Reading up on simulation

Fei-Fei Li proposes a taxonomy of world models into renderers, simulators, and planners, arguing simulation is the most consequential and underappreciated category.

Managing a business with numerous AI agents requires a 'world model' that simulates operations and predicts outcomes, shifting management from direct control to exception handling and simulation.

A vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator lets players guide crude oil through processing steps, designed as an interactive teaching tool for the developer's children.

A 300-line Python reproduction of a paper where self-replicating Brainfuck-like programs emerge from simple interaction and compete on a grid.

Roads in city-building games require complex procedural geometry techniques like clothoid curves to create realistic, curved paths rather than simple straight lines.

Sandboxels, a falling-sand simulation game originally created by R74N in 2019, has moved its web version to neal.fun while the Steam version continues separately.

Waymo introduces a world model built on DeepMind's Genie 3 that generates photorealistic, controllable simulations with camera and lidar data for training its autonomous driving system.