Projects

Things I build outside work.

A card game, a publishing platform, some stubborn AI experiments and a piece of research. I like understanding how things work, but I also want something usable at the end of it.

Game · playwhot.appLive · in development

Play Whot

Nigeria’s card game, rebuilt for fast online play. The rules were the easy part. Making menus obvious, matches responsive on cheap phones and the table feel right took much longer.

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Publishing · pabiekun.comLive

Pabiekun

A searchable home for my father’s essays on Nigerian politics, law, history and culture. It started life as WhatsApp messages.

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Experiments · own hardwareExperimental

Local AI on a gaming PC

Running a very large open-weight model on my own machine, and working out why a good benchmark doesn’t always mean a fast application.

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MSc research · 2023Completed

Pancreatic cancer phenotypes

How does pancreatic cancer show up in clinical notes, social media and biomedical literature? I used NLP to compare the three and see what each source misses.

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Smaller things

Unofficial Sphinx aptitude practice. Maths, English and beginner Python questions, for anyone preparing for a Sphinx-style test.

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Project Joey. An attempt to build, in Rust, a small language model that grows from data over time. It hasn’t got far yet: the latest version passes 2 of 8 basic English checks. It has taught me a lot about how models actually learn.

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