Essay
Newton Fes Talk Report: Yobinori Takumi × Yasunori Nomura
Event Report
The Special Session at Shibuya Hikarie: infinities and renormalisation, Hawking's information problem, holography (“100 squared, not 100 cubed”), Nomura's dark matter papers this year, and a “weak measurement” backstage.
Guide
Smart Glasses for Your Own AI
Rokid alternatives · 14 candidates
Compare Even G2, Mentra Live, Halo, RayNeo and Meta Display, plus Chinese products, US-only retail and crowdfunding. Find out which offer custom endpoint settings, which require SDK development, and which remain unverified for your own uncensored model.
Tool
Used Local-LLM Machine Finder
Search Japan's marketplaces · Deal checker
Search Mercari, Yahoo! Auctions, Yahoo! Flea Market and Rakuma at once, paste a listing, and see whether it's a great deal, fair, or overpriced against September 2026 sold prices. Compares the V100 32GB, RTX 3090, modified 3080 20GB and EVO-X2 by use, with Qwen4-27B in mind.
Database
The World's Genius Ranking
Genius Ranking · 50 Minds Alive Today
A ranking of fifty living great minds — Penrose, Witten, Tao, Deutsch and the pioneers of AI and biology — with their achievements, books, talks and social media. Latest papers are fetched live from the arXiv API.
Guide
Reading car Android from the bottom up
Android Automotive OS
Android Auto and Android Automotive OS share a name and nothing else. This follows one vehicle signal all the way up through the VHAL to the app — plus GAS certification, the barely-documented Carma program, and the 2026 Gemini migration. A developer's map, built from public sources only.
Tool
Better sleep — bedtime, pillow, bedding
BETTER SLEEP
Work back to a bedtime from your wake-up time, check pillow height, mattress firmness, seven before-bed habits, and when to see a sleep clinic.
Tool
Stop forgetting things — point-and-call leaving check
STOP FORGETTING
A leaving check where you point at each item at the door (daily, work, travel, rainy day — editable), where-I-put-it notes, three things before you get off, and what to do when something is lost.
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Train trouble — help card and recording
TRAIN TROUBLE
A full-screen help card for when you cannot speak (with read-aloud), audio recording to keep evidence (saved on your device), and what to do when harassed, groped, wrongly accused, in an on-board attack, delayed or when someone falls.
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Anti-hacking — breach check and link inspector
ANTI-HACKING
Check whether a password has leaked without sending it. Strength estimate, strong password generator, inspect suspicious links before opening them, a 12-point checklist, and the first hour after a hack.
Tool
Counter-surveillance — photo location, hidden cameras, tracking
COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE
Find and remove the location hidden in your photos, sweep for hidden cameras' infrared with your phone, audit AirTags, stalkerware, location sharing and signed-in devices, and spot industrial-espionage recruitment. Nothing leaves your device.
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Become Homo Deus — immortality, happiness, divinity, with evidence
BECOME HOMO DEUS
Harari's three goals as tools for today: score the eight numbers that extend life (AHA Life's Essential 8), measure wellbeing with WHO-5, and sort enhancement technologies by evidence. With a weekly upgrade plan.
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HOME FRONT — the wartime home screen you open when the alert sounds
HOME FRONT
Ukraine's Air Alert and Israel's Home Front Command, rebuilt for Japan. Press on an alert and it shows only the refuges you can still reach in time. JMA warning log, Yokohama's 515 water points and 454 disaster bases, family check-in with no location sent, printable PACE plan and offline save.
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SANCTUARY MAP — find safer ground by what survived 1945
SANCTUARY MAP
What survived the 1945 bombing of Tokyo lay far from strategic targets, shielded by temples, cemeteries, gardens and rivers. This map applies that rule to today's military sites, power plants, fuel depots, ports and airports, plus flood, tsunami, landslide, wetland, earthquake and lightning data, and paints a sanctuary score. Includes a before (1936–42) ⇄ after (1945–50) aerial photo swipe and 5,113 Tokyo missile shelters.
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Wartime map — shelters, elevation, nuclear estimate, 1945 Tokyo
SURVIVAL MAP
A map that runs on Japan's public geodata alone. Tap a point for elevation and nearby high ground, the nearest designated evacuation sites, flood/tsunami/landslide hazards, estimated nuclear-blast rings with downwind fallout, and 1945 US aerial photos of bombed Tokyo. First-10-minutes guides for nuclear, missile, drone and rogue-AI scenarios, plus comms, water, food and self-protection. No sign-up; your location stays on the device.
