Field notes
Studio news, research we ran into the ground, and short essays on building software people use

Splatting a cell tower
Taking 3D Gaussian Splatting from a room to a full BTS site, and what kept rendering on budget

Final 12 of 1,628 at Viettel AI Race 2026
28 hours, one digital-twin problem, a loud finish line

Humans in the loop are a feature, not a fallback
Why every agent we ship has a hand-off button, and why clients love it

We won Best of Polkadot at TOKEN2049 ORIGINS
Three days, one wallet, and a stage in Singapore

Ship the boring version first
Pick the dull architecture so the product can be interesting

Fall detection from a single ceiling camera
Lessons from IPBMS: false positives, privacy masks and nurses who don’t want another app
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