Chris Hay / London
A life
in questions.
I build things to find out
how they work.
Research, engineering, design and film. Different ways of exploring how intelligent systems are represented, executed, understood and experienced.
Inside the practice
Thought about.
Given structure.
Made real.
A question becomes something I can build. Building it gives me something to inspect. The experiment, the software and the way the work is presented belong to the same practice.
This site keeps those things together: the work itself, the questions behind it, and the record of what happened.
Systems I’m building: LARQL · VINDEX3 · HAUSE · MCP-CLI / CHUK.
Keep a notebook.
Experiments, observations and questions still open. A place to follow the investigation as it develops.
The evidenceKeep the record.
Findings with their scope, sources and limitations. Failed predictions remain part of the work.
The conversationThink on film.
Another way to explore an idea: explain it, demonstrate it, or work through it in public.
02 / A personal detail
Things I
look through.
I’m sensitive to light. I always wear sunglasses outside and usually wear Swanwicks indoors—the pair you see in my videos.
Some pairs belong to everyday life. My old Oakley Juliets come out for special occasions and formal events: metallic and classy, formal but casual.
My glasses, in a lookbook
03 / A principle of the work
Publish the uncertainty
as well as the result.
Open questions remain open. A result earns its status through evidence. Revisions keep their earlier records, including the ideas that did not hold up.
Explore the connected recordElsewhere / In conversation
Find me
in the work.
I’m a regular panelist on IBM’s Mixture of Experts. The conversations live here alongside my own films, with their original production credits.