tho·gai — the peacock's plume
A small gallery of things built with AI, for no better reason than beauty.
The peacock's tail troubled Darwin. It is heavy, conspicuous, and costly to grow — and it exists anyway, because somewhere along the way, beauty itself became the point.
Most of what is said about AI is about usefulness: productivity, automation, returns. This site collects the other thing. Small, carefully finished works where AI carries the last mile — from possible to beautiful. None of them need to exist. That is rather the idea.
Each one is a single feather. The plume grows slowly.
A mental-model library in the spirit of Charlie Munger's Poor Charlie's Almanack. Describe a real situation in your own words, and an agent checks it against every model on the shelf — inversion, incentives, second-order effects — then returns to sharpen its best few guesses, so the shape of the problem changes before your eyes.
Enter the almanac →Goli — marble, in the Tamil of every street corner. Everything a child learns between four and seven — seven hundred and fifteen small ideas, from one-to-one counting to why volcanoes rumble — laid out as islands of stepping-stone marbles, each idea unlocking the ones built upon it. The lessons read themselves aloud, so even a child who cannot yet read can wander the map; every idea mastered turns a glass marble gold.
Roll a goli →New feathers are added as they finish growing.