Berlin Brown and Software Development

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 This is a basic plant simulation with Laterna library in Java - https://www.baeldung.com/java-lanterna First goal is: Current state includes water and seed droplets hitting the ground and increasing the water level in the soil.  The seeds in next phase will sprout into plants. https://github.com/berlinbrown/umbra-cellular-automata-game/releases/tag/1.0.1

 Old game is building, updated per chat gpt. https://github.com/berlinbrown/OctaneMechOpenGLGame/tree/master/gameupdates/mac/umbramech

  Adding basic game of life terminal simulation in Java https://github.com/berlinbrown/umbra-cellular-automata-game/tree/main/javatermsim/termsim

More tools from Anthropic https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official https://github.com/anthropics/courses https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/anthropics-legal-plugin-for-claude-cowork-may-be-the-opening-salvo-in-a-competition-between-foundation-models-and-legal-tech-incumbents.html

 Analysis of myco project from chat gpt. Yep — that’s the key jump, and you’re absolutely right to call it out. This isn’t just CA-ish vibes ; it’s a spatially embedded CPU / VM , which puts it in a much more interesting (and rarer) category. Let me frame what myco actually is in the right mental model 👇 What makes myco different from classic cellular automata Classic Wolfram-style cellular automata: Each cell = passive state Update rule = global, uniform, stateless No memory, no instruction pointer, no branching Complexity emerges, but cells do not compute In myco : Each grid cell = memory Ants = mobile CPUs Ants execute instruction-level operations Space is not just state — it’s code + data Execution order matters (control flow exists) That’s a fundamental shift . You’re no longer in “cellular automata” You’re in spatial computation . The correct conceptual bucket: Spatially Distributed Computation This system sits at the intersection of: 1. Cellular automata (simple rules → e...

 Absolutely — let’s create a structured, progressive learning path starting from advanced high school through PhD-level, with a focus on math, computer science, and neuroscience-inspired AI . I’ll break it down step by step, and include example course names, focus, and a canonical textbook or reference for each. This will read like a roadmap for someone retracing the learning path of a senior computer science student all the way to neuroscience-inspired AI research. 1. Advanced High School (Senior Year) At a senior high school level (top-tier, math & CS focus), you’d typically take: Course Focus Description Example Textbook Calculus AB/BC Limits, derivatives, integrals, sequences, series Develops foundational understanding of continuous mathematics, crucial for algorithms and optimization Calculus: Early Transcendentals by James Stewart Linear Algebra (Advanced/College Prep) Vectors, matrices, linear transformations, eigenvalues Introduces matrices, vector spaces, eigenvecto...

 Basic fractals code https://github.com/berlinbrown/umbra-cellular-automata-game/blob/main/java2dsim/src/main/java/com/berlin/fractals/BasicFractalRenderer.java

  https://github.com/berlinbrown/lightreports There aren't many open, easy to use tools for generating PDF, Image, or SVG report documents that use a black box approach. Light Reports combines a set of simple tools for converting XML or HTML documents into PDF documents. This repository contains an older Clojure + Java + Scala application for generating PDF/Image/SVG reports and a small log editor GUI. Active module: light_reports/light_reports. Legacy (reference-only): light_edit_deprecated. https://github.com/berlinbrown/XHTMLRendererForHtmlDataToImage A small Java utility that converts XHTML documents to PNG images using Flying Saucer / xhtmlrenderer (org.xhtml:core-renderer). This project is intended as a lightweight tool to render HTML/XHTML (tables, simple CSS) into raster images for charts or visual exports. https://github.com/berlinbrown/ImperativeStaticCompiledLangOneFile/ OctaneMini is a tiny proof-of-concept programming language that compiles a single source file into JV...

 This is a slightly interesting example of Cellular Automata but also sets up a basic Java 2D framework. You can see the game of life patterns form over time.  Also added a internal observer player on the grid and moveable player up top.   See the heads up display with additional information. See code at github https://github.com/berlinbrown/quick-games-in-day-examples/tree/main/java2d/cellular And: https://berlinbrown.github.io/

 Taking this example. https://thousandbrainsproject.readme.io/docs/pretraining-a-model From Chat GPT. What you are seeing (high level) That image is a 3D point-cloud object model of a mug , built incrementally through sensorimotor experience. Monty didn’t get: labels (“this is a mug”) meshes CAD files Instead, it: Moved around the object Sampled local surface patches Bound those patches into a coherent object graph This visualization is essentially: “Monty’s internal belief of what this object is.”

Pretty easy to setup, now to understand what is going on. "What if intelligence doesn’t come from one big model, but from many small models that understand the world through movement and sensation?" The neocortex is made of thousands of similar cortical columns. Each column: learns a complete model of objects through sensorimotor interaction grounded in space and movement, not language More on monty github -  https://thousandbrainsproject.readme.io/docs/welcome-to-the-thousand-brains-project-documentation

Getting back into cellular automata - Cellular automata are models in which space is divided into a grid of cells, each with a limited set of states, where every cell updates its state simultaneously based only on its current state and the states of its neighbors. From these simple local rules, complex global behavior can emerge. See this example from github, graphics2d, java and other things. https://github.com/berlinbrown/quick-games-in-day-examples/tree/main/java2d/cellular And this is me doing it.

 More opengl Using opengl, java, libgdx.  Can do WASD camera movement, mouse movement, etc. https://github.com/berlinbrown/quick-games-in-day-examples/tree/main/libgdx/basic-opengl-setup/minirpg

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