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Shady El Damaty  ·  Neuroscientist / Founder / Artist

A cabinet of curiosities for a mechanistic mind.

I build mechanistic models of how people decide — and tools that hand the results back to the individual. Co-founder & CEO of human.tech. Builder of Shimmer.

Neuroscience → decentralized science → identity → agents. One recurrent loop.

Enter the cabinet human.tech

The Cabinet

Specimens.

Objects from a real desk. Each opens onto a facet of the work — hover to bring one to life.

Shady's desk — an ultrawide display, curios, plants, a marble bust

The Desk — Where the work happens — pull up a chair.

SPEC. 00
Ventures — a specimen from Shady's cabinet

Ventures — human.tech · Holonym · Opscientia · Shimmer

SPEC. 01
Research — a specimen from Shady's cabinet

Research — Mechanistic models — from the striatum to transformers.

SPEC. 02
Art — a specimen from Shady's cabinet

Art — Dither, sculpture, and studio experiments.

SPEC. 03
Writings — a specimen from Shady's cabinet

Writings — Papers, essays, notes, and a dated journal.

SPEC. 04

Writings

Five drawers, five voices.

Markdown is canonical here; Substack and the socials are mirrors. Cataloguing in progress.

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Academic

Papers & preprints — canonical here, linked to arXiv and journals. in review P

Periodicals

A serialized, numbered series on one theme. mirrored → substack E

Essays

Standalone long-form arguments. occasional N

Notes

Short, in-progress fragments — a garden that keeps growing. frequent J

Journal

A dated log of moments and what I'm making. streaming