The purpose of computing is thinking. By understanding well and deploying with care the right tools and technologies you can — individually and collectively — think at a scale, speed, and complexity that were simply impossible before.
Exploring the How? and Then what? is one of history's greatest adventures.
Work
The best way I know to describe what I do is cognitive architecture. Some of it means building bespoke single-domain AIs, some of it is reverse-engineering experts' brains, some of it simply figuring out a missing piece in an organizations' collective mind and understanding of the world. Always the same question: How smart can we make this?
A privilege of this line of work is the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from smart people doing interesting things in almost every area. Currently I'm working with Axenya as Chief AI Architect, as well as consulting with NGOs and early-stage startups.
Writing
I keep an old-school blog with the non-fiction posts replicated on a newsletter and on Medium.
I also like writing short-form science fiction! I post it more or less weekly on the Adversarial Metanoia newsletter, although copied as well to the blog and to Medium. A collection of some of those stories is available at the Internet Archive as Viral Fixpoint, and you can download a set of older stories — 100 stories of exactly 100 words each — titled Tactical Awareness.
Contact me
The easiest way is through marcelo@rinesi.com.
Miscellanea
A few old archived projects:
- Investment Climatology Project a.k.a. what the VC money is talking about.
- A Map of TED World, a visual index of TED and TED-ish talks through the lens of Google's BERT NLP model.
- What's New in News?, a novelty-boosting interface to the New York Times.
- Seeing Like the Market, a weekly data-driven look at the latent geometry of the SP500.
- The COVID-19 Country Response Scores.
At one point or another I've been quoted, interviewed, or mentioned by Rolling Stone, Quartz, The Verge, BoingBoing, Forbes, Wired, Huffington Post, Fast Company, VICE's Motherboard, La Nación, Clarín, and Veintitres. But if there's a pattern in technology is that the really valuable things are the ones people don't want to talk about yet.