Maicon

Software Engineer · Santa Catarina, Brazil

I build software, cloud systems, and small experiments. I like simple tools that solve real problems and are easy to maintain.

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this month · 7 min read

How AI Could Turn the World Into Factorio

In Factorio, you don't build a factory by hand. You pick a blueprint, place it, and robots build it. One day we could build streets, farms and whole towns the same way.

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this month · 21 min read

Inside DeepSeek V4.1: 763 Billion Numbers, 8 Billion at a Time

A walk through every part of DeepSeek's newest open model, from the first token in to the last token out.

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this month · 9 min read

Manual Coding Is the Assembly of the AI Era

Almost nobody writes assembly by hand anymore. Soon, almost nobody will write code by hand either.

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this month · 6 min read

What Comes After AI Can Do Everything

When machines can do the work, the work that's left is deciding what it's for.

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last month · 19 min read

How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform 100 Occupations: Three Stages of the Future of Work

How AI that thinks, AI that uses a computer on its own, and robots could change what people do at work.

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Life and Worlds: Ants, Flocks, Genetic, Langton, Automata, Cosmos, World, Watershed. Physics: Particles, Objects, Powder, Fluid, Verlet. Light and Waves: Laser, Light, Antennas, Quantum. Graphics and Art: Tracing, Voxel, Marching, Splats, Render, Noise, Strings, Screensaver. Fractals: Mandelbrot, Infinite, Mandelbulb, Newton. Math: Collatz, Constants, Fourier, Prisoners, Probability, Babel. Algorithms: Sorting, Pathfinding, Queens, Collapse, Puzzles, Words, Maze, Bloom. Computers and Logic: Circuits, Riscv, Redstone, Lambda, Lean, Solidity. Security and Cryptography: Sha256, Pow, Pos, Security, Pi. Board Games: Connect4, Mcts, Checkers, Chess, Drops, Gomoku, Pentago, Noughts. Neural Networks: Cnn, Complete, Gradient, Mnist, Nca, Ternary. Image Models: Celeba, Flowers, Diffusion, Gan, Vae, Window, Upscale. Language Models: Gpt2, Distill, Lstm, Bert, Rwkv, Mamba, Sentiment, Transformer. Reinforcement Learning: Cartpole, Creature, Humanoid, Lander, Racing, Shooter, Mario.