Game
Robot vs Drone vs Human
Survive the AI war with real sensors
Survive a Japan overrun by AI robots and autonomous drones — where your phone's accelerometer, microphone, compass, vibration and radio state are the actual game mechanics. Shake the phone and robots close in on the vibration; make a sound and drones swarm. The machines are enemies of each other, and the human's only weapon is hiding. Free in the browser, no sign-up, works offline.
App
ZENYU — The Counter That Doesn't Reset
Smoking, drinking, social media, late nights — you decide what to quit. But there's no streak counter. A number that resets to zero turns one slip into "it's all ruined." Over the same 90 days, one counter says "day 10," the other says "83 days done" — a chart at the top draws both lines so you can see the gap for yourself.
Tracker
Already-Cited New Papers
Papers under 90 days old that are already being cited
A weekly ranking of papers published in the last 90 days that have already picked up citations, across consciousness & brain, AI, physics, life sciences and mathematics. Sourced from OpenAlex, with open-access links where they exist.
App
Pagedive
Video to PDF, on-device
Mount your phone, record yourself flipping through a book, and Pagedive pulls out every page into a PDF. It all runs on your device — no video or image is ever uploaded. It is the video method from "Turning Books into Text", built.
Tracker
AGENT NOTES
Coding Agent Field Notes
Practical knowledge about Claude Code and other coding agents, collected daily from Zenn, Qiita, Hacker News and Reddit. Filtered for the things that aren't in the docs: configuration, workflow, and what went wrong. Headlines and links only — no reposting, no translation of anyone's text.
Guide
Digitising Books & OCR
Three methods, and the legal line
Cut and scan, shoot page by page, or film yourself flipping through. Compared on time, cost and accuracy — plus the unusual Japanese rule that doing it yourself is legal but paying someone is not, and a breakdown of what the video approach actually demands.
Guide
Buying Tennis Gear Cheaply
Last year's model, strings, break-even
Racquets drop to about half price one generation back. But the item that actually dominates annual cost is strings. Includes a calculator for single packs vs reels vs owning a stringing machine. It never claims a "cheapest" price — prices move, buying strategy doesn't.
Guide
Baseline
Grooming, in order of effect
Looking presentable isn't taste — it's the absence of things that read as neglect. Eight items ordered by how much they move the needle: hair, brows, clothes, skin, glasses, posture, smell, expression. Notably, it tells you when to stop.
Tracker
AI WATCH
AI Labs, Salons & Student Perks
Musk / xAI, Amodei / Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Singularity Salon and the major AI communities — news, videos and official blogs collected every 30 minutes onto one page. The second half is a dated list of AI perks a university email unlocks: Google AI Plus free for a year, the GitHub Student Pack, free Matsuo Lab courses — and the offers that have quietly closed.
Guide
Sources
The channels behind this site
77 YouTube channels that actually served as groundwork for the pages here, sorted into eight fields: brain and BCI, physics and cosmology, mathematics, research institutions, philosophy, programming, the body, and general curiosity. Faster than a textbook, gentler than a paper.
Essay
What Is DePIN?
Decentralized Physical Infrastructure
Wireless, maps, GPUs and storage built by individuals and tokens instead of one company: the token flywheel, a map of the main projects, and what you see when you split rewards from revenue. No investment advice.
Essay
“You Were Chosen by God” — 150 Years of Aoyama Gakuin
Chosen, for What?
The “chosen” that new students hear at a Christian school's entrance ceremony is about a task, not a privilege. The verse behind it (John 15:16), the Methodist view, the motto “Salt of the Earth, Light of the World,” and a 150-year timeline from three small mission schools.
Essay
The Unpredictability Ranking
Reflections on Perfect Randomness
Bell-certified quantum bits, uranium-238 and potassium-40 decay, a qubit on IBM hardware, the thermal noise inside a CPU, and pseudorandom generators — ten sources scored on the same four axes: freedom from determinism, resistance to an insider, third-party verifiability, and how little you must trust. Only one method can prove, by theorem, that even its builder could not know the next bit.
Guide
How close are we to Iron Man?
Jet suits, exoskeletons, the arc reactor
Jet suits really fly. Full-body exoskeletons are products. Only the arc reactor is missing. Ten abilities from the films graded against real products and research: real today, partly, in the lab, not soon.