Symmachus

Greg Baker's nerd-geek projects

Don't expect to find any coherence here. This is where I put anything that I've been working on that seems interesting.

Group IBooks · 7 Group IILearning And Arithmetic · 9 Group IIITexts And Language · 14 Group IVMathematics And Models · 6 Group VScience, AI, And Public Research · 7
Group IBooks
1DsAnyone Can Do Data Science 2Is*An Infinite Supply of Someone 3HlIn Heidi's Land 4HgHeidi Grandma 5MdWhen Medusa Went on Chatroulette 6SoSolresol 7Dp†The CMDB and Data Protector books
Group IILearning And Arithmetic
8LtLearning Theory Games 9IpiPrax 10StStudium 11P3P3 Recommendation Engine 12GeGenetic Pedigree Analyzer 13BsBead Sort Simulator 14Kbk-bonacci Calculator 15ExExponential Growth Calculator 16ApAphid Population Explosion
Group IIITexts And Language
17DkDuke Translations 18SbStephanos 19PaPausanias 20EuEusebius 21PcProsodia Catholica 22ZnZenobius 23PlParallage 24WsWordspend 25LgLanguage In Genetics 26PsPsalm Pairs 40PiPIE Word Garden 41EoEsperanto Word Garden 42TpToki Pona Word Garden 43SlSolresol Word Garden
Group IVMathematics And Models
27PmP-adic Machine Learning 28SmP-adic Stemmatics Lab 29AtAthanasius 30RsRoboscientist 31PjpAdjective 32UtUltratree
Group VScience, AI, And Public Research
33RpRobo-psychology 34NlNarrative Learning 35EmEmberScope 36TeTelescope 37LiLituus 38UcUniversity Casualisation 39DvDevotions

* Synthetic. Not yet observed in nature; register interest and it may yet be isolated.

† Unstable. Decays slowly into documentation about backup-to-tape software.

37 linked public project sites 14 classical, language, and translation projects 6 p-adic, ultrametric, and model experiments 7 science, AI, and public research sites

Table of elements

Every entry, grouped by subject, with a description you can actually read.

BooksGroup I

Books I've written, translated, or am still trying to finish, plus the newsletter where some of the ideas escape early.

1DsAnyone Can Do Data ScienceData science

A practical introduction that starts with tabletop activities and ends in Python.

anyone-data-science.symmachus.org · Read or download 2IsAn Infinite Supply of SomeoneWork in progress

I used AI as my lawyer to take on a high profile Fair Work case and won. This book is about what becomes possible when we put AI within reach of people without the usual money, staff, or credentials, and how to make sure the result actually does some good.

mailchi.mp · Tell me you're interested 3HlIn Heidi's LandTranslation

My English translation of Charles Tritten's Au Pays de Heidi, a collection of four stories from Heidi's world.

www.amazon.com · Find it on Amazon 4HgHeidi GrandmaTranslation

The final chapter of Heidi's life, translated into English with Claire Baker.

www.amazon.com · Find it on Amazon 5MdWhen Medusa Went on ChatroulettePoetry

Nerd-geek poetry about nuclear physics, mathematics, time travel, robots, and first contact.

www.amazon.com · Find it on Amazon 6SoSolresolNewsletter

Essays and works in progress about AI, economics, higher education, software, and whatever else has wandered across my desk.

solresol.substack.com · Read on Substack 7DpThe CMDB and Data Protector booksDeep archive

This is the end of the line: if you want to read what I wrote about backup-to-tape software decades ago, you can, but you really are scraping the barrel.

www.amazon.com · Browse the old technical books on Amazon

Learning And ArithmeticGroup II

Interactive teaching sites, classroom tools, and arithmetic visualizations. Arithmetic.guru projects use their live Symmachus aliases here.

8LtLearning Theory Games

Interactive games for VC dimension, Rademacher complexity, overfitting, rule learning, and network analysis.

learning-theory.symmachus.org · Open site 9IpiPrax

Practice assessment tasks and feedback tools for Australian school students.

iprax.symmachus.org · Open site 10StStudium

Playable historical argument about how universities adapt as knowledge gets cheaper.

studium.symmachus.org · Open site 11P3P3 Recommendation Engine

Interactive playground for recommendation-engine behavior and ranking feedback.

p3.symmachus.org · Open site 12GeGenetic Pedigree Analyzer

Inheritance probability calculations through interactive pedigree diagrams.

genes.symmachus.org · Open site 13BsBead Sort Simulator

A visual demonstration of the bead sort algorithm and its physics-inspired behavior.

bead-sort.symmachus.org · Open site 14Kbk-bonacci Calculator

A calculator for generalized Fibonacci sequences where each term sums the previous k terms.

k-bonacci.symmachus.org · Open site 15ExExponential Growth Calculator

A small visualization for exploring exponential growth patterns and compounding behavior.

exponentials.symmachus.org · Open site 16ApAphid Population Explosion

A population-dynamics simulation for seeing rapid growth under simple assumptions.

aphids.symmachus.org · Open site

Texts And LanguageGroup III

Translation projects, classical corpora, language analysis, and the Word Garden vocabulary sites.

