Independent Research Lab
AI & Engineering · Society & Finance · Religion & Philosophy · Studies in Traditional Arts
Knowledge Base
Agent loops, tool calling, LLM applications and engineering practice.
Programming languages, debugging, scripting practice, and development experience.
Class mobility, social relationships and notes on real-world conditions.
Market notes, risk frameworks and macro finance observations.
Interview series, religious traditions, spiritual experience and cultivation themes.
Bazi, Zi Wei Dou Shu, and traditional destiny text compilation.
Traditional divination methods, numbered omen systems, and folk mantic materials.
Notes on electional rules, almanac systems, and traditional date selection.
Chinese character structure, stroke systems, and naming case research.
Editorial Picks
Marin’s largest training run will use 11 GB200 NVL72 systems for roughly three months while exposing its architecture, experiments, telemetry, and failures.
GPT-5.6 Sol now costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, with lower rates also reaching eligible Codex and ChatGPT Work credit usage.
Partnership failures are not only about choosing the wrong person, but about unclear rights and responsibilities, inconsistent documentation, and no workable exit path, which eventually drives human nature to its most unflattering extremes.
Foot-binding was not an isolated bad custom. It was bodily debt produced by beauty standards, class imitation, marriage-market pressures, and resource competition.
A nameology case study of 张海琪: analysis of the Five Grids, Three Talents configuration, career, finances, marriage, and health-related information.
A nameology case study of 潘宝莲: analysis of the Five Grids, Three Talents configuration, career, finances, marriage, and health-related information.
Interactive Tools
Track App Store subscription prices for AI apps such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity across regions, with lowest-price markets, currency conversion, and plan comparisons.
Enter a YouTube playlist link to batch extract all video titles and URLs, making it easy to copy them at once and import them into NotebookLM.
Enter birth date, time, and gender to generate the full seven-pillar natal chart (with fetal origin, life and body palaces), then drill into early limits, major cycles, and the annual, monthly, daily, and hourly cycles within them.
Enter birth date, time, and gender to plot the twelve-palace natal chart with its stars, then switch between major cycles, annual, and monthly cycles to read different periods.
Cast a hexagram by number, the yarrow-stalk method, or time, automatically deriving the original hexagram, changing lines, and resulting hexagram, with traditional interpretations.
Cast by number or by time to derive the primary, mutual, and changing hexagrams (chart only; interpretation not yet included).
Judge fortune through the six gods, casting by number or the current lunar time, with topical readings for fortune, wealth, love, career, and more.
A tarot system based on A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), with three spreads: a daily card, past–present–future, and the ten-card Celtic Cross.
Review topic-based day influences and the 12 double-hours from the Imperial Compendium, with auspicious, inauspicious, and conditional signals listed without an automated verdict.
Enter a Chinese name to calculate the five nameology grids (heaven, personality, earth, total, and external) by Kangxi stroke count, with each character's strokes, traditional form, and pinyin.
Enter an English name to compute basic name numbers across the Pythagorean, Cheiro / Chaldean, and Vedas systems (calculation only, without birthday, cycle, or annual interpretation).
Wong Tai Sin online fortune sticks: draw one verified by three moon-block casts, with poem, fortune level, story, and interpretation for all 100 sticks, plus topical readings on luck, career, wealth, and marriage.
Guan Di (God of War and Wealth) online fortune sticks: draw one verified by three moon-block casts, with poem, fortune level, story, and interpretation for all 100 sticks, plus topical readings on luck, career, wealth, and marriage.