We research and produce hybrid intelligence software for industries that shape lives. AI engineering and world modelling, fluent in both deterministic and stochastic.
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Our work
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ARTERY — Crisis Simulation Software
From a plain-language description of a geopolitical shock, ARTERY forecasts how European freight, energy and dual-use trade reorganize — the new routes, the grey and dark channels, the cleared prices, and the enforcement that chases them. A hybrid of exact optimization and learned models.
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MeFirst — The Many Shapes of a Good Interruption
An interruption engine for voice agents. People overlap each other constantly, and most of the time it helps — a reaction on time, a supplied word, shared laughter. MeFirst reads a turn as it streams and decides, token by token, where a second voice can come in and how.
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Tune Search — Retrieval That Critiques Itself
A query goes in and the machinery answers in the open: hybrid retrieval over a vector space, a self-critique loop that re-searches when it is unsure, and a council of independent voices whose nominations a judge adjudicates. The search engine, opened up.
Research
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The Flat Space Problem: Planarization in Vector Retrieval
How we discovered that our embedding space had collapsed into something nearly one-dimensional — every query returning the same confident cluster — and the three things we did to fix it.
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Slow on Purpose: Private Audio Analytics Without Real-time
Analytics and privacy are not opposites. Fuse several deliberately-degraded, time-aligned signals — none of which identifies anyone — into the few numbers a venue actually needs.
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Compatibility of Worlds: Encoding Facts as Binary Vectors
An eight-year-old cognitive-science question about crossover fiction, traced through Leibniz, Carnap and Kripke, and revisited with binary vectors borrowed from hyperdimensional computing.
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Zine
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Code You’ve Never Read
Nearly every tool a programmer now takes for granted was once dismissed as a shortcut for people who couldn’t do the real thing. A short history of programmers distrusting the future, and being wrong about it in the same four ways every time.
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The Good Old Days Were the Bubble
Every warning that AI is gutting software engineering assumes the thing being gutted was sound. It was not. A defense of the engineers being laid off that refuses to pretend the world they are being laid off from was in good shape.
Anno Machinae '27
A field guide to the year in artificial intelligence. Twelve areas where laboratory results are within two years of becoming products — a scientific account and a practitioner's account for each. We participate as publishers and researchers.
Join us
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Old-school crazy-ass UXer
We are starting up a lab that will design for emotion, focusing on non-graphical interfaces: sound, text, and physical objects.
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Writer or Critic of 'Low' Genre Fiction
Perhaps it all began as fanfiction. Along the way you became genuinely skilled at pacing, voice, and the architecture of a series.
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Opinionated Engineer with Experience in Rust
We want engineers with strong opinions about what makes software good. Most of our projects use TypeScript or Python — so why Rust? It cultivates taste.