The Datastream
where memory and processor become one
START HERE The reader's map
The Index
A reader's map of the series — every chapter and reference page, with a short summary of each. Expand any chapter for the gist and jump in where you like.
The Chapters
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· assimilaate · memristors · ai-hardware · edge-ai
Chapter 1: Transforms will be Assimilated
Ship synapses. Stream transforms. Forget weights.
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· memristors · ahah-plasticity · knowm-history · darpa-synapse
Chapter 2: Before I Knew of the Word Memristor
Twenty-five years assembling the synaptic solution.
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· thermodynamic-computing · kt-bit · self-organization · physical-intelligence
Chapter 3: The Thermodynamic Bit
Nature builds with one primitive, at every scale, and you've stared at it your whole life without actually seeing it.
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· memristors · kt-ram · ai-hardware · differential-pair · emulator · open-source
Chapter 3b: The Thermodynamic Bit, Derived
Store a weight in two memristors instead of N bits, and optimal annealing, Bayesian inference, and native probabilistic sampling become a property of matter.
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· memristors · eda · layout · knowm-history · ai-hardware
Chapter 3c: The Thermodynamic Bit, Built
Simulate a memristor synapse, draw it polygon by polygon, and send it to the fab — the part of building neuromorphic hardware where a circuit idea becomes silicon.
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· memristors · kt-ram · ai-hardware · crossbars
Chapter 4: The Neural Lane
kT-RAM is the genus. The neural lane is a species.
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· memristors · kt-ram · ai-hardware · differential-pair · emulator · open-source
Chapter 4b: The Neural Lane Emulator
An open Python emulator of the 2-1 neural lane — its object model and instruction set — checked on a single synapse against the Chapter 3b physics: inertia, evidence-counting, and the read as a thermal sample.
References & Essays
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· memristors · sdc · literature · research · knowm
A Decade of Knowm SDC Memristor Literature, Part 1
What the research community did with Knowm's Self-Directed Channel memristor across a decade of papers.
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· thermodynamic-computing · kt-bit · self-organization · reference
The kT-bit Catalog
Every place in Nature the thermodynamic bit actually shows up — and the ones that only look like it.
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· thermodynamic-computing · kt-bit · self-organization · reference
The kT-bit Reading List
The thinkers — a chemist, a physicist, a systems theorist, an ecologist, a roboticist — who circled the same primitive the kT-bit names, and where to find their work.
The information for self assembly is in the datastream.