Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer

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artist, engineer, researcher. live audio visual performer. artificial life, computation, neuroscience, machine psyche. science & art, futuristic & ancient.

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Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer

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experiment with a memory system that keeps rewriting itself: a hopfield network remembers an alphabet. as memories decay, it begins to hallucinate glyphs it was never taught - forgetting becomes a way of inventing.

~ memory is a flock of birds ~ i built a hopfield network and taught it the alphabet - then watched it remember in real time by adjusting the temperature. no neuron has the whole picture. the memory is distributed across every neuron’s connections.

i made a reading interface for spinoza and its commentaries throughout centuries, inspire by talmud: - scroll to adjust each era's thickness - hover to discover cross-references between commentators src code for subscribers ↓

networks we live by

imagining new interfaces for hand ✨

the memory of an alphabet

decipherment

syntaxes of the mind

i want to grow my ideas like a garden. a conceptual prototype inspired by this thread of tweets.

can ai agents invent writing on their own? recent pet project: 2 agents share a world but each sees only half. their only communication: 7×7 pixel glyphs. they develop symbols, build theories of meaning, and evaluate their own writing. no convergence yet but fascinating to watch!

gravitational survey

ways to visualize time-based media

visualizing all my claude code sessions: each plant is a project, its leaves the sessions. sliding the timeline scrubber -&gt; replaying projects growth over time.

magic exists and it’s in your hands ✨🧚 experiments with finger speed controlling particles.

visualize time-based media with gestures ✋✨🎥

◉⌖✦⟡ more experiments with radial and pinch ui

experimenting with color-coded flow fields to map personal interests: embedded my x bookmarks into 33 topic clusters, each acting as a gravitational attractor; their mass is calculated by cluster size, recency, or public engagement.

playing with fluid particle simulation 🌊🖐️

changing facial expression by hovering over face and moving mouse wheel, without prompting:

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trying to use topological data analysis to map the shape of my x bookmarks through mapper + embedding extraction and generated 3 views: - density: where attention keeps gravitating - pca: the dominant axes of variation - centroid: center vs edge (typical -> outlier)

woa this is so fun!

all my obsidian notes are now a living, digital garden 🌿🌸 each plant is a notes from a tag: older ones on the trunk, newer ones as leaves. i wanted to create a sense of tending your garden, so scrubbing the timeline lets you watch your notes grow chronologically.

exploring shapes of thoughts: extracted my obsidian notes' embeddings and arranges them as a 3d network using 3 different topologies: - centralized: one core idea connecting all - decentralized: notes cluster into themed hubs - distributed: edges labeled by llm describing how ideas connect

been working on this tool that turns memorable conversations into structured, searchable notes: - visual map of books/ppl/ideas - click them to hear the context - search the whole transcript - export to markdown - share almost ready for beta users - shoot me a dm if interested!

angelic gaze 𓆃 experimenting with face detection on paintings

the feature ive been working on: cross-pollination of ideas. ✦ particles drift between plants: when one touches two, it generates a brand new idea from both. a garden that doesn't just show your thinking - it extends it. releasing to x subscribers today &lt;3

playing with strange attractors : adjusting the constant b and see it goes through different bifurcation phases or become chaotic

turned this into a web app you can use with your own obsidian vault! no install, just one html file: point it at your notes folder, it embeds everything with gemini, clusters by meaning, and renders the 3d network in your browser. available now for x/twitter subscribers &lt;3

fly me to the stars✨ 🛩️🤗 made a hud interface that turns the hand into a virtual aircraft, controlling rolling(bank angle), altitude, direction and speed.

been working on moonfish, an obsidian writing companion. i see it as a small experiment in ambient/calm computing: keystrokes ripple a pond; sentences become fish; moons keep the weeks writing.

2025: another year of making 🌿🤖✨

these are gems ✨ i made a little interface for myself to better browse all these 300+ pdfs on one page, without scrolling it comes with two modes: stable (grid) and chaotic (a more playful k-d tree layout)

i made a tiny, concrete poetry library turns text into animated typographic textures ✨ the editor is where it gets fun: dial in preset patterns, layer color blobs...in an age of vibe coding, i want to build coding tools that still feels exploratory and invites infinite play🧚

an llm-powered word mood ring 🎨💫: hand crafting the warmth and energy of words in a sentence guided by the color pad

here it goes. most of the assets are made within the weekend

🔈🔈 made a simple euclidean sequencer with hand tracking; - pinch rotation changes the number of events on rings; - closing hand randomizes event timings

painting strange attractors with hand by adjusting one of the constants:

i made a realtime sketch aesthetic playground for my 3d print designs ✍️ - draw to guide ai - iterate thru presets - tune color and material aesthetic experiments at the speed of doodling 🎨✨ works in web, great with ipad + apple pencil. now code available for my x subscribers

visualizing all my claude code sessions: each plant is a project, its leaves the sessions. sliding the timeline scrubber -> replaying projects growth over time.

the feature ive been working on: cross-pollination of ideas. ✦ particles drift between plants: when one touches two, it generates a brand new idea from both. a garden that doesn't just show your thinking - it extends it. releasing to x subscribers today <3

turned this into a web app you can use with your own obsidian vault! no install, just one html file: point it at your notes folder, it embeds everything with gemini, clusters by meaning, and renders the 3d network in your browser. available now for x/twitter subscribers <3