 9 months As senior engineering consultant, I designed and shipped the infrastructure for a truly randomized, multi-month, large-scale field experiment for Prof. Steve Levitt of Freakonomics — the engine behin… Note · Greatest Hits · Jul 29, 2026 · on this site
• OneMonth Inc. From zero to shipping code in a month. Highly profitable from day one, and still selling · $2.5M raised My technical co-founder run: I designed and wrote a best-selling "programming for non-programmers" video course that got complete beginners shipping real code in a month — earning us a spot at Y Comb… Note · Greatest Hits · Jul 29, 2026 · on this site
• Pivotal Labs, New York City Coaching teams to ship better, faster. 11 client teams coached Working as senior technology consultant, I coached client teams to ship better products faster through lean experiments, pair-programming and test-driven development. One team used live data from 250… Note · Greatest Hits · Jul 29, 2026 · on this site
• Pudding Proof you actually wrote it. In a world that assumes everything's written by AI, I made Pudding to let you prove the words are yours. It captures your writing as it actually happened — every edit, pause and rewrite — so you can … Note · Personal projects · Nov 14, 2025 · on this site
• How To Double My Rate Of Failure My "One Kicks" Note · Apr 1, 2025
• Pageturner Hack for Kindle – Experiment (W21 Mini-Project) TLDR; After getting frustrated, angry even, with how awkward and unreliable the "touch-screen-to-flipt-to-next-page" on the Kindle Classic is, I experimented with different ways to emulate a physical… Note · Apr 1, 2025
• My Light-Therapy Lamp Solution with Kindle A follow up on ⭐️ Happier Through Bright Light (Experiment) Note · Apr 1, 2025
• Kinesiotape for Psychological Well-Being – Experiment (S21 Mini-Project) Taping – as prescribed by my orthopedic doctor – works very well, much better than I had expected Note · Apr 1, 2025
• "Hello my name is" Buttons (S21 Mini-Project) Basically, have a reusable version of the classic "Hello, my name is" sticker as a button with my name on it and wear it while I'm out and about to show that I'm open to conversation by offering my r… Note · Apr 1, 2025
• My mothers death in 2018 My motherJoyce Rondeau, Mother died after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Note · Apr 1, 2025
• How To Make Better and Faster Investment-Decisions With Lean Experiments As many of you know by now, I strongly believe in the effectiveness of using the scientific method to validate business ideas. Note · Apr 1, 2025
• Whole Earth 39Thirty Cap (S21 Mini-Project) Currently WIP, ETA 1st week of August Note · Apr 1, 2025
• "Micro-Note-Taking Set" (S21 Mini-Project) While on vacation at my Dad's, I bought a tiny note-pad and pen and started carrying it around with me everywhere. I use it to Read to Feed and How to hunt for ideas like an artist. Note · Apr 1, 2025
• Reframing Off-the-Shelf Objects (S21 Mini-Project) To build on what's there already and make it better. Note · Apr 1, 2025
• Your amazing YOUness Your YOUness is what makes you a one-in-a-billion event in all of time and space. Note · Apr 1, 2025
• JamGPT ChatGPT, one keystroke away. JamGPT gets you to ChatGPT the instant you need it — one keystroke from whatever app you're in, with no tab-hunting or logging back in. I kept my go-to prompts a click away for the things I do over a… Note · Personal projects · Mar 8, 2023 · on this site
• Streamline Brain-dump first. Organize later. I wanted a calm, blank space to get my thoughts out before the day's noise set in — no menus, no formatting, no friction. As you write, Streamline surfaces your existing notes so a morning brain-dump… Note · Personal projects · Oct 28, 2022 · on this site
• Pudding Research Connect the dots, follow the money, find the story. Another open-source OSINT tool I made, this one for Ethereum token ecosystems. Pick any token and instantly see where the money flows — who's moving it, to whom, and how much. The biggest players and… Note · Personal projects · Sep 25, 2022 · on this site
• Unblah Know when to speak up — and when to zip it. Ever leave a meeting wondering if you talked too much — or never got a word in? I built Unblah to quietly show your talk-time as it happens, so you can catch yourself in the moment and hit the balanc… Note · Personal projects · Jul 8, 2022 · on this site
• Algorand Ballet Watch the money move on-chain. My open-source OSINT tool for the Algorand blockchain. See who a wallet really deals with: drop in any account and watch its activity unfold as a map you can explore — follow the connections, spot th… Note · Personal projects · Nov 24, 2021 · on this site
• Footnotes Footnotes without the bookkeeping. 25,808 downloads I wanted to add a footnote without breaking my train of thought. One hotkey drops a numbered marker and its note at the bottom of the page, and the same key jumps you between the two — no counting, n… Note · Obsidian plugins · Feb 27, 2021 · on this site
• Journey Find the story hiding in your notes. 62,142 downloads You've collected hundreds of notes — but where's the story in them? I built Journey to trace a path between any two ideas in your vault and hand you a ready-made outline, surfacing connections you'd … Note · Obsidian plugins · Jan 28, 2021 · on this site
• Extract PDF Highlights Turn your PDF highlights into notes. 319,102 downloads I was tired of re-typing the passages I'd highlighted while reading. Now you open a marked-up PDF in Obsidian, click once, and every highlight, underline and note lands in a tidy page-ordered note yo… Note · Obsidian plugins · Dec 28, 2020 · on this site
• Extract PDF PDF in, Markdown out. 77,003 downloads This one frees the text trapped inside a PDF. One click turns a document into clean, editable notes — headings, paragraphs and lists intact — so you can quote it, rework it, and weave it into your ow… Note · Obsidian plugins · Dec 21, 2020 · on this site
• Happier Through Bright Light! My Winter S.A.D Well-Being Research – 1 Year of Light Therapy Prototypes Hey there, Alexis here! Note · Oct 17, 2018
• Microgreen Growth Experiment: Natural Sunlight vs. Indoor LED Light This was an experiment I ran over the summer. Note · Sep 4, 2018
• How To Make Big Ass Bubbles I've compiled the following giant bubble solution recipe and instructions after months of trial-and-error, testing dozens of recipes, ingredients etc. Note · Aug 28, 2014
• Wings of Desire I was 20 years old, the year was 1999 and I had just moved to New York City. Note · Mar 10, 2014
• Gablonzer Strasse 23 I remember the dollops of smoking tobacco placed on the stumps of the trees that until this morning had surrounded the house I grew up in. The cherry, walnut, chestnut and hazelnut. Note · Mar 10, 2014