Max Silverstein

Models, tools, and things to play with.

Software projects in machine learning, environmental tools, and interactive design. Pursuing an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, with a focus on model evaluation and red-teaming.

Work

8 projects
  1. Draft board listing players ranked by VORP, each with a floor-to-ceiling projection interval bar.

    Megatron

    Live · In active development

    NFL fantasy projections with a draft board, trade calculator, and weekly player estimates.

    Screenshot · Draft board · captured 2026-09-05 · Local build

    Held-out p10–p90 coverage: 81.9%, 79.2%, 79.5% across 2023–25; nominal target 80%.

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  2. Wind status panel showing an ordinance heading, Denver household ordinance reference, wind direction dial with REPORT ODOR control, and live wind speed/direction readout.

    York St Vector

    Live

    An odor-reporting app that checks wind conditions and tracks complaints from separate households.

    Screenshot · Wind & status · captured 2026-09-05

    Wind support uses two NWS stations over a 90-minute lookback; it does not establish the odor’s source.

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  3. Pyrra homepage hero with the headline Built to rank and an illustrative website audit.

    Pyrra

    Site live · Outreach paused

    A prospecting and outreach pipeline I ran, audited, and rebuilt around mandatory review and evidence-gated claims.

    Studio homepage · headline and illustrative audit · captured 2026-09-16

    Python and SQLite: 4,961 listings collected and screened, 432 emails sent, then a self-audit and a tested fail-closed rebuild (not yet used for a campaign).

    Technical note

    My own audit found most of the 432 sends were unreviewed and many drafts made claims the pipeline never measured; outreach is paused.

    The rebuild requires review of every send, refuses unsupported claims in code, and adds the missing footer and a fail-closed send ledger.

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  4. all:Lo site at rest, showing the audio-reactive smoke field, the all:Lo wordmark, and player controls.

    all:Lo

    Live

    A music collective’s site with smoke that responds to audio.

    all:Lo’s smoke renderer. The preview uses synthetic inputs; the live site responds to audio.

    Fast envelopes change light; a slower envelope changes geometry.

    How the motion works

    The live site maps fast bass and mid envelopes to light. A more heavily smoothed envelope changes the geometry. Here the two inputs are separated so you can inspect their effects. No audio is being analyzed.

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  5. Tesseract: a rotating 4D chess projection beside autonomous-simulation controls and an 8x8 plane inspector.

    Tesseract

    Complete · Playable demo

    Four-dimensional chess on an 8 × 8 × 8 × 8 grid of 4,096 cells, with piece movement extended to four axes.

    Screenshot · Tesseract demo · captured 2026-09-06

    Watch continuous CPU games, step through moves, and inspect any of the 64 board slices.

    Read the coordinate model

    Each axis has 8 positions. Holding z and w fixed gives one ordinary 8 × 8 slice; there are 64 such slices and 4,096 coordinates in total.

    The demo runs entirely in the browser: two CPU players using selective two-ply search, a Web Worker for the move engine, and a rotating 4D projection with a plane inspector. It is not a strong chess AI or a standardized rules set.

    No usage or outcome measurement is published here.

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  6. Silent-auction demo showing an artwork, a simulated outbid notice, the updated current bid, and controls to bid again.

    Silent Auction

    Complete · Interactive demo

    A silent-auction app built for a friend’s group art show, with bidding on individual pieces.

    Screenshot · Piece after simulated outbid · Client-side demo

    Bids advance in $10 increments; a simulated rival demonstrates the outbid flow.

    Technical note

    The December 2025 source history contains a Supabase Realtime subscription for bid updates, a Twilio SMS function, and a switch to requesting outbid emails. It does not identify the revision deployed at the event or establish email delivery.

    This demo runs entirely client-side with fictional artists and pieces, bids saved in localStorage, and a simulated rival whose outbid notice appears in-app; no database or email service runs here.

    No usage or outcome measurement is published here.

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  7. Count Practice drill showing a flashed card, practice statistics, and speed control with a running count strip.

    Blackjack Trainer

    Live

    A Hi-Lo card-counting trainer with running count, true count, and practice modes.

    Screenshot · Practice · captured 2026-09-05

    Single-file implementation; includes the Illustrious 18 index deviations.

    Technical note

    Single-file implementation covering running count, true count, deck-penetration tracking, and the Illustrious 18 index deviations across learn and practice modes.

    No usage or outcome measurement is published here.

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  8. Birdie

    In development · Local only

    A golf practice coach that turns simulator log files into a report on what to practice.

    System diagram · Birdie

    Birdie reads three simulator outputs through a read-only boundary — FSX Play Unity's Player.log for club delivery, GSPro's currentRound.dat for ball flight and spin, and swing-camera clips — and never writes back to those directories. Parsers normalize that data into Birdie's own SQLite store. Miss clustering and a strokes-gained cost model then produce one ranked practice priority. This diagram documents that pipeline; it is not a validated diagnosis.

    Ground-truth validation has begun and has not cleared its own bar.

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Interested in the work? I’m happy to discuss the projects, their implementation, and what I learned building them.

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