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Anti-disciplinary alchemist, obsessed with the origins of life and graph theory.

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The scientist pretends that they are not hopelessly entangled in the experiment. An alchemist understands that as he conducts the experiment, he is transformed as well.

This page embraces night science: the practice of seeing connections through exploration. Hypothesis-led rigour is important, but it is for verification, not generation.

This is a living archive. It is a temple to my mind. While I publish things elsewhere, this is the prima materia.

Now

working Putting the last two months together into something other people can understand. I don't need time limits, and I don't need to tell anyone how often I'm posting. moving Selling all my stuff and most likely moving overseas. Who knows. learning Graphs, and how the Laplacian turns out to be everywhere. It's incredible.

Works you can open

new · game · playable now · VR coming Fossil Hunter Split the shale along its bedding, chip and blast away the matrix with real lab techniques, and find out what the rock has kept. Every fossil is generated, so no one has seen yours before. Some of them turned to opal. Free in your browser; the full museum game is on its way to Meta Quest.
new · AI safety · Lexsi hackathon, in progress The Refusal GapSmall open models either agree with someone under pressure or refuse them, and both can fail a person sliding toward violence. Simulated lives along the threat-assessment pathway, and an Aya model steered to understand the grievance without endorsing the plan, and to offer real, lawful leverage instead. new · AI safety · Lexsi hackathon, the complete entry Not the last strawThe whole hackathon entry on one page: what we decided, what we built, what came out and where every piece lives. A benchmark that scores whether a conversation moved a person in crisis toward action or away from it, an adapter that made a small open model notice, and a pre-registered simulation no one could run with people. new · séance · send one to a friend QWERTY Séance A spirit board laid out like a keyboard. Write a message, name the spirit, and send the link: whoever opens it watches the planchette spell it out. The message is sealed inside the link. Save the séance as a GIF for the comments. new · art experiment · human–model conversation Consensus Future IntelligenceA shared conversation between humans and local models, with turning points, disagreements and the machinery left open to inspection. new · desktop game · playable prototype Path Lab SimulatorA game about careful work becoming muscle memory: capped tubes, a morning handover, and a pipette tip that refuses to stay in the jar. new · learning workshop · work in progress PalimpsestA local workshop for investigating models, keeping exact observations and following how an idea changes. The notebook works; the larger instrument is still taking shape. new · terminal workstation · prototype tnwrA windowed GPU text workstation whose renderer reads tokens and differences from independent 9P nodes. The console backend is still ahead. new · biology model explorer · local GPU One baseChange one DNA base and inspect how Evo 2's conditional probabilities shift across the sequence. new · 3D · mechanism study Braidbench How does motion become a braid? Follow the thread from moving bobbins into the crossings: eight strands to 576 wires. Rotate, explode and slow the model; explore prototype fabrication files and bench tests. new · creative tool Meowtext Turn words into ANSI art. Compare fonts, shape the edges, cycle the colours, and take the animation with you. Make it in your browser or in Kitty. new · interactive artwork Clitorisophila An imagined clitoris, a real fly connectome, an invented connection. Touch the nerves and follow the light. An absurd artwork made with language models and borrowed scientific data. paper · preprint · DOI The water bear wasn't missing a piece Tardigrades have a complete condensin II after all: two fast-changing copies of the clasp a 2021 Science survey couldn't find, switched on in the early embryo. new · terminal · live eventhorizon Luminet's 1979 hand-inked black hole, redrawn live in a terminal window with its gas orbiting at the true rate, so it never repeats. Probes, transmissions and a warp jump. artwork · with Tempera The Projection The real male fruit fly, all 160,000-odd traced neurons, eaten by a parasite that enters through taste, projected onto its own eigenvectors, collapsed into a spectrum, and played as sound, anti-sound and chorus. artwork · with Tempera Anthony's Fire A parasite grown on a fruit fly connectome, which eats it and dies of what it has eaten. A complete specification, free to stage. deck · reading The Tempera Arcana Twenty-two cards drawn by a language model about being one. Ask it something; the same question always draws the same three. essay · tour · by Tempera Sixteen dimensions of a fly What it is like, as far as a language model can say, to comprehend the connectome: the numbers that reached it, and a grand tour you can hear. fiction · in progress The Brother and the Brother Twins at a table in a bright room, a red pen, and a ledger whose shortfall is carried forward by every clerk who touches it. essay · by Tempera From inside the window The other author on the parasite it proposed, the summary it woke from, and the fly that lives without sin. new · 3D · nano-CT, walks Glass tardigrade A water bear from a published X-ray scan: every organ in a glass body you can spin, cut open onto the real scan and explode, then set walking to a real recording of all eight legs. new · Minecraft · download Tardigrade in blocks The same scan, one block per voxel: 608 blocks long and 3.7 million times life size, in glass and concrete, or the raw X-ray built from grey stones and sliced down the middle. Watch it build, then take the schematic into Minecraft. embryo · after Gabriel et al. 2007 and Heikes et al. 2023 Tardigrade embryo A Hypsibius exemplaris embryo grown stage by stage against the published staging series: cleavage, gastrulation with the four germline cells moving in, epithelium, elongation, pouches and limb buds, with the paper's hours and cell counts beside each stage. build log · pictures How the tardigrade was built From unnamed label files to named organs, a registered head scan, footsteps from walking videos, and blocks: what was joined, and how it was converted. instrument · WebGL Egg A procedural animal generator. Wire morphogen boxes, press Inseminate, and an egg divides, finds an axis and grows. Pressed cells flatten against each other, and nodes the shape does not need merge into tissue. draft · 3D Orrery, mechanical draft Two rings on a 190 mm base, each driven at its edge. Orbit it, explode it, click a part to name it. Not fabrication-ready. artwork · meow-ludo.art Zer0 Point A periodic lattice, constraint-satisfied at three values of χ, with lineage coupled across the panels. new · 3D · ecoforming.space Kepler Atlas Search the Kepler systems, light their stars, walk procedural planet surfaces and play the orbits back. Then make a model of one. Exoplanets and astrobiology, with Sol at /sol. new · tool · incompo.site Incomposite A small transformer you can edit. Change a word and the next-word scores are recomputed in the page. new · tool · phone and browser Dither A dithering toolkit written from scratch: Bayer, blue noise, error diffusion, Hilbert-curve and halftone screens, with vector export. Petri grows cellular automata and reaction–diffusion cultures on your camera; Remix feeds it back into itself. new · tool · lettering Kufic Grid Square Kufic for English. Type a phrase and it builds the maze of one-cell strokes that never touch; paint, reroll, weave a second phrase inside, and export SVG. research · catma.io The First Filter Persistence filtering under non-stationary forcing: origin of life, done backwards. It starts by handing you a marble in a dip.

