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 capturing these substrates densely enough to reconstruct the higher-order cognitive model that generates them, asking whether you can deliberately steer cognitive trajectory by shaping your content diet.
I keep a homelab for deep learning projects and quantified self infrastructure. 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, the math of Active Inference even if its a bit of a cult).
I also take interest in the Neuropharmacology route through nootropics as a bet that optimizing the substrate now pays compound interest if we’re on the right side of the curve.