The best-performing RAG system to answer questions about CMU and LTI in Spring 2024’s 11-711 Advanced NLP.

GitHub: https://github.com/chaosarium/CMU-LTI-RAG
Collaborator: Karina Halevy

A new content-based, self-guided, NLP-enhanced language learning app emphasizing language exposure and active learning under active development

• Philosophy & Phase I progress see Influx Dev Log - Phase I

  Influx Dev Log - Phase I

  #post Dev log for Influ Development on Influx has been a slow start after it was proposed back in 202. We finally...

  4/3/2025

• Daily dev log se Influx Continuous Dev Log

  Influx Continuous Dev Log

  Developing Influ, a content-based, self-guided, NLP-enhanced integrated language learning environment emphasizing language exposure and active learning. 2024-06-23 Tokenisation model outputs are...

  4/3/2025

• Proposal see here

  Towards an Integrated Content-Based Language Learning Environment: An Exploratory Proposal

  #post This post originally appeared on Status Currently under development with phase I completed as discussed in See also continuous progress log...

  4/3/2025

Stack: Axum (Rust), Svelte, Postgres, SurrealDB, Stanza (Python), TypeScript, Tailwind
GitHub: https://github.com/chaosarium/Influx

List public files with one line of command.

Demo: https://repo.chaosarium.xyz
Stack: Shell Script, Netlify, CSS
Extra: tutorial

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Graph-based exploration tool that visualizes the dependencies of CMU courses built in 24 hours during TartanHacks 2023. Supports both 2D and 3D visualisation.

Demo: https://cmu-course-explorer.chaosarium.xyz
GitHub: https://github.com/chaosarium/CMU-Course-Graph

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Template to generate static photography website featuring a minimal, modern design written from scratch as described in this

Stack: Handlebars, Less, JavaScript
Demo site: https://gallerybeta.chaosarium.xyz
Own photo site: https://photos.chaosarium.xyz
GitHub: https://github.com/chaosarium/arxive

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Code to turn my Obsidian vault into this website—based on Quartz but includes preprocessing and postprocessing scripts to maximise compatibility with Obsidian. It also includes feature additions and style changes that I need on my website.

GitHub: https://github.com/chaosarium/quartz-plus
Extra: blog post

An online booking system for NCPA’s practice room on the NCPA intranet featuring:

• No database management achieved via cryptographic hash function along with server keys to generate and verify passwords for each student
• Measures to prevent bots from signning up
• Custom traffic analytics
• Sign up history
• Announcement board
• Ensamble sign up
• Admin/teacher control (reserving room, blacklisting users, etc.)

Stack: Node.js, HTML, CSS, ejs, JavaScript, nginx, MongoDB
GitHub: https://github.com/chaosarium/Music-Rooms-at-NCPA
Website: https://signup.ncpachina.org/practiceroom (only accessible through the NCPA intranet)

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A JavaScript browser app for rendering various fractal algorithms with Julia mode support and many other configurable parameters.

Also introducing the Suspicious Mandelbrot algorithm :D.

Stack: JavaScript, HTML, Bootstrap
GitHub: https://github.com/chaosarium/JS_Fractal_Generator
Demo²: https://chaosarium.github.io/JS_Fractal_Generator

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• Quartz — build and publish a second brain using Hugo
• C0VM-ts — a TypeScript browser app to visualise and debug programmes written in CMU’s c0 language
• LWT — a text-based language learning app