September 8, 2026
The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, as an animated film
How to Please a Capricious GodHow to Please a Capricious God: a painted allegory about AI agents, their tests, and the eye watching over them.
Film
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Newest firstSep 2026
Explore a space habitat in your browser
Another SkyWalk or fly inside a rotating space habitat, with cities, lakes and a landscape that curves over your head. An interactive O’Neill cylinder.
Experiment
Jul 2026
How we won an AI-agent competition
Winning by OverfittingMy 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.
Essay / noteResearch
Jan 2026
An AI-controlled bee in a simulated garden
A Clauiet LifeWhat would Claude do with a quiet life as a bee? Watch it make decisions in a garden simulation.
Experiment
Dec 2025
Why I think language models will power robots
GPT-7 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.
Essay / noteFilm
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What went wrong with my writing-assistant startup
StartR Accelerator: A Post-MortemThe story of building a tool for novelists through UCSD’s StartR accelerator, and why it never made it to market.
Essay / note
2024
Build a swarm of solar collectors around the Sun
Dyson SwarmAn interactive simulation of dismantling Mercury to build solar collectors in orbit around the Sun.
Experiment
2023
Turning research papers into illustrated zines
ZINify: research to zinesZINify uses language models to turn academic papers into visual zines. UIST 2023 Student Innovation Contest Honorable Mention.
Research
2019
Recognizing electrical disturbances with neural networks
Power quality event classification with LSTMsResearch on classifying power-quality events using recurrent neural networks. IEEE DISCOVER 2019 Best Paper Award.
Research