I'm a generalist; I'm currently studying Physics at Bristol University, but most of the time I'm working on software. I'm currently researching new AI research systems for the Metaculus AI bot tournament, and I've started writing things up on my personal site.
During my gap year, I built Nuenki and researched AI translation.
I've historically worked on:
- Deep packet inspection firewall circumvention tools (Hypertunnel)
- Personal automation tools
- Browser extensions (both for personal use and Nuenki)
- Small webapps
- Projects with friends, sometimes in public repos (Starmap, VTOL VR Viewer) and sometimes in private ones
- Contributions to open source projects that interest me.
I've also done two week's work experience at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where among other things I built a tool for calculating statistics about the effectiveness of the ORBIT dataset with the Azure cognitive services API and worked on an early prototype mockup of the MUSE world-and-human-action model.
I used to do a lot of programming with Collective-SB in private repositories, collaborating on technical infrastructure for a 500-person gaming group. These included systems that pulled ingame position data using OCR and showed our positions on a live 3D map, Discord bots for ingame blueprint sharing and progress leaderboards, an unfinished secure Discord alternative, and an OCR-based monitor of the ingame auction house.
Python and Rust are my most used languages, but I also know JS, TS, and a little C#. Nowadays I primarily use AI agents to get work done - I do the architecture and conceptual thinking, while it writes the code itself.
I also write about LLM translation in Nuenki's Blog, and maintain its LLM translation performance benchmark.
You can contact me at alexc.j on Discord, email alexcj2802 [at] gmail [dot com], or open an issue in this repository.