Papers
Research papers and formal writing.
- ·researchCanvas Engineering: Declared Causal Macrostructure for Reverse-Diffusion Latent Dynamics
Prompt engineering structures what a model sees; canvas engineering structures what a diffusion model thinks in. You declare the latent regions, their connectivity, temporal frequencies, and loss roles as a typed schema, and a compiler lowers it into attention masks on a stock diffusion transformer — turning declared connectivity into an explicit causal graph inside the reverse-diffusion dynamics.
- ·researchThe Shape of Inquiry
A working draft on scientific agency as measurement construction: the hidden work of making the world answerable.
- ·researchThe Shape of Experience
A working book draft arguing that affect has geometric structure for biological and artificial systems navigating uncertainty.
- ·researchLooped Attention in Video Diffusion Transformers
An empirical ROAM paper reporting 26 experiments and 236 training runs on looped attention, spatiotemporal canvases, CogVideoX-2B robot-video grafting, and the difference between parameter-efficient recurrence and actual iterative reasoning.
- ·researchThe Cortical Canvas
A theoretical ROAM paper framing spatiotemporal canvas allocation as an architectural analogue of cortical real estate, local/global connectivity, temporal hierarchy, and adaptive recurrent refinement.
- ·researchDifferentiable Tensor Computers for End-to-End Program Synthesis
A research paper specifying a complete von Neumann computer rebuilt as differentiable tensor operations in JAX, including soft ALU dispatch, soft memory hierarchies, temperature annealing, and a self-hosting compiler validation path.
- ·researchBroadening and building beyond classical reinforcement learning
A survey-flavored note on what we lose by treating RL as scalar-reward maximization, and what alternatives a more honest framing suggests.