World's Better Half

The Drone Doesn't Need a Better Route. It Needs a Better Next Question. Autonomous Systems // Research Analysis The Drone Doesn't Need a Better Route. It Needs a Better Next Question. We tend to think about autonomous drones in terms of navigation: Where should the drone go? Give it a map, define the waypoints, avoid obstacles, and optimise the route for time or battery. But there is a more interesting problem. What if the drone doesn't know what is important yet? Imagine a drone inspecting a large industrial facility. It begins with a planned route. As it flies, it discovers something unexpected: an anomaly, an obstruction, or an area that contains more useful information than anticipated. Should it continue following the original route? Or should what it has just learned change where it goes next? That is where informative path planning becomes interesting. And it points toward a broader shift in autonomous systems: From planning ...

Gaming Personal Essay Red Dead Redemption 2 I thought I was starting a game. I didn't expect to spend so much time thinking about the people inside it. I first stepped into Red Dead Redemption 2 expecting a good story and a big map. What I found instead was a world that felt lived in. Set in a fictional version of the United States in 1899, in the fading days of the Wild West, the game follows Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang as they move from one place to another, trying to survive while holding on to a dream that is slowly becoming harder to believe in. At first, it was the world itself that drew me in. The landscapes, wildlife, changing weather, small towns, campfires, conversations that happened without me, and all those little details that seemed to exist whether I was paying attention or not. Even something as simple as looking after a horse began to feel less like a game mechanic and more like part of a r...

Surah Āl ʿImrān · Page 67 Surah Āl ʿImrān — Hastening to Forgiveness, Attributes of the Righteous, and Comfort for the Believers Verses 3:133–140 · Page 67 📖 About This Page Surah Āl ʿImrān · Verses 133–140 Page 67 opens with an urgent call for believers to hasten toward the forgiveness of their Lord and a Paradise whose width encompasses the heavens and the earth, prepared for the righteous. It explicitly outlines the virtues of these believers: spending in ease and hardship, restraining anger, pardoning others, seeking immediate repentance upon sinning, and not persisting in wrong actions. The narrative then offers solace and vital perspective to the Muslim community following trials, urging them to travel the earth and reflect upon history. Reassur...

AI Governance // Analysis When the People Building AI Ask Us to Slow Down For years, the dominant message from the AI industry was consistent and loud: move faster, build bigger models, deploy more capable agents, shorten the development cycle. Capability was the objective. Velocity was the measure of success. Now something unusual is happening. The people building the frontier are beginning to say something different. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for the frontier to be paced so that safety and alignment work can catch up with capability advancement. Sam Altman has said that, given the current environment, an OpenAI IPO in 2026 would be ill-advised. Other major AI leaders have publicly echoed concern about the pace of frontier development. What are they seeing that the rest of us aren't — and what does it mean for how we govern AI in our own organisations? This is not simply another debate about AI safety. There is a deeper architectural...

Surah Āl ʿImrān · Page 66 Surah Āl ʿImrān — Divine Assistance at Badr, Lessons for Uhud, and the Prohibition of Usury Verses 3:122–132 · Page 66 📖 About This Page Surah Āl ʿImrān · Verses 122–132 Page 66 reflects upon the military engagements of the early Muslim community, reminding the believers of Allah's support when two factions were on the verge of losing courage during Uhud, and recalling the triumphant victory granted to them at the Battle of Badr despite their initial weakness. The verses describe the divine reinforcement of ranks with thousands of marked angels sent as glad tidings to reassure their hearts, emphasizing that true victory belongs solely to Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Wise. The narrative then shifts to socio-economic gu...