Noetic
2026An iOS app for critical thinking training. Built solo in six weeks using Anthropic Claude, SwiftUI, and a lot of prompt engineering. The thesis: most AI products optimise for making users think less. This one does the opposite.
Simranjit Kaur Gill.
Machine learning researcher, founder, sometimes teacher.
Building AI that makes people think more, not less.
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About
I build ML systems by day and something called Noetic by night. Noetic is a place to examine what you think, why you feel how you feel, and what you actually believe. Before that: an IEEE paper on efficient image classification, 2,000+ hours teaching English and reasoning to students in East Asia, and a CS degree from Westminster. The through line for me: I care about how people think, and how AI is changing that.
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Now
This month I'm:
- Shipping the alpha of Noetic to first 100 users
- Reading everything I can about scalable oversight and debate
- Learning to stop trying to do six things at once and pick two
Last updated 02 07 2026
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Projects
noeticaiapp.com
Gradient Focal Transformer
2025A fine grained image classification architecture combining hierarchical attention with gradient based token selection. Lifts top-1 accuracy by 11% while cutting inference latency by 18%. Published at IEEE AAIML 2025. My first real research artefact and the piece of work I'm proudest of methodologically.
Bird Species Detection with Vision Transformers
2024An experimental pipeline for fine grained bird identification using vision transformers. Iterated from object detection to a fine grained classification approach to lift accuracy while keeping compute manageable. The lesson I keep returning to: the first architecture that gets you a working result is rarely the right one.
AWS DeepRacer
2024Reinforcement learning applied to autonomous driving simulation. Optimised reward functions to accelerate simulation convergence. Architected real time inference workflows achieving under 150 milliseconds latency. Led the ML strategy for the team.
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Tech Stack
Machine learning & AI
PyTorch, TensorFlow, vision transformers, attention mechanisms, token pruning, reinforcement learning, prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, model architecture design
Programming
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, SwiftUI, SQL
Infrastructure
Firebase, Supabase, Docker, Vercel edge functions, REST APIs, Anthropic API, experiment reproducibility, Git versioned research pipelines
Design
Figma, Instrument Serif, hand-crafted CSS, restraint
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Reading List
Books, papers, and essays that changed how I think.
The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho. On following the signs, honouring your Personal Legend, and the way the universe conspires when you commit.
To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper Lee. On empathy and the complexity of justice.
Attention Is All You Need. Vaswani et al. The paper that made transformers. Arguably the single artefact that made the last five years of AI possible.
Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action. Allen Institute for AI. The paper that convinced me multimodal isn't a feature; it's the underlying architecture.
The Beginning of Infinity. David Deutsch. On explanations, error correction, and why some ideas are much better than others.
Man's Search for Meaning. Viktor Frankl. On what stays when nothing else does.
This list updates as my mind does.
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Favourite Thinkers
Some are famous. Some are fictional. One of them is my mom.
Andrej Karpathy · Matthew McConaughey · Kim Kardashian · Alain de Botton · Captain Jack Sparrow · Simone Ashley · Hank Green · Jay Shetty · Jordan Peterson · Trevor Noah · My mom · Dave Filoni · Kanye · Alex O'Connor · Eileen Gu · John Mulaney · Cillian Murphy · Piers Morgan · Jon Favreau · Timothée Chalamet · Candace Owens · Leighton Meester · Kyan Louisia · David Goggins · Steve Carell · Phil Dunphy · J. Cole · Dakota Johnson · John Green · Carlos Sainz · Evy Poumpouras ·
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Writing
I write on Substack about the things I'm sitting with. Recent essays load automatically.
New essays are on their way. Check back soon.
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Podcast
Can we talk about...?
Long form conversations on the questions we don't usually get to have in public. Available on Spotify and YouTube.
open.spotify.com/show/1Fr3Wx8NGnaKamrH3J7hLZ/09
Colophon
Built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS. Typography: Instrument Serif and Inter, both via Google Fonts. Motion by Framer Motion, smooth scroll by Lenis. Hosted on Vercel. Version controlled at github.com/soopersim/simcodes-site.
Design principles: restraint, editorial confidence, one idea per section.
Written and iterated in public. If something breaks, that's a feature. Tell me and I'll fix it.
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