Andromeda
The Andromeda architecture was designed by Art Code Outdoors, with the architecture first demonstrated to me in 2019.
These documents are my personal interpretation of that work. I don't fully understand it, and I may have gotten things wrong.
The architecture diagram and GraphViz source below are the designer's own creations. The written documents are mine, and any errors in them are mine. This is a step on the path, not the destination. Free to copy and share.
Andromeda is not a proposal for a larger model. It is a documented cybernetic architecture for adaptive machine intelligence outside the neural-network paradigm.
These are living engineering documents produced during an active reference implementation. The engineering is proven — the documents iterate as the implementation progresses and transmission failures are identified.
These documents are provided for careful readers, informed operators, and future builders.
If you translate the terms back into weights, rewards, benchmarks, or training runs, you are no longer reading the architecture described here.
New readers: begin with the Layman's Guide, then Safety Considerations, then the Framework.
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Andromeda Framework v29My attempt to document the conceptual framework and architecture. May contain errors or incomplete understanding.
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Layman's Guide v12My plain-language interpretation of the architecture, for readers without a technical background.
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Safety Considerations v12My understanding of the architecture's safety profile. This is interpretation, not the designer's own assessment.
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Prima Figura (Illuminated)The architecture diagram as an illuminated manuscript. By Art Code Outdoors.
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Architecture Diagram: GraphViz SourceGraphViz source for the architecture diagram, with inline engineering notes. By Art Code Outdoors.
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Golem Tradition — Corrective ErrataTalmudic source texts and a Yijing/Neo-Confucian appendix providing historical and philosophical grounding for concepts the architecture evokes. The core material is in the Designer's Corrective Framing and Key Principles sections; the appendix provides supporting context.
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Proofs Collection v3Compact formal proofs extracted from the architecture's mathematical foundations. Compiled from the designer's work; errors in presentation are the documentarian's.
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Architecture Notes v5Supplementary architectural details from the reference implementation effort: universal principles, natural selection as physics, tape format, dense connectivity, developmental connectivity, organism topology, and control layer theory.
These documents accompany the Framework and should be read after it.
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The Control Layer — A Guide v4A standalone guide to the control layer for a general audience. Covers Braitenberg vehicles, boids, the Walter/Brooks/Tilden lineage, and the narrative of what the control layer is, what it cannot do, and what goes on top.
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Control Layer — Technical Specification v4Technical specification of the control layer for implementation contexts and model session loading. State variables, cell dynamics, connection computation, and formal interface definitions.