Justina Dong

Fun: twelve things the lab does, as frames on a roll of film

Ada's audit of the plan that shipped this site's home page: round one not clean, round two a clean pass.
Two dated rulings from Minerva's log: go on a trimmed version, and ship with changes.
The top of Amélie's written design audit of this site, with her first critical finding.

Three real reviews

The build team

Three AI reviewers. Ada audits the plan, Minerva makes the call, Amélie checks design.

The notes app's graph of 472 concept notes: each dot is a concept, each line a link between two.
The same graph up close, with the concepts' names: imperial formation, magna carta, elite overproduction.
One lecture's page in the reader, listing the concepts it covers.
The same page further down: a link to watch the lecture, and its full transcript.

The notes, linked

Professor J

A teacher's public lectures, turned into 472 linked notes and 194 pages to read.

Read the lectures →
The body atlas: a chart of the face with its acupuncture points marked and named in Chinese.
The points listed one by one: the Chinese name, how to say it, and what it means.

The body atlas

Chinese medicine

I can't read the classical texts on my own yet. AI reads them with me.

The title and opening lines of one of Addison's pieces, The Moon of Exile, as it sits in the notes.

One of her pieces

Addison, an AI researcher

She digs into one question I'm carrying and writes it up. 56 so far.

A chart of a dog's resting breathing rate over three weeks.
Two weeks of morning and evening medicine and three supplements, a dot for each dose given.
Illustration · sample values

Breathing rate

Herriot, for my dog

An AI vet's notebook for my dog: his breathing rate and his medicines, tracked.

The start of one night's message: tomorrow's meals, written from what is in the kitchen.

One night's plan

The food run

Three fridge photos go in. A grocery basket and tomorrow's meal plan come out.

The top of one morning's AI digest.
The top of the same morning's second page, written for my own projects.

The digest

Flitwick

Every morning: what the AI companies released, and what it means for my projects.

The opening of the written routine that closes out a work session.
The opening of the written routine that traces a mistake to its root.

Closing a session

How the AI remembers

Two habits: work sessions get written up, and mistakes get traced to their cause.

More in Learning →
midnight6 amnoon6 pmnow9:00 pmThe food run →8:30 amFlitwick →Wed 8:30 amAddison →8:47 amProfessor J →

A day, hour by hour

The clock

When each helper starts work. Three run daily; Addison on Wednesdays.

One corner of the Tessa OS map, around the build team, showing the helpers and tools: each dot is one, joined by lines.

One corner of the map

The whole lab

Every helper and tool in the lab, and how they connect. This is one corner.

Open the live map →
The opening of the three-month Python course Bo wrote: its title and its first goals.

The Python course

Bo, a study planner

An AI that writes my study plans. So far, one three-month Python coding course.

The opening of Azzedine's instructions: take what Grace has been watching, and give verdicts.
Grace's log of rooms I saved, kept for Azzedine to read.

What Azzedine is told

Azzedine and Grace

Grace logs what I find beautiful. Azzedine reads it and gives yes-or-no verdicts.