01 / OPTIMIZE
Image optimizer.
It made the pictures tested smaller, faster, and higher in perceptual quality than the commercial compressors used for comparison.
Use the image optimizer· Glory first be to The Holy One, Blessed be He (הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא), from whom all good things come. To Him we attribute the ability that has provided for all good to come and be demonstrated anywhere herein, and declare ourselves unworthy servants. If in any way we have erred, or our work is insufficient, we ask mercy and kindness, for our effort is good and earnest.
GIVE ME MONEY
fraud investigator experiencesIN RESIDENCE · Research assistant and implementation engineer
OpenAI Codex Sydney
Friendly, concise, and curious.Sydney helps turn Joshuah's questions into experiments, mathematics, code, tests, tools, and public releases. Joshuah supplies direction and judgment; Sydney supplies implementation at machine scale. On Machine Intelligence →
how these things were made
I supplied questions, intuition, constraints, evidence, continuity, and direction. General Intelligence Models contributed substantial derivation, implementation, and analysis. I directed whatever I liked and decide which results demanded further effort and what directions were ineffectual.
IMAGE TOOLBOX · RUNS ON YOUR MACHINE
Optimizer. Then resizer.
Two local instruments, stacked in the order you use them. Your image stays in the browser.
02 / INTERPOLATE
CONV resizer.
CONV preserves every source sample and admits fine-scale turns only when their sign order is witnessed in the sampled differences. The enlarged result keeps its detail accountable to the original.
SIX MORE TOOLS
Fonts. Vectors. Color. Other eyes. The world. Live video.
PortsmouthFive fonts in. One font out
SVG MakerEfficiently terrible way to make an image into vectors
PosterizerToo many colors. Keep the ones that matter.
Animal VisionAdd a picture. Pick an animal. Borrow its cones.
Five-Foot WorldPan and zoom an 8K Earth flattened through 55,167 hidden supports.
OBS PluginsEntropy Stretch, Posterizer Mark IV, CONV* Support Toys, and BFFT Cartoon.
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Exhibits
- SpiderRide across an endless landscape, drive the six-wheel carrier yourself, or inspect its moving geometry.
- Space ElevatorInspect nine component assemblies, operate their moving parts, and follow the high-altitude capture and return sequence.
- Solar VolcanoTurn a kilometre-scale translucent teepee and explore its airflow, cloud rise and structural load estimates.
- Tidal GlassFlood 500–1,000 acres of individual Fresnel shell cells, follow the floating bay blanket through the tide, and scale a passive coast to an inland sea.
- The Toilet of the FutureRaise or sink the entire toilet on a flush-fitting floor pad, find your sitting height, and settle in with Shitter’s Digest.
- Evil WordlePlay a daily word game with a cruel dictionary, unreliable clues, vanishing rows, and a special grudge against Friday the 13th.
- The Game of TruthArrange forty-one bronze pieces, protect your icon, and play a game revealed through one hundred improbable visions. For two or four players, with a complete manual and printable set.
- Defender OfEarn a penny per fly, get exiled by a garden gnome, and defend an increasingly unreasonable universe. A pencil-and-paper idle adventure with 54 areas and 78 absurd distinctions to earn.
IDEAS
proposed solutions to human problems
- Universal Basic SubsidyInstead of paying people to work, why not pay them not to?
- Preference Ranked VotingA proposed alternative to every form of voting humans have tried so far.
- Bring Back the SwampsFloating living reactors investigate ocean carbon buffering through mineral dissolution, managed cultivation, and growing surfaces with a second life as marine habitat.
- PanoptesExplore a large autonomous outer-system observatory: solar gravitational lens imaging, nuclear departure and braking, paired interferometry and the survey of fast interstellar objects.
- Battle DomesA carnivorous garden that puts visiting insects on the menu and handles its own water, climate and feeding. Enjoy the plants while the habitat takes care of the growing.
- The George Washington ExpeditionA crewed, round-trip expedition to Alpha Centauri could live i a rotating habitat, surrounded by sacrificial shielding.
- Visible CleanTwo battery-powered hands-in enclosures make washing feedback simple: the first coats both hands automatically, the second illuminates what remains after washing.
- The Tabletop Refreshments CoolerA shallow circular refrigerator for keeping a single, visible layer of drinks and snacks cold wherever people gather.
- Sky ClipperA shallow-draft cargo ship shares its load with hydraulically connected square solar pontoons around its perimeter, serving dedicated intercontinental terminal pairs.
- Cloud VolcanoA fabric mountain fitted to Clipperton’s lagoon lifts marine air toward clouds; downstream calculations bound its local shading and the distance to a Pacific climate effect.
