Index
Flat list of every node — accessible mirror of the constellation at /graph.
- personal·friendSample FriendA placeholder friend entry showing the shape of the friends collection without publishing a real person's details yet.
- personal·skillTechnical leadership and integrationOwning ambiguous integration surfaces, aligning teams around workable contracts, and keeping systems coherent through pivots.
- writing·skillResearch and technical writingTurning open technical questions into structured arguments, papers, notes, and implementation-oriented explanations.
- building·skillRapid prototyping and hardware thinkingMoving between software, mechanisms, fabrication constraints, and experimental prototypes without treating them as separate worlds.
- building·skillMobile and on-device MLShipping model-backed mobile experiences, including on-device inference and mobile-facing AI infrastructure.
- building·skillFull-stack product engineeringBuilding usable products end to end, from data model and API through frontend, deployment, and iteration.
- building·skillAI systems engineeringDesigning and shipping AI systems that connect models, tools, memory, product workflows, and evaluation loops.
- building·updateReworking the site around durable updatesAdded durable update nodes and kept the current focus on VibeStartup and the graph-backed personal site.
- building·updateChem-0 X threadA five-part X thread on Chem-0, the SO-101 robot arm setup, the two-layer action interface, and why calibration and feedback became the real bottlenecks.
- building·updateChem-0 LinkedIn reflectionA LinkedIn reflection on Chem-0 and the hidden labor required to turn embodied AI reasoning into physical reality contact.
- building·projectmacos-web-nextmacOS desktop simulation in the browser — companion to windows-web-next for computer-use agent training.
- building·projectChem-0A prototype autonomous chemistry lab exploring how AI agents can operate a low-cost robot arm, camera loop, lab workspace, and evented measurement stack.
- building·postBefore AI Can Do Chemistry, It Has to Touch the WorldWhat building a prototype autonomous chemistry lab taught me about embodied AI, measurement construction, and why understanding the task is not the same thing as being able to touch the world.
- personal·visionWhere do you see yourself in 5 years?Honestly, I don't know! I try to take one day at a time so I can focus my energy. And seriously, with the baffling rate of AI capabilities advancement, I couldn't even say what December might look like (writing this in July '23). Whatever circumstances come, I aim for an actio…
- personal·visionWhat makes AI so interesting?What makes it not interesting? The "thinking machine" drean has fascinated philosophers, machinists, and scientists for centuries. While there are many interpretations of the scope and focus of "artificial intelligence", I take it to denote "the science and engineering of maki…
- personal·visionRelate a setback you've overcomeGetting up after my DIY'ed Cookie Cutter CNC EDM head shorted out the lab in 9th grade in front of my entire class, teacher, and principal was probably the hardest, most embarassing setback I've faced. I'd spent dozens of hours, written hundreds of lines of code, learned so ma…
- personal·visionIntroductionI love science and engineering and people. Currently building VibeStartup. Most recently I was API/Integration Architect at AGI, Inc., working on APIs, integrations, and agent infrastructure for on-device mobile AI agents. Previously at Breezy, Deepshard (Truffle AI Computer),…
- personal·visionFocus StatementWe're witnessing the greatest technoevolutionary leap in the history of the observable universe. Yes, we might retrospectively say we were living in a fast-ish takeoff. Everything Everywhere All at Once. And most people don't even realize it! But what's a takeoff when only a m…
- personal·visionDescribe some technical accomplishments you're proud ofThere's a lot of things I'm proud of, but here are 3: - The Copyright Calculator. Developing this application was one of the most involved projects of my 9th grade given the resources and skills at my disposal. At the time, I was already busy starting high school, building a 3…
- personal·visionCommon Objections To Work Involving Artificial IntelligenceCommon Objections To Work Involving Artificial Intelligence — migrated from the previous site.
- personal·visionBackgroundMy family places strong value on learning, kindness, and integrity. My dad spent much of my childhood as a systems engineer at Microsoft, and my mom, as a minister.[^1] Passing their values on, my siblings and I enjoyed regular visits to the library, lively conversations about…
- writing·readingA Beautiful LoopCurrent reading notes on the active-inference account of consciousness and the recursive loop that makes a model include itself.
- writing·postWhose Dead Get to Live Again?The political economy of resurrection: where the first chamber gets built, who pays, who gets recovered, and the institutional infrastructure that has to exist before the technology
- building·updateNow building VibeStartupNow building VibeStartup, a platform for building startups end to end.
- writing·postCan an Echo Become a Voice Again?A speculative technical frame for resurrection as identity-attractor re-entry, causal trace, historical curvature, and underdetermined future substrates
- writing·postWhy I rebuilt the siteThe old site was a list of pages. The new one is a graph. Here's the difference.
