curl is the philosophy, theory and practice that aims to reclaim our agency over the digital systems that shape our lives.
Opposed to an economic regime that forces digital technology to capture our attention, we aim to create alternative spaces that afford an experience of contemplation - spaces where we may find clarity within ourselves and genuine connection with one another.
trails.social
A customisable feed algorithm for mindful social media exploration.
Sep-2022 to Nov-2022 (8 weeks)
︎ Roote Foundation
︎︎︎ Concept, Github, Demo
[[]] human-in-the-loop,
personalised-feeds,
context-aware-navigation
trails.social offers an alternative to how we navigate and consume information on social media through feeds that are configurable, personalised and encapsulated to our interests, allowing us to tune in and out of them as we desire.
Under the hood, trails indexes social relationships and content to a cross-platform “social knowledge graph” to provide recommendations that a user has full agency over.
Development ceased after Twitter restricted access to its API for third-party clients.
︎︎︎ Concept, Github, Demo
[[]] human-in-the-loop,
personalised-feeds,
context-aware-navigation
trails.social offers an alternative to how we navigate and consume information on social media through feeds that are configurable, personalised and encapsulated to our interests, allowing us to tune in and out of them as we desire.
Under the hood, trails indexes social relationships and content to a cross-platform “social knowledge graph” to provide recommendations that a user has full agency over.
Development ceased after Twitter restricted access to its API for third-party clients.
terrarium
knowledge insights from unstructured knowledge bases
September 2022 to December 2022 (8 weeks)
︎ Minerva Incubator
︎︎︎ Concept, Github
[[]] unstructured-knowledge,
conversation-analytics
Chat platforms like Discord, Slack and Telegram provide the foundations of modern communication, acting as knowledge bases, coordination hubs, and idea generators. Their unstructured knowledge, however, can cripple discoverability and analysis, leaving strategists unable to understand and respond to the insights that they generate.
Through NLP-driven post-processing, Terrarium generates an analytics layer that allows for the systematic investigation of user preferences and modes of work.
︎︎︎ Concept, Github
[[]] unstructured-knowledge,
conversation-analytics
Chat platforms like Discord, Slack and Telegram provide the foundations of modern communication, acting as knowledge bases, coordination hubs, and idea generators. Their unstructured knowledge, however, can cripple discoverability and analysis, leaving strategists unable to understand and respond to the insights that they generate.
Through NLP-driven post-processing, Terrarium generates an analytics layer that allows for the systematic investigation of user preferences and modes of work.
abstract poetry
A generous interface for iterative and semantic search of academic papers
June-Aug 2022 (8 weeks)
︎ Deepcore AI Lab,
a Softbank Subsidiary
︎︎︎ Concept, Figma,
Github, Demo
[[]] guided-ML,
open-science,
bayesian-inference
This project demonstrates the potential for iterated semantic search to support the discovery of academic papers.
Using user impressions on paper abstracts as inputs to a Bayesian algorithm, abstract poetry traverses an embedding space of unseen abstracts to locate regions of possible interest.
Researchers found this mode of search supported “keyword discovery” better than existing modes of search , where they would begin with a fuzzy sense of what they were looking for, and end with a set of precise research keywords.
a Softbank Subsidiary
︎︎︎ Concept, Figma,
Github, Demo
[[]] guided-ML,
open-science,
bayesian-inference
This project demonstrates the potential for iterated semantic search to support the discovery of academic papers.
Using user impressions on paper abstracts as inputs to a Bayesian algorithm, abstract poetry traverses an embedding space of unseen abstracts to locate regions of possible interest.
Researchers found this mode of search supported “keyword discovery” better than existing modes of search , where they would begin with a fuzzy sense of what they were looking for, and end with a set of precise research keywords.
civicdash
A community data dashboard for citizens to understand and interact with their city
April-June 2022 (6 weeks)
︎ The Graph Foundation
︎︎︎ Concept, Figma, Github
[[]] futarchy,
prediction-markets,
data-dashboards
The core hypothesis of civicdash is that promises for civic change are more likely to be kept if they are held accountable to real civic data.
civicdash’s role, then, is to make that data as accessible and actionable to the civic-minded as possible.
First, we reimagined the social dashboard by ripping out the modular, information-dense user flows common to traditional dashboards in favor of a gentler, opt-in experience to finding and analysing civic data. Furthermore, we tied individual metrics to policy prediction markets, giving citizens the ability to vote and predict the effectiveness of policy
︎︎︎ Concept, Figma, Github
[[]] futarchy,
prediction-markets,
data-dashboards
The core hypothesis of civicdash is that promises for civic change are more likely to be kept if they are held accountable to real civic data.
civicdash’s role, then, is to make that data as accessible and actionable to the civic-minded as possible.
First, we reimagined the social dashboard by ripping out the modular, information-dense user flows common to traditional dashboards in favor of a gentler, opt-in experience to finding and analysing civic data. Furthermore, we tied individual metrics to policy prediction markets, giving citizens the ability to vote and predict the effectiveness of policy