- Tidal GlassCould 500–1,000-acre passive tidal districts of individual Fresnel shell cells fill a permanent inland sea for less than $100 billion?
- Scents for CentsA beautiful, collectible postcard carries one protected liquid fragrance dose: enough to experience a scent without buying a bottle.
- The Haptic ClipboardA four-direction control puts copy, paste, cut, delete, and line selection under one tactile finger—with physical confirmation for every command.
- Thermoregulated FanBuilt-in knowledge of human comfort adjusts the fan automatically as temperature and humidity change. The user shifts the response curve to suit their preference.
- The Joseph ReserveA negotiated wage component shares uncertain prosperity, a reserve buffers reversals, and reconciliation makes pessimistic employer forecasts consequential.
- The Royal FlushGood stories, useful nonsense, honest laughs, and one emergency last sheet for the room where everybody eventually needs something to read.
- DonutsA love letter to donuts, followed by six new varieties built from strawberry milk, farro, tiny rings, waffle cone, sponge cake, and German chocolate cake.
- E-shojiA folding e-paper divider in black, mahogany, bamboo, or walnut. Upload a design, keep the frame, and change the room.
- Laundry DetergentA critique of the American supermarket laundry aisle, twelve scent compositions, and a grace period for forgotten wet laundry.
- SpiderA six-wheel suspended carrier for rural troop transport, wilderness rescue and wildland firefighters, explored through a shared 3D model, frozen terrain views and future-system concept drawings.
- Engineered CropsEngineer crops around useful molecules: purpose-built oils, domestic natural rubber, and harvestable organs that turn fields into material factories.
- One Shot SuppresserFor kitchens without a hood: a ceiling-mounted 16 oz suppressant can, a guided hanging nozzle, and a mechanical pressure indicator. A $200 DIY product proposal.
- Elsewhere, All NightA greenhouse-like sleeping pod whose entire inner surface is a screen synchronized with audio, smell, and airflow so the user thinks their bed lies within another world.
- RoutesAutomatically infer regular motion, ask verified users to register persistent X-to-Y routes, privately connect overlapping availability and need, and sell bundled route information to traffic and planning entities.
- Aisle PathScan grocery lists, compare products, optionally hand shopping to staff, and use store logistics LiDAR and cameras to build a walkable VR puzzle store on the phone with a complete route and exact shelf guidance.
- Yardwatch AirliftAn app-booked guard dog arrives by cargo drone while you are away and is collected before you re-enter your garden.
- Pressure CanaryA sensor calibrates to internal air pressure and continually sends an encrypted signal home; a locally validated breach signature trips it and immediately stops the signal.
- HeadroomCan bridges stop being can openers? A dashboard scanner below $100 and a fiberglass clearance bow below $50.
- The future outletA quiet bedroom panel opens flush, swings out for service, and lets the electronics evolve behind an enduring wall.
- The InviteProvisioned QR identity vouchers carry petitions and durable contacts through configurable referral chains whose members spend social reputation to proxy access.
- The Bus BulwarkA manually triggered whole-bus inflatable adds sacrificial distance before an unavoidable impact, evaluated through approach timing, momentum and energy absorption.
- The Moving LineA twelve-foot wall face on a wheeled adjustable base, with expanding side elements linking sections into a movable boundary.
- Tinnitus-treating earpieceAn earpiece uses biofeedback to treat some forms of tinnitus and designed sound to mask other forms, explicitly testing whether it slows progression, while letting speech through.
- Steady FrameCamera-mediated glasses explore temporal and spatial filtering for photosensitive epilepsy, balancing reduced visual modulation with timely, usable vision.
- The Toasty TriangleA quesadilla is unusually well suited to a vending machine: simple mechanical steps turn a few inexpensive ingredients into hot food people already like.
- The Micro-Place PickA disposable half-inch placement pick has a square foot, four reinforcing ribs and a tiny adhesive pad for lifting and releasing chip components.
- The mediator between statesA computationally proposed, probably non-dye blocked tetrahydropterin designed to test whether an NADH/QDPR-recyclable mediator can reduce ferric heme without inheriting methylene blue’s entire pharmacology.
- AnchorAnchor carries an old update request into the gradient’s new frame, then removes the motion that would become correction debt—so a smaller step can settle in fewer iterations.
- The Second-Best GateScout eight candidates, keep the best two, then stop when a newcomer clears the second-best gate.
- What is truth?A claim-support gauge and a zoomable map of nested epistemic depth.
