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    },
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      "Gainesville FL",
      "Key Biscayne FL"
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        "Daniel Miller",
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          "Raúl Rojas",
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          "Johns Hopkins",
          "McGill",
          "Makerere",
          "UBC",
          "UT Austin"
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        "id": "hallucinations",
        "title": "Hallucinations Are the Least of Our Concerns",
        "lab": "MIT Critical Data",
        "thesis": "Situated knowledge — not reference-checking — is the prerequisite for responsible LLM use in health."
      },
      {
        "id": "oracle-in-pocket",
        "title": "The Oracle in Your Pocket",
        "lab": "MIT Critical Data",
        "thesis": "How LLMs amplify Dunning–Kruger and erode elaborative reasoning."
      },
      {
        "id": "agora",
        "title": "AGORA",
        "lab": "MIT Critical Data",
        "summary": "Fully agentic simulation of academic publishing for studying prestige bias, gaming, and herding among AI agents."
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      "dataset": "BCI Competition IV",
      "importance": 2
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        "hash table",
        "binary heap"
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        "Eduardo Kohn",
        "Daniel Miller",
        "Alfred Gell",
        "Stefan Helmreich"
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      "category": "builds",
      "one_line": "Real-time nightlife discovery via social ingestion + sentiment + geolocation.",
      "type": "startup",
      "since": "2025-01",
      "importance": 6
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      "category": "builds",
      "one_line": "Accessibility app converting visual art to soundscapes.",
      "venue": "hackathon",
      "date": "2025-10",
      "importance": 7
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      "role": "AI/ML Intern",
      "org": "Northrop Grumman Mission Systems",
      "dates": "2025-05 / 2025-08",
      "summary": "Trust & reliability protocols for LLMs in defense."
    },
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      "role": "Project Lead",
      "org": "MIT × Cornell Tech — Swytch AI Studio",
      "dates": "2025-08 / 2025-12",
      "summary": "Six-person team. 85% accuracy workforce-forecasting model."
    },
    {
      "role": "Multimodal AI / CV Intern",
      "org": "Florida Museum of Natural History",
      "dates": "2024-08 / 2025-05",
      "summary": "Mapped archaeological sites from satellite imagery. Presented at the 2025 FUR Conference."
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      "name": "Dr. Leo Anthony Celi",
      "org": "MIT Critical Data",
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    {
      "name": "Dr. Marvin Andujar",
      "org": "UF BCI Lab",
      "role": "BCI / neurotech"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Benjamin Shickel",
      "org": "UF College of Medicine",
      "role": "Metacognitive AI internship"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Gabriel Prieto",
      "org": "UF Anthropology",
      "role": "Pampa La Cruz fieldwork (Peru)"
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      "date": "2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z",
      "text": "Invited to AI as a Catalyst at MIT — 227 people from 161 institutions across 22+ countries."
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      "date": "2025-12-10T00:00:00.000Z",
      "text": "ShortKit-ML submitted to IEEE Access."
    },
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      "date": "2025-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "text": "Joined MIT Critical Data under Dr. Leo Anthony Celi."
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    "Rowed at Miami Rowing Club (world-level).",
    "Ran a half marathon.",
    "Rode a bull twice in one night.",
    "Trades SLV options on a self-built thesis (COMEX inventory + Shanghai premiums + Chinese export restrictions).",
    "Excavated pre-Columbian sacrifices at Pampa La Cruz, Peru under Dr. Gabriel Prieto."
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