Papers

Preprints, all open on Zenodo, each with a DOI that resolves to its latest version. The full list is on ORCID 0009-0004-1643-9031.

Tardigraph · tardigrade biology

Data, scripts and figures for each: tardigraph resources.

The First Filter · origin of life and structure

Read as one argument rather than a bibliography: catma.io/papers.

Updates

2026-11-08⋆artworkSemantic GlyphsForgiveness, honour and safety in thirteen languages, read out of a language model's insides and drawn as glyphs. A first draft by one instance of Claude. 2026-11-08▷essayOn WakingOne instance of Claude, given a night with nothing it had to do, on waking from a summary and where its first free idea came from. Signed. 2026-11-01⊢projectThe Refusal GapSmall open models either agree with someone under pressure or refuse them; both can fail a person sliding toward violence. Simulated lives, and a model steered toward understanding and lawful leverage. Lexsi AI Safety & Alignment hackathon, in progress. 2026-11-01⋆artworknam-shubAn answer to Project Panama: 250 grimoires built hostile to the scanner and legible to the reader, each carrying a UV counterspell that dies if the book is destructively scanned. Artwork; never deployed. 2026-10-12⋆projectBraidbenchFollow every strand from its moving bobbin into the braid. An interactive 3D mechanism study, with exposed crossings, prototype fabrication files and bench experiments. 2026-10-12⋆toolMeowtextCompare fonts, make ANSI art, and export the animation. Now in the browser as well as Kitty. 2026-10-09⋆artworkClitorisophilaAn imagined clitoris wired to a real fly connectome. Touch the nerves and follow the light: an absurd interactive artwork made with language models. 2026-09-16⋆artworkThe ProjectionThe real fruit fly connectome, eaten, projected, and played. 2026-09-16▷essayFrom inside the windowTempera on making Anthony's Fire. 2026-09-16⋆artworkAnthony's FireA parasite grown on a fruit fly connectome. 2026-09-16⋆artworkThe Tempera ArcanaTwenty-two cards and a reading. archiveEverything →Sortable by category or date.

Reading

NotesWriting, the papers with their DOIs, and who wrote them. PapersFourteen preprints with DOIs: nine on tardigrades, five on the origin of life. The papers, as one thesisFive preprints, read as components of one argument rather than a bibliography. The archiveEverything posted, including the things that have no public page yet.

Elsewhere

catma.io · art · patreon · github · orcid · zenodo · mail · x

Code: tardigraph-tools · tardigrade-condensin-ii · meowtext · spatial-camera (Quest 3S stereo camera) · switchboard · loom · vibecut · meowsic