Jacob Metoyerresearch / computation / making

How I work

Show the work.

A few habits I try to keep, whatever the project is.

In labs

When I write about research I did with a team, I describe my part and leave the results to the lab. Participant data, confidential material and unpublished findings don’t go on this site.

With AI systems

I save the task, what the tools did, what came out, and what went wrong. A fast answer isn’t automatically a good one, and a model grading its own work isn’t the same as someone independent checking it.

In code

Tests, examples and known limits live next to the source. A passing test tells you the thing it tests works. It doesn’t tell you much else, so I try to say which is which.

Credit and tools

Most things I make involve other people’s libraries, tools and help. Where a publication, platform or collaboration has its own disclosure rules, I follow them.

Keeping it current

Projects change, and this site should change with them. If something here is out of date, that’s a bug.