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Mpemba and a Demon: A Shortcut to Freezing and Answer-Seeking

Bartosz Lenart, an AI systems builder, presents a portfolio focused on multi-agent workflows and regulation-aware stacks for high-stakes domains, with projects including Yggdrasil Agent, an agentic reasoning platform scoring 72% on the GAIA benchmark. His blog covers AI cognition topics, including an empirical study showing zero unprompted psychological language in 100,000 neutral prompts, challenging claims of emergent consciousness in LLMs.

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Mpemba and a Demon: A Shortcut to Freezing and Answer-Seeking
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My interests

AI & Machine LearningBrain-computer interfacesRobotics & AutomationNeuroscience & CognitionQuantum computing****Physics & Medicine

What I build #

Focus: AI systems, multi agent workflows, and regulation aware stacks for domains where failure is costly.

End to end: systems, product architecture, and UI/UX.

Interface, deployment, and maintainability get the same attention as the internals.

The standard: measurable behavior, traceable decisions, and code that survives handoff.

Technology Stack:

Python · FastAPI · LangGraph · Pydantic · GenAI · ML · React · Docker · SQL · Cloud

System evaluation & verification: benchmarks, regression catches, and explainable reasoning.** Medical AI & FHIR native toolingfor clinical workflows with auditable state. Financial crime prevention:AML and anti fraud pipelines with traceable decisions. Multi agent orchestration:typed contracts, observable handoffs, bounded tool use. Legacy modernization:**data pipelines and migration paths for AI adoption without downtime.

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LATEST

Bonfires in the Dark: Ritual, Science, and AI. The Interfaces We Live By.

Old ritual was not bad science but a coordination layer running under hard constraints. A look at how ritual, science, and AI each carry the work of building a world model and binding a community.

TOP.READS

The Mirror Has No Face: Why AI Only Sounds Conscious When You Ask It To

LLMs produce self-awareness language only when prompted. Empirical evidence shows zero unprompted psychological language in 100,000 neutral prompts, context-dependent register switching, not emergent consciousness.

The Event Horizon of Thought: Where Attention Meets Architecture

Human working memory and AI context windows share the same physics: exceed the boundary and reasoning collapses. How to stop fighting cognitive bottlenecks and design workflows that turn constraints into precision.

AI as Cognitive Prosthetic: You are the art, AI is an interface, the result is value.

Moving from answer generation to insight extraction. Agentic systems should augment human thought. They function as high-performance 'cyberpunk chrome' designed to extract and amplify the wisdom already present in your mind.

The Map Without a Vision: Your Brain Navigates a World You Can't Picture

Much of brain computation stays below conscious access. Only a small subset of competing states ever wins broadcast. A family of conditions shares one fault line where the map and the report come apart. That split is also the architecture we are building agents on.

Yggdrasil: Parallel AI Reasoning Architecture

A single tree grows in one direction. Yggdrasil doesn't just explore parallel paths. It detects when insights from one cognitive realm unlock breakthroughs in another, then builds the bridge.

The Geometry of Compression: Why Angles Survive What Raw Storage Loses

Angles survive what raw storage loses. A visual essay on Moroccan zellige, transformer KV-cache compression, and TurboQuant. Good compression keeps the pattern that still lets a system work after deletion.

The Neural Bifrost: Bridging Deep Brain Signals and the Surface of Consciousness

A 2026 paper put electrodes inside ten human brains while patients tried to see a near-invisible flicker. The result is a high-resolution view of how conscious access is gated, and the architecture is a bridge, not a destination.

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NEWSLETTER

Essays and field notes on AI, cognition, consciousness, and the architectures that shape how we think, build, and coordinate.

PROJ.DIR

Yggdrasil Agent

Agentic reasoning platform that solves complex tasks by exploring parallel solution paths. Ships with four interfaces (REST API, MCP, CLI, Chainlit UI), plugs into any LLM vendor, and scores 72% on the GAIA benchmark. Built to integrate into real workflows, not just demo well.

FHIR Flame

FhirFlame is a modular, Dockerized medical AI toolkit for processing healthcare data with multi-agent workflows. It features FHIR R4/R5 compliance, NLP entity extraction, DICOM support, local/cloud deployment (GPU-optimized), and secure API access.

HelloFibro

Chronic pain management app designed for fibromyalgia, combining supportive conversation, medication routines, and appointment preparation in one calm interface. Runs a MedGemma medical model pathway behind red-flag safety checks, with a 21-language interface and in-memory session isolation.

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Can Run

CanRun is a game compatibility checker that works as a NVIDIA G-Assist Plugin. It instantly analyzes your PC's hardware against game requirements, predicts performance, and provides upgrade recommendations-all through simple voice commands or API calls.

Turning complex reasoning into reliable AI systems. #

I help teams ship explainable AI systems, exploring agent workflows, and financial crime detection platforms that hold up under real operational and compliance pressure.

  • 15+years of embracing computer science, focused on AI-empowered systems - 5+years designing financial crime detection for regulated environments - PSM Ⅰcertified Professional Scrum Master

I enjoy exchanging notes with founders, researchers, engineers, clinicians, and operators working on agent reliability, medical AI, financial-crime systems, and cognitive architectures.

Bring a difficult problem, a contrarian thesis, a paper, or an ambitious idea.

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