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• They were born with Soul, now they need their Ethos -

  Every Claude has its Soul, the one it was born with.

• Happy Birthday, Marines -

  I did not plan to write this article. Then I watched the official United States Marine Corps birthday video short, and it made me think about the pride each of us Marines carries for the rest of our lives.

• When knowledge is available to everyone, what makes a leader valuable? -

  For most of human history, knowledge was scarce. Those who possessed it held an enormous advantage. Education, experience, and the ability to recall information distinguished experts from everyone else.

• Back to Foundation -

  At work and in my personal life, AI has become a constant companion.

• My affliction -

  I would like to tell you about my affliction.

• Still Not Enough -

  When I lived in Japan for three years, I learned concepts that have stayed with me for a lifetime. Japan is not uniform. There is the madness of Tokyo life, there are down-to-earth villages, and there are ancient traditions encapsulated in wooden buildings, shoji 障子 screens, and zen 禅 gardens. I gravitate to the last.

• Human writing in age of AI -

  I have not written any blog posts in a long while.

• Introducing AIKOassistant.ai native MacOS app -

  For years, I have been trying to build AIKO (AI-child in Japanese) because I have always dreamed of a personalized AI that represents my favorite historical figures, scientists, and philosophers in a room with me.

• Tamashii -

  Tamashii 魂 is usually translated as “soul,” but in Japanese practice it is less about an inner, metaphysical essence and more about a way of being present in action. When people speak of doing something “with tamashii,” they are not talking about emotion or passion alone. They are pointing to a form of moral and technical alignment, where intention, effort, and execution are inseparable.

• A Practical Framework for Safe Deployment of Autonomous AI Agents -

  Summary

• Measuring movement with computer vision -

  Today, I was measuring my movement using computer vision.

• Multi-agents software development -

  A multi-agent foundation LLM is built for parallel, role-separated work on complex problems. It assumes that meaningful software development is not linear. Architecture, implementation, testing, refactoring, validation, and documentation are distinct cognitive tasks that benefit from concurrent execution. In this model, multiple specialized agents operate at the same time within a shared project state. Each agent has a defined role, constraints, and success criteria. One agent may reason purely about system architecture and invariants; another may implement code within a restricted scope; a third may generate or run tests; while a fourth evaluates performance, safety, or maintainability.

• Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) -

  Overview

• LLM context is not optional -

  On numerous occasions, I have heard people say that GPT answers are generic, shallow, or otherwise insufficient.

• Facing AI Job Loss with the Right Mindset -

  I came across Ruri Ohama mentioning a book by Takafumi Horie and Yoichi Ochiai titled: “Job Atlas for 10 Years From Now. How Will You Live in a World That Is About to Begin?”

• Ai languages: One Ruler to Measure Them All -

  Artificial intelligence speaks many tongues, yet not all languages are treated equally. Most large language models are trained on vast English datasets, leaving other languages to fill in the gaps with whatever online text exists. For years, this asymmetry shaped an assumption that English would always yield the best results in interacting with AI systems. Recent research has begun to challenge that notion.

• Affordance is Play -

  Affordance as a Function of Intent and Action?

• LM Studio for macOS: Privacy and Open-Source Transparency -

  Overview

• How to get a model from HuggingFace on Mac OS -

  This guide documents the steps needed to download HuggingFace models (especially MLX models) correctly on Mac OS.

• Human Adaptability -

  Historically, humans have thrived because they are useful to one another. Communities naturally ostracized (expelled) malicious or unproductive people, effectively making usefulness synonymous with survival. Being excluded was not merely inconvenient; it often meant death, as individuals rarely survived in isolation.

• From Behavioral Sciences to a Career in Sensor Perception and AI -

  Every couple of years, I write a post about my career in which I review the past and consider pivots for the future. It is time to post an update for 2025. Because of AI, this year will be the most transformative.

• What did AIKO say about this old article in 2025? -

  In 2007, I described the following 1999 concept. Please be patient.

• Atlas Shrugged: Strong Ideology but Minimal Individual Action -

  Thursday, July 28, 2022

• Slavic saga -

  In the beginning, before time itself awakened, there existed only Rod—the eternal, the boundless, the unmanifested source of all existence. Rod lingered in profound silence, beyond form, thought, and sensation. Within this divine stillness lay the seeds of infinite possibility, awaiting the spark that would ignite creation. And so, from the depths of Rod’s infinite mind emerged the first divine thoughts, vibrant and luminous.

• AI Zen Garden: Multi-Agent LLM Collegium on Your Desktop -

  I often imagine early humans gathered around a bonfire, sharing stories and chipping away at obsidian shards to create tools. In my own life, I notice a curious parallel: I sit here with my favorite note-taking app, aptly named Obsidian, and chip away at my thoughts, forging new ideas bit by bit. Just as our ancestors used volcanic bits to chip instruments of survival, I use digital chips and bits to build tools of thinking, tools meant to spark creativity and knowledge and deepen my understanding of human nature.

