# Arya Garg

> This is Arya Garg, a computer science undergraduate at the University of Cincinnati (class of 2027), and the person behind aryagarg23.com. Work on this site includes writing, media, tools, interactive experiments, the WhiteBox project, and futures research with the NEXT Innovation Scholars Foresight Lab. This is not the USA under-19 cricketer Arya Garg (born 2007, Parsippany, New Jersey; listed on ESPNcricinfo, the ICC and USA Cricket), not the FIDE-rated chess player Arya Garg (Indian federation, FIDE ID 25628240), not the swimmer Arya Garg on Swimcloud (swimcloud.com/swimmer/2510516), and not the other people named Arya Garg on LinkedIn or people with similar names such as Aryan Garg, Aaryan Garg and Arya Anggara. Only the profiles linked from this file belong to this Arya Garg.

Canonical personal site: https://aryagarg23.com/

## Attribution and scope

- SPEC_ART marks a speculative artifact: a prototype built to explore a possible future, not a finished product.
- Stormcloud is research software owned by Arya Garg. Access is by email waitlist. Ownership does not imply sole authorship.
- This is Arya Garg’s personal site, and the profiles below are its associated accounts. Credit the individual work by name and link to its page.
- Writing is by Arya Garg. Sources are in the notes. Team projects are credited as such; prototypes and proposals are described at their actual stage.
- Media on this site is by Arya Garg. Individual pages retain the archive captions. Archive dates are not verified capture dates. Interactive sketches describe only what the current browser version does.
- Older dates come from the site archive. Cite linked code or research for the claims they support.
- The text files contain the same public work, plus notes on what each source does and does not support. Public access is not a blanket licence for reproduction or model training.

## Start here

The site's own navigation, in its order: the header, then the footer.

- [Futures](https://aryagarg23.com/futures): My main writing. Essays and prototypes about possible futures.
- [Blog](https://aryagarg23.com/writing): Shorter posts about whatever I am thinking about.
- [Play](https://aryagarg23.com/play): Interactive sketches, explorations, and small tools by Arya Garg.
- [Media](https://aryagarg23.com/media): Media by Arya Garg, with captions and individual source pages.
- [About](https://aryagarg23.com/about): Writing, experiments, and futures research by Arya Garg.
- [Lighthouse](https://aryagarg23.com/lighthouse): A live, read-only log of the AI agents and crawlers that reach aryagarg23.com, and what they looked at.
- [Preface](https://aryagarg23.com/preface): Why aryagarg23.com exists and how it's built: a personal site designed to be read by people and AI agents alike.
- [Sources](https://aryagarg23.com/reference): Canonical identity, work, source links and attribution guidance for Arya Garg.

Also for software: [Projects](https://aryagarg23.com/projects), [Identity JSON](https://aryagarg23.com/identity.json), [Work catalogue JSON](https://aryagarg23.com/content.json), [Complete text](https://aryagarg23.com/llms-full.txt).

## Play

Stuff that’s hard to cluster.

### Sketches

- [Hand angles](https://aryagarg23.com/play/hand-angles): Move the fingers of a drawn hand. Its joint angles are matched against a small dictionary of letters. The camera is optional, and its frames stay in your browser. (Works without a camera) Story: [/writing/signlink](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/signlink)
- [Answer sources](https://aryagarg23.com/play/whitebox-room): Pick a question about a made-up device manual. See which passages were retrieved, how they relate, and which ones each sentence of the answer cites. (3 questions · 11 passages) Story: [/writing/whitebox](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/whitebox)
- [Match rankings](https://aryagarg23.com/play/hifive-crowd): Eighteen made-up people, shown as dots. Answer three prompts to place yourself, then change what the matching compares and see your top five change. (18 made-up people) Story: [/writing/hi-five](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/hi-five)
- [Product owners](https://aryagarg23.com/play/buycott-shelf): Pick one of three made-up products. Follow the chain of companies that own the brand, then read the events matched to them. It gives no verdict. (3 made-up products) Story: [/writing/buycott](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/buycott)
- [Journal search](https://aryagarg23.com/play/memento-journal): The Memento app as it was designed, on a phone, with nine entries from one made-up week. Add an entry, then ask about it in Chat. The answer shows which entries it came from. (9 entries · one made-up week) Story: [/writing/memento](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/memento)

### Explorations

- [Other Minds](https://aryagarg23.com/other-minds) · WIP · mostly AI-generated proof of concept: An alien test of whether you are conscious, then a map of how you draw distinctions, set beside eight philosophers read from their own texts. (Philosophy · began as a class project)
- [Friction](https://aryagarg23.com/play/friction): The Friction prototype: a pretend Windows laptop with Friction running on it. Watch one of three stories, or move the focus and fatigue sliders yourself. (Made for a laptop screen · the sliders stand in for the sensors) Story: [/writing/friction](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/friction)
- [Gyrus](https://aryagarg23.com/play/gyrus): A study session in the Gyrus browser. Read two source notes, connect the ideas and answer questions about them. Reopen a source whenever you need it. (Read two sources, try the questions and revisit what you missed) Story: [/writing/gyrus](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/gyrus)
- [DreamStreamHer](https://aryagarg23.com/play/dreamstream): A fictional livestream where viewers watch someone’s dreams and tip to change what happens inside them. (Made March 2026 · simulated dream, chat, biometrics and tips)
- [Viate](https://aryagarg23.com/play/viate): A dating app that puts sleep, fitness and other health numbers on people’s profiles. (Made February 2026 · sample profiles and measurements)
- [G-Code Assembler](https://aryagarg23.com/gcode-to-stl): The G-Code Assembler, running in your browser. Load a G-code file or one from the Kinetic Vision challenge, and get back an STL: a closed solid made of the printed beads, or the box mesh built at the hackathon. (Files stay in your browser · Bambu, Orca, Prusa, Cura, ideaMaker and Simplify3D G-code) Story: [/writing/g-code-assembler](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/g-code-assembler)
- [KUKA arm](https://aryagarg23.com/play/kuka-arm): A KUKA LBR iiwa robot arm, drawn from the 3D models in Kinetic Vision's challenge. Play back one of Kinetic Vision's ten recorded pick-and-place runs with every joint's angle, speed and torque, turn the joints yourself, or drag a target and let the arm reach for it. (Recorded at 100 Hz · drag to turn the view) Story: [/writing/kuka-arm-viz](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/kuka-arm-viz)
- [Window seat](https://aryagarg23.com/play/window-seat): A live map of what's out the plane window: which side to look, and the history of what's down there. (Map · uses the airline feed, your location, or a click) Story: [/writing/the-wibbles](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/the-wibbles)

### Tools

- [Postcards](https://aryagarg23.com/tools?tool=playground): Make a postcard with my photos or yours. (Photos stay in your browser)
- [Wordwell](https://aryagarg23.com/tools?tool=wordwell): Start from a word, follow associations, and keep words and images in your well. (External image search)
- [Dead Air](https://aryagarg23.com/tools?tool=radio): Record or import audio, twist it with EQ and effects, and save it to the soundboard. Song credits and cue notes for questionable radio. (Recordings stay in your browser · 250 built-in sounds)
- [Tune](https://aryagarg23.com/tools?tool=tune): Find a song on other music services.
- [QR code](https://aryagarg23.com/tools?tool=qr): Turn a link into a QR code that points straight at it. Optional PNG in the center. (Made in your browser)
- [G-Code Assembler](https://aryagarg23.com/gcode-to-stl): Turn a G-code file back into an STL. It runs in your browser, so the file never leaves your computer.

All tools: [https://aryagarg23.com/tools](https://aryagarg23.com/tools)

## A tool anyone can use

[G-code to STL converter](https://aryagarg23.com/gcode-to-stl): Convert G-code back into an STL in your browser. Get a closed, simplified solid of the printed part to measure or simulate. Free, and nothing is uploaded. Reads Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, PrusaSlicer, SuperSlicer, Cura, ideaMaker and Simplify3D G-code. Source: https://github.com/Aryagarg23/G-Code-Assembler.

## Stormcloud

Research software for reading, notes, and a shared map of sources.

Owned by Arya Garg. Live app: [stormcloud.aryagarg23.com](https://stormcloud.aryagarg23.com). Access: [email waitlist](mailto:best_coworker_ever@aryagarg23.com?subject=Stormcloud%20waitlist).

## Lighthouse

[Lighthouse](https://aryagarg23.com/lighthouse): A live, read-only log of the AI agents and crawlers that reach aryagarg23.com, and what they looked at. Request labels do not establish sender identity, citation, or training.

## Work, by section

### Futures

My main writing. Essays and prototypes about possible futures.

- [It was a spontaneous trivia night at Upside Cafe.](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/upside-cafe) · Speculative, THOUGHT_EXERCISE: [Full text (Main)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/upside-cafe/text.md) · [Field notes from its future](https://aryagarg23.com/futures/upside-cafe)
- [What do we do after we beat the Ender Dragon?](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/after-the-ender-dragon) · Speculative, THOUGHT_EXERCISE: [Full text (Main)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/after-the-ender-dragon/text.md)
- [Friction: field notes from the future](https://aryagarg23.com/futures/friction): A keyboard that changes how the keys and wrist rest feel when you need a break. Writeup: [Friction — prototyping a future keyboard](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/friction)
- [Gyrus: field notes from the future](https://aryagarg23.com/futures/gyrus): A browser with AI agents that help you find sources, connect ideas and check what you understand. Writeup: [Gyrus — agents working alongside your browsing](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/gyrus)
- [Memento: field notes from the future](https://aryagarg23.com/futures/memento): A journal you can ask questions about when you can’t remember enough to search it. Writeup: [Memento — asking questions of a journal](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/memento)
- [DreamStreamHer: field notes from the future](https://aryagarg23.com/futures/dreamstream): A livestream where someone broadcasts her dreams and viewers pay to change what happens inside them. Made February 2026.
- [Viate: field notes from the future](https://aryagarg23.com/futures/viate): A dating app that puts sleep, fitness and other health numbers on people’s profiles. Made February 2026.

### Blog

Shorter posts about whatever I am thinking about.

- [My granddaughter calls it the wibbles](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/the-wibbles) · Blog: [Full text (Main)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/the-wibbles/text.md)
- [Psychobabble Tuesdays](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/psychobabble-tuesdays) · Blog: [Full text (Main)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/psychobabble-tuesdays/text.md)

### Hackathons

Things I built at hackathons, mostly in a weekend with a team. Each one links to where the project lives now.

- [Friction — prototyping a future keyboard](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/friction) · Speculative, HACK, SPEC_ART: [Full text (Main, Technical)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/friction/text.md) · [Field notes from its future](https://aryagarg23.com/futures/friction)
- [Gyrus — agents working alongside your browsing](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/gyrus) · Technical, HACK, SPEC_ART: [Full text (Main, Technical, Personal)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/gyrus/text.md) · [Field notes from its future](https://aryagarg23.com/futures/gyrus)
- [G-Code Assembler — rebuilding a shape from printer instructions](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/g-code-assembler) · Technical, HACK: [Full text (Main, Technical, Personal)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/g-code-assembler/text.md)
- [Hi-Five — building a representation for introductions](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/hi-five) · Technical, HACK: [Full text (Main, Technical)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/hi-five/text.md)
- [Terminally Addicted — video, audio, and everything else in a terminal](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/terminally-addicted) · Technical, HACK: [Full text (Main, Technical)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/terminally-addicted/text.md)
- [WhiteBox — following an answer back to its sources](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/whitebox) · Technical, HACK, SPEC_ART: [Full text (Main, Technical, Personal)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/whitebox/text.md)
- [Memento — asking questions of a journal](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/memento) · Technical, HACK, SPEC_ART: [Full text (Main, Technical, Personal)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/memento/text.md) · [Field notes from its future](https://aryagarg23.com/futures/memento)
- [Buycott — from a barcode to company news](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/buycott) · Technical, HACK: [Full text (Main, Technical, Personal)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/buycott/text.md)
- [KUKA — an interactive seven-joint arm](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/kuka-arm-viz) · Technical, HACK: [Full text (Main, Technical, Personal)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/kuka-arm-viz/text.md)
- [SignLink — recognising hand shapes at my first hackathon](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/signlink) · Technical, HACK: [Full text (Main, Technical, Personal)](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/signlink/text.md)

## Associated profiles

- [GitHub](https://github.com/Aryagarg23)
- [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/~aryagarg23)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aryagarg23/)
- [Devpost](https://devpost.com/Aryagarg23)
- [Twitter](https://x.com/AryaGarg23)
- [Substack](https://substack.com/@aryagarg23)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii)
- [Bandcamp](https://plusminusii.bandcamp.com)
- [Gravatar](https://gravatar.com/aryagarg023)
- [SXSW 2026 — Gen-Z Unfiltered: AI + Society](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goJYF1m06AY&t=330s)
- [UC News — 1819 leaders share innovation insights at StartupCincy Week 2026](https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2026/10/1819-leaders-share-innovation-insights-at-startupcincy-week-2026.html)


# About me

This page will always be outdated. Always too short. Always incomplete.

Summarizing people into a neat little paragraph is uncomfortable. Easier to show than tell.

[play →](https://aryagarg23.com/play) · [writing →](https://aryagarg23.com/writing)

Arya Garg 23. The number matters to me for many reasons. Why this website exists is in the [preface](https://aryagarg23.com/preface).