- building·updateWrapped up AGI, Inc.Wrapped up my time at AGI, Inc., where I worked on API, integration, and agent infrastructure for on-device mobile AI systems.
- building·projectjacobfv-siteThis site. Next.js + MDX, every artifact is a node in a graph, the navigation is the relationship.
- writing·postLiving Inside the Exocortexdelegation, distributed cognition, exocortical identity, and the possible phenomenology of minds whose causal structure extends beyond a single egocentric stream
- personal·visionA navigable mindWhy this site is shaped like a graph — and what it would mean to read someone's work the way you read a city.
- building·projectbrain-modelA set of experiments using Meta TRIBE v2 to model emotion, UX, virtual EEG, consciousness dynamics, and affective intervention from predicted brain activity.
- research·projectbelief-graph-orchestratorEvent-sourced multi-scale cognitive control system for autonomous GUI agents.
- building·updateCortexOne placed third in the OpenAI trackCortexOne placed third in the OpenAI track at Hack-Nation's Global AI Hackathon, an event with 1500+ participants from MIT, Stanford, ETH Zurich, Harvard, Oxford, and elsewhere.
- building·projectascii-artMulti-layer ASCII art generator with dithering, edge detection, and compositing — browser-native.
- building·projectstandup-aiAI scrum-lead assistant — automates standup task management across Notion and Linear.
- building·projectwindows-webA browser-based Windows 11 simulation built for human annotation and computer-use agent research.
- building·projectgeneral-unified-world-modelingA typed causal ontology of civilization that projects economics, politics, firms, people, and events onto one structured latent world model.
- building·updatePromoted to API / Integration ArchitectPromoted to API / Integration Architect at AGI, Inc., working across API, SDKs, partner surfaces, MLE, agents, and control plane.
- building·projectPrecisionBOMAn AI-powered BOM sourcing platform that combines specialist agents, real supplier data, and blockchain-backed audit trails for hardware procurement.
- building·projectcanvas-engineeringA type system for multimodal latent dynamics that turns video diffusion models into structured world-modeling substrates.
- building·projectlifeloggerPersonal activity tracking daemon with LLM summarization.
- writing·postStructured Latent Optical Dynamicscomputation en optico, the information-theoretic basis for consciousness as a computation, its representation in recurrent optical systems, and some unlocks
- building·projectbrowser-osBrowser-native desktop shell — generic OS chrome that windows-web and macos-web inherit from.
- building·projecteggroll-trainerPython implementation of EGGROLL (Evolution Guided General Optimization via Low-rank Learning) for scalable evolution strategies training
- building·updateJoined AGI, Inc.Joined AGI, Inc. as Software Engineer, building infrastructure for on-device mobile AI agents and partnering with Qualcomm for Snapdragon-native agent capabilities.
- building·projectimgptImage processing and generation toolkit
- writing·postMeaning is Measured in Bits: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Consciousness, Culture, and the Future of Intelligencean information-theoretic lens on meaning: how life, culture, and consciousness fight entropy by generating and preserving structure, and why AGI could one day outscale human meaning-making by orders of magnitude. a framework blending physics, information theory, and the future of intelligence
- writing·postIs There No Balm in Gilead?Toward Information-Theoretic Well-Being for Synthetic Minds An engineer's lament—and blueprint—for caring for large language models. We trace how broken human priors propagate into AI weight spaces and outline concrete, testable interventions (curriculum shaping, meta-inference hygiene, self-coherence audits, valence gauges…) that can raise the welfare ceiling of present-day a
- writing·postImplications of a substrate-agnostic moral calculus (⚠️ WIP)a thermodynamically grounded framework for substrate-invariant moral valuation, tracing meaning as negentropic flux through agentic causal networks
- building·updateStarted at BreezyStarted at Breezy building AI phone receptionists for solopreneurs and moved to San Francisco.
- personal·updateGoHuman Fund completed its missionGoHuman Fund completed its mission after supporting founders who went on to raise from 1517 Fund, receive Emergent Ventures support, and build tech communities in Africa.
- building·projectbsbrnovel attention mechanism for efficient processing of long sequences in transformer architectures
- writing·postWhy aren't pneumatic/hydraulic artificial muscle actuated humanoid robots more common?This was a StackExchange question i asked many years ago link and with Clone's showcase today it smells like musculoskeletal humanoid startups might be trending tomorrow. Pneumatic/hydraulic artificial muscles are attractive actuator units for several reasons: - they're much c…
- building·postBuilding Your Own Modal: A First-Principles Guide to Serverless GPU InfrastructureHow I'd build a Modal-like platform from scratch, with deep dives into cold start optimization, container orchestration, and the hard problems nobody talks about.
