Research
Working references on topics I’m studying. Each branch is an ongoing document — structured like a small academic reference, not a blog.
Systems analysis of New Zealand
A long-horizon, systems-engineering analysis of New Zealand’s regional and national problems — housing, transport, environment, inequality, and more. Every claim is traceable to a source via a lint-gated typed entity graph. Covers all 16 regions plus a national cross-regional pattern rollup.
Auckland — Tāmaki Makaurau
Housing, transport, infrastructure, and environment in New Zealand’s largest city.
Wellington — Te Whanganui-a-Tara
Housing, transport, earthquake resilience, and governance in the capital region.
Northland — Te Tai Tokerau
Transport isolation, Māori socioeconomic disparity, environment, and rural infrastructure.
Waikato
Hamilton growth, Waikato River, Waikato-Tainui economic development, and agricultural land use.
Bay of Plenty — Te Moana-a-Toi
Tauranga growth pressures, Māori land and iwi development, horticulture, and coastal risk.
Gisborne — Tairāwhiti
Cyclone and flood vulnerability, rural isolation, Māori land economy, and forestry risks.
Hawke’s Bay — Te Matau-a-Māui
Cyclone Gabrielle recovery, horticulture, freshwater, and earthquake risk.
Taranaki
Energy transition from fossil fuels, volcanic risk, Māori land and Treaty, and agricultural intensity.
Manawatū-Whanganui — Te Manawa o te Ika
Palmerston North as a regional hub, rural economy, river management, and military land use.
Nelson — Whakatū
Housing affordability in a desirable city, aquaculture, and water allocation.
Tasman — Te Tai-o-Aorere
Lifestyle migration pressures, horticulture, forestry, and coastal environment.
Marlborough — Te Tauihu-o-te-Waka
Wine industry dominance, water allocation, earthquake risk, and ferry corridor.
West Coast — Te Tai Poutini
Population decline, mining transition, conservation economy, and road resilience.
Canterbury — Waitaha
Christchurch post-earthquake recovery, irrigation and water, and South Island economic weight.
Otago
Dunedin as a university city, Queenstown tourism pressures, water, and rural economy.
Southland — Murihiku
Industrial transition at Tiwai Point, population retention, farming, and climate exposure.
National synthesis
The two pages below sit above the regional corpus. National patterns aggregates the regional research into cross-regional structural tendencies; Solution space reasons over those patterns to identify the levers that move them.
Aotearoa — national patterns
Cross-regional patterns observed across two or more regions. A synthesis of the regional corpora.
Solution space
The interventions that bite on the national patterns — sorted by mechanism (infrastructure, land use, pricing, urban form, diversification, AI/migration/ageing).
Science and technology
Computer Science
Foundations, Python, Rust, and notes on the broader AI and IT ecosystem.
Climate Science & AI
Climate modelling, data assimilation, and the role of machine learning in earth-system science.
Medical Science
Neuroscience, bioinformatics, medical imaging, and clinical AI.
Cybersecurity
Foundations, offensive and defensive practice, cryptography, and AI’s rapidly unfolding impact on the field.
How the research is made
Both branches — Science notes and Aotearoa research — are AI-drafted. I read the material and use it to inform my own thinking and any blog posts I write; I don’t hand-author the research or independently fact-check every claim. Treat the pages here as machine-written study notes, not as peer-reviewed scholarship.
The Aotearoa research uses a typed entity graph: every claim has to cite a primary source, and the lint gate refuses to render a page if the structure breaks. That is a structural check, not verification. A claim with a real-looking source citation can still have the number slightly wrong. If you’re going to cite anything from this site, click through to the primary source and confirm it yourself.
The full schema, invariant definitions, and methodology registry are described in the methodology document.