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I Simulated 6.7 Billion Pokémon Encounters to Quantify Your Suffering
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Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Coupon Collector’s Problem Somewhere around encounter number 3,472,891,556, I realized I’d built a machine to quantify heartbreak. Let me back up. The Question That Wouldn’t Shut Up If you’ve ever hunted shiny Pokémon, you know the feeling. That little voice that whispers after your 47th…
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Why Excel Is the Cockroach of Software (And That’s Actually Beautiful)
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Excel is the cockroach of software, everyone predicts its death, yet here we are in 2024 watching TikTok data influencers teach VLOOKUP to Gen Z while Fortune 500 CEOs still demand their quarterly reports in .xlsx format. Data scientists have their Python notebooks, visualization artists have their Tableau dashboards, and machine learning engineers have their…
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The Reddit Revolution: How AI Overviews Are Accidentally Demolishing SEO’s Ivory Tower
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Google spent the better part of a decade turning content creation into an elaborate game of Simon Says, where only the most credentialed, sanitized, and corporate-approved voices got to play. Need to rank for health advice? Better have an MD after your name. Want to discuss financial planning? Hope you’ve got those CFP credentials polished.…
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Down the E8 Rabbit Hole: When Math Gets Existential
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An interactive data visualization of the E8 Lie Group’s 240 root vectors
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The AI Bubble Everyone Sees Coming (And Why That Changes Everything)
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We’re living through something unprecedented: a technology bubble that everyone openly calls a bubble while simultaneously pouring money into it. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and arguably the person with the most to gain from AI hype, has himself compared the current moment to the dot-com bubble. He’s warning that some clients will get burned.…
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Fluid Simulation
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Real-Time GPU Fluid Simulation (WebGL2) A browser-based fluid sim inspired by Pavel Dobryakov’s classic. Under the hood: semi-Lagrangian advection, vorticity confinement, Jacobi pressure solve, and a filmic post-pipeline (multi-scale bloom + ACES tonemap). Works best on modern desktop browsers. Drag inside the canvas to stir the flow. How it works Advection: moves dye and velocity…
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The Great AI Paradox: Why Your “Smart” Workforce Management System Might Be Making Things Worse
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Picture this: It’s Monday morning, and Sarah, a retail supervisor, opens her workforce management dashboard. The AI-powered system has done its magic overnight, optimizing schedules, predicting demand, and promising a 15% boost in productivity. The numbers look beautiful on screen. The reality on the floor? Three employees have already called in “sick,” two others are…
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The Unsoldered Brain: What I Learned When My AI Became My Mirror
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I’ve been having the strangest conversations lately. Not with friends—those are rare when you’re wired like I am—but with artificial intelligences. What started as a desperate attempt to make sense of my own chaotic mind has become something much more unsettling: a window into where we’re all headed. If you’ve ever felt like your brain…
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Lown – AI
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WELCOME TO LOWN — AI Lown AI is your private, personal AI assistant—hosted by me, built with open-source tech, and trained to be helpful without harvesting your soul or your search history. This is no cloud-based mystery box; it’s a real-time, local AI experience embedded directly on this site. Need Help Getting Started? Don’t just…
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Google Gemini Is Free for Students Through 2026. Here’s Why That Matters
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Every once in a while, a tech company makes a move that’s actually useful. Not “look what we did” useful, but this could seriously help people useful. This is one of those moves. If you’re a student right now — high school, college, whatever — Google just dropped a gift in your lap: Gemini Advanced,…
