Ajinkya Kulkarni
Unconventional cross-domain synthesizer of technology, AI & mind.
Projects
- Dharana — concentration practicesSpiritual Eyes-closed audio practices to train concentration — a voice gives you something to hold in your mind, then reveals the answer so you can check whether your attention held.
- BasicWorks 2000 A visual BASIC playground in your browser — drag out forms, drop controls, wire events, and run it. A loving rebuild of the Visual Basic era, autosaving locally.
- AI Agents for Science (NASA) Accelerated Knowledge Discovery — turning AI into a cognitive research partner for science.
- Earth Data in Plain English Put NASA, ESA & NOAA Earth-observation data to work on your own question — real Python and recipes in the browser, 3,657 datasets, live satellite imagery, and how to know when an answer is real.
- Life of a Stone An interactive tool that teaches the game of Go by reverse-engineering famous games — from a hands-on primer to AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol — with a 3D teacher who plays each stone by hand.
Explainers
- Why Lisp?Technical An interactive essay on what makes Lisp different — code as data, the REPL, and macros that let a program rewrite its own language. Why the parentheses are the point. 6 Jul 2026
- Game Math — the math behind gamesTechnical An interactive 13-chapter tour of the math behind games — vectors, Bézier curves, matrices, GPUs, boids, inverse kinematics, particles, springs, shaders and more. Every idea a live, playable demo. 4 Jul 2026
- Software Engineering 101Technical The tools got faster; the thinking didn’t get optional. Twelve interactive chapters on the parts of building software AI can’t do for you — requirements, scope, design, validation, edge cases, security, debugging. 2 Jul 2026
- Eval Engineering — how do you know it works?Technical A visual course on measuring stochastic software — datasets, graders, LLM-judges, the statistics, agent trajectories, regression gates, and the flywheel that turns failures into test cases. 2 Jul 2026
Writing
- blog 11 July 2026
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NASA's Earthdata, in Plain English Technical03 July 2026
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The Mind That Is Never Here Spiritual03 July 2026
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- blog 30 June 2026
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Project Tukaram Spiritual21 June 2026
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The Mind Comes to Love What You Repeat Spiritual21 June 2026
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She has her own ways of telling me Daughter19 June 2026
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Momentum is the key Spiritual14 June 2026
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Use AI to build pyramids, not houses Technical29 May 2026
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The feeling of unworthiness Spiritual24 May 2026
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Do ancient lists follow a map? Technical21 May 2026
Papers
- Plain-Language Names for NASA Earthdata: An LLM Experiment in Dataset Discoverability for Non-Specialists
- Rise of Swarajya: A Legitimacy-Based Framework for Designing Strategy Games and Teaching History
- Decode-then-Validate: A Model-Audited Pipeline for Hallucination-Resistant AI Reading of Premodern Marathi–Sanskrit Devotional Corpora
- Cost Modeling for Public-Facing LLM Chat Applications: An Equal-Budget, Refusal-Aware Comparison of Commercial APIs and Self-Hosted GPU Fleets
- The Chart as Specification: A Compositional Account of the Jiva, the Gestational Field, and the Mechanism of Mantra
- When the old answer forecloses thinking again: weak retention of prior conclusions as a structural precondition for re-derivative cognition
- Geographic encoding in premodern enumerations: a five-corpus quantitative test
- VISAGE — a visualization and exploration framework for environmental data
- Use of semantic technology to create curated data albums
- Data albums: an event-driven search, aggregation and curation tool for Earth science
- Introducing provenance capture into a legacy data system
- Talkoot: software tool to create collaboratories for Earth science
- Understanding identity exposure in pervasive computing environments
- DynamicSD: discover dynamic and uncertain services in pervasive computing environments
- Reciprocity attacks
- Understanding and minimizing identity exposure in ubiquitous computing environments