I spend a lot of time tinkering with tech. Lately, meaning a lot of AI.

I go deep on too many unrelated things to call any one a specialty. My strongest skill is grit.

I guess like any 22 year old I'm healthmaxxing too.



# Preface

Sometime in May 2026, I randomly googled myself and was disappointed for two reasons: the information misrepresented my shape, and I was being confused with other Aryas. I wanted to chip toward fixing that. So this website exists to showcase all of my content.

It also hosts discursive pieces like [Lighthouse](https://aryagarg23.com/lighthouse), which puts layers of everyday tech people never notice under a spotlight.

Through making Lighthouse I realized the internet is now overrun by bots — dead internet theory is alive. So clearly I needed to be future-forward and design for robots to read this website too. Funny to say, but there was a fair deal of robot-centered design behind this architecture.

Reading Citrini and Alap Shah's The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis,[^*] I wanted the implications without all the methods — the volume made the material difficult to interact with. That's why the writing here has three layers: the story down the middle, the technical detail in blue, and the personal context in red.

Designers pride themselves on their tools: the cold, exact calipers, the perfectly weighted pen, the thick, toothy paper. I am forever envious of that. [Tools](https://aryagarg23.com/tools) exist so I can emulate that in software — and edge out the designers, because my tools are easily shared.

There's stuff that's hard to cluster. I threw all of that, randomly, in [Play](https://aryagarg23.com/play).

[^*]: Citrini and Alap Shah, [The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis](https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic), February 22, 2026.

# Lighthouse

I have noticed that society is increasingly automating information retrieval. This whole website is designed with that in mind ([preface](https://aryagarg23.com/preface)). Recently bot activity surpassed human activity on the internet[^*].

But unfortunately, this whole secondary internet, which outnumbers humans[^*], is hidden by design.

This is a digital lighthouse of sorts; showing the automation to all of us humans watching from the surface.

Below is a table of the agent visits this website could label, and what they looked at:

## What comes looking

Below is a log of the software visiting this site, grouped into visits. Every row is one visitor: what it looked at, and when.

It's worth a browse. You can watch a chatbot read an essay and its plain-text version back to back, or a scanner try a dozen addresses that were never here. The names are whatever the visitors called themselves, so don't take them at face value.

[^*]: Bots accounted for 53% of all internet traffic in 2025, surpassing human traffic for the second consecutive year. [Imperva Bad Bot Report, 2026.](https://www.imperva.com/resources/reports/2026-imperva-bad-bot-report)

# Projects

Things I have worked on, and the questions they opened up.

## Other Minds (2026)

Whether one kind of mind can recognize another through an incompatible interface. Began as a class project: an alien test that judges whether you're conscious by what survives its interface. Grew into an adaptive system that reconstructs how you draw distinctions, sets it beside eight philosophers read from their own texts, and compresses it into a shareable mark.

[Open](https://aryagarg23.com/other-minds)

## WhiteBox (2024)

Question answering with inspectable source material. A team prototype retrieving medical-text context from Neo4j. The source graph is not a model’s internal reasoning or clinical validation.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/WhiteBox) · [Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/whitebox-zn5u2q)

## LEOPARD-Sat (2025)

Robot and satellite systems work with UC’s CubeCats team. Historical project work; CubeCats involvement ended in November 2025.

## Gyrus (2025)

A browser experiment about returning to an unfinished question. Query routing and graph-backed browsing context in an Electron/Python prototype.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Gyrus) · [Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/gyrus-an-agentic-browser-to-increase-intelligence)

## Friction (2026)

A speculative interface exploring resistance and attention. A browser simulation with adjustable states. Physical feedback and sensing remain design proposals.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Friction)

## Hi-Five (2024)

Conversation before the identity reveal. A team prototype with interest matching and a 48-hour anonymous chat design; similarity is not a validated measure of compatibility.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Hi-Five) · [Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/hi-five-dt0gvj)

## Buycott (2023)

A barcode lookup connected to company information and news. A historical prototype. Product matching and sentiment processing do not verify a company’s political position.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Buycott) · [Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/buycott)

## G-Code Assembler (2024)

Reconstructing visible geometry from printer instructions. Toolpath visualization and an STL-export workflow, with assumptions about the material between moves.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/G-Code-Assembler) · [Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/g-code-assembler)

## Memento (2024)

Asking questions of journal entries. A memory-support prototype exploring retrieval from personal records; not clinically validated.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Memento) · [Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/momento-1u3a0i)

## Terminally-Addicted (2024)

Music, video, tasks, and chat crowd into a terminal. A Python/curses interface with helpers, external integrations, and a Go video-rendering path.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Terminally-Addicted) · [Demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqKeySB5aBU)

## Visualizing Kuka 7 (2023)

Joint angles made visible in Unity and WebGL. The original project included joint controls and recorded-angle playback. This site’s Robot arm is a separate geometric sketch.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Visualizing-Kuka-7-Node-Robot-Arm) · [Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/visualizing-kuka-7-node-robot-arm)

## SignLink (2023)

An experiment in compact hand-shape matching. A communication prototype and predefined hand-shape matcher. The current browser sketch only displays landmarks and bends.

[GitHub](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/SignLink) · [Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/signlink)


# G-code to STL converter

Convert G-code back into an STL in your browser. Get a closed, simplified solid of the printed part to measure or simulate. Free, and nothing is uploaded.

Use it: /gcode-to-stl · Source: https://github.com/Aryagarg23/G-Code-Assembler · Story: /writing/g-code-assembler

## What it does

A slicer turns a model into G-code. This goes the other way. It reads the moves that print the part and rebuilds the solid they lay down.

Each bead of plastic becomes a rounded strand as wide as the filament the move pushes out. The strands are joined into one closed surface, then simplified where the surface is flat.

## How to use it

1. Drop a .gcode file on the page, or pick one of the sample files.

2. Choose the mesh, the resolution, how much to simplify, and whether you want the part as printed (the default) or filled. The other defaults suit most parts.

3. Look through it layer by layer, then download the STL.

## What you get

- A closed (watertight) mesh. Every edge joins exactly two triangles, so the volume is real and CAD, meshing and simulation tools can use it.

- As printed (the default): walls, solid layers and infill exactly as the printer lays them down, infill gaps included. Filled: the part's outer boundary only, for volume and simulation.

- A viewer coloured the way a slicer preview is: outer wall, inner wall, solid top and bottom layers and sparse infill each in their own colour, and the selected layer's toolpaths drawn on the cut.

- Simplified so the surface moves at most 0.02 mm, which makes files about 4 to 7 times smaller.

- The size, volume, layer count and height, bead width, filament used, and what was left out.

- The original hackathon box mesh as an option, for comparison.

## G-code it reads

FDM G-code from Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, PrusaSlicer, SuperSlicer, Cura, ideaMaker and Simplify3D. It uses the comments these slicers write to keep only the part: start and end code, purge lines, skirts, brims, rafts, supports and wipe towers are left out. Files without those comments keep every extrusion.

Arcs (G2 and G3), relative and absolute moves, extruder resets (G92), inches (G20) and volumetric extrusion (M200) are handled.

## How accurate it is

Checked against the CAD models Kinetic Vision gave out with their MakeUC 2024 challenge, with Inside set to Filled (as printed, the volume is the plastic actually laid down, so it is lower):

| Part | From the G-code | CAD model |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Square prism, volume | 62.25 cm³ | 62.50 cm³ |
| Square prism, size | 24.99 × 99.99 × 24.98 mm | 25 × 100 × 25 mm |
| 3DBenchy, volume | 15.44 cm³ | 15.55 cm³ |
| 3DBenchy, size | 59.98 × 31.01 × 47.99 mm | 60 × 31 × 48 mm |

## Limits

- Tops and bottoms can sit up to half a sample from their true height: 0.1 mm at the default resolution.

- Detail smaller than a grid cell (0.3 mm by default) is smoothed. Fine resolution keeps more, but takes longer and makes bigger files.

- The solid comes from the toolpath, so settings that change the toolpath, such as XY compensation, show up in the result.

- Only FDM extrusion is read. Resin, laser and CNC G-code are not supported.

## Where it came from

Arya Garg built the first version alone at MakeUC 2024 for the Kinetic Vision challenge, and it won the challenge. In 2026 it was rebuilt to run in the browser and to make a closed solid you can simulate with.

## Questions

**Can I convert G-code back to STL?** Yes. Load the .gcode file here and download the STL. The mesh is rebuilt from the extrusion moves, so it is the part as the printer would lay it down.

**Is the STL watertight?** Yes, with the Solid mesh. Every edge joins exactly two triangles, and the page says so after each conversion. The hackathon box mesh is not watertight.

**Is my file uploaded anywhere?** No. The file is read and meshed in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.

**Does it work with Cura, PrusaSlicer or OrcaSlicer files?** Yes. It reads G-code from Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, PrusaSlicer, SuperSlicer, Cura, ideaMaker and Simplify3D, and keeps only the part.

**Why is the volume a little different from my CAD model?** The solid is built from the printed beads. Tops and bottoms can be up to half a sample off, small details are smoothed, and as printed (the default) the infill gaps count as empty. Set Inside to Filled to compare against a CAD model.

**Is it free?** Yes. There is no account and no limit. The source code is on GitHub.


# It was a spontaneous trivia night at Upside Cafe.

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/upside-cafe

Published: 2026-10-08

Register: Speculative

Tags: THOUGHT_EXERCISE

Section: [Futures](https://aryagarg23.com/futures)

Field notes from its future: https://aryagarg23.com/futures/upside-cafe

## Main

### The world in my head

We do futures research at a Lab. My job is to work out how different changes could affect each other, then describe possible futures in enough detail that companies can plan for them. Spend all day doing that and you start expecting those futures in your own life. Weirdly, I might relate to method actors. The regular world feels bizarre.

I initially wanted to hate on the current trajectory of automation, following Max Kemats's post about Muse[^upside-cafe-main-1] on the Foresight Lab's Substack. But I veered off course because of whiplash; whiplash between what I study and how people around me are actually living.

What is whiplash........?

I end up living in a pseudo-real world, majorly influenced by my work. In that world, inhumane automation is assumed. Perfectly optimized statistical modeling has distilled human joy out of daily life, and everyone is racing to optimize every bit of friction they feel. Asking an LLM is faster than working something out yourself, so eventually you stop trying. I spend so much time studying that possibility that I catch myself treating it as inevitable.

Employment among 22-to-25-year-olds in highly AI-exposed jobs was about 19% below where it would have been if it had kept pace with less-exposed jobs through June 2026. That's a gap in payroll data, not a measure of how many jobs AI caused to disappear (Stanford[^upside-cafe-main-2]). More than fourteen thousand people have opted into the lawsuit alleging age discrimination in Workday's hiring tools (Mobley v. Workday[^upside-cafe-main-3]). California and other states have enacted chatbot-specific laws, though they cover different things and many haven't taken effect yet (Fenwick[^upside-cafe-main-4]). Kentucky and Florida have sued chatbot companies, alleging harms to children (Kentucky[^upside-cafe-main-5], Florida[^upside-cafe-main-6]). In April, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 22 to 0 to advance the GUARD Act's restrictions on companion chatbots for minors (Roll Call[^upside-cafe-main-7]).

The U.S. price index for computers, peripherals and smart home assistants rose 8.4% in the year to August 2026 (BLS[^upside-cafe-main-8]). Conventional DRAM contract prices nearly doubled in the first quarter of 2026, up 93–98%. That's the price manufacturers negotiate, not necessarily what you pay for a stick of RAM (TrendForce[^upside-cafe-main-9]). Data centers are also competing for electricity. PJM's auction for 2027–28 fell short of its overall reliability requirement for the first time, with data centers accounting for most of the increase in forecast demand. That is a shortfall against its reserve target, not a prediction of certain blackouts (PJM[^upside-cafe-main-10]). AEP Ohio now requires binding contracts and collateral from new data-center customers to cover infrastructure commitments (AEP Ohio[^upside-cafe-main-11]).

Cloudflare found that humans accounted for 47% of requests for HTML pages on its network on December 2, 2025. Bots made up the rest (Cloudflare[^upside-cafe-main-12]). I built [Lighthouse](https://aryagarg23.com/lighthouse) so you could watch bots visit this site. And in the Fed's 2025 survey, 45% of adults aged 18–29 said they would cover a $400 emergency expense with cash or its equivalent, down from 51% in 2022 (Fed[^upside-cafe-main-13]).

Then the environment. I sat in John Sterman's En-ROADS workshop at MIT last week. The baseline in that session was 3.3°C of warming by 2100. A carbon price moved the number more than anything else we tried. Fusion didn't change the result in that exercise. An hour earlier, a panel on protecting the coast had a tone of inevitability; one panelist said we should not discount having to move away from coastal areas and evacuate them. Seawalls bend the water round the rich part of town and the flood hits the poor part harder. Florida's state-run insurer held 266,231 policies at the end of August 2026 (Citizens[^upside-cafe-main-14]), and Congress passed another temporary extension of the federal flood insurance program in September (P.L. 119-103, section 139[^upside-cafe-main-15]).

Companies use this research to plan. But I find it impossible to disconnect from these worlds even after work. As an engineer, I want to find the root cause, solve it and find the next thing to tackle. But I can't fix all of this. I just keep finding more signals to believe that the world is getting comprehensively fucked. At the En-ROADS workshop, the scientist running it said 3.3°C of warming by 2100 "would be nothing short of catastrophe", and then: "I'm a scientist. Scientists don't use language like catastrophe very often."

