San Francisco · Bay Area
Ryan Harper
Section · AI Lab

Experiments

Interactive tools built with Claude — things that do something interesting with language, data, or sound

Jules Renard · 2026 · Claude Artifact

Histoires naturelles

An interactive reader for Jules Renard's Histoires naturelles — the prose poems that inspired Ravel's song cycle of the same name. Includes the original French text for each vignette alongside an English translation and word-by-word definitions and pronunciations.

French · Literature · Translation
Text from Project Gutenberg · Definitions via Wiktionary & Claude AI
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Ryan Harper · 2026

Training Data

A searchable list of everything I've read and watched — 1,000+ books and 1,300+ films.

Books · Film · Data
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Ryan Harper · 2026

Benchmark (Ekphrasis)

Ekphrastic passages from literature — Homer, Melville, Proust — paired with images generated by AI models using the text as a prompt. Original text and English translation available.

Literature · Image Generation · Ekphrasis
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Ryan Harper · 2026

Roman Architecture

Monuments from Professor Diana Kleiner's Roman Architecture course (Open Yale Courses, History of Art 252) plotted on an interactive map — filterable by lecture and building type.

Architecture · Maps · Open Yale Courses
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Ryan Harper · 2026

Agora

A mobile-first field report on any U.S. city or town. Agora reads U.S. Census records and surfaces population, age, income, household makeup, and racial demographics for the place in which you're standing.

Maps · Demographics · U.S. Census
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