Hi, I'm Jay.

At parties I'm usually the one who ends up talking too much about something I've been reading. I don't mean to, it just happens — someone asks a question and I suddenly have a lot of thoughts about Bell Labs or why sleep is fascinating or what Poincaré understood before everyone else did.

I'm doing a master's in AI in Erlangen right now. The formal part is neural networks and algorithms. The part I actually think about is something harder to name — how intelligence emerges, what it means for a system to actually be alive to its environment rather than just solving a task. That's led me deep into physical AI: robots that learn from interaction, simulation that you can differentiate through, the gap between how things move in code and how they move in the world. I'm trying to build a full-stack understanding of it — from the molecules up to the policy. I don't have clean answers yet. I'm not sure I want them yet.

Outside of that I read a lot, cook things I've never tried before, play frisbee, learn salsa badly, and fill Obsidian with notes I'll definitely revisit someday. I care a lot more than I probably show. About the work, about the people around me, about getting things right. It's something I'm still figuring out how to carry.

If something I've written here made you want to reach out — please do. Collaboration, a question, a recommendation, a conversation that doesn't have a point yet. All of it is good.