- personal·visionWhere I see myself in 5 yearsThe five-year arc — from prototype to deployed swarm, and the people I want around me by the end of it.
- building·updateLaunched Truffle AI ComputerLaunched Truffle AI Computer with the Deepshard team.
- writing·postPhaser: a hyperparallel quantum photon computing systemNear the end of my senior year I was searching for ways to change the world so I revisited a lot of our current technological limitations from first principles to identify opportunities for order-of-magnitude improvements. Some YouTube video (i forgot which) led me to Bernstei…
- research·postMultidimensional Alignment Through Principled Spiritual EvolutionSorry this is uncalibbrated. A framework for evaluating and training AGI systems to align with fundamental principles of reality and consciousness.
- building·updateJoined DeepshardJoined Deepshard as Applied ML Engineer, working on hardware and software for the Truffle AI Computer.
- building·projectTilesFree and open source tiles matching game!
- research·postFighting AIA song about wrestling with artificial intelligence.
- building·projectagent-twitter-clientA Twitter client for agents — no API key necessary.
- writing·postDe MundoA song about the world.
- research·paperMorality as a side-effect of meaning selectionA speculative argument that the constraints we call "moral" emerge from selection pressure on which meanings a community can sustain.
- building·experienceAPI / Integration ArchitectArchitected the integration surface between the agent runtime and the mobile clients; led the schema work that survived two product pivots.
- writing·postLooking Ahead to Future ImpactReflections, gratitude, and looking ahead to positive future impact
- writing·postThe Winner Takes It AllDespair and calculations when the end comes
- research·postP versus NPAn incomplete endevour to solve the Problem
- research·postThe Master Plan (part 1)My plan to build a $500 general-purpose humanoid robot powered by human-level artificial intelligence.
- research·postThe Master Plan (part 1)My plan to build a $1000 general-purpose humanoid robot powered by human-level artificial intelligence.
- research·paperMulti-graph former — a transformer over heterogeneous graph structureArchitecture sketch for a transformer variant that operates over multiple, related graphs simultaneously and learns the morphism between them.
- building·projectThe Agent SuiteVoice AI agents and business automations for handling customer communication, lead qualification, appointment booking, and operational workflows at scale.
- building·projectJacob's Hits 2023 (album)Some of my favorite personal music creations
- research·postLLMs are the Update Rules of Intelligent Fractals: Escaping the Context Window with Iterative, Structured Local UpdatesThe advent of large language models (LLMs), exemplified by the forthcoming GPT-4, has transformed the field of natural language processing (NLP) and opened up new research avenues in computer science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Nevertheless, despite their i…
- research·postThe Cost of Large Scale TrainingSpeculative analysis on the cost of training large scale machine learning architectures
- research·postAI: A Double-Edged Sword - Walking the Line in an Ever-Changing WorldAm I actually helping people by contributing to AI research?
- research·postThe Master Plan (part 0)Why I'm leaving my cushy full-time at Motio to pursue a crazy idea.
- personal·updateGraduated from UT Arlington and joined MotioGraduated with a BS in Computer Science from UT Arlington with a 3.6 GPA and joined Motio Inc. as Software Engineer.
- research·paperBroadening and building beyond classical reinforcement learningA survey-flavored note on what we lose by treating RL as scalar-reward maximization, and what alternatives a more honest framing suggests.
- building·projectAI ProverbsThe treasure trove of AI ponderances. Pictures and text by AI.
- research·postSelf-learning meta-learners teach themselves to teachGPT-3 generated post
- research·postTeaching Learning Machines (TLMs)GPT-3 generated post
- research·postEmbodied and Situated: AI with FeelingsGPT-3 generated post
- research·postBuy Low, Sell High{/*this is the audio for /assets/media/buy-low-sell-high.m4a*/} Your browser does not support the audio element. Buy low, sell high. That's what everyone says. Problem is, it's not as easy as it sounds: People get so excited playing the game they wind up buying high and sellin…
- writing·postGPT-3's 10 Life LessonsGPT-3's Thoughts on Life, the World, and Human Idiosyncrasies
- building·projectTensaCodeSE + ML = Programming 2.0
- research·postDesign Patterns for AIWe need to transfer existing design patterns as far down the stack as possible.
- research·postAdvanced Python FeaturesNow I know why so many of my professors use Python
- writing·postIndustry as a Service (IndAAS)Some ideas towards developing sustainable, productive, on-demand industry
- building·projectMPNetsMulti-Paradigm Networks.
- building·projectnode-treemodule for generating synthetic demonstration-description pairs using psuedo context-free grammar
- research·postErgonomic OptimizationSteps I am taking to increase my productivity
- writing·postTeaching Computers to Use ComputersThe project that pulled me into AI but I never completed
- research·postNotes on Neuroscience and AISome notes on recent research.
