Notes from the lair

Games, math, and epic stuff

Experiments and thoughts about roleplaying games, mathematics, music and everything that refuses to fit neatly in a drawer.

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The avatar crouches beneath a ceiling too low to stand under
Math Shards

Ceiling

2 min read

I made some very approximated calculations last year and the result was that, somewhen around january to march 2026, the AI development would hit a ceiling, since models should have consu...

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From the archive

The shopkeeper welcomes adventurers to a magic-item shop
RPGs

Medium lame

4 min read

When playing a game, rules and actions get deeper when you focus on the core part. For example, in Dungeons & Dragons you focus on fighting monsters, slightly less on exploring danger...

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Math Shards

100

1 min read

Ok, that was nice. It took a while but I managed to get to the finish line. I kept my math degree “suspended” for quite too long but, finally, it’s here. What a long strange trip it’s been…

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Math Shards

Learning habits

2 min read

You don’t learn math: you get used to it This was something my calculus teacher used to say and I really agree on that: it’s more about a slow burn.

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An orange twenty-sided die suggesting motion around its edges
Math RPGs

Integral of motions for RPGs

3 min read

The concept of the integral of motion of a system is interesting. If you have something made of many interconnected parts that influence each other movements by impacts and/or forces of a...

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