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hi
Sanskrit bhū, "to become." Same root as English "be." Also means world, earth, place of being. Shares a root with bhūta (ghost, lit. "what has become").
SilenceVR
Virtual reality meditation app. It's contradictory and counterproductive to be told, using words, to "let go of your thoughts" in order to be thought-free. Visual input is not neutral but may be more effective for the purposes of meditation.
03.14.2026
Demo'd at DeepMind Hackathon
SynchronyVR
An immersive rehabilitation tool for stroke, amputation, and chronic pain, expanding in virtual reality the principles of mirror therapy.
03.19.2026
Demo'd at Claude Code for HealthTech
Mind the Gloss
Linguistic atlas of CTA stations.
open project →
The Gothic Mile
every walk takes longer than it looks like it should
Why a ten-minute walk across the quad takes fifteen. A cartogram of UChicago's 29 buildings, stretched by foot-routing data.
open project →
kolam
drag to draw · pick a mode
VR version forthcomingGeometric patterns in VR. Your paati would be confused but impressed (I hope). Will be beautiful or kms.
Dress4It
Weather report for your closet
open project →
Truth is a pathless land,here are some maps
Preliminary analysis of the oldest running occult journal, The Theosophist, spanning 91 years and 35 million words
open project →
unmediated inclusions
Finally doing justice to the concepts in my masters thesis. Some things exist solely between the writer and the reader, unbrokered by characters. Unmediated inclusions can strengthen world-building or at least make it more interesting.
open project →
freezing my eggs
Nachi
An open-source, local-first PDF research environment with scholar-agent chats, like Zotero and Claude had 15 babies.
sir, this is a temple
When the devotee wants god in bed and says so explicitly.
open project →
Inaugural Associates Board member, in their 40th year
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Volunteer sample tray artist + co-owner at the best coop in chicago ^.^
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The University of Chicago
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Manager, Applied Data Fellowship
My lovely day job. I supervise a cohort of 25 early career data professionals/recent grads each year. I also teach our weekly data capacity workshops, amongst other things.
Note: If you're an applicant to the ADF, none of this is relevant to your application or the technical interviews with me. Good luck!
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(the other ramanujan)
Bit gimmicky, might delete later. I just really like A.K. Ramanujan.
open project →
Otama
Note
Note
waa waa waa
Waa waa waa waa waa, but with timestamps.
open project →
Set, Setting, and Six (Bad) Dimensions
The standard psychometric rubric finds mysticism in only 3.2%. The (malevolent) entities want a word.
open project →
will you
be hard?
be hard?
devotional poetry, faithlessness notwithstanding
open project →
blavatsky number
What the Erdős number is for mathematics, the Blavatsky number is (could be?) for the occult.
open project →
Shaadi.gov
should your MP marry your senator?
Real astrology.·Real rules.·Wrong application.
previously
Auditing books
Auditing actual books
Economics
Actual speculative fiction
reading
Seabright, Paul. The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People.
Theosophy and the Study of Religion
Stang, "H.P. Blavatsky and Origen of Alexandria"
Josephson Storm, "Language, Mind, Cosmos: The Theosophical Roots of Linguistic Relativism"
Li, Yiyun. Wednesday's Child: Stories.
List, John A. The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale.
Josephson Storm, Jason Ānanda. The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences.
Lofton, Kathryn. Consuming Religion.