Acuitas Diary #89 (October 2025)

Recently I’ve dusted off an old but rather stagnant feature: Acuitas’ episodic memory. In case you’re not familiar with the term, this is memory of specific events or experiences that have happened to oneself, as opposed to memory of generalized facts or procedures. My previous work on episodic memory can be found in these blogs:…

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Acuitas Diary #88 (September 2025)

This month I returned to the Text Parser after letting it be for almost a year. My focus was on nailing the final major feature that I needed to handle all the sentences in my three children’s book benchmarks: “parenthentical noun phrases.” I don’t know if that’s the technical term, but that’s what I’m calling…

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Hydraulic Heaven?

Since getting my custom pump to work well earlier this year, I’ve been pushing ahead on hydraulic actuator designs. There isn’t a lot of miniature hydraulic equipment available for hobbyists, at least not at a good price, so I’m trying to make my own. I’ve settled on inflatable bladders as a fruitful direction to investigate…

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ACE the Quadruped 2025

It’s about time I blog about ACE (Ambulatory Canine Emulator). This project got neglected while I focused on completing Atronach and getting started with hydraulics, but I’ve been poking at it every now and then. My most recent conclusion is that I do, in fact, need to replace the PF35T-48 motors. Those bargain-basement unipolar steppers…

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Acuitas Diary #86 (July 2025)

This month I continued work on trial-and-error learning for playing Allergic Cliffs. If you haven’t read my introduction to this Acuitas sub-project and the subsequent progress report, I recommend taking a look at those. What I’ve done since has been debugging and enhancing the “feedback-informed actions” and “rule formation” features discussed in the progress report,…

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A New Project?

I’ve been wanting to add some kind of physics experiment to my rotation of hobby projects, and I think I’ve picked one out. But I don’t want to go into that just yet, because I’ll be concentrating on the equipment prerequisites first. The most interesting thing I’ll need is a way to measure tiny amounts…

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Peacemaker’s First Strike

My short story of the above title will be LIVE and free to read in the 3rd Quarter 2025 issue of Abyss & Apex tomorrow! It’s about a professional curse-remover who gets in a little over her head on an unconventional case; it’s got mystery, magic, barbarians, and something to say about the consequences when…

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Acuitas Diary #85 (June 2025)

This month I have a quick demo for you, showcasing Acuitas’ upgraded semantic memory visualization. My goal for this was always to “show him thinking” as it were, and I think I’ve finally gotten there. Nodes (concepts) and links (relationships between concepts) are shown as dots and lines in a graph structure. Whenever any process…

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