AI Works. That's the Problem.
The most transformative technology in human history is being judged by its dumbest applications. Here's what's missing from the conversation.
May 2026
Writing
Live Sites
Bass Practice Schedule
A practice scheduler for bass guitar students, built for the BuzzBass teaching method.
Lens Calculator
Interactive calculator for camera lens parameters — focal length, sensor crop, field of view.
Goodreads Stats
Visualizations and statistics from Goodreads reading data — charts, trends, and reading habits.
Carson's Craniums
3D-printed replicas of famous hominin fossils, with the story behind each one.
Deep Dives
Book Cover Design
Designing and cutting book covers with Affinity Designer and a Silhouette Cameo.
Shooting Film
Reviews, histories, and sample photos from 22 film cameras out of a collection of ~120.
Troublesome Translations
Digitizing and translating a 16th-century French legal text with OCR and LLMs.
Kitchen Knives
Japanese knives, Chinese cleavers, and why blade geometry matters more than steel.
Cooking
Recipes, experiments, and the occasional kitchen disaster.
Media
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No Dumb Questions #199
Podcast with Destin Sandlin (SmarterEveryDay) on AI, coding, and the future of software engineering.
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COVID Face Shields
Local news interview about organizing volunteers to 3D-print over 40,000 face shields.
Research
33 publications and presentations
- Design and Construction of a NASA Airborne and Field Investigation Inventory C Davis et al. · AGU Fall Meeting, 2019
- ES2Vec: Earth Science Metadata Suggestions and Analogical Reasoning C Davis et al. · AGU Fall Meeting, 2020
- Analogy-based Assessment of Domain-Specific Word Embeddings D Koehl, C Davis et al. · SoutheastCon, 2020
- Augmenting Data Systems with Prediction based Embeddings R Ramachandran … C Davis et al. · IEEE IGARSS, 2021
- Technical Architecture and Design Strategies for Consolidating NASA Airborne and Field Data in CASEI C Davis et al. · AGU Fall Meeting, 2022
- NASA's Science Discovery Engine: An Interdisciplinary, Open Science Discovery Service K Bugbee … C Davis et al. · EGU General Assembly, 2023
- Leveraging Large Language Models to Enhance NASA's Information Search and Discovery A Acharya … C Davis et al. · AGU Fall Meeting, 2023