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April 30, 2026
- Rationality in Relationships — On over-applying logic to relationships, and the regret that followed.
You can read more here: Ideas / Thoughts / Rationality in Relationships
April 29, 2026
- Exposure and the Long Game — The tradeoffs of exposure, institutional gatekeeping, and compounding audiences.
You can read more here: Ideas / Thoughts / Exposure and the Long Game
April 25, 2026
- Project 02: WavePINN-NIF Complex Media Demo: a verified acoustic reference and an honestly-failed neural surrogate — A verified finite-difference acoustic reference compared against a WavePINN-NIF surrogate, with held-out evaluation showing where the neural field fails.
You can read more here: Technical / Experimental / Physics Ml / Neural Surrogates / Project 02: WavePINN-NIF Complex Media Demo: a verified acoustic reference and an honestly-failed neural surrogate
April 23, 2026
- Geometry First — A look into separating the roles of machine learning models for visual content, focusing on using diffusion for surface appearance while relying on predictive and physics-informed models for stable geometry and motion.
You can read more here: Ideas / Essays / Geometry First
April 22, 2026
- What I'm Working On: Neural Surrogates for Physics, Geometry, and Real-Time Simulation — An overview of the neural-surrogate projects in this section and the rest of the repo: cloth, waves, manifolds, motion, electromagnetics, trajectories, and real-time surrogate graphics.
You can read more here: Technical / Experimental / Physics Ml / Neural Surrogates / What I'm Working On: Neural Surrogates for Physics, Geometry, and Real-Time Simulation
April 20, 2026
- The Environmental Case for Neural Surrogates — Traditional simulation is expensive. A consideration of the compute requirements of solvers and the compounding gains of physics-informed neural surrogates.
You can read more here: Ideas / Essays / The Environmental Case for Neural Surrogates
April 19, 2026
- Neural Networks as Data Structures — A reflection on trained neural networks as compressed, parameterized functions rather than explicit data.
You can read more here: Ideas / Thoughts / Neural Networks as Data Structures
April 18, 2026
- On Language and What Technology Is For — Why the most interesting question in language technology is what happens when you point it at people the mainstream system wasn't designed for.
You can read more here: Ideas / Essays / On Language and What Technology Is For - On Outsiders — On Yung Lean, building from outside the culture, and why the outsider position is not a disadvantage to overcome.
You can read more here: Ideas / Essays / On Outsiders - Short Reflections — Brief takes on HCI, climate and collective problems, the first internet stream, and a compliment that stuck.
You can read more here: Ideas / Thoughts / Short Reflections - Project 12: NIF-Cloth4D-Temporal Demo: A Continuous Cloth SDF with an Eikonal Invariant and an Optional Temporal Hidden State — Family A (continuous SDF) with an optional GRU hidden state. The shippable hero is GRU-off; the contribution over Project 13 is an eikonal-consistent analytic reference, linear zero-crossing extraction, and a disciplined threshold pass on a smooth drape-over-form scene.
You can read more here: Technical / Experimental / Physics Ml / Neural Surrogates / Project 12: NIF-Cloth4D-Temporal Demo: A Continuous Cloth SDF with an Eikonal Invariant and an Optional Temporal Hidden State
April 9, 2026
- Project 01: GeoPINN Demo: Solving PDEs on a Sphere — A physics-informed neural network solves the shallow water equations on a sphere using the Laplace-Beltrami operator, compared against the analytical solution in a Taichi GGUI presentation.
You can read more here: Technical / Experimental / Physics Ml / Neural Surrogates / Project 01: GeoPINN Demo: Solving PDEs on a Sphere - Project 05: ClothGNN Demo: Ultra-Lightweight Real-Time Cloth Dynamics — A 49K-parameter recurrent GNN predicting cloth dynamics at 1451 FPS, compared against the physics baseline in a Taichi GGUI presentation.
You can read more here: Technical / Experimental / Physics Ml / Neural Surrogates / Project 05: ClothGNN Demo: Ultra-Lightweight Real-Time Cloth Dynamics - Project 08: HGNN-ClothDyn Demo: A Learned Cloth Surrogate in Taichi — A denser cloth surrogate comparison between the 40x40 physics baseline, the retrained HGNN rollout, and an honest Taichi presentation layer.
You can read more here: Technical / Experimental / Physics Ml / Neural Surrogates / Project 08: HGNN-ClothDyn Demo: A Learned Cloth Surrogate in Taichi - Project 09: HGNN-NIF Cloth Demo: Graph Networks Meet Neural Implicit Fields — A hybrid architecture combining hierarchical graph neural networks with SIREN neural implicit fields for cloth dynamics, compared against a mass-spring baseline in Taichi GGUI.
You can read more here: Technical / Experimental / Physics Ml / Neural Surrogates / Project 09: HGNN-NIF Cloth Demo: Graph Networks Meet Neural Implicit Fields - Project 13: NIF-Cloth4D Demo: Continuous Cloth Geometry from a Neural Implicit Field — A SIREN-based neural implicit field learns cloth SDF over spacetime, enabling resolution-independent geometry queries and honest comparison against the physics baseline.
You can read more here: Technical / Experimental / Physics Ml / Neural Surrogates / Project 13: NIF-Cloth4D Demo: Continuous Cloth Geometry from a Neural Implicit Field - Project 17: WavePINN Demo: From Discrete Simulation to a Continuous Field — A comparison between the baseline reference wavefield, the trained WavePINN surrogate, and the final Taichi GGUI presentation.
You can read more here: Technical / Experimental / Physics Ml / Neural Surrogates / Project 17: WavePINN Demo: From Discrete Simulation to a Continuous Field
April 8, 2026
- Constraints, Control, and Creative Authorship Across Mediums — A comparison of animation, diffusion, and live action in terms of creative control.
You can read more here: Ideas / Thoughts / Constraints, Control, and Creative Authorship Across Mediums