Fig. 04 — One ink: Mustard
Writing
| Shape | ID | Title | Blurb | Year | PC1 | PC2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W-01 | ForgeQB: Recommending Quizbowl Questions | How we serve question recommendations for a trivia vertical where both timing and accuracy matter, when every question comes with only a broad category and a broad difficulty. | 2026 | −0.64 | −0.05 | |
| W-02 | Thoughts on America's 250th | An exploration of my relationship with the USA and its founding ideals. | 2026 | −0.68 | 0.13 | |
| W-03 | Dreams or Delusions | An exploration asking whether naive dreaming serves us better than uncomfortable truth. | 2025 | −0.29 | 0.23 |
Essays, technical and not: how a quizbowl recommender works, and what truth, delusion and the American founding mean to me. Two were written for a competition and a scholarship; the technical one is for anyone building a recommender. Grey marks are the other five layers, kept in place so positions stay honest.