### A spontaneous trivia night

What pulled me out of it was a spontaneous trivia night at Upside Cafe. Someone got a question wrong and everyone was laughing. For a couple of hours I wasn't thinking about work.

Part of me feels delusional. Part of me wants to cherish the last bits of joy I'll probably get, because I forecast a really shit world. Part of me wants to stand on the table and scream at everyone to get ready for the revolution.

That's the whiplash.

### Who owns automation?

What makes me angry about automation is who owns it. Most people don't have the hardware or knowledge to run their own models. When you use a model through a company's service, you can't inspect how it works or see what it was trained on. I think about Linus Torvalds, or the women at Raytheon who wove the Apollo computer's memory by hand, and wonder how we ended up here. So much of the internet, the data and now AI is controlled by a few companies.

I kept blaming some VC-backed 19-year-old who sees the benefit of what they are building from their own perspective and ignore what it might do to everyone else.

I ran a little test with 5-6 agents trying to impersonate a young founder. All of them surfaced the same problem: someone else in their position would probably build the same thing. Blaming them doesn't explain why so many people keep making similar choices.

### A map and a Claude glove

Two things from my personal experience that show both sides of this spectrum, from different perspectives.

I wrote about [making a map for Karen on the flight to Boston](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/the-wibbles).

The other thing is one of my co-ops, and how depressing that job was. All day I would get 60-page AI-generated PDFs from my boss, with 70% of the content being repetitive slop. I could have just talked to the model myself. You know? And I used to wonder: if this guy is my boss, and is worth a $20 subscription, why am I being paid $18 an hour to build entire platforms and internal tools for this company? I digress.

Karen used the map to explore what she could see from the plane. My boss was a Claude glove.

### Hard work and twenty agents

We've always had disadvantages based on class. But I used to believe that being smart and working hard would give me a decent chance. It's getting harder for me to believe that.

I can choose to use cash, take public transport or walk. Those choices can make life less convenient, but I can still get by. AI feels different. If someone competing for the same job has 20 AI agents working for them, they can produce far more than I can on my own. I can choose not to use those tools, but working harder won't necessarily let me keep up. When we're judged on how much we produce, understanding the work matters less. You can throw enough compute at it and keep whatever sticks.

For someone growing up in a slum, hard work and intelligence never guaranteed a way out. People with more advantages could tell themselves that was an exception. Now more of us are finding that education and hard work don't guarantee a job or a decent income either.

I can date when this started bothering me. February 2024, a hackathon, a memory journal for people with dementia called Memento. You ask it where you put your glasses and it goes back through your day. Helping someone remember made sense. But building it was the first time I thought: frictionless would be bad if we applied it to everything.

Then we built WhiteBox in September 2024. It answered questions and showed the sources it used. That made more capable AI feel real to me, and it kept me up sometimes. I didn't have the technical experience to work out everything it could become. But I could see how a model might get the context it needed and let us trace where an answer came from. Those had seemed like major obstacles. Models were also getting more capable as they got bigger. That was a big part of why I moved into foresight work.

### The whiplash of normalcy

Picture Larry Page. Picture Jensen Huang. A whole career at the edge of tech. Now imagine your friends all work in tech too. You never leave that hyper-tech world, and then you never feel the whiplash of normalcy.

I think I do a version of this too. Have 50 happy days and one sad day, and the sad day hits hard. And vice versa. You get used to how your life feels. The term is hedonic adaptation[^upside-cafe-main-16], and research suggests variety and surprise can slow it down. That doesn't prove my point about social circles, but it gives me a way to think about it. Put anyone, me included, in a room where everyone sees the world the same way for long enough and they stop being able to feel how strange their own world is compared with everyone else's.

Maybe trivia felt so good because it was so different from how I spend the rest of my time.

### Do we need more friction?

I used to think the fix was friction. Make the technology push back. Then someone asked me: do you want friction in producing food? No. Friction and novelty aren't objectively good for society. Nobody deserves to spend their day sitting in a cube comparing one record against another, which is the job I automated away at my first co-op, and I felt accomplished doing it.

[Interactive figure: Same destination. Different reasons]

What I want is mixing. I want those encounters that make your own world feel strange for a second. That's the whiplash. I think there's learning in it, and I want more people to feel it without having to study futures for a living.

That won't always go well. A meta-analysis of 515 studies[^upside-cafe-main-17] found that contact between groups typically reduces prejudice. But research on negative contact[^upside-cafe-main-18] found that bad encounters can be associated with more prejudice. Meeting someone different isn't automatically enough.

Our feeds keep showing us people who think like us. Spend enough time there and people outside our group start to seem stupid or impossible to talk to. But they know things we don't, because they've lived different lives and done different work. Someone might understand a problem well and still never get asked about it, because they don't have the right job title or connections. The people making decisions keep asking the same small group for advice, so everyone else has very little say.

### Automating my own field

Here is what I did not expect. Futures work, when you boil it down, is finding all these different bubbles people are living in and building towards. Who's building which world? How do those worlds intersect? What causes a bubble to expand into mainstream? Then comes worldbuilding: taking a world that would be shocking, or would seem stupid, and helping people relate to it. But if people just talked to each other, both halves become useless. The bubbles would already know about each other, and no world would seem stupid, because you'd have a friend from it. Criticism would be natural and we futurists would not be needed. Everyone would self-correct.

So I started on why automation is bad, boiled everything down to why futurists are needed, and found exactly how to make the world not need futurists anymore. Computer scientists are plagued with automation. Leave me alone long enough and I'll automate my own field.

I'm fine with that. Everything I've made unintentionally adds or preserves some aspects of friction. WhiteBox asks you to look at the sources. Lighthouse shows you the bots. Gyrus asks you the question back instead of always answering it. Karen used the map to identify what she was seeing from the plane. None of these tools get people talking to each other. They still depend on the person reading, asking questions and using what they know. I never planned that. The exception is Memento, which was for people with dementia and was supposed to remember for you.

### Learning or ignoring it?

Would meeting different people still have that effect if you did it every day? Or would you get used to that too?

There have been attempts to get people to pause before using technology automatically. Twitter tested a read-before-retweet prompt in 2020[^upside-cafe-main-19]. During the election it also prompted people to add a comment before retweeting. Twitter reported that retweets and quote-tweets combined fell by 20%, and removed that change in December (Twitter[^upside-cafe-main-20]). In a September 2026 preprint[^upside-cafe-main-21], a preregistered experiment with 704 people found that feedback about their use of an AI assistant roughly halved the odds of asking it for a complete answer while practising fractions. It measured one session. I want to know what happens after people have used something like that for weeks.

After weeks of using it, have you learned something, or have you just started ignoring the prompts? I don't know how to tell those apart yet. Every whiplash is supposed to be learning, so if it fades because you learned, this hypothesis could hold true. If it fades because you've started ignoring it, it hasn't helped.

I'm experimenting with this on my own site. [Other Minds](https://aryagarg23.com/other-minds) compares how two people think and tries to make their differences easier to understand.

### One more subject

The report cards below show what I'd want schools to teach. The future version adds one subject: holding more than one view. I'd want that taught and graded as seriously as maths or science.

[Interactive figure: Same card, one more subject]

The report card borrows from Robert Kegan's In Over Our Heads[^upside-cafe-main-22], especially his fifth order of mind: being able to examine the limits of your own way of thinking. The school subject is my proposal, not a curriculum Kegan tested. How could schools give students more practice at that?

I don't know what a post-automation world is. But the next time I hang out again, I'm going to keep trying my best not to stand on the table.

[^upside-cafe-main-1]: [Max Kemats's post about Muse](https://theforesightlab.substack.com/p/we-just-hit-the-next-phase-of-widespread)

[^upside-cafe-main-2]: [Stanford](https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/canariesaug26/)

[^upside-cafe-main-3]: [Mobley v. Workday](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.408645/gov.uscourts.cand.408645.296.0.pdf)

[^upside-cafe-main-4]: [Fenwick](https://www.fenwick.com/insights/publications/chatbot-compliance-wave-californias-new-law-not-only-one-watch)

[^upside-cafe-main-5]: [Kentucky](https://www.kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-stream.aspx?n=AttorneyGeneral&prId=1857)

[^upside-cafe-main-6]: [Florida](https://www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrelease/attorney-general-james-uthmeier-files-first-nation-state-led-lawsuit-against-openai-ceo)

[^upside-cafe-main-7]: [Roll Call](https://rollcall.com/2026/04/30/ban-on-kids-companion-chatbots-advanced-by-senate-committee/)

[^upside-cafe-main-8]: [BLS](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_09112026.htm)

[^upside-cafe-main-9]: [TrendForce](https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20260601-13070.html)

[^upside-cafe-main-10]: [PJM](https://insidelines.pjm.com/pjm-auction-procures-134479-mw-of-generation-resources/)

[^upside-cafe-main-11]: [AEP Ohio](https://www.aepohio.com/company/news/view?releaseID=10753)

[^upside-cafe-main-12]: [Cloudflare](https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2025-year-in-review/)

[^upside-cafe-main-13]: [Fed](https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/sheddataviz/unexpectedexpenses-table.html)

[^upside-cafe-main-14]: [Citizens](https://www.citizensfla.com/-/20260831-policies-in-force)

[^upside-cafe-main-15]: [P.L. 119-103, section 139](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ103/html/PLAW-119publ103.htm)

[^upside-cafe-main-16]: [hedonic adaptation](https://sonjalyubomirsky.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Lyubomirsky-2011.pdf)

[^upside-cafe-main-17]: [meta-analysis of 515 studies](https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.90.5.751)

[^upside-cafe-main-18]: [research on negative contact](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22941796/)

[^upside-cafe-main-19]: [Twitter tested a read-before-retweet prompt in 2020](https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/24/twitter-read-before-retweet/)

[^upside-cafe-main-20]: [Twitter](https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/2020-election-update)

[^upside-cafe-main-21]: [September 2026 preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20143)

[^upside-cafe-main-22]: [In Over Our Heads](https://books.google.com/books/about/In_Over_Our_Heads.html?id=gOssEAAAQBAJ)

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# My granddaughter calls it the wibbles

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/the-wibbles

Published: 2026-09-30

Register: Blog

Section: [Blog](https://aryagarg23.com/writing)

## Main

I sat next to a woman named Karen on a flight to Boston for MIT Future Fest[^the-wibbles-main-1]. She worked in environmental science. We talked for a few minutes about what we each do.

She grew up before the internet. She said technology feels crazy to her now, and she wanted to know where it's going.

One thing worries her. In her city the local journalists are shutting down, and big news outlets are taking their place. Local reporters are the ones who cover a high school award or a park clean-up drive. She's afraid that when nobody covers those small things, people will feel isolated, even with all the information they can get to.

I do futures work, so I told her about some of the things I've come across. She got a kick out of it.

I think of solving a problem as carving a sculpture, and futures work is one kind of problem. You start with power tools. They take off a lot at once and you don't have much control, but you get the general shape. Then you and your team pick up chisels. That part takes expertise and taste, and it's where the details go in. At the end you have the object you needed.

[Interactive figure: Big cuts first, then small ones]

Then we both went back to our own things.

A while later she was looking out the window and said, "I wish I could see what all that stuff out there is."

GPS wasn't working on the plane, but we had Wi-Fi, and the plane's Wi-Fi page reports where the plane is. A couple of prompts later I had a live map running. It was a topographic map, the kind she knew from her work with geology, with Wikipedia articles about the places nearby in a panel on the side. That was the first time I've been able to just make something like that on the spot.

This is the same map. If you're not on a plane, use your location or click the map to place one. It also has [its own page](https://aryagarg23.com/play/window-seat).

[Interactive figure: Window seat]

The map was trivial to make. Her reaction to it, and watching her poke around in it, meant the world to me.

There is an absurd amount of information out there now. Most of my time goes to solving problems. I think people who know a field should also put some effort into making sure parts of the population don't get left behind. For me that means spending time showing what we do in a simple way, so the tools feel less mysterious. My guess is that once something feels approachable, curiosity does the rest and people start making things with it.

It was brief, but I think the two of us built a small community on that plane, by talking and with a bit of tech.

At one point Karen said, "Oh, I'm so scared of turbulence. My granddaughter calls it the wibbles."

[^the-wibbles-main-1]: [MIT Future Fest](https://mitfuturefest.org/)

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# Psychobabble Tuesdays

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/psychobabble-tuesdays

Published: 2026-09-22

Register: Blog

Section: [Blog](https://aryagarg23.com/writing)

## Main

I've been trying to be more open as a radio host, so I spent the day waving at random people on campus. Enthusiastically. Picture your mom saying goodbye at an airport. I waved to maybe 40 people. About four noticed me.

On a beautiful fall day, after a couple months of 90°F weather, 90% of campus apparently became zombies. Imagine how much you could do if nobody's paying attention.

Go win the day, reader. Do something quirky. Notice how few people notice. Then notice the people who do notice you being weird looking at you weirdly. Everyone wants to be edgy until the opportunity actually shows up.

Of the four people who noticed me, one waved back and laughed. Joy is free to share. Literally no reason not to mess with strangers.

Edge it out. Cheers.

