Jordan Thayer

@jordanthayer.com

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Author, AI researcher (heuristic search & classical planning), trans woman, video and tabletop gamer. https://jordanthayer.com/ https://jordanthayer.itch.io/ https://ko-fi.com/jordanthayer

My friend and I pose in a forced perspective shot around the eifel tower. We are each on one side of the tower, leaning in, high fiveing up top with both hands, so I suppose high tenining.
A trans woman (me!) Lies on the grass in front of the eifel tower. Its a forced perspective ahot, and the tower protrudes like a phallus.
pen and ink creating a stylized version of the lovers tarot card. Two women are up front, one in modern pjs, the other in adventuring gear. A man hovers above them, blocking out the sun and blessing the pairing.
Cheap strappy sandals in brown with two golden metal spikes protruding from the sides. Tools can be seen in the background.
A man sits, rolling dice, holding a cellphone, and wearing headphones. Black ink on paper. Pencil sketch lines are still visible on the sheet as well.
A picture of a lake from the shore. The sky is blue, the clouds are fluffy and white. Trees line the distant shore.
A surveillance drone from the N64 title "Shadows of the Empire"
A black lamp hangs from the ceiling. It looks like a stylized exploding sphere.
The game tacklebox out on a sunny table
A blonde trans woman with a Harry Dubois earring fro disco elysium, purple cats eye glasses. And a new eyebrow piercing.
The whitehouse press release about the recent title IX decision. "Supreme Court Bolsters President Trump's Push to Eliminate Transgender Insanity"
An oramge cat rests at the top of a ceiling-height cat tree.
Jordan talking about triangle search in front of a room of researchers at ICAPS in Dublin
An orange cat explores the interior of a dishwasher that is open to be unloaded.
Jordan waiting for the first leg of her flight at the Linköping airport. Its far too sunny for 5 am. She has blonde hair in twin braids, a sun dress, a green stone necklace, and earrings featuring Harry and Kim from Disco Elysium.
A pen and ink drawing of a tarot card, the fool. In it, a young woman steps towards the edge of a cliff. She is holding a notebook in one hand, a bag of dice in the other. A small cat is pestering her to stop before she steps off the ledge.
A professional headshot a few years into transition while I was still consulting.
Professional Jordan in a Finn Hat
College Jordan, with purple hair in a bob and raver beads. I always joked that this was my college lesbian look, even before I realized that I actually was a lesbian.
An orange cat sits in a cabinet drawer amid piles of clothing.
Jordan sits outside the Linköping City Airport, waiting on her family to arrive.
a large gray and white cats sits in a chair that is pulled up to a dining room table, presumably waiting for her meal to be served.
A screenshot from obsidian, showing the amount of text in an open buffer. It reads 0 backlinks, 125,646 words, 679,307 characters.
Heaven forbid you order a rare steak and expect to get it. Pink is not rare. Pink is medium. Rare is a nice red center. Maybe even cool, if you're lucky. It wasn't even as if it was a thin cut of meat, something where a heat lamp might have continued cooking it. No, this was a thick steak. A thorough pink through and through. Whoever made this steak medium had done so deliberately. Someone had expertly made me something I hadn't asked for and never wanted in the first place. I wondered briefly if it was the waiter who'd failed to relay my order correctly, or the chef that thought they knew better. They would be first against the wall, come my glorious revolution.
Fry from Futurama saying he is shocked, shocked! Well not that shocked.
Box art for Final Fantasy IV
It's Jordan, dressed up like Pam Poovey from Archer. She's standing in front of a mirror taking a selfie so you can see that the bun in the back is all done up. Jordan has a small dolphin puppet on with the mouth open, is wearing a pearl necklace and earrings, and has a black shirt and cardigan on.
Jordan poses in her new apron. It is a blue denim looking apron with an owl in white piping on the front. The owl has a ladel and a chef's hat. The text "Cookoff Champion" is centered beneath the owl.
An image advertising a talk at TechBash 2025. Jordan Thayer will be speaking on "Off the Shelf AI" starting at 9:00am on Tuesday the 4th of November, 2025. The event is held in Mount Pocono Pennsylvania.
The cover art for a laser disc game titled "Thayer's Quest". It has a man with brownish orange hair in a bob, wearing a tunic, with his back to the viewer. He stares off into the distance at a desert and a decaying tree.
I'm speaking at KCDC! AI for highway Maintenance Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 1:15 pm Presented by Jordan Thayer
