The world is fascinating and malleable.
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Fun stuff I've built
Policy Predictions: nice visualization for conditional prediciton markets on what will happen under Trump vs Harris
New Democratic Primary: since the Party forgot to run a real one, we ran a last minute secure online election for President
Gather: a platform for virtual places to expand opportunity and connection (this is the one I'm most proud of)
Dynamic ID: simple, scalable, and secure identity (weekend expirement)
Gravity: a decentralized, secure, and open social network (now defunct, but may make a comeback someday)
CourseRoad: a 4-year academic planner for the MIT community
DRSP: a real-time massive multiplayer decentralized virtual world (currently broken because the last peering server is bricked under a table in my old dorm, and I'm busy)
Etch-A-Whiteboard: fully automated 6'x4' whiteboard; give it any image and it renders the edges and sketches them in huge, precise, monochromatic glory
More coming soon...
Reading
Since Feb 2021, I rate and take notes on everything I read, and collect it in a nicely ranked table.
Writing
The Elegance of Land Value Taxes (short conference talk) (2024)
So You Want to Leave Facebook: A survey of social networks, from Signal to Scuttlebutt (2019)
Contact: "ascii!" + "~math~" - "qp^n^,"@gmail.com
