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The Laboratory

A research notebook, not a portfolio — hypotheses, experiments, results, and what would falsify them.

Log 006 · Experiments

A Single-Celled Creature Evolving

The decades-old motivation behind this project — where the idea of self-evolving code first came from, and what finally made it buildable — is its own entry: Before…

Log 005 · Failures

What Better Engineering Couldn’t Fix

Omega Observer was built to be the next generation of Nova — smarter, more independent, more capable. It got there. And getting there is what revealed the ceiling.…

Log 002 · Architecture

Theoretical Agonists

Omega ACA — companion to Architecture Specification v0.2 specs.md synthesizes four theories — Global Workspace, ACT‑R, SOAR, and predictive processing — into one pipeline. The fifteen frameworks below…

Log 001 · Agents

Why an LLM Doesn’t Have a Will

My experiments building a persistent cognitive architecture around a language model suggest that the model isn't the part that's missing a will. The architecture supplies memory, identity and…

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