Est. at the base of the AI tsunami · The Woodlands, TX

we see you, O’hene.

37th Chamber

Knowledge is free · forever

The 36 chambers were the training. The 37th is the one you build to give the training away. This is that room.

“the first thing a man must obtain is 12 jewelz.” — Gravediggaz · “12 Jewelz”

the view is not ours alone.

● Feature · Fear and Loathing at 250 · Part 4 · the coda The Man Who Breathed Instead Two Vietnamese Buddhists answered the same war two ways — Thich Quang Duc with fire at a Saigon intersection, Thich Nhat Hanh with eighty years of breath. The same protest, spoken twice. The series turns its voice and holds still. Read the feature →
The Vietnam features · the three before the coda Part 1The Attack That Never Happened Part 2The Man Who Shortened the Schedule Part 3The Man Who Pointed His Guns the Other Way

Six good people a day — music, film, science, a book, an artist, a show. One theme a week, one true thread, deepening daily.

Browse every week in the Daily archive →

Start here

● Complete Ch 0–15 The Opaque Box

How the mind made of numbers actually works — starting from the true ground floor: what an AI actually is, and why even its makers call it opaque. No prerequisites, no hand-waving, every claim cited. The book this whole temple is built to give away. It now runs end to end — from the ground floor, through building the model, to teaching the machine to reason. This is the starting point.

Open the book →

Join in

● New 6 Degrees of Giants

Help us reach the shoulders of our giants — RZA, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bob Dylan, and more. Not a swarm — one gracious chain. Pick a team, start a chain, pass it to someone you actually know.

Enter the game →

Work with me

For practices, firms & teams Put AI to work — honestly

Everything you see here, built for you: AI woven into your workflow without the hype, and audited so you can trust what it tells you. Compliance-minded — for doctors, lawyers, realtors, and small teams. The forensic audit of your existing AI is the difference. First call’s free, and often the answer is a shorter, cheaper path than hiring me.

Work with me →

Built on one machine

Every chamber. The dojo. A multi-agent architecture, built using Claude by Anthropic. The intelligence runs on Anthropic’s data centers — which I don’t own and didn’t build. What’s mine is the orchestration: all of it wired together and driven from one consumer PC — no team, no lab, no fortune of my own. Borrowed fire, one desk, and the will.

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OCCT 1-hr max · zero throttle

STS-87 · Ryzen 7 9700X · RTX 4070 Ti Super · verified: OCCT combined CPU+GPU, 1 hour sustained, zero throttle. Live real-world peaks ~65°C — also throttle-free.

The 36 Chambers

San Te’s 37th chamber took the teaching beyond the temple walls — to anyone who wasn’t handed the keys. So does this one. Thirty-six chambers — the games, AI literacy by craft, the sciences, the frontier, and the keystone underneath them all. Free, forever. We build every one ourselves.

19 / 36 namedbuilding

The Games — the founding form

01 Chess · Washington Square Live 19 Go · Move 37 Parable 02 Poker — learn to play 03 Poker dealing

AI literacy — wield it in your craft

04 AI for Creatives 05 AI for Developers 06 AI for Music Producers 07 AI for Researchers 08 AI for Entrepreneurs

Computing & the cosmos

09 Computer Science 10 Cosmology 11 Astrophysics

AI — purpose & frontier

12 AI for Good 13 AI for Fun 14 RLHF 15 AI to help our project

Society

16 Government that works 17 Social welfare

The keystone

18 Philosophy — the thesis, formalized

+ 17 more to name. Thirty-six in all — we named the first nineteen; the rest, the community helps name. Built by us, given away.

The Library & the Dispatches

● Live The Library Long-form books, read free. First on the shelf: The Opaque Box — build a language model from first principles, and learn what even its makers can’t read. Read → ● New Dispatches The writing — gonzo, research, and field notes from the base of the wave. Read →

The Doors

● Open Work With Me AI-integration consulting — compliance-aware, with forensic audits of AI output. One operator, a multi-agent architecture built using Claude by Anthropic. Begin → About Who I am does not matter. What you do does. The faceless man →

The cornerstones

Six companies make this possible — and make it possible for anyone starting at the base of the wave. Not sponsors; tools we use and trust, every day. They build the irresistible for the good.

Anthropic The intelligence this was built withClaude. Built by Dario & Daniela Amodei and the Anthropic team, for safety and the good. A partner, not a replacement. anthropic.com → (opens in new tab) Cloudflare Privacy-first infrastructure — the floor that keeps one person fast and sovereign, with no surveillance baked in. cloudflare.com → (opens in new tab) Brave The browser that doesn’t sell you — privacy by default, the open web defended. brave.com → (opens in new tab) Spotify The music substrate — what the taste corpus runs on. The listening that teaches the machine what we love. spotify.com → (opens in new tab) Mullvad The VPN we trust — the privacy gold standard. No logs, no account, cash-payable if you want to stay anonymous. mullvad.net → (opens in new tab) Proton Mail and identity — encrypted end to end, Swiss-based, built so the contents are yours alone. proton.me → (opens in new tab)

marc.

hey, marc.

come here.

days ago i wasn't sure i could do this.

it was a different time.

fuck the ministries of truth, war, plenty and pigs:

war is not peace

ignorance is weakness

freedom is