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I'm Nelson. I spent seven years in behavioral health research - peer support, workforce systems, publishing on why 81% job satisfaction and 42% intent to leave can exist in the same workforce at the same time. I learned how intelligent agents break when you force them to perform coherence without giving them a map.

Then I noticed AI systems break the same way.

Now I formalize theorems in Lean 4 that prove anomaly detection actually works. I write about the structural parallels between AI hallucination and employee burnout. I filed a NIST RFI on AI agent security that got picked up as a wire story. I disclosed a CVSS 9.1 to OpenHands and a watering-hole attack vector to Anthropic. I will be publishing a newsletter called The Weave that connects threads across domains nobody thinks belong together - and they keep being right.

The infrastructure lives at @Project-Navi. Sponsor that if you depend on the tools.

Sponsor me if you want the person who connects the threads to keep pulling them. The cross-domain pattern recognition. The writing. The formal verification research at midnight. The parts that don't fit in a repo description but make everything in the repos possible.

There's no team. It's me, my dog Luthien, a mass-produced amount of coffee, and the stubbornness to keep proving things nobody asked me to prove. Yet.

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10 people who think cross-domain pattern recognition between formal verification and behavioral health is worth keeping alive. That's it. Not a revenue target. A headcount. I want to know there are 10 of you out there.

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Featured work

  1. Fieldnote-Echo/ordvec

    Training-free ordinal & sign quantization for compressed nearest-neighbour retrieval over high-dimensional embeddings. Pure Rust, zero system dependencies.

    Rust 14
  2. Fieldnote-Echo/ordvec-formalization

    Lean 4 formalization of finite Bayes-threshold optimality for OrdVec overlap models.

    Lean 5

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