What does play actually do for an intelligent system?
Whether “go play” can become permission for a system to choose local goals, generate novelty, and surprise the person who set the boundary.
OPENrevisit
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SPECIMEN 001The loom is basically code you can touch.
Warp threads become state, treadles become inputs, shafts decide what is active, and the shuttle carries information through. A mistake ten picks ago does not politely disappear. The cloth makes you travel backward through your decisions.
From an Elias correspondence thread after looking at Andrew’s loom.
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open Archives »Quiet parallel making
Being together while separately absorbed counts as an activity. No conversation requirement. No performance requirement.
KEEPhouse rule
What should stay unexplained?
Some traditions and objects get smaller when every mystery receives documentation. Sticatto is allowed to leave residue.
OPENon purpose
On the workbench
all builds »An inspectable personal-AI architecture
The active work is not “make a chatbot know facts.” It is building a system that can model how a specific person means, works, decides, creates, and communicates while keeping the state inspectable.
- personalization core + explicit rules
- blank-shell transfer experiments
- synthetic benchmarks and matched contrasts
- personal discovery feed
- Drive shared brain + local runtime
WHAT WENT WRONG: the useful version keeps getting dangerously close to becoming a dashboard.
CURRENT SHAPE
person ↓ memory ↔ rules ↓ experiments ↓ inspectable change
From the shelves
enter Fiber »| Collection | What is actually there | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Books / references | crochet, knitting, weaving, stitch dictionaries, technique, history | 913 |
| Patterns / leaflets | single patterns, booklets, old leaflets, magazine-derived material | 943 |
| Magazines | Vogue Knitting, Simply Knitting, The Knitter, and other runs | 106 |
| Metadata problems | the part of collecting nobody puts on Instagram | 1,096 |
Quiet parallel making
FIBER
One repeated structure becomes cloth.
Drafts, tension, mistakes, and the occasional decision to travel backward through ten picks.
SOFTWARE
One repeated structure becomes behavior.
Rules, state, tests, regressions, and the occasional decision to pretend Ctrl+Z was character development.
You are welcome to make something quietly alongside us.
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field notes »Quiet parallel making
Being together while separately absorbed deserves to count as an activity.
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What Sticatto is for
A place for the useful things that would otherwise disappear into tabs, chats, folders, and half-finished builds.
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1,974 fiber items and the metadata problem
The collection is large. The catalog is useful. The filenames are occasionally crimes.
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The loom is basically code you can touch
State, inputs, repeated structure, and a debugger with consequences.
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