01 · Visual explanation
Making ordinal models plot-able
Visual tools that connect model parameters to latent evidence, response thresholds, and uncertainty.
ML · Model evaluation · Research tools
Playful questions. Rigorous answers.
I build models, experiments, and tools to understand how people—and machines—make sense of the world.
Illustrative model
Move a criterion. The response probabilities change; fixed discriminability does not.
d′ = 1.55 · criteria shift responses, not discriminability
Selected work
Three finished projects where a claim becomes a tool, a workflow, or a picture.
01 · Visual explanation
Visual tools that connect model parameters to latent evidence, response thresholds, and uncertainty.
02 · Research workflow
A toolkit for repository exploration, review, and candidate patches, with human verification built into the workflow.
03 · Reproducible analysis
A Python pipeline for testing a claim about movie colour, with the movie as the unit of analysis.
Currently investigating
I’m testing whether padding-sensitive normalization changes audio-classification metrics in a small DistilHuBERT model. The study compares ordinary and masked normalization under two padding conditions.
Read the experiment note Ongoing study · Pilot complete
Garden
These paths connect my projects, notes, and longer articles. Pick a theme, or take an unexpected turn.
Recent notes
Notes are short, but they keep the measurement attached to the question.
An ongoing DistilHuBERT study comparing ordinary and masked positional BatchNorm under minimal and additional padding.
Ongoing studyNote · 2026
Evaluate a local agent by the useful result after preparation, review, correction, and unsuccessful attempts.
Note · 2026
A worked example showing how decision thresholds change responses without changing fixed discriminability.
Note · 2026
About and contact
My background spans psychology, experimental methods, statistics, data science, and machine learning. I turn research questions into models, visual explanations, and tools that other people can inspect.