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 believe intelligence is pattern all the way down, which makes the interesting question not “what is the brain doing” but “can we reconstruct the process from its traces.” Every measurement of cognition is a lossy projection of something you can’t directly observe, but enough projections, sampled at the right timescales, recover the manifold. I spend most of my time chasing that idea: modeling 2+ years of git commits across my Obsidian vault alongside ActivityWatch computer usage data, noisy but interesting EEG via BrainAccess HALO, and eye tracking to map the semantic phase space of human cognition. The deeper question is directionality: cognition shapes what you consume, but consumption reshapes cognition. I’m working on framing that feedback loop as a POMDP, asking whether you can deliberately steer cognitive trajectory by shaping your content diet.
I’m currently reading Gödel, Escher, Bach and my Theoretical Neuroscience textbook (Dayan & Abbott).
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 measurement is the first step toward optimization. I’m deeply interested in Longevity, Transhumanism, and biologically plausible learning algorithms (whether via a temporal dimension, Active Inference/local autonomy, or both). I also study Neuropharmacology, nootropics, and peptide protocols on the bet that optimizing the substrate now pays compound interest if we’re on the right side of the curve.
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, complete with a modded Gaggia Classic Pro (extractions log).
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.