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Tree, truth, druid, dryad, tar and dendrite grew from one Proto-Indo-European root
Reviving a 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI
Outside of the bubble, AI is Black Mirror
Nano Banana Pro: raw intelligence with tool use
AI for coding is still playing Go, not StarCraft
Sandboxing AI-generated code: why we moved from WebR to AWS Lambda
Which chart would you swipe right?
Building Grafana dashboards with AI, CLI and a bit of pragmatism
Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating
Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, French, and German.
Mantra Gajatri po polsku
Mantra Gajatri tłumaczona na polski w poetyce "Ciebie Boga Wysławiamy" - przez GPT 4.5.
If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
Don't use cosine similarity carelessly
Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it better.
Świadomość, fizyka i duchowość
Overcoming writer's block — lessons from AI
Let's learn from AI and overcome writer's block one token at a time.
Naturalność nagości - sesja i wywiad
AI, fizyka kwantowa, relacje, ludzie, przyszłość
Science-based games and explorable explanations
Science-based games and interactive explorable explanations are revolutionizing education, making complex topics like physics and machine learning accessible and fun.
Jak masować osoby autystyczne?
Masuję powięź, by uwolnić napięcia
Can AI diagnose mental conditions within a single conversation?
Genesis 1 but every word begins with 'A' - with GPT4
"At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
Saunowe ukojenie w lesie
Polacy walczą o „cyfrowego Oskara”
AI won’t make artists redundant - thanks to information theory
How many bits are there in a prompt? How many bits are needed to create an image? In short: a lot!
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes)
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes). But correlation is not causation.
New blog - moving from Medium to Gridsome
Why and how I moved from Jekyll and Medium to Gridsome.
What's new in Virtual Lab by Quantum Flytrap - Oct 2022
Closing Quantum Flytrap
Perspective: capsaicin is a psychoactive substance
Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters adrenaline and endorphine levels.
Co chciałbym wiedzieć wcześniej o ADHD
Wystarczy co jakiś czas wrzucić mem o ADHD i dostaję multum pytań, jakbym był jakimś ekspertem. Nie jestem — ale i tak staram się…
DALL·E 2 and transcendence - generating esoteric images with AI
Hint: end prompts with “religious art”, “stained glass”, “esoteric art”
Quantum Flytrap - shaping the future of quantum devtools
Embodiment for nerds
Or how you can learn to get in touch with your body and emotions.
Quantum logic gates for a single qubit, interactively
Don’t fight, flight (or freeze) your body and emotions
Procrastination is a flight response, depression is freeze, anxious attachment is fight.
ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking
A few tips on apps for automatic time tracking, especially for people with ADHD: how to get immediate feedback: for actions, not guilt.
Doom 2016 vs Doom Eternal: UI side-by-side
A dark journey vs demon piñata. Demons invaded Earth and ruined HUD.
How I learned to stop worrying and love the types & tests
On TypeScript, ESlint, jest, TSDoc, Travis-CI, and VSCode (with inspirations from the Zen of Python).
Support my open-source work and blog posts
“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski
“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when a tyrant’s tall statues are shattered”
To make a cool game, you first have to play other cool games
Dreams, Drugs & ConvNets
It seems that some artifacts of artificial neural networks are eerily similar to our altered states of mind, be it dreams or psychedelics.
There will be the next Quantum Game with Photons
More photons, an electron, so you can play with entanglement. We got invited by Artur Ekert to CQT in Singapore.
Exploring human vs machine learning (one blogpost at a time)
To err is human... and machine, alike. Overfitting, adversarial examples, optical illusions, hallucinations, Freudian slips, etc.
Games in which you walk (and get immersed)
SOMA, The Path, Life Is Strange, The Stanley Parable, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dear Esther, Firewatch
Cloak & dagger creativity camp
“You cannot create an experience, you can create [conditions] for an experience.” — Seth
Tinder anecdata and Sankey diagrams
I really enjoy visiting r/dataisbeautiful, both for original content [OC]. Yesterday, I saw a post about visualizing Tinder matches for…
Does AI have a dirty mind, too?
An edgy intro to graphs of interpersonal relationships
CW: human sexuality, maths, LaTeX, spoilers for the Game of Thrones