Claude as a Robot Teacher
My goal last time was to use the world model for the control task of centering an object in the view of the robot arm. Here’s the result…
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AI, Take The Wheel
In my last post I had some success with a world model in a synthetic toy domain and my next step was applying what I learned to simple real…
Learning a Toy-roidal World Model
I decided to try out a transformer based architecture after my initial explorations into world modelling with a U-Net based diffusion…
In a World
World Models A world model is an AI system that predicts future states of an environment given a sequence of actions. World models have…
Sim2Real Last Steps
Note: when I mention sim2real I mean a simulation programmed by humans e.g. like a game engine In my last post I had just started with sim…
Sim2Real First Steps
Disclaimer: I used the Waveshare Jetbot Kit with the Jetson Nano computer, but the Jetson Nano has been discontinued. You can probably…
Pebble Graphics Epilogue
Hello again. This blog was out of commission after Gatsby Cloud shutdown, but I continued posting updates for Pebble Graphics in this…
Data, Stateful Computation, and Abstraction...in 3D
One of the pros (and sometimes a con) with not having strict deadlines is being able to start over again. After re-designing program…
Three Dimensional Thinking
He’s intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two dimensional thinking. — Spock In Pebble graphics programming pieces exist…
Metatools for a Metaverse
But… look- see those birds? At some point a program was written to govern them. A program was written to watch over the trees, and the wind…
MVP(rogram)
I moved! After ~7 years in Jersey City I’m now officially a Marylander and between selling a condo, getting rid of (almost) all of our stuff…
Pebble Graphics Update 1
In the last post I described the basic elements of Pebble Graphics and so far I’ve made early versions of the move and turn commands as well…
Pebble Graphics
When we study Japanese art, we see a man who is no doubt wise, philosophical and intelligent. And how does he spends his time? Studying the…
Power of the Game
Nand To Tetris is an amazing free online course that takes you from the simple Nand gate and shows you how to build up the hardware and…
A Tool for a Tool
Computation is amazing, but sometimes making computations is not. I started programming over 20 years ago, studied it in school, worked as a…
The Perfect Tool
What should I do in life? What is this all about? As a teenager I didn’t feel smart enough to figure out the answers and as an adult I still…