What’s Going On?


I said hey. My name’s George. I do stuff I care about, some of it is fun, most of it is challenging.

  • Slab – a daily puzzle game about perception and cognitive frames
  • Splitbound – meditative writings towards personal change
  • Guqin – an ancient Chinese instrument
  • Bookbinding – making homes for words

Years ago I studied and taught math, made a game company with my friend Benjamin to create Block Party and later a suite of AI party games like Farsketched, and worked in AI research on unsupervised learning from video and profiling XLA on TPUs. In 2011 I trained neural networks for music visualization while studying math at Stanford and after I left in 2013 I scraped the net to build language models for poetry. I was last employed by GiveDirectly writing software to get money to people in extreme poverty.

Let’s build the agalmic future together.

I can be reached at george ạt hoqqanen ɗοt com.

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