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Make the robot do it.

Clear experiments with creative AI, automation, and useful machines—made for curious people who want to see how the tools really work.

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WHAT HAPPENS HERE

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No magic.
Just the useful bits.

01

See it work

Start with a real task and show the result. No mystery box, no victory lap.

02

Learn the setup

Name the tool, explain what it does, and walk through the choices that matter.

03

Keep what helps

Save the workflow, the failures, and the small discoveries worth using again.

ON THE BENCH

Current experiments

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BUILD LOG

WHAT?! Did Opus 5.5 Actually Build a Working Computer?

One prompt, thirty hours, 277,248 NAND gates: taking apart the computer Opus 5.5 designed, from logic to games.

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HARDWARE NOTES

CRAZY! Chinese Labs Double VRAM on NVIDIA Cards!

Inside China's 48GB RTX 4090 labs: the clamshell trick, reballing by hand, prices, and what to check before buying.

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SCIENCE NOTES

Why the Internet has Gone INSANE Torturing a Fruit Fly Brain

The complete male fruit fly connectome, what the internet made it do, and why most demos come with an asterisk.

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MODEL NOTES

The Only Video You Need to Understand Generative AI

From U-Nets to diffusion transformers: latents, attention, conditioning, and why image models changed.

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BUILD LOG

INSANE ONE-SHOT! Opus 5.5 made this entire video in 30 min.

Building animations with code: Opus 5.5, HyperFrames, five visual styles, setup, costs, and licenses.

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TOOL TEST

Jev: A Cursory Look and What Makes It Unique

Where a bounded decision model fits beside ChatGPT, ordinary code, and human review.

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AUDIO NOTES

SheetSage2: A Primer on ABC Transcription in Generative Audio

How a recording becomes an editable lead sheet and how symbolic scores can guide music models.

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BUILD LOG

How to Use the YuE2 Hum-to-Song Adapter

How a short hum becomes melody guidance and a trained adapter refines timing and articulation.

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MODEL NOTES

What Is Flow Matching in Generative AI?

A visual explanation of velocity fields, training paths, and generation from noise.

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FIELD NOTES

The build log starts here.

Watch the episodes, then read the complete scripts with the details, limits, and useful ideas kept intact.

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