status: in development

Something is
compiling.

A home for what I'm building, writing, and figuring out. The site isn't live yet. The work already is.

$ build ./vedant-datar
compiling ideas....... done
indexing curiosity.... done
drafting articles..... in progress
$ deploy --when-ready
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Hi, I'm Vedant.

I'm a high schooler who likes taking things apart to see how they work — code, ideas, systems, minds. This site is where that curiosity lives out loud.

Right now that curiosity centers on computation and cognition: how machines process information, how brains do too, and where those two stories rhyme and where they don't. I'm building a blog, Decoding Intelligence, to learn this stuff in public — writing down what I'm learning as I learn it, mistakes and all. The first real post goes deeper into what computation and cognition actually means, and why it's the thing I keep coming back to.

Alongside that, I build things — open source, all of it. Right now that's Perch, a camera that watches birds in my backyard, and Loom, a tool for turning rough ideas into drafts, with more on the way. Each project will eventually get its own space here to show the real process — photos, what broke, what changed, what's next — not just a finished result.

None of this has a finish line. The blog keeps going, the projects keep changing, and I'll keep adding both as I go.

— Vedant