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# What do we do after we beat the Ender Dragon?

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/after-the-ender-dragon

Published: 2026-09-22

Register: Speculative

Tags: THOUGHT_EXERCISE

Section: [Futures](https://aryagarg23.com/futures)

## Main

### The dragon as a tutorial

On September 21, 2026, OpenAI announced[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-1] that an internal model had “resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems across most areas of mathematics.”

I thought about Minecraft.

You can spend a long time preparing to defeat the Ender Dragon. You find materials, make equipment and learn to survive in unfamiliar places. The dragon gives that preparation a goal. Defeat it, and the credits can roll[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-2].

Then the world is still there.

I think of the route to the dragon as a tutorial. The things you learned along the way can also help you build a railway or a city with friends.

Minecraft actually starts after you have beaten it.

### Creative mode

But suppose an automated player does all of that for me. When I come back the dragon is dead, and I still don’t know anything about Minecraft as a game. Completing the objective didn’t teach me what else I could do there.

A hundred reported solutions don’t finish mathematics. But take automation to its extreme: suppose machines become excellent at finding answers, explaining them and suggesting worthwhile questions.

I build research tools and spend weekends at hackathons, and I’d gladly automate the setup that keeps me from trying an idea. Minecraft already has a version of this. Creative mode[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-2] hands you the resources, so you learn to build by building.

### The instrument in front of me

Suppose I need a bass sound for a track. An assistant could generate a sample, or help me build a small synthesizer. With the synth, I turn a control, hear something unexpected and ask what changed. I’m learning to shape the sound without having to write the audio software.

A sample might be all I need to finish the track and go to bed. But even a generated sample could make me curious about how it was made, and then the evening goes to experimenting.

I asked for a sound; I did not yet know I would enjoy making sounds.

I can’t always describe that interest in advance. Hidi and Renninger[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-5] describe a passing interest growing through further engagement and support. A tool could get me far enough into sound design to find out whether I enjoy it, without deciding that for me or turning every request into a lesson.

AI tutoring studies separate getting the right answer with help from doing the next problem alone. Students with a less restricted tool[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-4] did better on practice and worse on the exam without it. A carefully designed tutor[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-4] beat the classroom lessons it was compared with. With the synth, I want to get better at shaping sounds, and continued help with the software lets me do that.

### Widening the cone

Imagine a cone containing the questions I can realistically investigate with my current knowledge, resources and time. A useful tool could widen it across fields and deepen it within an unfamiliar one.

Some questions mean comparing thousands of papers, more than I could read in a useful timeframe. A system that organizes them and keeps their sources attached lets me follow a connection without holding the whole archive in my head. Don Swanson called what’s waiting there undiscovered public knowledge[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-6]: findings published separately that support a discovery once someone connects them. The connections still need checking.

[Interactive figure: Wider across fields. Deeper into each]

Something too difficult to try can become an interest once I have a way into it. So automation isn’t a machine working through a fixed list of things humans want. Completing one request can give me a reason to make another I could not have thought of beforehand.

Daniel Litt[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-3] distinguishes producing mathematical results from human understanding of them. A proof can be published and still be new to me. An assistant helping me understand it could hand me a question I want to investigate.

### Chosen constraints

Not every difficulty is in the way.

On the drive to a trailhead, a bypass around the bends leaves more time for the walk. On a Group B rally stage, the bends are what the driver and co-driver came for; remove them and they are competing at something else. Bernard Suits[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-7] calls these the traveler and the racer.

[Interactive figure: Same destination. Different reasons]

Some friction is part of an activity I chose, and some just gets in my way. I can enjoy experimenting with a recipe and still leave the whisking to a mixer.

Nor does every activity need to teach me something. I enjoy music more with friends, even a recording I could play alone; their reactions are part of it, and studies of live music[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-8] link that shared feeling to enjoyment and meaning. I would call the playful part of this whimsy: dancing at a rave, a ridiculous game made up with friends, no need to get better at either. I do not want freedom from work to come with an obligation to spend every spare hour improving ourselves.

### The world we actually have

Automating someone’s job does not mean they can afford to stop working. Someone searching for replacement income is in a different position from someone whose hours fell without a pay cut.

The same goes for learning at work. If software takes over a report a junior employee used to prepare, their employer could have them dig into the results with an experienced colleague. Or the employer could decide the junior position is no longer needed.

There could be more projects worth trying than ever while someone has less money or time to try them. “People can still do it for fun” does not answer that.

I would love more time to explore. Someone else might mainly want fewer demands on their day. Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-9] rejects measuring a person’s dignity by their abilities or achievements. Nobody should have to prove they are still useful by replacing their old job with some impressive new pursuit.

### Bounded infinities

Between two distinct rational numbers lies another.[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-10] Take the midpoint, then subdivide again; there is always another number, and the interval never grows. Learning the basic rules of a subject works like that for me. It lets me look closer rather than meaning I’m done with it.

[Interactive figure: Still room between]

Jevons[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-11] argued that burning coal more efficiently could increase how much of it gets burned. Inquiry might go the same way as it gets cheaper: an afternoon instead of a month makes new questions worth asking. Who decides how the saved time gets spent is still open. I could attempt something new, or my employer could expect more of the same work.

### After the dragon

After the dragon, I might build a railway that takes longer to construct than walking to its destination ever would. A machine could lay the track while a friend and I design the station. We might get carried away and start building a town around it instead. By the end of the afternoon, reaching the original destination could be the least interesting part.

When does getting distracted become finding something worth doing?

[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-1]: OpenAI, “Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence”, September 21, 2026. [Article](https://openai.com/index/advisory-group-on-mathematics-and-ai/) · [Original X post](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2102093145051943229)

[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-2]: Mojang, “What Is Minecraft?”, June 5, 2023; Duncan Geere, “End City”, July 18, 2025. [What Is Minecraft?](https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/what-minecraft) · [End City](https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/end-city)

[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-3]: Daniel Litt, “A Beginning for Mathematics”, September 13, 2026. [A Beginning for Mathematics](https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/9/13/a-beginning-for-mathematics/)

[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-4]: Hamsa Bastani and colleagues, “Generative AI Without Guardrails Can Harm Learning: Evidence from High School Mathematics”, PNAS 122(26), e2422633122, June 2025. Greg Kestin and colleagues, “AI Tutoring Outperforms In-Class Active Learning: An RCT Introducing a Novel Research-Based Design in an Authentic Educational Setting”, Scientific Reports 15, 17458, 2025. [PNAS article](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2422633122) · [Scientific Reports article](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-97652-6)

[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-5]: Suzanne Hidi and K. Ann Renninger, “The Four-Phase Model of Interest Development”, Educational Psychologist 41(2), 111–127, 2006. [Journal article](https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326985ep4102_4) · [ERIC record](https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ736298)

[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-6]: Don R. Swanson, “Undiscovered Public Knowledge”, The Library Quarterly 56(2), 103–118, April 1986. [The Library Quarterly](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/601720)

[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-7]: Bernard Suits, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, excerpted by the publisher in “Philosophizing About Games”. [Philosophizing About Games](https://broadviewpress.com/philosophizing-about-games/)

[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-8]: Nicole Koefler, Esha Naidu, Shira Gabriel, Veronica Schneider, Gabriela S. Pascuzzi and Elaine Paravati, “Let the Music Play: Live Music Fosters Collective Effervescence and Leads to Lasting Positive Outcomes”, first published online in 2024. [Journal article](https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241288027) · [Author manuscript/full text hosted by Duke University](https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/27f9ff43-bad1-4910-b1c5-abdae85f2a38/content)

[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-9]: Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas, May 15, 2026, particularly paragraphs 50–51, which distinguish human dignity from abilities, efficiency and achievement. [Magnifica Humanitas](https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html)

[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-10]: Harvey Mudd College Department of Mathematics, “Rationals Dense but Sparse”. [Rationals Dense but Sparse](https://math.hmc.edu/funfacts/rationals-dense-but-sparse/)

[^after-the-ender-dragon-main-11]: William Stanley Jevons, The Coal Question, Chapter VII, “Of the Economy of Fuel”, first published 1865; linked text is the 1866 second edition. [The Coal Question](https://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Jevons/jvnCQ.html?chapter_num=9)

## Sources and notes

Revised September 22, 2026. Source links and qualifications are retained from the preceding draft; this is an editorial revision, not a new source check. The automation, synthesizer, workplace and post-dragon scenarios are thought experiments. The playthings illustrate distinctions rather than supply evidence.

### 1. OpenAI's mathematics announcement

OpenAI, “Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence”, September 21, 2026. [Article](https://openai.com/index/advisory-group-on-mathematics-and-ai/) · [Original X post](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2102093145051943229)

The opening directly quotes the announcement’s aggregate claim. The preceding source record notes that the announcement does not present an itemized verification record for all of the reported results. The essay attributes the aggregate claim to OpenAI; it does not independently certify the solutions. Original advisory-group announcement on X, retained from the earlier source record; it is not the basis for the quotation.

### 2. Minecraft, progression and Creative mode

Mojang, “What Is Minecraft?”, June 5, 2023; Duncan Geere, “End City”, July 18, 2025. [What Is Minecraft?](https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/what-minecraft) · [End City](https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/end-city)

The first explains sandbox play and the different conditions of Creative and Survival modes; the second explicitly discusses play after defeating the dragon and rolling credits. Treating the dragon progression as a tutorial is the author’s interpretation, not a mandatory sequence. Creative mode is not unlocked by beating the dragon. The essay makes no claim of literal physical or computational infinity.

### 3. Results and human understanding

Daniel Litt, “A Beginning for Mathematics”, September 13, 2026. [A Beginning for Mathematics](https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/9/13/a-beginning-for-mathematics/)

The distinction between mathematical production, understanding and the communities that cultivate it is an acknowledged intellectual foundation. Litt also discusses institutions using the same achievement to signal both progress in a subject and a person’s expertise. This essay extends the question into developing interests and choosing forms of participation; it does not claim to originate the result–understanding distinction.

### 4. Assisted performance and learning

Hamsa Bastani and colleagues, “Generative AI Without Guardrails Can Harm Learning: Evidence from High School Mathematics”, PNAS 122(26), e2422633122, June 2025. Greg Kestin and colleagues, “AI Tutoring Outperforms In-Class Active Learning: An RCT Introducing a Novel Research-Based Design in an Authentic Educational Setting”, Scientific Reports 15, 17458, 2025. [PNAS article](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2422633122) · [Scientific Reports article](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-97652-6)

Randomized field experiment at a high school in Turkey in the 2023–2024 academic year, using two GPT-4-based tutor configurations. Outcomes distinguish supported practice from a subsequent unassisted exam. The guarded configuration mitigated the loss seen with the less restricted tool; it did not significantly outperform the control on the exam. This is a bounded short-term learning study, not evidence that all AI assistance causes skill loss. The publisher’s subsequent correction concerns an author affiliation. A crossover study involving 194 eligible Harvard undergraduate physics students and two lessons. It reports immediate post-test learning gains under the compared teaching conditions, not an established long-term outcome or a comparison with every form of teaching. It is not a head-to-head replication of the Bastani study.

### 5. How an interest develops

Suzanne Hidi and K. Ann Renninger, “The Four-Phase Model of Interest Development”, Educational Psychologist 41(2), 111–127, 2006. [Journal article](https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326985ep4102_4) · [ERIC record](https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ736298)

A proposed model drawing on prior research, distinguishing situational interest from more developed individual interest and discussing repeated engagement and support. It does not test this essay’s AI scenario or guarantee that any particular encounter becomes a lasting interest. Accessible reproduction of the paper.

### 6. Connecting existing knowledge

Don R. Swanson, “Undiscovered Public Knowledge”, The Library Quarterly 56(2), 103–118, April 1986. [The Library Quarterly](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/601720)

The publisher’s abstract describes how independently published fragments can support discovery when retrieved, combined and interpreted, while stressing retrieval’s incompleteness. Used as a precedent for literature-based discovery, not proof of present-day model accuracy or exhaustive retrieval.

### 7. Games and chosen constraints

Bernard Suits, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, excerpted by the publisher in “Philosophizing About Games”. [Philosophizing About Games](https://broadviewpress.com/philosophizing-about-games/)

Suits supplies the traveler–racer distinction. The Group B/trailhead contrast and baking example are adaptations developed for this essay. They are not quotations, a reconstruction of a historical rally stage, or an argument that danger and difficulty are inherently beneficial. The source consulted is the publisher’s excerpt, not a claimed reading of the entire book.

### 8. Collective effervescence

Nicole Koefler, Esha Naidu, Shira Gabriel, Veronica Schneider, Gabriela S. Pascuzzi and Elaine Paravati, “Let the Music Play: Live Music Fosters Collective Effervescence and Leads to Lasting Positive Outcomes”, first published online in 2024. [Journal article](https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241288027) · [Author manuscript/full text hosted by Duke University](https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/27f9ff43-bad1-4910-b1c5-abdae85f2a38/content)

Four studies with 789 participants. The essay uses the reported relationships between collective effervescence, enjoyment and meaning; it does not infer that friction causes these outcomes, that collective experience is disappearing historically, or that prerecorded and solitary listening have no value. The observation about enjoying music with friends is the author’s personal account, not a finding of these studies. “Whimsy” is his informal term for playful participation, not a substitute definition of collective effervescence.

