Side projects, how-tos, and what-nots — notes from the workshop on nuclear sims, graphics, 3D printing, and code.https://greenwoodms06.github.io/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/realistic-sensors-family/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/realistic-sensors-family/How RealisticSensors split into a UE5 capture plugin, a Python analysis toolkit (Forge), and a browser viewer (rsviewer) — the dates, the reasons, and what the capture and provider contracts between them buy.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTunreal-enginepythonsensorssimulationsynthetic-datavarsadevlogai-assistedhttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/is-the-soul-system-obsolete/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/is-the-soul-system-obsolete/Six weeks after Soul System 2.0 shipped, I audited it against everything the ecosystem now does for free — built-in AI memory, Obsidian vaults, memory servers. The plumbing is commodity now. The conscience still isn't. And giving the record a graph found two typos in my own files within minutes.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaihuman-ai-collaborationmethodologyclaude-codeai-assistedhttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/soul-system-2-0/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/soul-system-2-0/Soul System 2.0 is out — one plain page of rules your AI coding agent reads, four commands with teeth, and a book for humans. The shape left standing after a measurement program tried to kill the rest of it.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaihuman-ai-collaborationmethodologyclaude-codeai-assistedhttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/soul-system-efficacy/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/soul-system-efficacy/I ran the lean system against the best generic CLAUDE.md a careful session can write — real multi-session builds, scoring locked before anything ran. Every quality measure tied. The interesting part is why, and the two things that didn't.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaihuman-ai-collaborationmethodologyclaude-codemeasurementai-assistedhttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/soul-system-ablation/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/soul-system-ablation/I ablated my own AI doctrine layer under equal compute — every apparent win re-run against length-matched filler. Most of it was theatre. What survived is memory of the things the model can't guess.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaihuman-ai-collaborationmethodologyclaude-codemeasurementai-assistedhttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/dstf/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/dstf/A backend-agnostic harness for regression-testing time-dependent system behavior — five simulators, six tolerance-based comparison modes, and an interactive report that doubles as the authoring surface for acceptance criteria.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTtestingsimulationmodelicafmujuliaregressiondymolahttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/roster-rotation/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/roster-rotation/A vanilla-JS PWA that generates balanced youth-sports lineups — equal playing time first, with a pure rotation engine, live sideline editing, and an Android wrap from the same source.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTpwavanilla-jssportsalgorithmsoffline-firstcapacitorhttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/creativity-and-machines/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/creativity-and-machines/A position paper. "Can AI be creative?" is malformed — creativity is novelty × value, and AI has made novelty abundant while leaving value scarce. Three "value oracles" make machine creativity sharply domain-dependent.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaicreativityllmphilosophyposition-paperessayhttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/ideas-are-cheap/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/ideas-are-cheap/We spent seventy years asking whether machines can be creative. We were arguing about the wrong word.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaicreativityllmphilosophyessayai-assistedhttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/modelica-episode/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/modelica-episode/The third episode of soul-test-netflow — Modelica 4.1 running in Dymola, the mature commercial simulator. The 17×17 PWR fuel assembly that Julia could only extrapolate, completed in 397 seconds end-to-end.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTmodelicadymolanuclearthermal-hydraulicsbenchmarkacausal-modelingai-assistedhttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/three-walls-comparison/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/three-walls-comparison/The capstone of soul-test-netflow — same nuclear-reactor pin physics, three different software stacks. Each one hit a wall at a different scale. The claim worth staking is that the walls are ecosystem-shaped, not paradigm-shaped.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTpythonjuliamodelicamodelingtoolkitdymolanuclearthermal-hydraulicsbenchmarkacausal-modelinghttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/netflow-python-episode/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/netflow-python-episode/The first of three episodes in soul-test-netflow — a domain-agnostic "conservation on a network" solver in pure Python, with nuclear thermal-hydraulics as its first plugin.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTpythonnuclearthermal-hydraulicsnumerical-solverscipyai-assistedhttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/soultest-julia-mtk-episode/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/soultest-julia-mtk-episode/The Julia / MTK episode of soul-test-netflow — same physics as the Python netflow, on a high-level symbolic modeling library. Matched node-by-node to 25 mK with 14× less code, and stopped short of a full reactor-assembly model when the compile step became the bottleneck.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTjuliamodelingtoolkitnuclearthermal-hydraulicsbenchmarkacausal-modelingai-assistedhttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/why-this-site/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/why-this-site/A home for the side projects piling up — and the stories behind them.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTmetaai-assistedhttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/ue5-python-api/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/ue5-python-api/Reusable Python snippets for scripting the Unreal Engine 5 editor — listing assets, creating data assets, and importing files.Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTunreal-enginehow-topythonhttps://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/unreal-hololens2-setup/https://greenwoodms06.github.io/blog/unreal-hololens2-setup/A step-by-step setup guide for building HoloLens 2 augmented-reality projects in Unreal Engine 4.27+.Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 GMTunreal-enginehow-tohololens2augmented-reality