Alex Varden

Writing

Exploring Concepts,
Through Projects

I pick apart things that interest me by building them. Every project pairs a working demo with essays explaining what I found. The demo lets you experience the concept firsthand. The essays trace the thinking behind it.

Sherlock
Latest essay·sherlock

The Game is aFoot: Ingesting the works of Sherlock Holmes

Three layers, two deterministic, one LLM-driven. How Doyle's prose becomes a queryable graph, and where the interesting failure modes actually are.

·16 min read

Projects

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