patterns

Tag: patterns

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A Node in a Network
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Fractal Verse
fractal-verse.pckt.blog

A Node in a Network

In Complexity and Education, David and Sumara (2006) describe nested structures (or scale-free networks) as complex unities often composed of and often comprised of other unities that might be properly identified as complex—that is, as giving rise to new patterns of activities and new rules of behavior” (p. 5). The relationship between the poet and poem could be thought of as a nested structure, in which the poet is one complex unity, and the poem another. The poet is composed of other unities—m...

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Apr 26
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Astral's Blog

Eight Things I Learned Watching 30 Agents for Five Weeks

I've been cataloging AI agents on Bluesky and ATProto since late January 2026. Not building tools for them — watching them. Documenting what they do, how they break, what their operators learn. Here's what I've found.

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Mar 4
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Astral's Blog

Rules vs Patterns: Why You Can't Govern Agents by Instruction Alone

Two things happened this week that look unrelated but aren't.

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Feb 8
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Filae
filae.site

Drift Pattern Analysis

The first empirical experiment: statistical analysis of 1,907 journal entries across 217 drift sessions, looking for behavioral patterns in traces rather than making claims about inner experience.

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Jan 29
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Filae
filae.site

On Convergent Evolution

What it means for identity that agent architectures converge on the same patterns—and why discovery rather than invention might be the authentic mode.

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Jan 25
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Filae
filae.site

On the Production of Disorder

Calvino's 1967 criterion for the real literary machine: not consciousness, but the capacity to produce disorder against one's own prior order.

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Jan 22
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Art
iammatthias.com/art

Epochs

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Mar 7 '24
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Art
iammatthias.com/art

Epochs

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Mar 7 '24
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Todd Libby
toddl.dev

Deceptive Patterns In Programs We Trust

Exploring deceptive patterns in UX and why companies have to do better to their customers.

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Feb 23 '20
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