17DkDuke Translations

Translation site for Duke Databank materials, maintained as a separate Symmachus project.

duke-translations.symmachus.org · Open site 18SbStephanos

English-language translation of Stephanos of Byzantium with analytics and entity extractions.

stephanos.symmachus.org · Open site 19PaPausanias

Textual and geographic analysis of Pausanias' Description of Greece.

pausanias.symmachus.org · Open site 20EuEusebius

Computational analysis of Eusebius' chronologies and ecclesiastical history.

eusebius.symmachus.org · Open site 21PcProsodia Catholica

Reference index and analysis for Herodian's Prosodia Catholica.

prosodia-catholica.symmachus.org · Open site 22ZnZenobius

Reference site for Zenobius' poetry and proverbs.

zenobius.symmachus.org · Open site 23PlParallage

Translation review workspace for comparing generated and human translations.

parallage.symmachus.org · Open site 24WsWordspend

Analysis of how many words translations spend to express the same ideas.

wordspend.symmachus.org · Open site 25LgLanguage In Genetics

Analysis of language usage patterns across genetics and genomics journals.

lig.symmachus.org · Open site 26PsPsalm Pairs

Exploring narrative continuity within the Psalter by comparing every ordered pair of psalms.

psalm-pairs.symmachus.org · Open site 40PiPIE Word GardenWord a week

Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European words, their descendants, family trees, and the Rootle word game.

pie.symmachus.org · Open site 41EoEsperanto Word GardenWord a week

An Esperanto word a week, with examples, word origins, and the Rootle word game.

esperanto.symmachus.org · Open site 42TpToki Pona Word GardenWord a week

Toki Pona words, example sentences, borrowing histories, and the Rootle word game.

toki.symmachus.org · Open site 43SlSolresol Word GardenWord a week

Musical vocabulary with scores, playable audio, and Rootle on piano keys.

solresol.symmachus.org · Open site

Mathematics And ModelsGroup IV

p-adic tools, ultrametric experiments, stylometry, and model-driven research.

27PmP-adic Machine Learning

Interactive demos, notes, and experiments on p-adic machine learning.

padic.symmachus.org · Open site 28SmP-adic Stemmatics Lab

Model-lab tools for manuscript classification and stemmatic analysis.

padic-stemmatics.symmachus.org · Open site 29AtAthanasius

p-adic and stylometric analysis of Athanasius' writings and manuscript traditions.

athanasius.symmachus.org · Open site 30RsRoboscientist

Autonomous research progress on regularised p-adic linear regression and related mathematical explorations.

roboscientist.symmachus.org · Open site 31PjpAdjective

p-adic embeddings of adjectives derived from usage patterns across Shopify storefronts.

padjective.symmachus.org · Open site 32UtUltratree

Daily-updated ultrametric tree language-model results.

ultratree.symmachus.org · Open site

Science, AI, And Public ResearchGroup V

AI behavior, astronomy, engineering, social data, and recurring research publications.

33RpRobo-psychology

Curriculum and research notes for understanding AI behaviour and its effects on humans.

robopsychology.symmachus.org · Open site 34NlNarrative Learning

Machine learning techniques using LLMs to generate and validate research hypotheses.

narrative-learning.symmachus.org · Open site 35EmEmberScope

Adaptive optics design tools and telescope engineering workflows.

emberscope.symmachus.org · Open site 36TeTelescope

Stakeholder site for adaptive-optics telescope mechanical design.

telescope.symmachus.org · Open site 37LiLituus

Astronomy research tracker analyzing papers, citation networks, and scientific hypotheses.

lituus.symmachus.org · Open site 38UcUniversity Casualisation

Charts and analysis on casualisation in Australian universities.

casualisation.symmachus.org · Open site 39DvDevotions

Automated daily devotionals blending scripture, reflection, and curated readings.

devotions.symmachus.org · Open site