MOTHERSHIP
Generative AI / Design Solver
A Ten Year Old Battle Tested Framework
Mother Nature hedges her genetic bets of survival by radiating species on as many available niches as possible.
This is to say, that to optimize designs in a multi-variable environment in the most resilient manner; nature radiates "species" (candidate solutions) over an ecosystem with many particular niches (problem domains).
A Multi-Variable Solver with a Main Heuristic
In a nutshell, it can be considered a multi-variable solver tied by a main heuristic and deploying a wide range of algorithms. Some of which include—but are not limited to—biologically inspired algorithms, custom built hill-climbers and other traditional techniques (i.e. XGBoost).
Originally, its purpose was to create AI Agents and Procedural Content for Game Engines. Most of its "building blocks" are mainly concerned—but not limited to—with Software Generation, it's able to write software and execute it in its own runtime, with its own purpose-built programming language.
The Main Heuristic
Taking inspiration from many different disciplines—mostly from Complex System Theories and ALife—Mothership blends them together to coordinate a massively parallel optimization/generation process.
It is unconventional. In a world that rewards publishing papers on a tight schedule to maintain tenure, an independent researcher is bound to no-one. Allowing him to explore avenues of research deemed unpopular back then. And continuing to be unpopular today. Ever since Sci-Hub, Science is free—Thanks Alex!
It is counter-intuitive. Some of its parts shouldn't work. But somehow they do, years of tinkering with it have shown which parts contribute and which don't. This painstakingly compounded through the years.
It is pragmatic. Its main focus is that anything it creates, works. Effectiveness is its maximum priority concern. It has been built from the ground up to be able to tune itself to fulfill its goals. There's no concern in the framework for actually knowing/interpreting the structures generated. Only effectiveness matters.
In the most holistic sense, Mothership's mindset is: If I were an alien on a unknown planet? What do I have to do in order to colonize it and flourish?