Satchel Hamilton
The range

Projects

The thesis-carrying work lives in the case studies. This is everything else — research instruments, simulations, graphics, games — write-ups for the ones that earned them, and the rest fed straight from GitHub.

Write-ups

  • Graphics

    Cambrian — a 3D artificial-evolution toy

    Grow a random alien from a generative genome, then mutate and select it across generations — steer a blob toward a rodent toward a shark. Purely for the fun of it.

    • TypeScript
    • React Three Fiber
    • Vite
  • Games

    Omnia — a deterministic "everything simulator"

    A living town of hundreds of agents who work, marry, and die across generations — an ECS simulation with deterministic replay, invariant checking, and local-LLM agent minds kept off the hot path.

    • TypeScript
    • ECS
    • Ollama
  • Games

    Tavern — AI companions for Warcraft 3

    Free, offline local-LLM teammates and opponents for Warcraft 3: they chat, take voice commands, strategize over AMAI, and trash-talk — all on a LAN, no cloud.

    • Python
    • TypeScript → Lua
    • Ollama
    • whisper.cpp / Piper
  • Research

    LSAP-1 — an instrument for measuring prose

    A pilot protocol that scores a passage of fiction on thirty anchored axes — and a generation engine firewalled from the analyzer, so measurement can never quietly become imitation.

    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • React
    • scikit-learn

Live from GitHub

Every public repo that doesn't already have a case study or write-up elsewhere on the site — pulled straight from the account and refreshed hourly.

  • le-chat-cafe

    An old-school chat room, but every other "person" in it is an LLM. Part social simulator, part multi-agent LLM playground, part nostalgia trip for IRC/AIM-era chat.

    TypeScriptUpdated

  • Civilodynamics

    The quantitative science of how civilizations maintain coherence, accumulate stress, approach phase transitions, and reorganize — with attention to information architecture. A falsifiable, pre-registered, open research program extending cliodynamics.

    TeXUpdated

  • Essays-on-Technology-Ethics-and-Society

    Essays exploring the intersection of technology and society. Written by me.

    Updated

  • tree-based-griefer-list

    Sorts a list of griefers into an AVL or scapegoat tree depending on recieved command. Can process over one hundred thousand inputs in less than 1 second.

    PythonUpdated

  • autoloot

    An autoloot module that uses dynamic programming to solve the 0-1 knapsack problem.

    CUpdated

  • Armored-Soul-Prototype

    Roguelike RPG game prototype written in Python.

    PythonUpdated

  • FTP-client-server

    A miniature FTP client-server system.

    CUpdated