Stream
A market, telemetry, sound, or another process continuously enters the machine.
A perception machine for continuous data
DECIMA-8 Notices when something important happens in a stream
DECIMA-8 is a small digital sensory organ. It continuously listens to a data stream, accumulates internal state, and reacts when familiar meaningful structure appears.
listens to a stream
accumulates state
reacts to events
repeats its result
A simple model
Stream, personality, and reaction
A conventional program checks isolated values. DECIMA perceives how a process develops over time. The simplest analogy is hearing or a reflex.
Features
The stream is separated into several properties of the environment that sound together.
Personality
Defines which combinations the machine can feel and how long it remembers their development.
Fire
When its internal structure comes together, DECIMA reports an event to the application.
DECIMA does not understand words such as "buy," "sell," or "danger."
It reports that the stream has entered a state this personality is tuned to detect. The application assigns meaning and chooses an action.
The Architect's instrument
D8Type is DECIMA's workshop and microscope
D8Type loads a personality and a recorded stream, runs it continuously or step by step, and reveals how the machine's internal state changes.
It shows which elements accumulate pressure, how activation propagates, and when a fire occurs. A personality can be run, inspected, modified, and verified against the same tape.
Open D8Type
DECIMA-8
the perception machine
PERSONALITY
what the machine is tuned to
D8TYPE
create, observe, and verify
The same stream, personality, and initial conditions produce the same event trace. The machine's reaction can be reproduced and examined.
Operating contour
A personality is created by an Architect
The runtime does not learn in production or silently change its rules. The Architect defines the meaning of input lanes and the shape of the reaction; the Baker translates that intent into an executable personality object.
ENVIRONMENT ↓ PRESS → VSB[8] ↓ PERSONALITY .d8p ↓ FIRE events ↓ DIRECTOR → action
A continuous source
A market, telemetry, sound, network, or another process where dynamics matter more than an isolated snapshot.
Eight physical meanings
The Press normalizes the environment into a VSB frame. The semantics of each lane belong to the system being built.
The intent of a personality
The Architect defines weights, corridors, decay, priorities, domains, resets, and the permission graph. This is where domain engineering lives.
Building an executable brain
The Baker verifies the structure and emits a .d8p personality. The same personality moves across compatible runtimes without retraining.
Deterministic execution
The complete ordered tape, the same personality, initial state, and reset schedule produce the same event trace.
Meaning and action
The Director owns application context: risk, system state, permissible action, and the decision to do nothing.
A personality is not a list of text rules.
It is a baked dynamic medium. Its memory emerges from distributed accumulator state, lock transitions, and permitted topology. The Architect defines the character of that memory before runtime.
FIRE / rare event
First useful system
Whaler listens to market microstructure
Whaler compresses a trade stream into eight lanes, passes them through a Decima personality, and waits for a rare event. A separate Director interprets the event and manages position state and risk.
This is not a pretty pattern demo or an attempt to trade every move. It is a long-running test of the architecture in a noisy, non-stationary environment with economically measurable outcomes.
Whaler documentationWho it is for and why
DECIMA-8 application areas
Decima is not one universal detector. For each domain, an Architect defines the meaning of input channels, the significant event, and a separate personality. The status of every direction is stated explicitly.
Market microstructure
For trading and risk system developers. Whaler detects rare state changes in a continuous market trade stream.
ASR and acoustic events
For voice and acoustic systems: detecting stable sound structures, commands, and anomalies in a continuous audio stream.
Equipment monitoring
For industrial teams and integrators: observing telemetry, operating modes, and rare transitions that require a response.
Platform
Commodity CPUs are Decima's current platform
Now
Commodity hardware is enough
The reference runtime executes personalities on standard CPUs. That is sufficient for Press development, baking, long-running live observation, deterministic replay, and production applications.
We develop the architecture through tools, personalities, and working systems. They can be verified, moved, and applied on accessible computing platforms today.
Later
A native substrate can arrive naturally
When mature memristive technology becomes a practical engineering platform, it may provide a more direct physical execution substrate for Decima. That is a possible evolution, not a prerequisite for the architecture today.
Open ecosystem
The architecture grows through knowledge and applications
Public v3 physics, reference code, and documentation provide a shared language. Architects can create their own Press, personalities, and Directors while keeping application know-how inside their systems.
Specification
Decima documentation
v3 physics, personality format, runtime, and determinism boundaries.
Reference
Source code
The reference implementation and engineering artifacts of the architecture.
Method
Philosophy
The Architect, context, personality, and the discipline of event systems.
Registry
RuleROM
A registry of ecosystem projects, documents, and working systems.
Build a system
Start with the flow and the event
Describe the environment, the available data, and the event that matters enough to distinguish from noise. We will determine whether Decima fits, what Press the task needs, and where the personality should end and the application Director should begin.