the team at rhizomatiks handled the hardware, visualization, & data collection. i handled blade tracking, which meant training multiple custom convolutional neural networks and deploying them across 24 GPUs to track the entire curve of the 1px wide weapons at 60fps in realtime
there was a small spike with the "whole civilization will die" tweet. i wanted to respond to recent trends in the polymarketification of everything, abundant vibecoded dashboard slop that makes us feel like we know more than ever while also having less power than ever.
it uses the last year of data to identify deviations from baseline