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Occasional deep-dives on things I’ve built, learned, or found interesting enough to write up.

BlogJuly 9, 2026

Feeding the Shapes of 11,027 Stories Into a Computer

A recommendation engine dies on contact with a long-dead API, and a Kurt Vonnegut essay picks up the pieces. 11,027 novels charted by an LLM: the shapes stories make, the fingerprints of genre, and a century of darkening first chapters.

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BlogJune 3, 2026

Building a Scrabble Agent, and What It Teaches About the Game

How a terminal Scrabble engine navigates millions of candidate moves per turn, and what ten thousand games of AI self-play reveal about the words worth knowing, and the power of Q.

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