sophia hanselmann on sophia.ooo

Some music videos have returned to the office.

Reflections on Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s What Is Life?

Simulation-based letterforms.

Reflections on Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)

On building for tomorrow.

Some thoughts on getting people in a room to evaluate a thing.

A critical system exposes how it works, while it works.

Maybe we enjoy simple narratives that travel well.

A prototype can be an argument.

LLMs and the epistemic gap.

A game designed to frustrate Googlers into building more empathetic products.

Enterprise security tool that lets Google Workspace admins investigate and remediate threats.

Visual programming environment for processing real-time data streams.

Real-time visualization of New York Times taxonomy.

Real-time visualization that transformed nytimes.com’s live traffic into an animated map of how the world reads the news.

Interactive visualization of how New York Times stories propagate through social networks.

Traffic visualizations created for Waze, a community-sourced turn-by-turn navigation app.

Generative geometry exploration.

An homage to the classic Windows game with the fun addition of EXC_BAD_ACCESS.

Software that visualizes its own source code.

Gestural programming interpreter for the esoteric programming langauge brainfuck.

Analog store of failures, gathered via SMS and voicemail, saved by a thermal printer, archived in wooden drawers.

Daily visualizations of sensor data.

Generative geometry exploration.

Visualization and sonification of tomato respiration.

Climate-concious ARG with a network of real environmental sensors.

Physical game of balance and sorting.