The Writing
Notes from the margin.
Everything written here, grouped by what it is. Research papers and preprints alongside essays, process notes, and the occasional personal thread. Some sections are denser than others; drafts sit at the bottom of theirs. Not everything is finished — that's sort of the point.
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Accessibility Concept Emergence in the Pythia Suite: Thresholds, Binding, and the Declarative-Evaluative Gap
Sustained deep-network binding of accessibility compounds appears to be a necessary structural condition for behavioral capability — present in every model that correctly defines core concepts, absent in every model that fails.
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Golden Gate Claude aka Bridge Boy
A story about a bridge (model) living his best life...if only for a day.
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Testing accessibility knowledge across Pythia model sizes
While using TransformerLens to explore how different model sizes handle digital accessibility concepts, an interesting pattern began to emerge. I started with GPT-2 and noticed that it did not understand the acronym, “WCAG.” Each time the question was run the model responded with something different that was either incorrect, had no meaning, or both.
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When good design backfires: the hidden accessibility cost of conversational AI
On the accessibility tradeoffs of conversational interfaces — what gets quieter when text gets smarter.
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AI as an accessibility tool: finding my voice
Writing isn’t always easy when your brain works differently. For me, the challenge isn’t having ideas—it’s getting them out in a way that makes sense. AI isn’t replacing my voice—it’s helping me hear it more clearly.