Axel talks to computers on behalf of people.
Site of Axel Stevens, programmer, first responder, instrumentalist, cook, bricoleur and autonym collector.
case studies
- A tenure packet builder Bookmarking tenure packets took hours of manual work, and a revision started it over.
- Automatic boot-removal dispatch Boot orders waited for whoever was dispatching to notice and retype them.
- Scraping three years of towing records A tax audit wanted three years of records that existed one screen at a time.
- Drag-and-drop access control Granting access took a ticket and a multi-day wait.
- NAO robot embodying AI The lab's NAO could only recite scripted replies.
- Recovering a fire department's call records The old system went away with twenty-five years of fire calls inside.
writing & web
- How much Fenomeno did we get? A notebook trying to answer "How much of R9 was there to (probably) get?"
- Just how good was R9? Brazilian Ronaldo's entire career in numbers.
- Rameau Music-theory evals ask multiple-choice questions. This one makes the model do the analysis, and checks it deterministically.
- Ronaldo R9 Career Starter EDA The starter notebook for R9 career dataset.
- Web Instruments Piano, bass, ukulele and drums, playable in the browser. The piano writes what you play onto a music sheet.
- E-ffigy A 3D figure in the browser you can hit, slap, scorch, hose, pelt with snowballs, eggs and tomatoes, and draw on.
- Which button? A notebook attempting to throw data at the red button, blue button dilemma.