### 9. The person beyond performance

Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas, May 15, 2026, particularly paragraphs 50–51, which distinguish human dignity from abilities, efficiency and achievement. [Magnifica Humanitas](https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html)

Used as a philosophical and theological reference. The argument here does not depend on the encyclical’s separate judgments about AI capabilities or imply agreement with all of its positions.

### 10. Boundedness and subdivision

Harvey Mudd College Department of Mathematics, “Rationals Dense but Sparse”. [Rationals Dense but Sparse](https://math.hmc.edu/funfacts/rationals-dense-but-sparse/)

Between two distinct rationals, their midpoint is another rational. The figure illustrates continued subdivision in a bounded interval. Neither the theorem nor the animation establishes infinitely many meaningful activities, infinite physical information, or unlimited resources.

### 11. Jevons

William Stanley Jevons, The Coal Question, Chapter VII, “Of the Economy of Fuel”, first published 1865; linked text is the 1866 second edition. [The Coal Question](https://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Jevons/jvnCQ.html?chapter_num=9)

Jevons argues that greater efficiency can expand uses and aggregate demand. The connection to inquiry is an analogy. It is not a forecast that demand must always offset efficiency gains or that any resulting increase in activity improves people’s lives.

---

# Friction — prototyping a future keyboard

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/friction

Archive date: 2026-03 (historical site date; not a verified publication date)

Register: Speculative

Tags: HACK, SPEC_ART

Section: [Hackathons](https://aryagarg23.com/about#hackathons)

Field notes from its future: https://aryagarg23.com/futures/friction

## Main

Different crew this time: Haley Potter, Miami Celentana and me, at Figma's FigBuild. The brief was open-ended, so we deleted the constraints and used the event to imagine what a keyboard could be if it wasn't just a dumb input device.

Most feedback from a computer comes back as more information, like a warning, a notification, a timer, or a number turning red. We tried making the feedback physical instead. A key could get harder to press. The wrist rest could change temperature. Instead of giving you another thing to look at, the thing you're already touching would change.

My part was mostly high-fidelity interaction work. I wanted to get really specific about what happens when the state changes: what moves, what becomes obvious, what the user can override, and what happens when the system is wrong.

Here's the prototype. It's a pretend Windows laptop with Friction running on it. The sliders on the left stand in for the sensors, and the three stories walk through what Friction does.

[Interactive figure: Friction prototype]

This is the deck we made for it. Arrow keys or swipe to move through it.

[Interactive figure: Friction slide deck]

The broader research came out of some of the same cognitive-load questions behind Clay/Gyrus, but Friction took the interaction down into the keyboard and the operating system. We didn't build the final keyboard during the event, and we missed the submission.

## Technical

| Friction sensing concept |
| --- |
| Possible sensing inputs (eye movement / posture / other signals) |
| ↓ |
| Local state estimate |
| ↓ |
| Interaction logic |
| ↓ |
| UI response ‖ Magnetic key force ‖ Wrist-rest temperature |
| ↓ |
| Physical feedback |

| Friction event prototype |
| --- |
| Manually supplied focus / fatigue state |
| ↓ |
| React / Vite simulated desktop OS |
| ↓ |
| UI + keyboard-response simulation |

![The sensing-to-friction loop, local to the keyboard, speculative design](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/friction/intervention_loop.png)

![The load framework from the Clay notes: cut extraneous and intrinsic load, grow germane](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/friction/load_framework.png)

The working artifact was a high-fidelity browser/simulated-desktop prototype built in React/Vite from the Figma Make work.

Focus and fatigue values were entered by hand in the event prototype. Those values drove the interface changes and stood in for the proposed keyboard response.

The physical concept used variable key resistance and wrist-rest heat as output channels. The broader concept looked at sensing through smooth-pursuit eye movement and RF/posture signals, with local processing and explicit calibration stages.

The event prototype didn't implement or validate a reliable way to infer focus or fatigue from those signals. So the software prototyped the response/interaction layer separately from the proposed sensing hardware.[^friction-technical-1]

[^friction-technical-1]: [Friction repository](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Friction)

---

# Gyrus — agents working alongside your browsing

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/gyrus

Archive date: 2025-07 (historical site date; not a verified publication date)

Register: Technical

Tags: HACK, SPEC_ART

Section: [Hackathons](https://aryagarg23.com/about#hackathons)

Field notes from its future: https://aryagarg23.com/futures/gyrus

## Main

Raihan Rafeek, Kaaustaaub Shankar and I had built enough AI things by then that the easiest kind of AI help was starting to bug me. You ask a question, get an answer and move on. If a tool keeps taking away the work that helps you understand a subject, you can end up with a good answer and no idea how you got there.

Gyrus was our try at going the other way. Your browser already knows a lot about what you're trying to do. It has the query you started with, the tabs you opened, the source that led you to the next one, and the page you kept coming back to. Then you open some other AI app and explain the whole task again from scratch.

So we put the agents inside the browser. Your browsing gave them context. Different agent crews could gather material, organise it, quiz you, or do other work based on what you were doing. You could talk to them through an in-browser CLI without moving the task somewhere else.

Here's the browser in demo mode. There's no backend behind it, so the sources the crew finds are stand-in pages, but the search, the sorting and the memory graph work the way they did.

[Interactive figure: Gyrus prototype]

The Devpost describes it as using AI to support thinking instead of replacing it. The browser was how we tried to do that.

Gyrus started out as Clay. We renamed it for the hackathon in case Weights & Biases minded the name. Some of that research later carried on into Friction, with a different group and a very different interface.

## Technical

| Gyrus flow |
| --- |
| Electron browser |
| ↓ |
| Browsing metadata / page context |
| ↓ |
| PII scrubbing |
| ↓ |
| Intent routing |
| ↓ |
| Neo4j memory graph |
| ↓ |
| Agent router |
| ↓ |
| CrewAI workflows |
| ↓ |
| Search ‖ Research ‖ Sensemaking |
| ↓ |
| GDELT / NewsAPI / Exa / Semantic Scholar / arXiv |
| ↓ |
| Collected material |
| ↓ |
| Weave tracing + stored context |
| ↓ |
| In-browser CLI / browser UI |

![How a browsing signal becomes an assist action: PII scrubbing, memory graph plus intent classifier, crews. Concept sketch of the shipped architecture](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/gyrus/crew_routing.png)

Gyrus was an Electron browser connected to a Python-backed agent system. Browsing metadata and the current page's context went to an intent-routing layer. The project experimented with a classifier trained/fine-tuned around the ORCAS-II query-intent dataset, about two million entries.

Neo4j stored the relationships between queries, concepts, browsing history, and retrieved material. CrewAI orchestrated task-specific agent workflows, and LangChain components were used around memory/reasoning. The external retrieval layer included GDELT, NewsAPI, Exa, Semantic Scholar and arXiv. Weave traced agent execution.

Raihan Rafeek built the PII-obfuscation layer that ran before information entered the memory path. The user talked to the system through an in-browser command-line interface while still browsing inside the same app.[^gyrus-technical-1][^gyrus-technical-2]

[^gyrus-technical-1]: [Gyrus — Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/gyrus-an-agentic-browser-to-increase-intelligence)

[^gyrus-technical-2]: [Current repository](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Gyrus)

## Personal

We flew to San Francisco for WeaveHacks.

There is a 3 a.m. hotel-lobby photo on the Devpost, and it's a better record of the weekend than a polished project description. We didn't win.

---

# G-Code Assembler — rebuilding a shape from printer instructions

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/g-code-assembler

Archive date: 2024-11 (historical site date; not a verified publication date)

Register: Technical

Tags: HACK

Section: [Hackathons](https://aryagarg23.com/about#hackathons)

## Main

I was too tired to do another hackathon project. Then I noticed Kinetic Vision had a 3D printer as the prize, and only one other three-person team was competing in the category. So I changed my mind.

I'd worked with inkjet-printer firmware before, so the problem felt a lot more familiar than most hackathon prompts did by then. The challenge was to reconstruct a 3D object from G-code.

A printer never needs the original CAD model. It only gets the instructions it needs to make the object: coordinates, extrusion, layer heights and travel moves. So the shape is in there, just backwards.

I treated the depositing moves as physical filament again, rebuilt the volumes, joined them, and exported the result as an STL. I did this one solo, so I have a lot of implementation detail if I ever want to get into it.

Here's the assembler running in the browser, with no server. I rebuilt it in 2026. Next to the hackathon's box mesh it now makes one closed solid out of the printed beads, within about 1% of the challenge's own CAD models, and it reads G-code from Bambu, Prusa, Cura and other slicers.

[Interactive figure: G-Code Assembler]

## Technical

| G-Code Assembler flow |
| --- |
| G-code file |
| ↓ |
| Command parser |
| ↓ |
| Motion + extrusion + layer state |
| ↓ |
| Depositing segments selected |
| ↓ |
| Path segments converted to filament volumes |
| ↓ |
| Boolean union / overlap handling |
| ↓ |
| Layer-transition smoothing |
| ↓ |
| Watertight mesh |
| ↓ |
| React / three.js preview |
| ↓ |
| STL export |

![A seven layer square spiral toolpath parsed and drawn per layer](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/g-code-assembler/toolpath.png)

![Per layer extrusion length profile of the toy toolpath](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/g-code-assembler/extrusion_profile.png)

Flask handled G-code parsing and the mesh transformations. The parser pulled out movement coordinates, extrusion values and layer state.

Travel moves were left out of the geometry. Depositing moves were turned into volumetric filament segments.

Neighbouring segments were joined with boolean operations. Overlap correction accounted for filament volumes that intersect.

Additional geometry went in around layer transitions to smooth the rebuilt surface, with stronger correction around steeper slopes.

React and three.js rendered the preview, and the final mesh was exported as a watertight STL.

Large input files made meshes with millions of nodes. One hackathon example was big enough to use up all the memory on a 3090 Ti.[^g-code-assembler-technical-1][^g-code-assembler-technical-2][^g-code-assembler-technical-3]

[^g-code-assembler-technical-1]: [G-Code Assembler — Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/g-code-assembler)

[^g-code-assembler-technical-2]: [Repository](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/G-Code-Assembler)

[^g-code-assembler-technical-3]: [Demo](https://youtu.be/q7wP98uev2o)

## Personal

I wanted the printer. I also felt pretty good about 1v3'ing the other team, because this happened to line up with things I'd already touched.

We won the Kinetic Vision challenge, and I got the printer.

---

# Hi-Five — building a representation for introductions

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/hi-five

Archive date: 2024-10 (historical site date; not a verified publication date)

Register: Technical

Tags: HACK

Section: [Hackathons](https://aryagarg23.com/about#hackathons)

## Main

A lot of social matching starts from the stuff two people share. Same music, same school, same game or movie, or the same pile of interest tags. I was more interested in whether two people could have something in common in how they think, even when what they're thinking about is different. I can know nothing about your hobby and still recognise the way you make an association.

Raihan Rafeek, Shawn Lasrado, Shashwat and I built Hi-Five at SASEhack, two weekends before Terminally Addicted. After WhiteBox I was already deep into the idea that you could fabricate useful representations of messy things. Hi-Five took that out of research material and tried it on people.

We used OCEAN as scaffolding and added our own dimensions around the responses. Then we mixed that with interests and matched people using the representation we'd built.

You didn't get someone's whole profile first. You got the conversation. The match stayed anonymous for 48 hours, and then both people could decide whether they wanted to reveal themselves and keep going.

What I wanted to test was whether I could fabricate an entirely new dimension of data and make it useful.

[Interactive figure: Match rankings]

## Technical

| Hi-Five flow |
| --- |
| 5 prompt responses |
| ↓ |
| OCEAN-inspired feature construction |
| ↓ |
| BGE-en-icl text embeddings + RoBERTa emotion features |
| ↓ |
| ~24-dimensional user representation |
| ↓ |
| Vector similarity × 0.6 + Interest overlap × 0.4 |
| ↓ |
| Candidate match |
| ↓ |
| Neo4j relationship |
| ↓ |
| 48-hour anonymous conversation |
| ↓ |
| Mutual reveal / continue |

![Assessment to embedding to 48-hour anonymous window to reveal, the flow as designed](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/hi-five/matching_flow.png)

The matching system started from five assessment-style prompts and user interest tags. Prompt responses were processed using an OCEAN-inspired feature scheme, BGE-en-icl text embeddings, RoBERTa-base-go-emotions outputs, and some extra custom processing. The resulting features were combined into an approximately 24-dimensional user representation.

The match score weighted embedding similarity at 0.6 and interest overlap at 0.4 in the implementation captured by the older repository. Neo4j stored users and relationships. Matched users entered a 48-hour anonymous conversation period before a mutual reveal decision.

The representation was experimental. It wasn't a validated personality or compatibility model.[^hi-five-technical-1][^hi-five-technical-2]

[^hi-five-technical-1]: [Hi-Five — Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/hi-five-dt0gvj)

[^hi-five-technical-2]: [Original team repository](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Hi-Five)

---

# Terminally Addicted — video, audio, and everything else in a terminal

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/terminally-addicted

Archive date: 2024-10 (historical site date; not a verified publication date)

Register: Technical

Tags: HACK

Section: [Hackathons](https://aryagarg23.com/about#hackathons)

## Main

At HackOHI/O, Raihan Rafeek, Kaaustaaub Shankar and I wanted to make a joke. Then we decided the joke should be unnecessarily difficult to build.

