I'm tinkering with relative positional encoding by trying to integrate acoustic features directly into it.

More specifically, I'm trying to use pitch (F0) to dynamically adjust the theta parameter in rotary positional embeddings, so the frequency of the positional encoding reflects the underlying pitch contour of the speech and instead of using a fixed unit circle (radius=1.0) for complex rotations, I'm trying to work out how to use variable radii derived from the pitch. The idea is to create acoustically-weighted positional encodings, where the position reflects the acoustic salience in the original audio. https://github.com/sine2pi/asr_model

I'm building https://zenquery.app — a tool for querying large CSV, JSON, Parquet and Excel files using plain English. No SQL or coding required.

As a data engineer, I regularly have to dig through massive files to debug issues or validate assumptions — things like missing column values, abnormally large timestamps, inconsistent types, or duplicate records. It’s tedious and time-consuming, and that’s what led me to build this.

ZenQuery makes it quick and easy to explore data locally, without needing to spin up notebooks, write scripts, or upload anything to the cloud. It’s also useful for doing lightweight analytical QA if you're working with business data.

Happy to answer any questions.

Writing SFF novels!

I need to put it up on the ol' blog-thing, but I've signed a contract with a small press for a debut novel, which is highly exciting. That one's urban fantasy from the point of view of the wizard's magic cloak. (You better believe it has opinions.)

Meanwhile, I've been working on a novel about a group of time travelers who accidentally get stuck in the Permian, well before the dinosaurs. Surprise! There are still big animals that can eat you, they're just more weird (and not as big). The research for that one has been wild.

The ol' blog thing, where I post story-related tidbits and such: https://rznicolet.com

I’m working on a desktop app called With Audio https://desktop.with.audio a one time payment desktop app.

— it turns ebooks, articles, and documents into synchronized audio with real-time text highlighting. It’s great for people who prefer listening while reading (or want to stay focused), and it works fully offline with a one-time purchase — no subscriptions.

I’m bootstrapping it and trying to figure out how to market it effectively. So far, I’ve had some traction and early sales just by posting on Reddit, but I’m still learning the marketing side — especially how to reach people who’d benefit from it most.

Would love to hear how others approached early growth for similar bootstrapped tools.

I'm working on a new kind of encyclopedia and reference website that is way more engaging and rich than a single page of text on every subject like Wikipedia. Back in my childhoold we had Microsoft Encarta on CDROM and it was a very compelling multimedia experience and I want to emulate something like that on the modern web by combining video, sound, images and text in a more compelling user experience with great discoverability. I've been working on the first version for about eight months and I hope to launch it next week at https://reference.org

I'm working on MedAngle, the world's first Super App for current + future doctors. An invite only platform, which has everything people in medschool/dental school and recent graduates need. From analytics, quizzes, summaries, x-rays , videos to tens of thousands of questions, ~100k+ students/doctors have solved over 100m questions, spent 10s of billions of seconds, and growing!

We're also working on the Premed Super App, same thing for people taking medical school entry exams like the MCAT or MDCAT.

I get to work with a bunch of top notch students and doctors, and I myself am the first ever full-stack technologist who also is a doctor in Pakistan, a country of 250 million people.

I'm working on a simple, local storage budgeting app called "Wasa Budget". I wrote it because I got tired of tracking my budget on excel sheets. It's written in flutter, it works well enough that I was able to entirely ditch the excel sheets now.

I want to publish it on Google play, but I need testers. If anyone cares about budgeting, I'd love to get some feedback.

Here's the app link: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/dev.selfreliant.wasa_bu...

I don't think you can download it without being added to my testers list though. Send me your Gmail address if you're interested!

Nothing actually. Feels nice.

I've been building an interactive nuclear reactor scoping tool to help people build intuition about how different types of nuclear reactors work and cost at different sizes. I ran a bunch of simple reactor simulations and this basically interpolates between them. https://whatisnuclear.com/neutronics-scoping-tool.html

I did a screenshare demo of it yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQzDfrdf71Y