Learning
Polyglot Math
A math playground exploring the same ideas through different problems, representations, and languages.
Public research POCIndependent ideas · work in progress
Startups, small experiments,
and very short stories.
A place for the things I make—and the questions that keep me making them.
The project shelf
Some ready to explore.
Some still finding their shape.
Learning
A math playground exploring the same ideas through different problems, representations, and languages.
Public research POCStories & learning
An illustrated story project about spending, saving, and investing—explored through characters, choices, and play.
Book in developmentLanguage
Exploring pronunciation coaching, speech assessment, and tools for language classrooms.
PrototypeOpen research
Building and evaluating affordable local pronunciation models for PronunCo.
Research prototypePlatforms & people
Studying dating platforms: their policies, costs, privacy, and treatment of the people who use them.
Early researchOut in the world
Follow the websites and videos as they find an audience.
Website traffic, YouTube views, and Bilibili plays, with the source and reporting period beside every number.
A different kind of experiment
Flash fiction, poured one glass at a time.
Sample fiction · from the prototype
The lease said no pets, so Marta told the landlord the cat was a decorative object. He came to inspect. The cat sat on the windowsill and did not blink for eleven minutes. He wrote “ornament, ceramic” on the form and left. On the stairs he heard it sneeze and decided he had not.
My grandfather could smell rain two days out. He said it was the knee, then the shoulder, then finally the whole man. The morning of his funeral was cloudless, the forecast was cloudless, and at the graveside we all got soaked. Nobody had brought an umbrella. We had all learned to trust him.
Weather Report · sample fiction
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feedback@funpilsner.com