Welcome to my field notes

This site is a place to write down what I learn while building intelligent systems.

My career has crossed several kinds of physical intelligence: control systems for a MAGLEV train, robot manipulation in simulation and the real world, visual evaluation for cooking, and digital humans for games. The applications are different, but I keep returning to the same questions:

• How do we turn an interesting model into a useful system?
• What changes when an algorithm meets the physical world?
• How can people with different technical and cultural backgrounds build together?

I plan to use these notes for research explanations, implementation details, tools worth remembering, and observations from outside work. Some entries will be carefully edited; others will simply be useful things I do not want to forget.

The site itself is intentionally simple. Each post is an ordinary Markdown file, so writing stays separate from maintaining a content-management system.