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• 2026-06-02 · paper

  Thirteen Pantheons

  Part 3 of the slow walk. A rest from theory. Hathor, Tefnut, and the RDPG model applied to thirteen mythology traditions.

• 2026-05-14 · paper

  There and Back Again: From Arrows to Tables

  Part 2 of the slow walk. We stack the yellow and blue arrows into tables, turn those tables into a green map of connection probabilities, draw one noisy network from it, and ask how much of the hidden geometry can be recovered.

• 2026-05-11 · paper

  A slow walk through Random Dot Product Graphs

  A gentle, hand-held introduction to the network-science model I keep returning to. No mathematical background needed.

• 2026-05-11 · project

  Three tools for the Pacific data ecosystem

  An overview of the SDMX work I'm leading at the Pacific Community. An MCP gateway for AI agents, a chat-driven dashboard builder, and an AI-assisted codelist harmoniser.

• 2026-05-11 · paper

  When do brains (and large language models) really track the world?

  A gentle, hand-held tour of the eco-evo line on representation I've been pursuing this year. No background in philosophy of mind or machine learning needed.