WALKING ACROSS CANADA
Together with Kelly, my driver and keep-me-alive person, I am walking across Canada. The total distance is about 8,000 kilometers, from Tofino, BC to Cape Spear, NFLD.
This is a spiritual journey. It is a descent into the underworld. The Greek word for this is katabasis. You travel to a realm of darkness and death, and either die, or return with something of value.
I started in Tofino on April 7 2025, and so far have made it to Reston, Manitoba, about 2,400 kilometers so far.
TANGLED
Tangled is a game you can play against quantum agents. What’s a quantum agent? Find out!!! Play against one!!! Win awesome prizes!!!
Go to tangled-game.com to see what’s up.
WHISPERS IN GREEN STATIC
This is an automated ‘real’-play table top role playing game, where (mostly) everything is AI.
Available at all good podcast hosts. Here is the Spotify version.
Also, source code if you want to do something like this yourself.
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
I’m working on creating illuminated manuscripts that contain transcendentally motivated axioms for foundations of mathematics and physics, and their consequences. This is an art project that combines simple drawings, calligraphy, and some of my thoughts on what needs to be true for math and rules to exist in a universe, and what the necessary consequences of this have to be.
Top image is from the British Library, which is about 10 minutes from where I’m staying. The manuscripts there are mind-blowing. Highly recommended to go. The bottom ones are the first three of the current one I’m working on.
ALPHAHEX
Hex is a very interesting game with a fascinating and rich backstory, which you can read about in Hex: The Full Story — required reading if you are interested in the history of games. Go get it and read it!!!
I like it so much I’m building an AlphaZero agent to play the game at superhuman levels. This has already been done. But so what!!! It’s fun! And maybe I can think of a way to modify Hex so that a quantum computer could become relevant.
This is a work in progress. I don’t have anything to show yet.
ALPHADAB
I spent a lot of time thinking about how to do Dots and Boxes on a quantum computer. I bought the book shown here way back in 2010, and played the game extensively. But I could never figure out anything that made sense to connect it to QCs. I still can’t!
But what I can do is build an AlphaZero agent to play the game at superhuman levels. This is very similar to the AlphaHex project, except with Dots and Boxes. This has also been done already… but like AlphaHex, who cares. It’s fun!!!
This one is also a work in progress.
