Hi, my name is Ewan. I’m a third-year Computer Science student at the University Of Vermont where my focus is Computational Neuroscience, Mathematics, and how brains and machines overlap. You can reach me via email or find me tinkering on my homelab.
I’m currently reading Gödel, Escher, Bach / my Theoretical Neuroscience Textbook, and conducting independent interpretability research on Continuous Thought Machines. I spend most of my time analyzing how my brain evolves through the content it consumes and output I produce - modeling 2 years of git commit across my Obsidian vault alongside ActivityWatch computer usage data, noisy but interesting EEG equipment, and eye tracking to map the semantic phase space of human cognition.
I maintain a sprawling homelab for LLM inference/interpretability and quantified self infrastructure, I consider myself a competitive typer at 189wpm in combination with keyboard-centric computer interaction(yes I use vim btw). I track everything: vault activity, commits, health biomarkers, cognitive patterns because I believe measurement is the first step toward optimization. I’m deeply interested in Longevity, Transhumanism, and novel techniques for biologically plausible machine learning algorithms(whether that be via a temporal dimension, Active Inference/local autonomy, or both).
I’m a tri-citizen (South African, American, British) who loves Sailing, Woodwork, and bringing the open-source development cycle to the physical world through 3d Printing. I am also quite the coffee snob and have the most ridiculous Espresso setup in my bedroom, next to all the servers and lab equipment.
This is my Digital Garden, a living knowledge base where I organize thoughts through links rather than rigid structure. My hope is by imprinting my mind I can gain novel insight into the underlying influences which shape me in the hopes of discovering new tunable parameters.