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Writing about projects, ideas, and things I'm learning.

March 15, 2026

In Progress

Turning a Fly Connectome into a Walking Robot

I simulated 13,000 neurons from a real fruit fly nervous system, got emergent odor avoidance with no navigation logic, and now I'm putting it on a hexapod.

March 3, 2026

In Progress

TAP-Score Part 2: Six Bugs Between Me and a Working Robot

Moving TAP-Score from a 2D pushing task to 7-DOF robotic arms. The simulator lied about everything.

March 3, 2026

In Progress

Do Vision-Language Models Understand What They Can See?

We built a benchmark to test whether VLMs can reason about visibility, occlusion, and what's in frame. Most of them struggle more than you'd expect.

March 1, 2026

How Fragile Is AI-Planned Radiotherapy?

Testing a 3D U-Net dose prediction model against adversarial attacks and clinically plausible CT perturbations. Only one type of corruption actually breaks it. Now accepted for two conferences.

February 25, 2026

TAP-Score: When Your Robot Policy Doesn't Need Help

Building a scorer to catch bad robot actions, discovering that diffusion policy barely produces any, and what that means for the project going forward.

February 10, 2026

Hello, World

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