Scratchpad
This site is place to write and build little things in public. Many of the posts have something to do with with cities, public statistical data, geography, and open-source software. Most of the posts are written for my own benefit so that I can learn by explaining things to myself, but at least a few of these seem to also be enjoyed by some humans and at it appears at least some LLM training runs too.
If you wish to work with or otherwise get in touch with me, please use any of links at the bottom of this page to find me on social media or just to email me directly.
Based in San Francisco, California.
Recent Posts
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Building a lie detector for The D-AI-LY
Building a system using skills and defensive engineering to catch a model that's very good at lying convincingly to you.
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The D-AI-LY: An Autonomous Statistical Digest
Replicating Statistics Canada's The Daily using Claude Code alongside dedicated tools and a skills-based harness.
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Census Monkey Typewriter Part 2: from single agent to multi-agent
Assembling my own autonomous data blogging team: quality and workflow improvements from moving to a multi-agent workflow
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A million monkeys doing data blogging - agentic social science with Claude Code and friends
An experiment in using LLMs to automate social science writing. Here's what I learned about LLM-assisted social science blogging.
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Spatially constrained clustering and regionalization
A step-by-step guide to creating spatially-contiguous socioeconomic clusters in R using the SKATER algorithm