Drug discovery
Ranking compounds and mechanisms against a disease by walking the constraint chain — what binds, what survives the liver, what a lab can actually test next Tuesday — instead of by how often a molecule shows up in the literature.
Sovereign Systems · Saskatoon
Websites that are actually worth looking at — and, the rest of the week, systems that go and find things other people missed. Both are the same job: take a mess, work out what it really is, and build the shape that was hiding in it.
That is the whole method, in miniature. Throw everything at the wall, rule out what cannot be true, and what will not die is the answer.
Mohamad Al-Zawahreh — Director & CTO, Ark Axiom Inc.
Not a template with your logo dropped in. A real site, built around what your business actually does, that works properly on a phone and that people remember after they close the tab. Here are two of them. Open them.
Auto repair shop · Mississauga
A mechanic's shop. Built so somebody with a dead car at 8pm can find the number, see it's a real place, and phone it in under ten seconds.
Open it →Physicist · official site
A physicist's site, built with him at 86. There is a button on it marked warp drive. Press it and the stars outside accelerate. He asked for that.
Open it →I'll build you the whole thing — the site, the photos of your own work, the contact form that actually reaches you, listed on Google — and then I keep it running. Hosting, backups, security, and changes when you want them. You get a short note each month telling you what people did on it.
Your domain stays in your name. Month to month. If you leave, you take the site with you and there's no fee for that.
A web guy who also does this is an odd combination, so here is the paperwork rather than the adjectives. Every line below is a public record or a live page.
These look like different fields. They are not, and that is the whole point. A molecule binding to a receptor, a beam that holds or doesn't, a proof that closes or doesn't, a customer who calls or doesn't — every one of them is a shape that either fits a constraint or fails it. Learn to see the shape and the subject stops mattering so much.
Ranking compounds and mechanisms against a disease by walking the constraint chain — what binds, what survives the liver, what a lab can actually test next Tuesday — instead of by how often a molecule shows up in the literature.
Working alongside a theoretical physicist: checking derivations to the unit, keeping the arithmetic honest, and turning fifty years of a man's work into something a reader can follow. His website is above.
A long campaign against an open problem in computer science. Most of it is elimination — proving that a route cannot work, writing down exactly why, and never walking down it again. The map of dead ends is the asset.
Designing physical things against real limits — loads, fatigue, corrosion, what it costs per kilogram — and checking them with the same engineering software the professionals use before anything gets cut.
Where the diploma lands. Finding a business a better supplier, and proving it on total landed cost — freight, duty, returns, the cost of switching — not on a cheaper sticker price.
Underneath all of it is a governing system I wrote and keep sharpening: rules that force the work to show its evidence, name what it does not know, and refuse to hand over a confident answer it cannot back. That part stays in-house.