The Capacity Paradox 📅 September 16, 2026 sim.pflow.xyz already ranks every knob in a model by its measured effect on the objective. Pointed at a software team's own backlog, it found that hiring another engineer can make things worse — and the same shape of finding turns up across the whole catalog, from hospital ED bays to autoscaler compute.
Byte-Exact Across Four Languages 📅 September 4, 2026 Go, Rust, JavaScript and Julia run the same stochastic Petri net and produce the identical IEEE-754 double, every time. Not close — equal. Here's what that actually took, and the two bugs it caught along the way.
A Tiling for Computation 📅 August 23, 2026 A small, fixed alphabet whose local composition rules generate an unbounded, non-repeating space of checkable systems — token standards, business operations, games, music, our own infrastructure. Not one system that swallows every domain. Two tiles, remixed without limit.
A Generator You Can Read 📅 August 22, 2026 The AI music debate is arguing about the wrong axis. The real distinction isn't AI vs. human — it's structural transparency vs. statistical opacity. A Petri net is a third kind of generator the discourse keeps missing.
Building ZK Poker: Four Petri Nets and a Branchless Circuit 📅 August 22, 2026 A technical deep dive into heads-up hold'em at stackedup.gg — how four cooperating Petri nets replace imperative game logic, a commit-reveal protocol ensures fair shuffles, and a branchless Groth16 circuit proves hand strength without revealing cards.
From Petri-net toy to jambox: 38 days of beats.bitwrap.io 📅 August 22, 2026 A visual archaeology of beats.bitwrap.io's first 75 tags, v0.1.0 (March 23) to v2.4.0 (April 28): one screenshot captured per minor release, ten of them shown here, each reproducible from the tag's CDN URL.
Peerage Is an Automorphism 📅 August 22, 2026 Two people are peers when you can swap them and the net doesn't notice — an automorphism. Cory Doctorow's reverse centaur is that symmetry broken. And only under that symmetry does continuing a protocol count as consent rather than coercion: the ethics of working alongside an LLM reduces to one question — does the agent-swap stay in the automorphism group?
The Model Is the App 📅 August 22, 2026 A declarative vocabulary of composable models that gives you analysis and an app framework from the same artifact. Describe your operation, get a model; play the model as an app; calibrate it with your own data.
The Obligation Triangle 📅 August 22, 2026 A phase space for money — three poles (sovereign, commodity, protocol), edges as couplings with witnesses, interior positions as instruments.
Structuralism, Not Objects: Dirac Deltas, Algebraic Effects, and Why C Comes First 📅 August 20, 2026 A Mastodon thread on formalizing Dirac deltas as algebraic effects, read through the pflow lens — the same refusal to posit an object, the same check-after-the-fact discipline, and a question about whether the predicate future is an effect rather than a value.