Connor Crist
> machine learning engineer
> building agentic systems_
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## about
ML engineer focused on agents and evaluation. Currently studying CS at Georgia Tech (OMSCS) and training for the Dallas Marathon.
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## selected work
// project write-ups landing soon. in the meantime, ask the bot.
## how this site works
- surfA real 3D beach at night is rendered at one pixel per character. Swells build as they roll in, the lip pitches forward, and they collapse into whitewater that runs up the sand. A shader then picks a glyph for each cell from its brightness, edge direction and material, so crests become
~ / \, foam becomes%&@and the moon becomes@. - lensUnder your cursor, the cells swap to a stream of text about me.
- weatherWhile the bot thinks, ASCII rain falls and the drops ripple the water. When it answers, every streamed word splashes into the ocean and dissolves.
- botClaude, grounded only in a curated knowledge base about me and told to say "I don't know" when that runs out.
- infraOne container on Cloud Run that scales to zero, with spend capped and requests rate-limited.