if you are a new follower, i've been doing these gestural experiments for a while now. eventually i wanna build tools that manipulate symbolic thinking in an embodied and intuitive way.
e.g. using hands to explore latent spaces like this:
x.com/poetengineer__…
or make music thru interfaces like this:
x.com/poetengineer__…

i'm currently full-time working and self funding all these projects. if you happen to be feeling generous at the moment, please consider becoming a paid subscriber at my substack. this could help me just go a bit further😌 💜🫶

waking up every day wanting to do a millions things.
knowing that they are within reach.

the gaze dome: a glass sky over the city. wherever the boids keep looking, contour rings build up from blue to red - together they map where the flock’s attention has gone over the last few seconds.

a flock of cameras
each cell shows what that boid in the flock sees

been thinking about starting a youtube channel for longer-form writing + visual work. i have tons of "scrapworks" from researching projects (notes, visual sketches, small tools, etc.) that i’ve never had a way to share.

what do you think i should talk about?

SPAWN[01]

building a cellular automata (game of life) alphabet

the swarm and being one of them

my current favorite learning mode: a book/paper pdf open in claude desktop’s browser pane, where i highlight passages and ask questions straight with claude. alongside it, an implementation of the idea im reading about so i can play with it. immediacy in both ideas + intuition.

spacetime of swarming

for better or worse, the rl problems i find most interesting are the ones whose rewards are hard to verify: what's truly creative, interesting, beautiful?
criteria for these are even hard to articulate among humans. i think one reason is they are properties of not the artifact, but of the relation b/w the artifact and the observer, at a given moment.
that also explains why chasing originality sometimes feels paradoxical: everyone sees the "most creative" against the same reference, so optimizing for it converges into a trend, hence totally defeating the purpose of being original.
if you can't specify the target from outside, try looking inside. i feel intrinsic motivation research might be the right lens here, since it's the part of rl where reward is defined relative to the internal state of the observer, instead of progress toward an external objective.

cella

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random thought: the desire to learn (compress information and generate new knowledge) is the biggest difference between living and non-living things. when the universe generate environments where learnable patterns exist and there's a reward for learning them, life begins.

言雨
semantic rain

the ecology of creation

every mind is a microcosm that holds galaxies of ideas.

continuing my personal website prototype: 6 galaxies, 20 themes, every star a work.

and the truth shall set you free