designer, programmer, sysadmin, generative artist
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Notable work
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Co-founder of CEO.CA
- One of Canada's largest stockmarket communities
- Sold for $17M in 2021
- Lead of product, design, programming & infra
- Beat competitors with a team of ≤ 3
- Became profitable with capital of ~$600k
- Extensive hands-on experience with the difficulties of moderating large communities made up of adversarial groups, and experimental insights into solutions
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Founder of Spiel.com
- My newest project, aspiring magnum opus
- Used as a pilot project at Synthesis School
- Large roadmap ahead: designed a novel social media architecture for jurisdiction-based self-governance while supporting the best aspects of Twitter, Discord & back-linked note taking apps
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Consultant as Probably Murat Inc.
- (2014-now) I've done consulting for software firms of all kinds such as gaming, finance, medical, music, AI & social
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Hobby projects
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Creator of PhilosopherAI.com
- One of the first GPT-3 apps to get approval for public release
- Diligent safety tooling: built few-shot input labeling to avoid risky topics & prompt injections
- Position-sensitive string pluck simulator
- First demo proving that positional string plucks can be easily simulated with fourier transforms (novel research)
- Optimized GPU version that can simulate hundreds of string plucks & plays classical pieces
- Tonehack: creating timbres from scratch
- Demonstrated that assigning individual ADSR curves to individual overtones can convincingly mimic known instruments to prove what timbre really is in the mathematical sense
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Teaching
- (2013 - 2015) Senior instructor at Lighthouse Labs, acoding bootcamp
- (2016 - 2017) Senior instructor at Under the GUI, weekend coding school for young kids building games in Python & Gamemaker (ages 7-11)
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Generative art
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Music
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Other
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I spend a large part of my free time thinking about consciousness, innovations in governance, catching up on AI papers & building intuition on math and physics fundamentals.