Jakub Sygnowski blog

Staying fit is important for health reasons, but I don’t particularly enjoy exercising for its own sake.

I wanted to try out scuba diving for a while.

Recently, I built three small AI-related projects.

Jane Street is a hedge fund with a strong puzzle culture.

When visiting New Zealand a few years back, we stumbled upon Urbantics scavenger hunt.

The last time I had contact with electric currents was during physics class in high school more than a decade ago.

I find the work of air traffic controllers fascinating, scary, and powerful as they can move the planes with the power of their voices.

Multiagent algorithms are not in the mainstream focus nowadays, in particular, LLM development rarely incorporates them.

The default interaction method used with contemporary Large Language Models (LLMs) is a text chat: user asks a question, LLM gives an answer.

I recently found a copy of a Turing Machine game under a Christmas tree.

The internet typically relies on a client-server model, where a server hosts websites or applications, and users access them through their devices.

Humanity is making art since the dawn of time.

Mobile devices currently generate most of the traffic on the Internet, with Android being the most popular mobile operating system.

In my point-and-click adventure game, I use 3D characters.

Recently, I got into creating 3D environments in Blender.

In recent years, cloud computing became very popular: it is both used on single pages with CVs and governments’ apps worth hundreds of millions.

Blender recently introduced a new way of manipulating 3D meshes: geometry nodes.

To improve my 3d modeling skills in Blender, I made models for a set of chess pieces.

Here goes a story of a package with private items that I sent before moving from Switzerland to Poland.

3D scenes consist of objects, each of which has a shape and a material.

After watching one of the Two minute papers videos: a short video summary of a research paper made by ‪Károly Zsolnai-Fehér‬, YouTube algorithm suggested I should watch the rendering course of the same author next.

Adventure games, the genre I like, tend to contain a lot of talking.

When I was doing the graphics for the T.I.M.E stories expansion, I tried out various workflows for creating the content.

At the end of last year, I made a fan time stories scenario.

I did a Masters in Computer Science at MIM UW in Warsaw, Poland.

Tax rules, which describe what portion of one’s profit needs to pay to the government, are famously complex.

Board games are often sold in boxes that are bigger than necessary to fit the game elements.

I think I am learning the quickest when doing a sequence of well-defined challenges of appropriate difficulty.

The idea of telling stories interactively through video games is appealing to me.

Having drawn a lot of black-and-white ink sketches, I have now moved to draw digitally.

Ever since I got T.I.M.E stories for Christmas a couple of years ago, I was planning to make a fan scenario.

After finishing Drawabox, I tried to learn drawing the human figure with the Proko courses.

In May 2019, I decided to learn how to draw.

T.I.M.E stories is a cooperative board game where the players take the role of agents, who remotely control the avatars which are put in some turbulent moment of history to prevent spacetime disintegration due to events not going according to the historic…

In this post I am just testing various features of the blog.