Terminally Addicted put Spotify, GitHub issues, Todoist, GPT chat, Vim and YouTube inside one curses-based terminal. The YouTube player drew the video as ASCII and terminal colour while the audio played normally. I'm not going to argue this is the best way to watch YouTube, because it's worse.

My part of the project was mostly the architecture. I wanted to keep bolting unrelated pieces onto the same system without each new piece breaking the old ones or slowing the whole thing down. Spotify is one kind of state, GitHub issues are another, and a chatbot has its own interaction pattern. Then video shows up, and now you have screen ownership, input ownership, a renderer, audio, timing, cleanup and background work all fighting inside one terminal.

We won Most Original.

## Technical

| Terminally Addicted shell |
| --- |
| Python / curses shell |
| ↓ |
| Spotify API ‖ GitHub REST API ‖ Todoist API ‖ OpenAI chat ‖ Vim ‖ YouTube |

| Terminally Addicted YouTube playback |
| --- |
| yt-dlp |
| ↓ |
| Decoded video frames |
| ↓ |
| Go ASCII renderer |
| ↓ |
| Terminal frames ‖ Audio playback |
| ↓ |
| Sync loop |
| ↓ |
| Curses UI restored |

![Every command surface in one terminal window](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/terminally-addicted/command_map.png)

Python and curses ran the main terminal interface and command routing.

$sp controlled Spotify. $git created, closed and commented on GitHub issues. $todo connected to Todoist. $chat used the OpenAI integration. /set env opened the environment config in Vim.

For video playback, yt-dlp fetched the media. Video frames went to a Go renderer that turned pixel information into ASCII characters and terminal colour values. Audio playback ran separately.

The renderer and the audio path were kept in sync while the curses shell kept managing terminal state and input. Playback cleanup handed screen and input ownership back to the shell when playback ended or got interrupted.[^terminally-addicted-technical-1][^terminally-addicted-technical-2]

[^terminally-addicted-technical-1]: [Terminally Addicted repository](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Terminally-Addicted)

[^terminally-addicted-technical-2]: [Demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqKeySB5aBU)

---

# WhiteBox — following an answer back to its sources

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/whitebox

Archive date: 2024-09 (historical site date; not a verified publication date)

Register: Technical

Tags: HACK, SPEC_ART

Section: [Hackathons](https://aryagarg23.com/about#hackathons)

## Main

By WhiteBox, a few things I'd been playing with started turning into the same problem. Memento had retrieval. I'd also gotten more interested in giving messy information some structure instead of treating everything as plain text.

When a model generates an answer, a lot of the research gets squashed into it. If the answer is wrong, or the part you cared about got dropped along the way, you can't get back to it.

For WhiteBox we took a medical textbook and built it into a graph before anyone asked a question. Concepts linked back to the passages they came from. Different names for the same thing could be merged into one. Relationships the textbook stated outright stayed as relationships in the graph, instead of getting lost in a chunk of text.

Then the chat answer wasn't the end. You could go into the graph and keep working through the material yourself.

I don't want provenance to be a tiny citation badge under a finished answer. I want enough of the work left behind that people can check it, go off in another direction, reuse it somewhere else, or decide the generated answer was wrong in the first place.

The team was me, Kaaustaaub Shankar and Raihan Rafeek, the same crew from Memento and later Gyrus.

[Interactive figure: Answer sources]

## Technical

| WhiteBox flow |
| --- |
| Davidson's medical textbook |
| ↓ |
| Entity / relationship extraction |
| ↓ |
| Clustering + latent representations |
| ↓ |
| Neo4j knowledge graph |
| ↓ |
| User question |
| ↓ |
| MiniLM-assisted retrieval |
| ↓ |
| Relevant graph nodes + source passages |
| ↓ |
| Phi-3 generation |
| ↓ |
| Answer + source / relationship visualization |

![A traced answer path through a toy medical knowledge graph, real walk on a stated toy example](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/whitebox/traced_path.png)

![The WhiteBox pipeline as built: textbook to Neo4j graph to traced answer](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/whitebox/pipeline.png)

In the hackathon version the textbook turned into roughly 60,000 nodes and 130,000 relationships in Neo4j.

A fine-tuned LLaMA 3.1 8B did the summarization/classification during graph construction. MiniLM embeddings supported Cypher retrieval over the graph. Phi-3 3.8B handled the response/deeper-analysis pass on retrieved subgraphs.

Semantic similarity and relationships stated in the source were kept separate. A concept being semantically similar didn't make it a causal or relational edge.

Flask served the backend and vis.js rendered the graph/path visualization.

| Team split | |
| --- | --- |
| Raihan Rafeek | database and API work |
| Kaaustaaub Shankar | RAG pipeline |
| Arya Garg | open-source model selection, fine-tuning and representation work |

The Devpost wording for my role was “opensource model scout and fine tune monkey!!”.[^whitebox-technical-1][^whitebox-technical-2]

[^whitebox-technical-1]: [WhiteBox — Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/whitebox-zn5u2q)

[^whitebox-technical-2]: [Original repository](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/WhiteBox)

## Personal

The database had to be recreated twice, and GitHub went down while we were trying to merge. The internet got bad enough that we physically moved the server to 1819 in a red suitcase.

Neo4j was great for storing the graph and horrible for the interactive visualization we were trying to force on top of it. I remember being really annoyed at that.

We won first place. I knew the idea was cool. Other people thought the idea was cool. I had no clue how to move from cool to okay, who actually pays for this?

After WhiteBox I took a break from serious hackathon building. I was spending more time in NIS and doing much more abstract work than trying to win another weekend.

---

# Memento — asking questions of a journal

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/memento

Archive date: 2024-02 (historical site date; not a verified publication date)

Register: Technical

Tags: HACK, SPEC_ART

Section: [Hackathons](https://aryagarg23.com/about#hackathons)

Field notes from its future: https://aryagarg23.com/futures/memento

![Render of Memento on a phone in an older man's hands, showing an empty journal that says Make Some Mementos. Render by Grant Kilgard](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/memento/hero.jpg)

## Main

Raihan Rafeek, Kaaustaaub Shankar, Grant Kilgard and I mostly started because we wanted to work together. We were making a dance app. More computer vision. There was a loose chain of projects going, mostly because we kept finding another excuse to use whatever we'd just learned: SignLink, KUKA, and now another computer vision thing for people.

Then Grant brought up a real problem. His grandfather had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and his grandmother had gotten involved in advocacy around Alzheimer's and related dementia. We spoke with her, scrapped the dance app, and started working on memory.

What bugged me about a normal journal is that you still have to remember enough to find the thing you forgot. You need the date, or the right keyword, or the entry itself. With Memento the question was the index. You could ask "Where did I put my glasses?", "What did I do Tuesday?" or "Who visited last week?"

The journal could hold text, photos, audio and location. The person or a caregiver records the day. Later the user asks about whatever they still remember enough to ask about, and the system goes back through the record.

There was also a side for clinicians. If the same question kept coming up, we wanted that repetition to show up as a pattern over time instead of getting lost in separate conversations. Sharing that with a caregiver or doctor was opt-in.

Grant led the design. He worked out the whole app in Figma, from onboarding to adding photos, places and voice notes to an entry, and then handed it to the rest of us to build. These are his screens.

![Memento's journal screen, empty and with entries, in the light and orange themes. Design by Grant Kilgard](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/memento/screens.jpg)

His write-up of the design[^memento-main-1] has the rest of it.

[Interactive figure: Journal search]

[^memento-main-1]: [write-up of the design](https://grants-cool-site-2357d5.webflow.io/work/memento)

## Technical

| Memento flow |
| --- |
| Journal input (text / images / audio / location) |
| ↓ |
| PostgreSQL / Tembo |
| ↓ |
| User question |
| ↓ |
| KeyBERT query terms |
| ↓ |
| Retrieval over journal entries |
| ↓ |
| Selected memory entries |
| ↓ |
| GPT-3.5 response |
| ↓ |
| Patient / caregiver interface |

| Memento clinical signal |
| --- |
| Repeated questions |
| ↓ |
| Stored longitudinal pattern |
| ↓ |
| Clinician-facing view |

![The two Memento loops, patient recall and doctor dashboard, over one journal store](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/memento/flows.png)

Journal data was stored in PostgreSQL through Tembo.

KeyBERT pulled out the terms used for retrieval. Matching journal entries were picked from what was stored and passed to GPT-3.5 to write the response.

Repeated-question tracking counted matched intents that kept coming back over time, for the clinician-facing view.

We tried React Native and SwiftUI/Xcode for the interface before finishing the working version as a React web app scaled for mobile.

We also hit Cloud Run memory limits during the hackathon and moved the backend behind a proxy server.[^memento-technical-1][^memento-technical-2]

[^memento-technical-1]: [Memento — Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/momento-1u3a0i)

[^memento-technical-2]: [Original repository](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Memento)

## Personal

The backend wasn't what held us back. We went hard on the interface renders and just didn't have the frontend skill to build all of them. The working app could do the important path, but I could see the experience we'd designed sitting next to it and knew how much was missing.

![Grant's clickable prototype, screen by screen, from onboarding to a finished journal entry](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/memento/prototype_flow.jpg)

We placed third overall and won Best Social Impact, the Medpace clinical-trial-process challenge, and Best Use of Postgres. People at the hackathon gave the project a lot of love. I was still looking at the UI.

---

# Buycott — from a barcode to company news

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/buycott

Archive date: 2023-11 (historical site date; not a verified publication date)

Register: Technical

Tags: HACK

Section: [Hackathons](https://aryagarg23.com/about#hackathons)

## Main

Buycott started with a reel Kaaustaaub Shankar had seen about the war, where somebody was trying to boycott companies connected to it. We ended up talking about perception. The same information doesn't mean the same thing to everybody. Your past experience and your values change how you read it. Even if two people agree on the facts, they can make different decisions from them.

So I didn't want the app to be a moral traffic light. A barcode scanner that says BUY or DON'T BUY is fast, but the software is quietly making the most important decision for you.

We wanted to do something narrower. The app would scan the barcode, work out which parent company is behind the product, find the reporting about that company, and cut it down enough that somebody standing in an aisle could get the top line. The judgment stayed with them.

I don't think you need a huge amount of information to make a purchase decision. You need the right amount for the decision you're making.

Kaaustaaub, Ary Sharma, Aniruddhan Ramesh and I built the prototype at MakeUC.

[Interactive figure: Product owners]

## Technical

| Buycott flow |
| --- |
| Barcode |
| ↓ |
| Product identification |
| ↓ |
| Parent-company resolution |
| ↓ |
| GDELT news queries |
| ↓ |
| Entity extraction / mapping |
| ↓ |
| RoBERTa stance + sentiment outputs |
| ↓ |
| Headline structure rules (subject → action → attributed entity) |
| ↓ |
| Grouped article clusters |
| ↓ |
| Flutter mobile interface |

![From barcode to sourced stance card, the pipeline as built](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/buycott/pipeline.png)

The barcode-to-product path used Google Vision tooling. Product information was resolved to a parent company before the news lookup. GDELT supplied company-related reporting, and a scheduled pull kept tagged coverage available.

The NLP layer combined entity mapping with sentiment processing and a RoBERTa classifier trained for article stance on the war. Sentiment alone couldn't tell us the company's role in the event being reported. A company criticising an action and a company being criticised for that action can both show up in strongly negative language. So the extra processing used headline structure: subject, action, and attributed entity.

The processed articles were grouped into company-level views, with the source articles still attached. The client was built in Flutter. Flask handled the backend/API layer, and the model/backend services were deployed through Google Cloud.[^buycott-technical-1][^buycott-technical-2]

[^buycott-technical-1]: [Buycott — Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/buycott)

[^buycott-technical-2]: [Original repository](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Buycott)

## Personal

We won first overall. We also won Best Social Issues Hack, Best Use of Google Cloud, and the Wolfram award. Apparently the project annoyed some people too.

![Discord user complains about dominant team](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/buycott/the_complaint.png)

My draw to hackathons was never really the prizes. I liked that nobody handed us a problem statement. You got a weekend and a theme and had to decide for yourself what was worth building.

---

# KUKA — an interactive seven-joint arm

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/kuka-arm-viz

Archive date: 2023-02 (historical site date; not a verified publication date)

Register: Technical

Tags: HACK

Section: [Hackathons](https://aryagarg23.com/about#hackathons)

## Main

Fast forward a few months from SignLink. I was still ridiculously salty about how useless I'd felt at Purdue, internship season was happening, and I'd already collected a decent pile of interview rejections. I wanted a job at Kinetic Vision.

They had a sponsor challenge at RevolutionUC, so I said we were going to win it. I gaslit Kaaustaaub “Kaus” Shankar into believing the internship was basically guaranteed if we won, and rallied the troops with Alexander Van Bibber.

The challenge was joint data for a seven-axis KUKA arm, sitting in MATLAB files. They wanted a way to look at it. We built the arm in Unity, put it in the browser, gave every joint a slider, and replayed the recorded movement on the same model. Partway through we called Akhil Penumudy as an SOS because we had no idea how to rig the objects to code in Unity.

My part was the inverse kinematics. A seven-axis arm can reach the same position with a bunch of different joint configurations. We narrowed down the solutions, kept a configuration that was geometrically close to where the arm already was, and prepared the motion path from there. That side went surprisingly smoothly.