I'm speaking at KCDC! Data structures crash course Wednesday, August 13, 2025, 8:00 am Jordan Thayer August 13 - 15 KCDC 2025
Me at the weird al bigger and weirder concert, with puddles puty party as an opener. Im single digit rows from the stage.
A picture of the vonnegut museum, including the quote "A purpose of human life no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved"
A hot air balloon with panels in red, yellow, and green. The yellow panel has a giant smiley face on it.
A slide describing approaches to multi-objective optimization. It presents three approaches symbolized by three screens from TV: * First one, then the other - Futurama Space Farmer Saying that Line to Fry & Lela * Blend them together - Dan Akroyd, Bass-o-matic sketch * Pareto, the solution frontier - Patrick Stewart as Picard from Star Trek TNG
A headshot of a speaker advertising their attendance at a conference, with an admonishment to register for the conference. Jordan Thayer - AI Strategist of SEP Speaking at Stir Trek on May 2nd, 2025
A card with childish scrawling in green marker. It reads: Dear Mom, What you do means so much to me. You are a Mom who has shown me how to be myself. Thank you for being my mom Bea
Me, in Mii form, on the Mii edit page. The character has glasses, wavy blonde hair, a purple skirt, and red pants. They're nicknamed Bass, and the gender is set to female.
Dr Zoidberg holds a 300 dollar bill aloft and tries to buy the tapestry behind him. The phrase "one art please" is super imposed on the image.
A slide showing partial source code for the bubble sort algorithm. Loops are marked with colored lines. A red arrow points to the comparator invocation, an orange bar marks where array elements are swapped. The upper right contains the text "How often does the red (or orange) line happen?" Beneath it is a title picture from the anime "Big O", featuring the three main characters and a giant robot.
A slide from a presentation. The title reads "Feasibility / Prototype Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them". The slid contains a single image, of the Cap'n Crunch "OOPS! All Berries" box, but berries has been replaced so the box reads "Oops! All Production Code"
An image macro with the text "If I die of transphobia forget burial just drop my body on the steps of the U.S. capitol" in all caps, followed by an inverted triangle (point down) in the trans pride flag colors.
A slide from a presentation. The title is "Finding Similar Things in Large Sets". The slide contains an image of "Readers who enjoyed this book also enjoyed these books" from goodreads. The source book is "Sundered Moon" by Fae Rynn, and the also enjoyed books are "The Hades Calculus" by Maria Ying, "Dulhaniyaa" by Talia Bhatt, and "The Orc and Her Bride" by Lila Gywnn. All books are marked as want to read, but the slide is outdated because I've read most of those in the last month.
A slide with the title "Hash Tables are Pretty Neat, Actually" The slide has a single frame from 'The Simpsons'. In it, Marge is holding a potato. The subtitle says "I just think they're neat".
A presentation slide with the title "It's Actually A Tree Pretty Often" The slide contains a single image, a still from The Simpsons, the episode where Troy McClure is in a "Planet of the Apes" musical. One word in the subtitles is edited so that the song verse reads, "Oh my god, I was wrong. It was Trees all along"
An orange cat sits in a bare Christmas tree, staring at the camera.
A picture of "A Quiet Universe"'s acknowledgment page. It reads, "This book is dedicated to a world where queer suffering has become so universal that even we can't imagine happy endings for ourselves. May you choke on it."
Jesus from "The Big Lebowski" taunting Walter and The Dude (both off screen) by saying "You said it man"
A presentation slide. The title is "Is Radix Sort Really Sorting?". There's an image to the right of a chicken carcass, with the words "BEHOLD! A MAN", but man is covered up and the text "Sorting Algorithm" is sloppily placed in its place in a mismatched font.
Kimchi, rice, and eggs in a snap ware container. A plastic fork is in the food on the left side.
Two eggs and hash in a skillet on a gas range. A glass lid is partially in frame to the right, and a mocha pot is on the stove in the background. Some rivets are visible to the left.
Crispin's House from King's Quest V A small cottage set among some trees, near a small creek Cedric the owl sits perched in the scene
The "is this a butterfly meme" with the butterfly replaced with an urn full of only brown tootsie pops. The word "butterfly" is replaced with "survivorship bias"
The retail boxes for King's Quest IV, V, and VII.
I'm speaking at codemash 2025 Data Structures Crash Course Jan. 14-17, Sandusky Ohio, US Jordan Thayer