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title: "Mark Tensen"
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canonical_name: "Mark Tensen"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-08-20T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Microcosmos (artificial-life engine)","Artificial Life Institute","differentiable physics","GPU simulation"]
seek_code_commit: "17d9798"
---


First and corresponding author of "Microcosmos: Reimagining Artificial Life
for the GPU Era" (arXiv:2607.02954, submitted 3 Jul 2026, accepted at ALIFE
2026), affiliated with the Artificial Life Institute.

Matters to this vault as the lead author of the single paper this vault's
Microcosmos cluster is built around — the linear-scaling design claim, the
four validating experiments, and this session's correction on the
chemotaxis experiment's mechanism all trace back to his paper.

## References
- [[claim-microcosmos-elastic-filaments-differentiable-gpu-fluid]]
- [[claim-microcosmos-linear-scaling-avoids-quadratic-gpu-populations]]
- [[claim-microcosmos-four-experiments-handdesigned-to-emergent]]
- [[claim-microcosmos-chemotaxis-is-fitness-rewarded-not-emergent]]
- Captures: 2026-07-09-hop-microcosmos-gpu-alife, 2026-08-20-do-microcosmoss-scaling-benchmark-linear-to-500k-particles