yan@yandesbiens:~$ git log --oneline --since=2023 --reverse
Evolution of the program
One program, traced honestly. Where each idea came from, what it solved, what replaced it, and what's still active. The throughline: structure can emerge from chaos if you let it loop — which became fractals, self-organizing memory, and local-first execution.
Curiosity
First contact. Small chat scripts, anomaly detection, toy agents — poking at AI the way you poke at a campfire.
- First agents & scripts archived
ai_chat, anomaly-detection experiments, tiny "creature" agents (bunny, fluffy). No thesis yet — just learning the terrain.
Chaos / genetic breeding
Genetic algorithms and "chaotic breeding" of binaries. Mostly noise — but it taught the one idea that survived everything: structure can emerge from chaos if you let it loop.
- Chaos experiments (beast, boomXD, 1024doom) archived
GA over binaries, self-referential loops, recursive feedback. Dead-ended as products, but seeded the recurring bet on emergence-from-recursion.
↳ evolved into: Fractal cognition (2025)
The fractal explosion
The obsession crystallized into real systems. Byte-level training from scratch, the fractal backbone, genetic architecture search, and inspectable local agents.
- byte_gpt → ForgeLM evolved Commodity Training
From-scratch byte-level GPT training (124M–774M) on one 4090 matured into ForgeLM, the commodity-training stack.
- Fractal Neurons / LILA active Fractal Cognition
A parameter-shared fractal backbone (~70M params, 65k+ runtime nodes), byte-level, MoE. The flagship intellectual core. LILA persona layer kept as speculative flavor.
- FNAS — fractal architecture search active Fractal Cognition
Genetic search over fractal model genomes with LLM-as-judge scoring.
- QJSON Agents + YSON shipped Agent Runtime Systems
Local-first agents whose identity and memory are plain, inspectable files; YSON persona format. FMM appeared here, independently, again.
Memory & runtimes
The recurring ideas got extracted, named, and — finally — benchmarked. Memory systems became the lab’s first proven thread.
- FMM extracted as a library shipped Memory Systems
The Fractal Memory idea — reinvented across four projects — pulled out into a standalone, MIT-licensed library.
- UFM extracted + benchmarked (Proof Drop #1) benchmarked Memory Systems
Unified Fractal Memory generalized FMM from semantic to physical memory. First reproducible proof drop: runs a 24 GB model on a 23.5 GB GPU; full-GPU throughput when the working set fits; honest no-locality failure case.
benchmark → · cite · ufm ↗
- Hermes / NeuroArch active Cognitive Architectures
A competent agent today; NeuroArch is the background-cognition cycle layer (idle reasoning, belief revision, crystallization) it does not yet fully run. Flagship long-term direction.
activebenchmarked shippedevolved archived
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