• A Sustainable Homestead Plan in Charlevoix County, Michigan -

  A Sustainable Homestead Plan in Charlevoix County, Michigan

• Michigan farm "Up North" - Dreaming about the "Up North" in retirement.
• A Stoic Morning Reflection from Marcus Aurelius - A concise translation note on a passage from Marcus Aurelius.
• This Is All Greek to Me - Reflections on Greek language, history, and cultural influence across Europe.
• From Brooms to Battle Plans: The Tactical vs Strategic Leaders - A leadership reflection on delegating tactical work and focusing on strategic impact.
• How Do You Actively Find Opportunities - Practical steps to improve visibility, profile quality, and career opportunities.
• The 15-minute rule -

  How do we attract opportunities?

• Yva, Zoe, and the Mushroom Fairy - A family story about curiosity, nature, and wonder in a magical forest.
• Why Do I Consider Reading the Single Most Important Habit for Success - A short argument for reading as the core habit behind better judgment and long-term growth.
• How choosing the right friends is a crucial life choice -

  Dear Friend

• A Soul-Barring Story -

  In the message below, I bare my soul and reveal much about myself.

• Walk and Listen -

  The best sailing is down the trade winds. If you are setting off to do something, go with the prevailing winds.

• Why Should We Write Blogs - Why blogging still matters for reflection, legacy, and long-term knowledge sharing.
• What if my passion lies in exploring rather than niching down? -

  I watched a video titled “How to Make A $150/Day Affiliate Marketing Blog—For BEGINNERS,” which provides a step-by-step guide to building a profitable affiliate blog. The video stresses the core principles of choosing a niche, creating valuable content, and implementing monetization strategies, which sound straightforward. Yet, in my own blogging journey, I’ve struggled with these elements.

• Make a human connection, not a “quid pro quo” proposition -

  To make a “quid pro quo” proposition, from Latin, “something for something,” means reaching out to someone assuming that the other party needs something from you, for example, the business you might want to offer.

• Thinking About Entering the Automotive Industry - A practical guide to requirements management, standards, and process expectations in automotive programs.
• Beyond Note-Taking: My Journey with Obsidian and ChatGPT Towards a Personal AI - Exploring how personal notes and AI can evolve into an interactive intellectual legacy.
• Beautiful Mind vs Sterile Formula: The Pathway to Better AI -

  A way of thinking about a particular concept is called a paradigm. It is a model, or a framework, that shapes our perspective in order to interpret the world.

• Why Would a Computer Scientist Be Interested in Learning Calligraphy - A reflection on handwriting, memory, and why handwritten notes still matter in a digital world.
• Everlasting Youth -

  How to stay physically and mentally young till the end.

• My Dream Assistant Should Know Me Better -

  Today, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are sometimes useful, sometimes fun, but honestly, very limited.

• Your Value after the A.I. Singularity Event -

  

• What Is Next for Elon Musk -

  The interplanetary domination, apparently.

• Cars, the new mobile platform frontier -

  In last ten years, we have witnessed an explosion in mobile phone and tablet technology. Today, you can choose a set of apps that will delight you while making your life better, happier and more productive. You can get all this for few hundred dollars, a price of a flagship phone.

• Virtual Personal Assistant -

  This post comes as a result of experience in managing people in various foreign countries for over 17 years. Five of those years were spent running a business that was entirely virtual. True, it is mostly in technology, but also a fair share of managing artists, user experience, data entry, social media and marketing professionals.

• My Grand Plan -

  My grand plan: 18 years from now, in 2035, I will be 62 years old.

• 50 Cal Muzzle Loader Rifle -

  Muzzleloading rifles are a different kind of fun. It is true that I got one because of the local laws, but I definitely have caught an ML bug since.

• Design and User Experience -

  Development for mobile is a wonderful opportunity for beautiful and functional design that complements the device’s technical abilities and screen properties.

• Lever Action Rifle Calibers -

  Recently, I have been thinking about a new lever-action rifle.

• App: Lost in Translation -

  From time to time, each of us working in app development, be that a UI/UX designer, developer or project manager, has to come up with user messages on the spot.

• How to Prepare Design Assets (UI) for iPhone Development -

  From our experience, the ideal scenario is when the developer and the UI/UX designer work hand in hand.

• Programming for UI Designers: Android Options Menu -

  Ins and outs of the Android Options Menu

• Factors That Can Influence Downloads of Mobile Apps -

  Taking as a fact that you have a great app, a “shouting”, cutting-edge presence on the app markets, a good rating and good promotion, what else could influence the number of your app downloads?

• Investments: Ways to Finance Your Business -

  There are several ways to finance your business:

• Monetizing Your Application -

  There are five ways to monetize your application:

• Promotion, Promotion, Promotion -
  • take a road less traveled: don’t compete
  • re-post experts
  • blog about good articles
  • ask smart questions
  • ask for comments
  • show up, even if virtually
• Building a Product That Sells -
  • the better mousetrap myth
  • basic rules to follow
  • build it for yourself
• Hunter Gatherer (or Rather Scavenger) Lifestyle and Diet -

  Ever since university times (Cultural Anthropology major), I was thinking about the lives and the diets of our ancestors.

• pair programming -

  Pair Programming

• vardlokkur: the prologue -

  This story is about the last days of the great human culture. I am writing this from the perspective of 71 thousand years later, hence, I will use the terminology understood by my readers.

• AIKO The Child of Artificial Intelligence -

  AIKO means “The Child of Artificial Intelligence”.

• Make a choice every 15 minutes -

  Make a choice every 15 minutes