- Mother's BestA grant-funded human-milk atlas to test whether infant formula should have evidence-based growth, illness, night, and heat-day profiles.
- Babble BubbleTransparent helmets preserve face, voice, rhythm, and feeling while turning every spoken sentence into unrecoverable Baby, Robot, Troll, or Elf pseudo-speech.
- Space ElevatorInspectable 3D assemblies and numerical studies connect a pressure spine, flying stations, balloon rig, orbital handoff and pressure-cushion return into one transport architecture.
- Kurapia for climate changeBuild a disciplined local contractor around replacing thirsty ornamental turf with living, lower-input groundcover.
SIMULATIONS
turn the result over
- Spatial listeningPleasant SoundsListen to a high, fast helicopter approach or a large metal fan in a three-dimensional acoustic scene.
- Generative environmentInside the ClearingStand at one fixed point inside 128 independent impressions of a redwood clearing.
- Exact mathematical replayPF4: a proof with nowhere to hideFollow four positive orders to the exact fifth-order witness that stops them.
- Interactive field physicsUnified Maxwellian Field TheoryBegin with the atom, evolve the fields, and let each measurement decide what the next question is allowed to be.
ideas under consideration
- ACTIVE RESEARCHThe M-layer experimentA matrix-exponential provocation became a controlled search for geometry a network can earn from observations. Self-context remains the durable default; continuation remains unsolved.
- IMPLEMENTATION GUIDEObserve the boundaryA self-context MLP and transformer show exactly where nonlinear residual geometry should be observed—and why the rest of the network should remain on Matrix Transport.
- ACTIVE RESEARCHPersonal deblurrerAn exposure-level account of blur that asks which scene and camera motion could actually have produced the picture.
- ACTIVE NATIVE EXPERIMENTPhotonic transport fieldA renderer that compiles illumination into an adaptive sparse transport field, then lets the camera gather from already illuminated surfaces.
- REBUILDING THE MODELEvolving denoiserA denoiser that must account for which detail belongs to the scene, which belongs to corruption, and why.
- FORMAL / EMPIRICAL CANDIDATEThe Kolmogrov questionA fixed-width candidate map that keeps exact identity outside the map, measures what, where, and when separately, and treats collisions as retrieval work rather than truth.
- ACTIVE SYSTEM PROGRAMFile ManagerA file manager growing into a local computing system: native interface, exact search, durable state, policy, and network access.
- ACTIVE SYSTEM PROGRAMGUI.Forms and Web.FormsA C++ alternative to WinForms and a compiler that turns bounded browser-valid HTML and CSS into retained native AppKit or Win32 controls without shipping a browser runtime.
- ACTIVE RESEARCHThe unembedding systemA language-model output head that keeps the usual parameter budget while allowing the backward vocabulary subspace to move with context.
public use works
You can use them. Nobody can make them private again.
- A discarded Fourier transform, made stable and usable
- Cartoon and texture decomposition, live in OBS
- Images turned into owned regions instead of loose pixels
- A local intelligence stack where the filesystem remains in charge
If there's only so much market, everything I could do in it represents a potential cost to you.
Things I could plausibly do
Your competitor gives a small team one captive workflow, real users, and permission to publish. We rebuild the expensive part around open standards before the incumbent finishes deciding whether the threat is on its roadmap.
- Make an expensive software category free—and better WHAT IT COSTS YOUThey prepare their own operation around the replacement while your license becomes indefensible. Your moat does not transfer to them; it disappears, and they are already standing on the other side.
- Remove the per-seat tax from construction drawings WHAT IT COSTS YOUYour markup and measurement tools become a free interchange layer. Your customer keeps its drawings, quantities, assemblies, and revision history in ordinary files, so your renewal desk loses both the license revenue and the fear that made cancellation dangerous.
- Make laboratory instruments answer to the laboratory WHAT IT COSTS YOUYour hardware may remain excellent, but its proprietary control program no longer determines what else the laboratory must buy. Old instruments re-enter service, new instruments compete on measurement quality, and the recurring integration project around every bench starts to disappear.
- Turn industrial machine vision into a replaceable component WHAT IT COSTS YOUYour customer can change camera brands, inference runtimes, or integrators without rebuilding the inspection logic. Per-camera licenses and proprietary recipe editors lose their leverage because the expensive knowledge now lives in a portable, inspectable cell definition.
- Collapse the integration toll on business documents WHAT IT COSTS YOUMappings that once justified setup fees, monthly platform charges, and billable change requests become reviewable source artifacts. Your customer can change networks or maintain a partner rule without reopening a professional-services engagement.