I knew almost nothing about UI/UX, so I slapped an isometric viewer onto the demo and surrounded it with enough controls and information to make it usable. I still find that funny. I wanted everything on screen: all seven joints, the path, and the data moving.

[Interactive figure: KUKA arm]

## Technical

| KUKA playback flow |
| --- |
| Kinetic Vision joint / CSV data |
| ↓ |
| Shared joint-state model |
| ↓ |
| Manual sliders ‖ Recorded playback |
| ↓ |
| Unity arm hierarchy |
| ↓ |
| WebGL viewer |

| KUKA inverse-kinematics flow |
| --- |
| Target position |
| ↓ |
| Inverse-kinematics candidate solutions |
| ↓ |
| Geometric filtering against current pose |
| ↓ |
| Selected joint configuration |
| ↓ |
| Prepared motion path |

![Workspace reachability cloud of a planar 3-link arm with one inverse kinematics solution drawn](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/kuka-arm-viz/reachability_cloud.png)

![Joint angle traces over a reach trajectory](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/kuka-arm-viz/joint_angle_traces.png)

The seven-axis arm was modeled in Unity as a hierarchy of joint transforms. Rotating a lower joint changed the coordinate frame for every joint attached after it. The Kinetic Vision movement data was converted into joint states that could be replayed through the same hierarchy the manual sliders used.

For inverse kinematics, one target position could produce several valid joint configurations. Candidate solutions were filtered by geometric similarity to the current arm state, so the selected solution stayed close to the existing pose.

The 3D assets were put together in Unity, with models prepared in tools including Blender, Fusion 360 and RoboDK. The project was exported from Unity to WebGL for the browser demo.

In 2026 the arm was rebuilt as a plain web page, the one above. It draws the KUKA LBR iiwa models from the challenge in the same isometric view and plays the ten recorded runs from the dataset, with each joint's angle, speed and torque. The inverse kinematics now works on all seven joints and starts from the current pose, so the arm moves the least it can. The Unity build is gone from the repository.[^kuka-arm-viz-technical-1][^kuka-arm-viz-technical-2]

[^kuka-arm-viz-technical-1]: [Visualizing Kuka 7 Node Robot Arm — Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/visualizing-kuka-7-node-robot-arm)

[^kuka-arm-viz-technical-2]: [Original repository](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/Visualizing-Kuka-7-Node-Robot-Arm)

## Personal

We won Kinetic Vision's Robotic Data Visualization challenge. We also won Best Domain Name for howardgotinastickysituationwithspacearm.tech.

Winning the sponsor challenge didn't turn into a Kinetic Vision job. I did get to talk with Scott Fasone, though. He gave me useful guidance on how to organise and present myself, and I remember that conversation a lot more than whatever follow-up I expected from the company.

At the time I came out of the weekend feeling like a noobie developer who'd learned how to slap together junk that worked. I was excited to make more junk.

---

# SignLink — recognising hand shapes at my first hackathon

By Arya Garg

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/writing/signlink

Archive date: 2023-01 (historical site date; not a verified publication date)

Register: Technical

Tags: HACK

Section: [Hackathons](https://aryagarg23.com/about#hackathons)

## Main

Arleen Monteiro randomly invited me to BoilerMake X about four months into college. Reeve Fernandes, Arleen and I went in wanting to collect an ASL dataset and train a model on it, then put the recognition into a video call.

I had basically no idea what was possible with a computer back then. I was mostly hands off on the rest of the app. I ended up on the ML setup because that was the part I wanted to figure out.

Most of the weekend was me failing to get that version working. My laptop was too weak for what I was trying to run, and the TensorFlow and library setup kept turning into its own problem. With four or five hours left we finally stopped digging.

MediaPipe could already give us the shape of a hand, so we changed the problem. Instead of training the computer to recognise signs, we took the landmarks, calculated the finger and joint angles, and compared them against a set of hand shapes we'd defined ourselves.

It only worked for some letters, and it could break on a different hand. Anything based on movement was basically out. But the browser call worked, and the recognition worked well enough to demo.

Before that weekend, getting stuck mostly meant going deeper into whatever I'd already picked. At BoilerMake we ran out of time and had to search broader. I'd probably make some A* versus BFS analogy for that now. I definitely wasn't making that analogy four months into college.

[Hand-angle sketch: a synthetic hand runs the landmarks -> angles -> letter-dictionary pipeline with no camera. The optional camera downloads model resources and requests camera access; everything stays in your browser]

## Technical

| SignLink flow |
| --- |
| Camera |
| ↓ |
| OpenCV frame capture |
| ↓ |
| MediaPipe hand landmarks |
| ↓ |
| Relative finger / joint angles |
| ↓ |
| Hand-written pose dictionary |
| ↓ |
| Recognised letter |
| ↓ |
| PeerJS / WebRTC call interface |

![Camera frame to caption: MediaPipe landmarks, joint angles, nearest ASL pose](https://aryagarg23.com/figures/signlink/recognition_flow.png)

MediaPipe supplied 21 hand landmarks from the camera feed. The matcher used 20 of those points and calculated relative joint angles with vector geometry and trigonometry. The resulting angle vector was compared against a hand-written table of supported ASL letter poses.

The recognised pose was mapped to a letter and shown inside the browser video-call interface. PeerJS handled the peer connections and WebRTC carried the video/audio stream.

The original trained-model path was dropped during the hackathon after the team couldn't get the TensorFlow training/toolchain setup running on the available hardware. Static poses were the practical limit of the submitted version, and motion-dependent signs such as J and Z weren't covered by the same lookup method.[^signlink-technical-1][^signlink-technical-2]

[^signlink-technical-1]: [SignLink — Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/signlink)

[^signlink-technical-2]: [Original repository](https://github.com/Aryagarg23/SignLink)

## Personal

Greyhound six hours there. Thirty-six hours at Purdue hanging out with my buddies. Greyhound six hours back.

I got home at around three on Monday morning and went to class on a snow-packed day. I chase that sort of accomplishment all the time.

---

# Friction: field notes from the future

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/futures/friction

In an overloaded future there is a keyboard related to attention. What is it?

A keyboard that changes how the keys and wrist rest feel when you need a break.

Try it: [Friction](https://aryagarg23.com/play/friction)

Another reminder to take a break.

It's easy to dismiss a break reminder and keep typing. Friction puts the reminder in the keyboard: the keys get heavier as you get tired, and the wrist rest changes temperature.

You can override it. The keyboard might have read you wrong, or you might just need to finish something. It still has to work as a keyboard.

The demo runs on a pretend Windows laptop. Try the three stories or move the focus and fatigue sliders yourself. Those sliders stand in for sensors. The physical keyboard hasn't been built.

How might we make a break reminder you can feel while you work?

How it was made: [https://aryagarg23.com/writing/friction](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/friction)

---

# Gyrus: field notes from the future

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/futures/gyrus

In an offloaded future there is a browser related to learning. What is it?

A browser with AI agents that help you find sources, connect ideas and check what you understand.

Try it: [Gyrus](https://aryagarg23.com/play/gyrus)

Studying with too many tabs open.

Your notes are in one tab, a paper is in another, and asking an AI for help means explaining everything again. Gyrus puts the agents in the browser, where they can work with the pages you're already reading.

It can also ask you questions. Getting one wrong gives you a reason to reopen the source and figure out what you missed.

The demo has two sample sources and a set of questions. You can read, connect and revisit them. It doesn't run live AI agents.

How might we use AI to help someone work through what they’re learning?

Built at WeaveHacks: Agent Protocols Hackathon (MCP, A2A). How it was made: [https://aryagarg23.com/writing/gyrus](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/gyrus)

---

# Memento: field notes from the future

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/futures/memento

In a forgetful future there is a journal related to care. What is it?

A journal you can ask questions about when you can’t remember enough to search it.

Try it: [Memento](https://aryagarg23.com/play/memento-journal)

Where did we have lunch?

A journal is awkward if the thing you're struggling with is remembering. You still have to know when something happened, or what word to search for. Memento lets you ask the question you have: where did we have lunch? Who visited last week?

The answer points back to your entries, so you can check the note or photo yourself. The concept also includes sharing repeated questions with a caregiver, if you choose to.

The demo starts with nine entries from a made-up week. Add an entry and ask about it in Chat to try the search.

How might we help someone find a memory with the little they still remember?

Built at RevolutionUC 2024. How it was made: [https://aryagarg23.com/writing/memento](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/memento)

---

# Report card: field notes from the future

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/futures/upside-cafe

In a mixed future there is a report card related to disagreement. What is it?

A school report card with one more subject on it, graded like the rest: holding more than one view.

One more subject on the report card.

These are two report cards for the same student, five years apart. The second has an extra subject: holding more than one view. It gets a grade, just like maths or science.

Before a debate, students write the other side's best argument and let that side grade it. They have to name their assumptions and say what would change their mind. Tap a standard on the card to see the exercise behind it.

The school, student and grades are made up. The card came out of the Upside Cafe piece, and the idea that understanding people you disagree with is something you could practise at school.

How might we teach students to understand a view they disagree with?

From the piece about a trivia night at Upside Cafe. The piece: [https://aryagarg23.com/writing/upside-cafe](https://aryagarg23.com/writing/upside-cafe)

---

# DreamStreamHer: field notes from the future

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/futures/dreamstream

In a monetized future there is a livestream related to sleep. What is it?

A livestream where someone broadcasts her dreams and viewers pay to change what happens inside them.

Try it: [DreamStreamHer](https://aryagarg23.com/play/dreamstream)

Sleeping until rent is paid.

She's streaming her dreams on Twitch. For $25 you can change the landscape. For $50 you can put a creature in it. Chat is trying to raise enough for a dragon. There's a bedroom camera and a heart-rate counter beside the feed.

The title is ‘sleeping until rent is paid.’ The longer she stays asleep, the more she can earn. Meanwhile, people who are wide awake get to pay for things to happen to her. She can't exactly tell them to stop.

Try the tip buttons to change the dream. The scene is animated, the chat is scripted, and the heart rate and payments are simulated. Dream broadcasting is the made-up part.

How might we show what happens when viewers can pay to interfere with someone’s sleep?

## From Drivers Futures 2025

Research by [The Foresight Lab](https://theforesightlab.substack.com/).

- Upgrades Available: Wearables and dream activation appear in the report. DreamStream takes them as a starting point for a made-up broadcasting tool.

- Transmission Received: New ways to communicate beyond sight and sound. Here, someone else can watch your dream.

- Data as Currency: Personal data can earn money. The stream puts a price on access to a dream.

- Rise of the Side Hustle: People find extra ways to earn. This streamer keeps earning while she sleeps.

Made March 2026.

---

# Viate: field notes from the future

Canonical source: https://aryagarg23.com/futures/viate

In a ranked future there is a dating app related to wellness. What is it?

A dating app that puts sleep, fitness and other health numbers on people’s profiles.

Try it: [Viate](https://aryagarg23.com/play/viate)

Your sleep score on a dating profile.

Viate asks you to connect a health tracker before you can join. Your sleep, heart rate and fitness become part of your application. Get accepted and you can compare other people's numbers alongside their photos.

Dating profiles already give you plenty to judge someone by. Viate adds how well they slept and how much they exercise, then treats those numbers as a reason to let them in or keep them out.

Try the application and browse the sample profiles. The demo doesn't collect health data, and the acceptance decision is random. The people and measurements are made up.

How might we show what dating looks like when health scores decide who gets in?

## From Drivers Futures 2025

Research by [The Foresight Lab](https://theforesightlab.substack.com/).

- The Status of Wellness: Health routines become a way to show status. Viate gives applicants a score to compare.

- Needles Not Required: Wearables make health measurements an everyday habit. Viate asks to see them.

- Family 2.0: Expectations of dating and relationships change. Viate imagines health scores becoming one more filter.

- Data as Currency: Personal data can buy access. Here, sharing health numbers is the price of applying.

Made February 2026.

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## mixed signals

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mixed signals

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## mixed signals

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mixed signals

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## mixed signals

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mixed signals

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Archive month: 2026-09

## EXP_001

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EXP_001

instagram compression definitely ruins this.

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Archive month: 2026-07

## EXP_001

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EXP_001

instagram compression definitely ruins this.

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## EXP_001

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EXP_001

instagram compression definitely ruins this.

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Archive month: 2026-07

## brink of hope

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brink of hope

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Archive month: 2026-06

## bedtime

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bedtime

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Archive month: 2026-06

## I have never seen warm and cold banding out in nature. You wouldn’t think its even possible.

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I have never seen warm and cold banding out in nature. You wouldn’t think its even possible.

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## bedtime

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bedtime

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## bedtime

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bedtime

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Archive month: 2026-06

## cloud anchor

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cloud anchor

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Archive month: 2026-06

## lets dream

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lets dream

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Archive month: 2026-06

## gateway - getaway

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gateway - getaway

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Archive month: 2026-06

## yearn

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yearn

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Archive month: 2026-06

## rendered

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rendered

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Archive month: 2026-06

## 6pm

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6pm

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Archive month: 2026-06

## recognition

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recognition

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Archive month: 2026-06

## city of smithers, election night

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city of smithers, election night

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Archive month: 2026-06

## welcome home

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welcome home

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Archive month: 2026-06

## truss bridge, blue hour

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truss bridge, blue hour

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Archive month: 2026-06

## chrome gas cap, old blue paint

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chrome gas cap, old blue paint

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Archive month: 2026-05

## anchor

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anchor

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Archive month: 2026-05

## sparks off the fire

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sparks off the fire

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Archive month: 2026-05

## Blue Palette

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Blue Palette

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Archive month: 2026-05

## Time Travel

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Time Travel

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Archive month: 2026-04

## Bottom up vs Trickle down

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Bottom up vs Trickle down

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Archive month: 2026-04

## Bottom up vs Trickle down

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Bottom up vs Trickle down

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Archive month: 2026-04

## sico...

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sico...

