Work 03

Research

I read a field from its sources and lay out the questions and competing explanations in one paper. Studying physical therapy keeps me close to the body. With AI, I go past prompting into how models are built and trained.

Reviews and essays

The reviews are works in progress, not peer-reviewed papers.

Research review · in progressPain within dreams

A research review on how the brain produces a bodily sensation in a dream that the person has never felt awake.

Research review · in progressEmotion & non-living systems

A research review on how human emotions arise, and whether real feelings could exist outside living things.

EssayPolymath: when one job title is not enough

An essay on being a polymath: what working across fields gives you, what it costs, and what AI has changed about learning and work.

Systems built on research

D_AI — memory and decisions for long projects

A local system that keeps a project's memory and decisions, and won't let an AI agent start work without a goal and a way to check it's done.

Self-initiated

Secretary / LifeOS — Arabic personal knowledge

An open-source personal assistant, adapted to work properly in Arabic: text direction, dates, mobile gestures.

Self-initiated

What this door covers

Scientific researchPain within dreams
Connecting fieldsPolymath: when one job title is not enough

Also in my practice, with no published work here yet: Critical thinking and problem solving, Physical therapy (student), AI internals: how models work, building from scratch, training, advanced concepts.

Pin down one clear question.
Gather the sources and the competing explanations, and set them out in one paper.
Separate what's established from what's still a hypothesis, and revise the question as new sources come in.