Projects

This page contains a list of projects I have worked on. If applicable there are links to the source code used in the project and/or the source TeX files.

Master Thesis

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We examine whether deliberation can improve democratic decision-making by helping voters develop more structured, coherent preferences. We adapted mathematical models to study how people update their political opinions through discussion, focusing on whether groups can reach shared understanding of policy issues — which is how we define “meta-agreement”.

Mechanistic Interpretability Project

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We investigate a transformer trained on the task of sorting. With the use of the local learning coefficient, the complexity of the model was estimated. The model was found to perform most computation in the first layer, after which the subsequence layers ‘refined the output’ without changing patterns shown in the first layer.

Bachelor Thesis

An admittedly silly project during which I have personally contributed 15.000 coin flips (total ~350.000). For my part in the paper and the contents of my thesis I contributed to the auditing of the coin tosses. Helping flag suspicious sequences of coin tosses as well as realigning the sequences in case either the tosser or auditor missed a toss. I also developed a short script to aid in the collection of the coin tosses.

Advent of Code

The repo containing my Advent of Code (AoC) solutions. I have participated since 2022 (I think), but only started tracking my code on GitHub since 2024. That was also the year I decided to use AoC to learn a new language. This proved to be rather successful as I ended up writing my master thesis in OCaml, while having had very little experience with functional programming. This year (2025) I am using it to learn Rust, and so far I really enjoy the tooling, and especially the compiler. The general syntax and ergonomics of the language are also a big improvement over OCaml in my opinion.