I build AI architectures from first principles — often in C#, usually from scratch — to test ideas that don't fit the "scale it and see" paradigm. Then I write up what I learn at Scott's Thoughts, my Substack on AI architecture, interpretability, and grounded cognition.
The through-line across everything here: I think the interesting open problems in AI are structural, not scale-bound — how intelligence is grounded, how it compartmentalizes, how we can read what it's doing from the physics of the computation rather than the geometry of its activations.
Most of my repos are working experiments behind an essay:
| Repo | What it is | The essay |
|---|---|---|
| ArtificialBiologicalIntelligence | Growing intelligence from endorphin/pain receptors up to grounded language via evolutionary receptor topology — 138 receptors, 16 families, 46 steps | Growing Intelligence From Scratch |
| thermodynamic-epistemic-routing | 98.4% factual/speculative classification with zero inference-time parameters, by measuring forward-pass energy | The Thermodynamic Interpretability Breakthrough That Scales |
| ParallelReverseAutoDiff | PRAD — parallel reverse-mode automatic differentiation in C# for building custom neural networks. The engine under most of my ML work | Why Scaling Laws Break Down |
| Meritocious | A discussion platform where AI curates for substance instead of karma | — |
| prologscript | An AI reasoning framework built on causal-diff semantics | Cause and Effect is a Diff, not a Chain |
I also build other things for fun — cloudcad (web-based CAD with Babylon.js + CadQuery), games, transpilers, UI frameworks.
Outconceive is my studio — where the bigger builds live:
- 🎲 outconceive.com — unconventional strategy games. First up: Warp 1 Chess, dimensional chess on overlapping boards, with an AI trained on 174,000 self-play matches that discovered strategies I didn't design in.
- 🧵 pst-os — an operating system built on Parallel String Theory, in Rust. The essay behind it: Position is Identity in OS Design.
- 🏥 followup — a mobile app for whoever accompanies a patient to the ER: it interviews you while you wait and produces a timestamped, plain-language observation record for the triage nurse.
📝 Substack: ameritusweb.substack.com — essays on AI architecture, structural safety, and where scaling breaks down. If any repo here made you curious, the writing is where the ideas connect.
🎮 Outconceive: outconceive.com — where the inconceivable becomes playable.