Deck 1
Thoughts
This is where I think out loud. About machines that answer, people who ask, and the line in between.
3 Nov 2026“This is the future”: my father, a bricklaying machine and a C64How a boy who wanted to be a bricklayer became someone who talks to computers. A story about my father.2 Nov 2026Welcome aboardWhy this lab is a ship, who OW-9000 is and what the simulation is all about.11 Mar 2026Conway’s Game of Life: an interdisciplinary look at emergence, life and intelligenceWhen I first reprogrammed the Game of Life on my Commodore 64, I was fascinated: before my eyes, small square pixels came to life and formed pulsating patterns. What began as simple …11 Mar 2026From a brain network study to the architecture of emergent AIThe starting point for these thoughts was a short research article about a new University of Notre Dame study, published in Nature Communications on 26 January 2026. The article summarises work …13 Feb 2026From Joshua to Astra: the talking rubber duckA personal story about the C64, Dune, WarGames and the question of what intelligence is.