Tag: simulation

• World Models: Computing the Uncomputable

  March 29, 2026

  A Co-Written Essay with General Intuition’s Pim DeWitte https://open.substack.com/pub/notboring/p/world-models?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=oj2p5 more ›

• The Cyberpunk Guide: 50 Years of High Tech, Low Life Across Literature, Film, Anime, Comics & Gaming –

  October 25, 2025

  Cyberpunk explained: the cultural movement that merged technology with rebellion, from Neuromancer and Blade Runner to global variants and modern derivatives. https://retrofuturista.com/the-cyberpunk-guide-50-years-of-high-tech-low-life-across-literature-film-anime-comics-gaming/ more ›

• Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content

  July 7, 2025

  We are living between two informational worlds: the one we think we know and the one that actually exists. The former lasted with relative stability for hundreds (and, by some… more ›

• Trump l’Oeil

  February 23, 2025

  I BEGAN WRITING this after I saw the photos of Donald Trump working at McDonald’s. Like many, I was struck by how much the images, with their bizarre aesthetics and surreal content,… more ›

• A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle

  February 22, 2025

  ‘Television Was a Baby Crawling towards That Deathchamber.’ These words are by Allen Ginsberg, writing in 1961, the title of a poem anathematising America. ‘It is here, the long Awaited… more ›

• These AI Minecraft characters did weirdly human stuff all on their own

  November 29, 2024

  Left to their own devices, an army of AI characters didn’t just survive — they thrived. They developed in-game jobs, shared memes, voted on tax reforms and even spread a… more ›

• Building a Generative AI OpenUSD App for Brand-Accurate Marketing Visuals

  November 27, 2024

  Today, brands and their creative agencies are under huge strain to create and deliver high-quality, accurate product images at scale, from campaign key visuals to packshots for e-commerce. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/building-a-generative-ai-openusd-app-for-brand-accurate-marketing-visuals/ more ›

• A Digital Twin Might Just Save Your Life

  March 23, 2024

  On the morning of June 24, 1993, Yale University Professor David Gelernter arrived at his office on the fifth floor of the computer science department. He had just returned from… more ›

• Mini Tokyo 3D

  October 23, 2023

  Mini Tokyo 3D is a real-time 3D map of public transportation in Tokyo. Trains in operation and airplanes that are arriving or departing are represented on a realistic 3D map… more ›

• Movie extras worry they’ll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans

  August 5, 2023

  After four weeks of working as a background actor on the Disney+ series WandaVision during the pandemic, Alexandria Rubalcaba was told by the production crew to report to a tractor… more ›