A World Model is an AI's internal representation of cause and effect. Not memorized facts, but learned dynamics. A robot with a World Model can predict "if I push this cup, it falls" without destroying the cup. Simulate outcomes before acting, plan ahead, reason about consequences. The predict-observe-update cycle...

How do you respond to “Have a good one”? Seriously, what’s the correct, and quick, thing to say? People here are aggressively friendly, holding the elevator door open and asking “Which floor” and pressing the button for me? Uff. Everyone thanks everyone for everything. It’s sweet, and I want to match that energy. So...

I have been robbed, and I cannot complain. I got the notification today morning that daylight savings has been activated (deactivated?). That was a surprise to me because 1) I didn’t fully understand what that meant, 2) I still don’t fully understand what that means, and 3) I woke up surprisingly fully rested on a...

There was this church out here, Grace House, giving out free coffee. Cool guys, but I figured they're a church and went in there planning to fend off some evangelical conversation, get the coffee and get out. It was a Thursday evening and I was nursing a mild headache. But as soon as I enter the lady asks: we have...

Coffee is prime polymorphism example. Depending on the context it does different things. The different things are list worthy, therefore have been listed as under. This is a live list, maybe coffee does more things? Exploration continues. The classic: gives a boost of energy when running on steam. Also helps push...

A recommendation to get over someone or get through something is to write it out. On a piece of paper, and then burn it. This does two things - one it breaks you out of the cycle of overthinking, and two, it symbolically (and it is a powerful psychological effect) lets it go. But here is the catch: what if going...

I've been thinking a lot about balance lately. It has been a background thread slowly developing, with three distinct step functions where it rose to the foreground. init_0: video game flow step_1: scavenger hunts step_2: infinite player board games step_3: hackathon judging Let's start at the beginning. Video Game...

An update It’s been nearly a year since I last touched this project. It’s the top idea always stumbling around in the back of my head with a ton of potential in it. Here is the original pitch from a few years back: Game Feed A Tik-Tok style infinite feed of hyper casual game shorts. Open app, play a game for 1-5...

Ducks are awesome. They have some remarkable properties – their feet don't get cold, they eat rocks, have three eyelids with 340 degree vision and can fly up to 21,000 feet into the air (and hit a Jet flying over Nevada in 1962, that's how we know). This talk is about not being a duck. Don't be a duck. Now we will...

I wake up. Not groggy, not tired, but alert. Something woke me up. I'm getting less sleep these days. Probably the weather changing; it rains at odd times, sometimes at night. The thunder wakes me up too. And sometimes passing vehicles that sound just a little different from the regular traffic. Ha, guess I'm just a...