Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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The Perception–Planning Gap: What's Actually Hard About Visual AI in 2026
A technical survey of where visual perception and planning research actually stands in 2026. Pixel-level perception is largely solved at the representation layer, but perception-for-action — geometry, physics, dexterity, long-horizon control — is not. Reading the recent literature on JEPA, DreamerV3, Sora-as-world-model, RT-2 / OpenVLA / π0, Helix, Gemini Robotics, DUSt3R / MASt3R / VGGT, and the world-model evaluation papers (WorldModelBench, Physion, IntPhys 2), the through-line is the same: we have strong representations and architectural ideas, but the data, evaluation, and physical-grounding infrastructure to validate them is what's missing.
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From Luddites to Humanoids: What the Steam-Engine Era Tells Us About AI Robotics Replacing Human Labor
The Luddites were not anti-technology. They were protesting a bundle of wage collapse, skill devaluation, and lost autonomy that mechanization triggered but did not constitute. Reading the modern economics literature — Acemoglu & Restrepo, Allen on the Engels' Pause, Caprettini & Voth on Captain Swing, Autor on polarization, Brynjolfsson on the productivity J-curve — the question for the age of perception-aware and lingual robotics is not whether the reinstatement effect will eventually arrive. It is whether the adjustment window has been compressed past the point where the historical safety valves can open in time.
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Cold War 2.0: Why It Probably Ends Without a Hot War — and Who Gets Rich on the Way
A historical analogy: the US-China rivalry rhymes with the original Cold War in ways that go far beyond the obvious. Espionage on defense contractors, proxy conflicts through Iran, semiconductors as the new uranium, and ASML as the chokepoint nobody can replicate. The thesis I'm trying to defend: this ends without a hot war, and the defense-industrial complex on both sides is the long-term beneficiary, just as it was from 1947 to 1991. With references from Politico, Bloomberg, The Economist, CSIS, RAND, CFR, CNAS, SemiAnalysis, MIT Technology Review, the Quincy Institute, War on the Rocks, the Stimson Center, and Chris Miller's Chip War.
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The Math Behind Rand Protocol: A Friendly Walkthrough
A beginner-friendly tour of the mathematics behind Rand Protocol — a privacy-preserving, post-quantum blockchain that combines BFT consensus with GPU-driven zero-knowledge proving. We unpack the cryptographic primitives, the consensus protocol, and the security proofs in language a first-year graduate student in mathematics can follow.