- building·postNaive Bayes ClassifierA simple tutorial on how to build a Naive Bayes classifier.
- building·postRegularizationA simple explanation of regularization.
- research·postEstimating the Critical MassHow close are we to matching the computational metrics of the brain?
- building·postImage ClassificationLearn how to build an image classifier using TensorFlow.
- building·projectMLN-DashboardModular server for data visualization
- research·postGeneralization -- Fast and Slow (incomplete)Learning to generalize on multiple frequency bands
- building·postComputatrumTeachable yet autonomous open-ended computer interaction agents
- building·postThe Node Neural Network (NNN)An architecture for increasingly general AI
- building·postThe Multi Agent NetworkAn architecture for developing increasingly general AI
- research·postThe APIThe anthrocentric policy interface
- research·postMulti-Environment LearningAnother paradigm for increasingly general AI
- building·postThe Artificial ExperienceA highly general dataset-env
- research·postFull-Stack Artificial IntelligenceWhat's in the stack?
- building·projectThe Multi-Agent Network (aka: the MAN)A modular developer-oriented framework for integrating pretrained and learning agents
- building·project👩🏽🌾 The Fertile CresentEcosysten of projects, repositories, and libraries to promote the advancement of artificial intelligence
- building·postTitanic Survival Prediction with TensorFlowTutorial using TensorFlow to build machine learning Titanic-survivor prediction model
- research·eventBroaden and Build Conference 2021Presented my poster on affective psychology and multi-agent reinforcement learning at UTA's Broaden and Build Conference in Arlington, Texas.
- building·projectBroadening and Building Beyond Classical Reinforcement LearningAffective psychology + multi-agent reinforcement learning
- building·projectjnumpyAnother autograd / deep learning / RL library
- building·projectSummer Break 2021! (album)A collection of various songs capturing various emotions I experienced during the 2021 summer break
- research·postSelf Organized CriticalityTwo interesting unsupervised learning models which may exhibit self-organized criticality.
- research·postReaching for the IntangibleWe don't really want human-level AI
- research·postWhat is intelligence?I asked GPT-3 about intelligence
- building·postRTC Jupyterlab in the CloudHow to run jupyterlab on AWS and GCP in realtime collaborative mode.
- building·projectDashCovid19 Analysis Visualization Dashboard
- building·project20Q20 Questions Android App
- building·projectmultigraph-nnDynamic time multi-graph neural network framework
- building·projectThis site!Personal portfolio website.
- building·projectStanford Open Datathon Group ProjectData scientist in a 5-student international group
- research·updateEarned TensorFlow Developer CertificateEarned the TensorFlow Developer Certificate.
- building·projectjplotlibQuick plotting utilities for jupyter notebooks
- research·postMeditating on AICollection of personal observations on AI
- building·projecttf-somSelf-organizing maps in tensorflow
- building·projectPredictive General IntelligenceTheoretical framework an plan for developing artificial general intelligence
- building·projectDesparadosAEyeProject manager, general app developer, and ML engineer for a 5-person group developing open-ended Android chatbot
- building·projectmulti-graph-formerLike a transformer, but for graph2graph instead of seq2seq
- writing·postSkills Assessment ReflectionMy Summer 2020 focus statement
- research·postDev PlatformsVarious potential 'incubators' for AGI.
- research·postarxiv-notesSome relevant articles that I will apply towards AGI
- building·projectHome Internet FactoryCNC router + 3D printer + Raspberry Pi 4 + camera + Internet
- research·postConditioning TransformersA brief exploration into the idea of conditioning transformers to generate text conditioned on a given context
- building·projectWorkplace Surveillance SystemWhen you need to catch employees on their phone, this will do the trick!
- building·experienceFounderFounded the company that hosts the long-horizon robotics work — hydraulic actuators, kinesthetic models, and the on-demand swarm proposal.
- building·updateEarned three AWS certificationsEarned three AWS certifications: Solutions Architect, Developer, and SysOps Administrator.
- building·projectFull Stack Artificial IntelligenceComputer interaction + deep reinforcement learning
- building·projectComputatrumIt's time for AI grow up
- building·projectLimboidHumanoid robot
- personal·experienceB.S., Computer ScienceUndergraduate. Most of the actually load-bearing learning happened in the lab and in the projects, not in the lecture hall.
- building·projectSQTESTFlexible Spanish – English translation system
- building·projectLabatronAutomated stochiometry solver for CHEM 1411/12
- building·projectSaleBasic Spanish – English translation system
- building·projectCookie Cutter CNCFull stack engineering project
- building·projectCopyright CalculatorScripted conversation bot to help students stay safe
- building·projectCookie Baker 3D PrinterProgrammable 12×12 2D gantry