World Models — attributed republication

Authors: David Ha and Jürgen Schmidhuber
Original publication: March 27, 2018
Original article: https://worldmodels.github.io/
Source: https://github.com/worldmodels/worldmodels.github.io
Pinned upstream commit: 351ca7e1bb6d2737db0571747830de76dd404be8
Republished on Zuko's Blog: October 18, 2026

The article's text and original diagrams are licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International, except where otherwise indicated. The complete
license, including its disclaimer of warranties, is included in LICENSE.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The original article's byline, citations, copyright notices, and reuse statement
are retained. Cited third-party illustrations are not covered by that grant.
The following illustrations remain hosted by the original article and are not
included in this repository:
- assets/world_model_comic.jpeg
- assets/kitaoka.jpeg
- assets/mccloud_baseball.jpeg
- assets/memory_consolidation.svg
- assets/world_models_1990.jpeg
- assets/world_models_1990_feedback.jpeg
Their original captions and credits are retained.

Bundled third-party JavaScript retains its upstream license notices.
This republication does not imply endorsement by the original authors.

Changes from the pinned source:
- Added a Jekyll post entry with the original authors and /world-models/ URL.
- Added site navigation and an explicit republication notice.
- Removed the original site's Google Analytics tracking code.
- Added a canonical link to the original article and adjusted sharing metadata.
- Disabled the Distill template’s duplicate metadata injection.
- Changed the six third-party illustration URLs to the original host.
- Initialized arrow-key states so steering works on the first keypress.
- Anchored demo controls to their canvases so lazy-loaded figures cannot displace them.
- Corrected manifest icon paths for hosting under /world-models/.
- Omitted unused assets, standalone demo pages, and operating-system metadata files.

The article and demos use the original pretrained model weights. They are
separate from Zuko's own training experiment at /world-models-carracing/.