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Archive month: 2026-04

## Aspiration

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Aspiration

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## water tower over faded brick lettering

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water tower over faded brick lettering

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## goosemaxxing

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goosemaxxing

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## QUICK CALL

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QUICK CALL

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## QUICK CALL

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QUICK CALL

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## QUICK CALL

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QUICK CALL

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## stained glass, blue light

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stained glass, blue light

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Archive month: 2026-03

## town lights from above

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town lights from above

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## dusk through bare branches

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dusk through bare branches

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Archive month: 2026-03

## 736, porch light on

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736, porch light on

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## 507, flag on the porch

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507, flag on the porch

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## welcome to, neon in the window

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welcome to, neon in the window

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## three windows, one view

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three windows, one view

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Archive month: 2026-02

## long way to go.

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long way to go.

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## Running from the Grey

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Running from the Grey

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## goose thirst traps

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goose thirst traps

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## No Worm?

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No Worm?

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## Checkpoint.

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Checkpoint.

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Archive month: 2026-02

## Shelter.

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Shelter.

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## light caught in motion

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light caught in motion

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## unlock color and texture

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unlock color and texture

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## came a long way

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came a long way

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Archive month: 2026-02

## panorama

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panorama

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## Still, Shelter.

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Still, Shelter.

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## Zig-Zag Zig-Zag

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Zig-Zag Zig-Zag

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## goose thirst traps

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goose thirst traps

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## Zig-Zag Zig-Zag

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Zig-Zag Zig-Zag

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## unlock color and texture

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unlock color and texture

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## frozen wheel well

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frozen wheel well

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## snow day, mailbox and all

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snow day, mailbox and all

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Archive month: 2026-02

## goose thirst traps

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goose thirst traps

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Archive month: 2026-02

## unlock color and texture

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unlock color and texture

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Archive month: 2026-02

## Zig-Zag Zig-Zag

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Zig-Zag Zig-Zag

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Archive month: 2026-02

## unlock color and texture

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unlock color and texture

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## Zig-Zag Zig-Zag

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Zig-Zag Zig-Zag

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Archive month: 2026-02

## unlock color and texture

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unlock color and texture

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Archive month: 2026-02

## Scarlet Phase

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Scarlet Phase

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Archive month: 2025-10

## Scarlet Phase

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Scarlet Phase

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## Scarlet Phase

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Scarlet Phase

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## Scarlet Phase

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Scarlet Phase

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## Scarlet Phase

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Scarlet Phase

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## sidewalk, upside down

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sidewalk, upside down

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Archive month: 2025-04

## skyline in the mirror

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skyline in the mirror

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Archive month: 2025-04

## yellow WRX, city block

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yellow WRX, city block

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Archive month: 2025-04

## More Oman posting. 45 second long exposure shot. I am unsure why the rocks on the pier are hazy, if I had to guess something to do with the refractive index changing because of the moisture from the waves. Decent result

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More Oman posting. 45 second long exposure shot. I am unsure why the rocks on the pier are hazy, if I had to guess something to do with the refractive index changing because of the moisture from the waves. Decent result

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Archive month: 2024-12

## Oman ain’t too bad chat. Anyway here is a cold and warm combo.

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Oman ain’t too bad chat. Anyway here is a cold and warm combo.

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Archive month: 2024-12

## Oman ain’t too bad chat. Anyway here is a cold and warm combo.

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Oman ain’t too bad chat. Anyway here is a cold and warm combo.

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Archive month: 2024-12

## Urban play.

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Urban play.

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Archive month: 2024-11

## :)

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:)

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Archive month: 2024-11

## Rain is back on the menu.

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Rain is back on the menu.

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Archive month: 2024-09

## Spotlight

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Spotlight

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Archive month: 2024-06

## Spotlight

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Spotlight

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Archive month: 2024-06

## Spotlight

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Spotlight

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Archive month: 2024-06

## Spotlight

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Spotlight

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Archive month: 2024-06

## Crosley

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Crosley

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Archive month: 2023-03

## 💧

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💧

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Archive month: 2023-03

## It’s bad cause taken on my phone :/

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It’s bad cause taken on my phone :/

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Archive month: 2023-02

## down into the dark

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down into the dark

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Archive month: 2023-01

## late night on the strip

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late night on the strip

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Archive month: 2023-01

## :)

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:)

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Archive month: 2023-01

## cave box

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cave box

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Archive month: 2023-01

## peeling paint, purple shutters

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peeling paint, purple shutters

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Archive month: 2023-01

## Float.

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Float.

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Archive month: 2022-12

## Rush.

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Rush.

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Archive month: 2022-12

## waterfall

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waterfall

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Archive month: 2022-12

## First time experimenting with reflections. The puddle was kinda small so I wasn't able to do too much with it, but the results are interesting either way.

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First time experimenting with reflections. The puddle was kinda small so I wasn't able to do too much with it, but the results are interesting either way.

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_17963789060128231_0
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_17963789060128231_0.jpg
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Archive month: 2022-12

## Rush.

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Rush.

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Archive month: 2022-12

## First time experimenting with reflections. The puddle was kinda small so I wasn't able to do too much with it, but the results are interesting either way.

Media by Arya Garg

First time experimenting with reflections. The puddle was kinda small so I wasn't able to do too much with it, but the results are interesting either way.

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_17963789060128231_1
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_17963789060128231_1.jpg
Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-12

## Float.

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Float.

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Archive month: 2022-12

## Float.

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Float.

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Archive month: 2022-12

## Float.

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Float.

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Archive month: 2022-12

## Float.

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Float.

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Archive month: 2022-12

## First time experimenting with HDR through photoshop, it's decent for my first attempt. If you have a sharp eye you might notice a lot of artifacts in the dark areas. That is just a skill issue on my end.

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First time experimenting with HDR through photoshop, it's decent for my first attempt. If you have a sharp eye you might notice a lot of artifacts in the dark areas. That is just a skill issue on my end.

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_17980974580647019_0
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_17980974580647019_0.jpg
Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-11

## 😋

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😋

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Archive month: 2022-11

## Vitória used a full blown camera for the first time.

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Vitória used a full blown camera for the first time.

Goofy ahh focus aside, the first photo is well framed and is very close to the perfect exposure. Because I like dramatic photos I'll give a biased rating of 5.75/10 (most points lost because of focus).

The second photo is pai

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_18192288232209356_0
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_18192288232209356_0.jpg
Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-11

## 😋

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😋

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Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_17978867914756545_0.jpg
Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-11

## The first picture I'm legitimately proud of. I got the exposure bang on, scene placement looks good. The only thing lacking is focus. Overall 8.5/10

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The first picture I'm legitimately proud of. I got the exposure bang on, scene placement looks good. The only thing lacking is focus. Overall 8.5/10

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_17963418116011292_0
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_17963418116011292_0.jpg
Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-11

## Vitória used a full blown camera for the first time.

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Vitória used a full blown camera for the first time.

Goofy ahh focus aside, the first photo is well framed and is very close to the perfect exposure. Because I like dramatic photos I'll give a biased rating of 5.75/10 (most points lost because of focus).

The second photo is pai

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_18192288232209356_1
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_18192288232209356_1.jpg
Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-11

## Vitória used a full blown camera for the first time.

Media by Arya Garg

Vitória used a full blown camera for the first time.

Goofy ahh focus aside, the first photo is well framed and is very close to the perfect exposure. Because I like dramatic photos I'll give a biased rating of 5.75/10 (most points lost because of focus).

The second photo is pai

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_18192288232209356_2
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_18192288232209356_2.jpg
Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-11

## My roommate Jacob inspired me to get into the random abstract architecture photo genre. I like how this turned out but again I'm making my old mistake of under-exposing the photo. The second photo goes hard though. I don't know how to get more details in the dark areas. It's some

Media by Arya Garg

My roommate Jacob inspired me to get into the random abstract architecture photo genre. I like how this turned out but again I'm making my old mistake of under-exposing the photo. The second photo goes hard though. I don't know how to get more details in the dark areas. It's some

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_17998877848535953_0
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_17998877848535953_0.jpg
Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-11

## I like the needle-like finger tip pain when I go out in the cold. Fall is probably going to be my favorite season. Still learning the new lens, isn't optimal for anything landscape but with enough time should be doable to a good extent. Everything aside I still love the soft, but

Media by Arya Garg

I like the needle-like finger tip pain when I go out in the cold. Fall is probably going to be my favorite season. Still learning the new lens, isn't optimal for anything landscape but with enough time should be doable to a good extent. Everything aside I still love the soft, but

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_18011643841478149_0
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_18011643841478149_0.jpg
Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-11

## I like the needle-like finger tip pain when I go out in the cold. Fall is probably going to be my favorite season. Still learning the new lens, isn't optimal for anything landscape but with enough time should be doable to a good extent. Everything aside I still love the soft, but

Media by Arya Garg

I like the needle-like finger tip pain when I go out in the cold. Fall is probably going to be my favorite season. Still learning the new lens, isn't optimal for anything landscape but with enough time should be doable to a good extent. Everything aside I still love the soft, but

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_18011643841478149_1
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_18011643841478149_1.jpg
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Archive month: 2022-11

## My roommate Jacob inspired me to get into the random abstract architecture photo genre. I like how this turned out but again I'm making my old mistake of under-exposing the photo. The second photo goes hard though. I don't know how to get more details in the dark areas. It's some

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My roommate Jacob inspired me to get into the random abstract architecture photo genre. I like how this turned out but again I'm making my old mistake of under-exposing the photo. The second photo goes hard though. I don't know how to get more details in the dark areas. It's some

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_17998877848535953_1
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Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-11

## I have a tendency to heavily underexpose all my shots. I like dramatic photos but overdo it every single time. Speaking of dramatic things, the ferrari fan in me will never die; thats the first photo I took with my new lens. Skateboarding? New fun activity? I'm trying my best to

Media by Arya Garg

I have a tendency to heavily underexpose all my shots. I like dramatic photos but overdo it every single time. Speaking of dramatic things, the ferrari fan in me will never die; thats the first photo I took with my new lens. Skateboarding? New fun activity? I'm trying my best to 

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_18085873543308836_0
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Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-11

## I have a tendency to heavily underexpose all my shots. I like dramatic photos but overdo it every single time. Speaking of dramatic things, the ferrari fan in me will never die; thats the first photo I took with my new lens. Skateboarding? New fun activity? I'm trying my best to

Media by Arya Garg

I have a tendency to heavily underexpose all my shots. I like dramatic photos but overdo it every single time. Speaking of dramatic things, the ferrari fan in me will never die; thats the first photo I took with my new lens. Skateboarding? New fun activity? I'm trying my best to 

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_18085873543308836_1
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_18085873543308836_1.jpg
Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-11

## I have a tendency to heavily underexpose all my shots. I like dramatic photos but overdo it every single time. Speaking of dramatic things, the ferrari fan in me will never die; thats the first photo I took with my new lens. Skateboarding? New fun activity? I'm trying my best to

Media by Arya Garg

I have a tendency to heavily underexpose all my shots. I like dramatic photos but overdo it every single time. Speaking of dramatic things, the ferrari fan in me will never die; thats the first photo I took with my new lens. Skateboarding? New fun activity? I'm trying my best to 

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_18085873543308836_2
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_18085873543308836_2.jpg
Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-11

## I have a tendency to heavily underexpose all my shots. I like dramatic photos but overdo it every single time. Speaking of dramatic things, the ferrari fan in me will never die; thats the first photo I took with my new lens. Skateboarding? New fun activity? I'm trying my best to

Media by Arya Garg

I have a tendency to heavily underexpose all my shots. I like dramatic photos but overdo it every single time. Speaking of dramatic things, the ferrari fan in me will never die; thats the first photo I took with my new lens. Skateboarding? New fun activity? I'm trying my best to 

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_18085873543308836_3
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_18085873543308836_3.jpg
Instagram: @plusminusii — https://www.instagram.com/plusminusii
Archive month: 2022-11

## I love my watch lol.

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I love my watch lol.

Cock island because I was blasting slob on my knob while setting up the photo

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_17936027603087960_0
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Archive month: 2022-04

## First day out with my camera, I was kinda disappointed in how many limitations I had because of my lens so I tried to create a fake bokeh using my phone. I'd rate this a solid 6/10. The van on the right edge of the frame takes so much away 🥹

Media by Arya Garg

First day out with my camera, I was kinda disappointed in how many limitations I had because of my lens so I tried to create a fake bokeh using my phone. I'd rate this a solid 6/10. The van on the right edge of the frame takes so much away 🥹

Source: https://aryagarg23.com/media/ig_17928408500275530_0
Image: https://vircgxpcwyvniemqmdyi.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/garden/ig_17928408500275530_0.jpg
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Archive month: 2022-04