https://www.sankala.me/Research, writing, films, and experiments.enhttps://www.paperrobots.studio/films/capricious-god/https://www.paperrobots.studio/films/capricious-god/How to Please a Capricious God: a painted allegory about AI agents, their tests, and the eye watching over them.https://dysonswarm.com/another-sky/https://dysonswarm.com/another-sky/Walk or fly inside a rotating space habitat, with cities, lakes and a landscape that curves over your head. An interactive O’Neill cylinder.https://www.sankala.me/notes/eai-challengehttps://www.sankala.me/notes/eai-challengeMy brother and I used a language model and the competition’s own evaluator to generate training data and win the NeurIPS 2025 Embodied Agent Interface Challenge.https://www.sankala.me/toys/bee-sim/index.htmlhttps://www.sankala.me/toys/bee-sim/index.htmlWhat would Claude do with a quiet life as a bee? Watch it make decisions in a garden simulation.https://www.sankala.me/essays/gpt7-will-have-armshttps://www.sankala.me/essays/gpt7-will-have-armsAn essay about how advances in AI and cheaper robot hardware could bring capable robots into everyday life. Also adapted into an animated film.https://www.sankala.me/notes/startr-postmortemhttps://www.sankala.me/notes/startr-postmortemThe story of building a tool for novelists through UCSD’s StartR accelerator, and why it never made it to market.https://dysonswarm.com/swarm/https://dysonswarm.com/swarm/An interactive simulation of dismantling Mercury to build solar collectors in orbit around the Sun.https://www.sankala.me/research#zinifyhttps://www.sankala.me/research#zinifyZINify uses language models to turn academic papers into visual zines. UIST 2023 Student Innovation Contest Honorable Mention.https://www.sankala.me/research#power-qualityhttps://www.sankala.me/research#power-qualityResearch on classifying power-quality events using recurrent neural networks. IEEE DISCOVER 2019 Best Paper Award.