Bartosz Lenart Portfolio

On Kupala Night, fire, water, herbs, and the solstice synchronized a village that needed no written manual. The essay follows that coordination machinery from ritual to science and AI, then asks who controls the interface.

Much of brain computation stays below conscious access. Only a small subset of competing states ever wins broadcast. A family of conditions shares one fault line where the map and the report come apart. That split is also the architecture we are building

Angles survive what raw storage loses. A visual essay on Moroccan zellige, transformer KV-cache compression, and TurboQuant. Good compression keeps the pattern that still lets a system work after deletion.

A 2026 paper put electrodes inside ten human brains as patients watched a near-invisible flicker. The recordings map the handoff from visual cortex to frontoparietal ignition and the P3b wave on the scalp, the crossing associated with reportable seeing.

Vanillin can reach emotion and memory before deliberate thought catches up, a chatbot can begin matching your opinion before later layers recover the facts. Smell shows how fast verdicts form and where the analogy to language models ends.

A 45-nucleotide ribozyme can perform both halves of a replication cycle, yet a full self-copy still eludes the dish. The gap between copying and enduring leads from pre-LUCA chemistry to AI systems with fluent capability but fragile memory and boundaries.

Across 100,000 neutral prompts and 16 models, the count of unprompted "I think" or "I feel" was zero. Psychological self-talk appeared only after the prompt supplied the frame, a register switch that can look like a mind waking up.

Moving from answer generation to insight extraction. Agentic systems should augment human thought. They function as high-performance 'cyberpunk chrome' designed to extract and amplify the wisdom already present in your mind.

Yggdrasil sends one problem through several cognitive realms, each using different rules, then carries the strongest findings back across Bifröst. A Norse mnemonic for Tree-of-Thoughts, Graph-of-Thoughts, and parallel reasoning.

Human working memory holds only a few active chunks; an AI context window holds a fixed token budget. This essay uses the event horizon as a map for designing work at both limits.