Hi!
I’m Alan, and this is my small corner of the internet. I don’t blog very often (obviously), but occasionally I’ll write up some thoughts about the world.
By day, I’m a research scientist at CTRL-labs, where I live a dual life: I spend about half my time investigating machine learning techniques for neural interfaces while I spend the other half brigding our science work with our software engineering teams. Our goal is to build the first real-world consumer-grade neural interface – if we do our job right, no one will ever use a mouse or a keyboard again in the nearish future.
By night, I’m a 20-something nerd who spends most of his time reading, sleeping, and talking (usually while walking). I do a little bit of open source work in my free time, but the bulk of my free time is spent reading and engaging in long meandering conversations with friends.
These days, my technical interests are split between (applied) machine learning, software systems (distributed systems and databases), and compilers/programming languages. Physics was my first crush and linguistics was my first intellectual love, but unfortunately I haven’t really kept up with either of them. Outside of STEM, I spend most of my time reading history (generally “modern” history – anything about the long 19th century up until maybe 1950) with a smattering of popular social sciences.