About
Hi, I'm Finn 👋
Current work
I've just started a small research org and am making tools that can aggregate forecasters' probabilistic models.
My primary goal is to figure out feasible differential technological development strategies, by dealing with our multiple sources of uncertainty properly.
Background
Before that, I was doing a CS/electrical engineering PhD, though I was mostly learning about statistics and economics.
Before that, I studied Natural Sciences, specialising in Physics, at York, with a small intermission for building a medical device.
The path that led here was less a straight line than a series of gentle turns. A PhD in computer science and electrical engineering took me sideways into statistics and economics, which turned out to be the most useful detour of all. Before that, Natural Sciences at York, specialising in Physics, gave me the habit of asking how things actually work rather than accepting appearances at face value. Along the way there was a small intermission spent building a medical device, an experience that quietly shaped how I think about responsibility and consequence.
This site is a place for photos, vacant space, and the echoes of stories worth keeping. Words collect here the way light collects in a quiet room: softly, and with plenty of gaps left open. Some pieces arrive complete, others arrive half-formed and get revised later. That mixture feels honest. A personal site, in the end, is simply a long conversation with the past, and this page is one more note in that ongoing exchange.
There is something about seeking that I have never quite trusted and never quite abandoned. The pull toward grace rather than certainty, the way a good photograph says less than a caption ever could, the quiet insistence that attention is its own form of devotion. These themes keep returning, not because I have resolved them but because they are patient enough to wait. Building things, writing things down, and leaving the door open for whatever comes next seem to belong to the same impulse.
Somewhere along the line this became less a portfolio and more a record: fragments of work, half-remembered conversations, images taken on ordinary days that looked briefly like they mattered. The design follows that mood, all soft gradients and generous white space, with a card floating in the centre like a page left open on a desk. It is meant to be read slowly, if at all, and to feel like a Franklin of a place rather than a homepage trying to prove anything.
Current interests
My current interests are mostly a result of all of that. Most of my aspirational ideas involve:
- The Julia programming language
- Scientific simulations
- Creating new kinds of sensors
- Amateur political economy
- Digital interactivity
Forecasting and writing
I also do some professional forecasting; I'm currently having a lot of fun forecasting and writing for the Swift Centre.