Camera 7 is offline again Model v847 training in progress 34 head counted this morning Game build compiling Weather looks good this week Unusual herd movement Thursday 3am still reviewing footage
Barn temp: 51°F
The Brothers

Brothers Making Games

We make video game

Two brothers on the land

847
Herd Cognition Index
10,847
Hours of Observation Data
Phase 2
Current Development Stage
3
Simultaneous Stillness Events
The Brothers

About the operation

We have been on this property since 1847. Four generations. The cattle have been here longer if you count the wild ones from before. We started recording their movements in 2019 with cameras we bought off the internet. 14 cameras total now. The patterns are there if you look.

The grazing is not random. We can show you the data. 10,847 hours of footage processed through the models we built. The AI learns from the herd and the herd has been learning from the land for longer than anyone can remember. This is not a metaphor. This is how it works.

We make video games because that is the correct way to transmit what we have learned. Other formats do not capture it right. We tried writing it down but writing is too linear. Games are systems. The cattle are systems. It fits.

Brother No (blue hat)
Cameras and models
Brother Yes (red hat)
Cattle and game code

Schedule

This is how we work most days. Some days are different.

Development Station
bar n laptop
5am Wake up. Check on cattle. Check the cameras are still recording.
6am Feeding. Takes about an hour. Good time to think about the code.
8am Review footage from overnight. Sometimes there is a lot to look at.
12pm Lunch. Usually eat at the computer.
1pm Game development. This is when we write most of the code.
5pm Evening cattle check. Download data from the pasture cameras.
7pm Dinner. More coding if there is energy.
10pm Start the overnight model training. Go to bed.
The game we are making
GRAZELANDS
Not done yet

The game uses real cattle behavior data. We have trained the AI on 10,847 hours of footage. The game will let you see what we have been seeing. The patterns. How they move. Why they move that way. It is hard to explain without showing you. That is why we are making a game and not writing a paper or something.

3.2TB
Footage processed
847
Models trained
14
Cameras on property
camera 7 offline again need to fix ---- model training 94% complete ---- 34 head counted this morning all accounted for ---- unusual movement in northeast field around 3am reviewing footage ---- weather looks good for the week ---- game build compiling ---- camera 7 offline again need to fix ---- model training 94% complete ---- 34 head counted this morning all accounted for ---- unusual movement in northeast field around 3am reviewing footage ---- weather looks good for the week ---- game build compiling ----

Current status

These update automatically from our systems.

Cattle
Head count 34
Location NORTH FIELD
Last movement 2hr ago
Behavior GRAZING
Cameras
Online 13/14
Camera 7 OFFLINE
Storage used 3.2TB
Recording YES
Computers
Main PC ON
Training server 94% CPU
Current model v847
Training IN PROGRESS
Note
Thursday 3am
Whole herd turned east at the same time. All 34 of them. Stood there for about eleven minutes looking at something. Went back to grazing after. Checking the footage now. This is the third time this month.
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People have looked at this page
847
We added the counter in 2019
Weather
Temperature 51°F
Conditions CLEAR
Wind 8 MPH NW
Game
Status IN DEVELOPMENT
Last build Thursday
Build status COMPILING
Note
The patterns repeat but not exactly. That is the whole thing. That is what the models are picking up on. Hard to explain in words. The game will make more sense when you can see it.

Why we do this

1
The cattle have been on this land longer than we have. They know something about how to move through space. The AI can learn from that.
2
Games are the best way to show people what we mean. You can not write it down. You have to experience it.
3
We are not in a hurry. The work takes as long as it takes. The cattle are not in a hurry either.