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Dylan Taylor

Build log

A running log, newest first.

What I shipped, built, researched, and wrote. Dates mark when work happened or, for ongoing efforts, that it's active now — I don't back-date anything.

Jul 2026

  1. Ship

    Rebuilt this site from scratch

    New design system, information architecture, and content — hand-built in Next.js, no templates, WCAG 2.2 AA, statically generated.

  2. Build

    Grew the interactive lab suite to seven

    Retrieval, aviation risk, and legal decision-trace, then confidence calibration, a detector half-life simulator, a multi-agent build orchestrator, and a Taste-DNA wine-match explorer — each a working demonstration on a testable engine.

  3. Write

    Wrote up tail risk in aviation decisions

    Why average risk is the wrong number for a go/no-go call, and what expected-shortfall thinking borrows from quantitative finance.

  4. Build

    Building Littman

    Legal intelligence: ingestion, hybrid retrieval, structured extraction, and the review and audit layers as one connected system.

  5. Research

    FlightReady prototype

    A transparent go/no-go risk model for general aviation — per-factor contributions, an uncertainty band, and a tail-risk view.

  6. Research

    Building OENRA

    Chemistry-aware wine intelligence: mapping a wine’s chemistry and a person’s palate onto the same eight sensory dimensions to predict — and explain — personal enjoyment.

  7. Write

    Wrote the OENRA method up as a working paper

    From molecules to enjoyment — the eight-dimension palate model, its confidence commitments, and the peer-reviewed literature it rests on, with the honest limits stated up front.

  8. Milestone

    EagleGrid architecture study

    A build specification for real-time multi-sensor object tracking on edge hardware — sensor fusion, tracking, and latency budgets.

Jun 2021

  1. Milestone

    Shut it down after a cease-and-desist

    Riot's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist. I stopped, and redirected the same instincts toward building legitimate systems.

Jun 2018

  1. Milestone

    Started reverse-engineering games

    Taught myself to pull game binaries apart and build against professional anti-cheat — where I actually learned to build under pressure.