About me

I'm Dylan Holmes, a fourth year PhD student studying artificial intelligence at MIT. I work as part of the Genesis story understanding group building models of how people think, specifically how different people reason about the morality of events in stories.

I'm interested in How to Make (Almost) Anything by way of my interest in programming and software as a kind of social literacy: programming is such a powerful force for good because it is compositional, collaborative, and empowering. I see these same cultural principles applied to the material world in this fabrication class. For this reason, I believe this class also provides a kind of literacy and a similar way of viewing the world. I bring my software-based perspective to this class, and I hope to gain an ability to share this material-based perspective with others, to help build better communities.

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