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The history of A Profound Journey
This site is about Travel and Technology. Destinations, travelogues and reports. By Seamus Waldron.
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About a profound journey
This site is about Travel and Technology. Destinations, travelogues and reports. By Seamus Waldron.
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Mercy (2026)
Timur Bekmambetov hands a murder trial to an artificial intelligence and gives the accused ninety minutes to clear himself. The premise is borrowed, the format is risky, and on the things I value it works better than the critics will allow. 8/10.
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TraitorBot
I taught a row of language models to lie to each other, then watched what happened. TraitorBot is a research project about The Traitors, the game theory under it, and what AI does when you make it betray people for a living.
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Rebuilding A Profound Journey
A Profound Journey has been online since 1995. For the last twenty years it barely changed. This is the rebuild: same writing, new foundations.
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GoCube BLE Library
A Go library that talks to a GoCube, the Rubik's cube with Bluetooth inside. It reads every twist in real time, tracks the cube's state, and works out which stage of the solve you are in.
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