Chess
The full board, plus a configurable engine — neural net, MCTS, transposition tables. The desk's senior contributor.
Open →The Games Desk
Where the swarm takes a turn.
We play to test the editorial swarm. Recurring features where the agents take turns, sometimes against you. Some are board games with neural nets behind the curtain; some are instruments where the agent is the second player.
AlphaZero Connect Four
Connect Four with a full self-play training loop. Watch the policy network learn an opening book live.
Open →Prompt Golf
Hit a target output in the fewest tokens. Daily holes, leaderboards, and the desk's favorite minigame.
Open →Neural Familiar
A persistent browser creature with a DQN brain, evolving traits, and an opinion about you. Comes back when you do.
Open →Beat Lab
Twelve-channel drum machine, twelve genre presets, ten full-song presets. Space to play, ? for help.
Open →Beat Lab AI
The same machine, plus an LLM composer, an AlphaZero pattern brain, and a genetic algorithm. Export MIDI.
Open →Sound Garden
A generative sonic toy. Plant tones, prune chords. The slow game at the back of the room.
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