Main quests:

• Now: Building General Intuition: Join Us
• 2024: Created Highlight: an applied AI org and AI assistant built on Medal's primitives
• 2018: Founded Medal: one of the largest social platforms in games
• 2014: Worked with MSF (Doctors without Borders), co-founded Mapswipe (contributing maps instead of money), and and worked on improving health information systems during emergencies
• 2008: Founded and ran the largest private server on Runescape at 14 years old

Recent Talks & Interviews:

• Robots Will Be Trained on Video Games at AI Engineer
• Tackling Ebola to Building Foundation Models with General Catalyst
• On World Models & Interactivity with Yann LeCun
• Or watch older interviews: Latent Space, Slush, RoboPapers, TBPN, TITV

Open Source (sidequests):

• UnityMainThreadDispatcher: The name is pretty self-explanatory :)
• Mapswipe: novel data methods for remote sensing and satellite data labeling during disasters.
• PDE Engine: an experimental tool to enable symbolic discovery of candidate closed‑form solutions to PDEs

Writing:

• The Netherlands in the Century of AI: a vision for the Netherlands in the most important year for AI (🇳🇱 NL / 🇬🇧 EN)
• World Models: Computing the Uncomputable in Not Boring, on world models & General Intuition

If you'd like to work with me, shoot me a dm on X. I'm always on the lookout for ambitious people who have an unreasonable sense of urgency behind everything they do.

I continue to both actively work on charitable goals and have pledged a large portion of my shares to charity through Founders Pledge.