Daniel Lowd · Eugene, OregonResearch & background

My playground. Games, geeky songs, short fiction, and experiments with AI.

Made by Daniel Lowd. Curious about working together? Let’s talk.

Games

2 games · play in your browser

Fetching Asteroids

A Good Dog named Jordan dreams of catching asteroids and bringing them back to Earth.

Action · browser

Play on itch.io

Yarn Cat

Merge balls of yarn in a wicker basket until a kitten appears.

Puzzle · browser

Play on itch.io

Workbench

Small experiments with AI, and the things you learn by making them.

voom

A cleanup protocol for AI agents that have made a mess. When Little Cat A can’t fix it, send in Little Cat B.

What’s the idea?

An experiment in giving an AI agent an explicit cleanup procedure, inspired by The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. The interesting part: can instructions help an agent recognize a mess and contain it?

Work with me

Have an AI or machine-learning problem you’d like to think through? I’m interested in consulting and collaboration.

My research, publications, and background are at dlowd.com.

Say hello: daniel@lowd.ai

Songs

6 songs · YouTube

Geeky songs I write and perform.

Stories

Short fiction · 2011–2017

Computer science verse

The unillama

20+ miles · 2012
Daniel riding a unicycle along a campus sidewalk, wearing a backpack.
I commute by unicycle. For the 2012 Business Commute Challenge, Star Holmberg lent me a small plush llama. Together we logged more than 20 miles that week. Photo by Cheri Smith.