As a resident of Cambridge, MA, the nation's most functioning democracy, I've ranked all the candidates for this year's Cambridge City Council election -- the good, the bad, and the hilarious. »
A game made of nostalgia and random bit flipping. »
I was the lead editor of BAPHL, a small puzzle hunt that ran August 13. It was a lot of fun. Here are my reflections on how the puzzles went. »
Instead of what I was trying to accomplish today, I accidentally created a spelling incorrector. »
No wimping out and using ellipses here. »
A string quartet with shifting time signatures that I composed in 2005. »
A short, difficult Mystery Hunt-style puzzle. »
I work on the Common Sense Computing Initiative, which aims to collect the things people know and computers don't and make them available to computer algorithms. As part of this, I maintain the lexical resource ConceptNet and the Python matrix toolkit Divisi. »
When I came across a JavaScript library for making interesting-looking layouts out of a series of haphazard boxes, my first thought was wondering why I'd ever want to make a website that disorganized. My second thought was that I needed a new personal website anyway. »
An incredibly compact printable wordlist, fitting all the words you can play in word games (including the long ones) on 17 sheets of paper. »
I'm an open-source coder, a musician, and a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, working on a Ph.D. in computer science. »