Ryan Brady

Notes on robotics, world models, and machine learning

Teaching a Tiny Model to Read Like a Child, and Sit the Year 1 Phonics Check

How I trained a tiny model to teach itself to pass the Year 1 phonics check with no labels, no answer key

25 min read · October 30, 2026

2026 · reinforcement-learning world-models learning-from-experience
Beyond Static Embeddings: Training a 6,000-Parameter RL Agent to Actively Hunt Down Historical Planning Maps

Matching planning documents to the entirety of Greater Manchester using tiny models and reinforcemment learning

13 min read · October 15, 2026

2026 · machine-learning computer-vision mapping sovereign-ai reinforcement-learning
Sovereign AI for Greater Manchester: Geolocating 20 Years of Planning Docs with Edge-Ready Models

Matching planning documents to the entirety of Greater Manchester using contrastive learning and synthetic data.

8 min read · April 11, 2026

2026 · machine-learning computer-vision mapping sovereign-ai
Building a GAIA-1 Style World Model for Indoor Robot Navigation

How I trained an action-conditioned video world model from scratch on a home robot dataset.

5 min read · April 01, 2026

2026 · robotics world-models deep-learning