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karst
A network stack with no seizable chokepoint, no accumulable position, and no markup. 17 layers, wire to discussion board.

Rust · 2 stars
celeganssim
Whole-organism C. elegans simulator built on the real WBcel235 genome and the Cook et al. 2019 connectome (2020 updated version) — 302 ne...

Python · 1 star

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60% of inhibitory synapses depolarise their target: the network delivers 8x more excitation than inhibition Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#35 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2026
The gait has a built-in turn: a quiet animal curls 109 degrees in two minutes Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#34 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Viewer: animal roster with names when more than one is simulated Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#33 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
The chemotaxis null is not exactly zero: che-1 scores negative Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#32 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Neuropeptide diffusion ranges: layer Ripoll-Sanchez range models over the Bentley edges Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#31 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Behavioural reference distributions instead of single-paper numbers (Open Worm Movement Database) Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#30 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Validate signal propagation against the measured functional atlas (Randi 2023) Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#29 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Per-cell biophysics from CeNGEN: we cache 95 genes of 13,669 Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#28 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Developmental connectomes: wire the graph to the life stage (Witvliet 2021) Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#27 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Male nervous system: build the second sex from the same release Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#26 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Medium-dependent drag: make swimming a property of the environment Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#25 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Social behaviour: npr-1 aggregation and bordering, once populations exist Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#24 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
The pharyngeal nervous system: make feeding mechanistic Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#23 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Egg laying: HSN, VC, vulval muscles, and the egl mutants Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#22 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Posterior body-wall muscle innervation is 37% below the published average (upstream data gap) Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#18 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
111 cells solve to leak reversals outside the ionic range, and the whole cell is 6x too leaky Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#17 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Strong-tap reversal probability does not habituate; deeper depression sensitises Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#16 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Layer the neuropeptidergic connectome as a slow modulatory graph (Ripoll-Sánchez 2023) Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#13 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Physiological sensory amplitudes are blocked on a pathway-discriminating readout (was: sensory injection uncalibrated) Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#12 · 12 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Proprioceptive CPG: emergent undulation from the neuromechanical loop (Wen et al. 2012) Open

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vdmkenny/celeganssim#10 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
The retrieval link is unauthenticated, and a nonce only closes the off-path case Open

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vdmkenny/karst#181 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Three supporting documents are unreachable from either entry point, including the one that answers the whitepaper's biggest gap Open

documentation

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vdmkenny/karst#173 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
L10's stated cost points at the wrong section, and the cost it names is missing from §6 entirely Open

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vdmkenny/karst#172 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
The status section links to a roadmap and a stocktake that describe an earlier version of the project Open

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vdmkenny/karst#171 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
The §8 status table is more optimistic than the per-layer text it summarises Open

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vdmkenny/karst#170 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
The paper's central cost is stated only as a multiplier; there is no absolute number anywhere, so feasibility cannot be judged Open

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vdmkenny/karst#169 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
The threat model omits the adversary the design spends most of its argument defending against: one who participates Open

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vdmkenny/karst#168 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
The header says there is no reference implementation; §8 says sixteen of seventeen layers are built and tested Open

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vdmkenny/karst#167 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
L7's stated open problem is latency, but the repository's own measurement says the problem is throughput and that bulk media must leave the anonymity network Open

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vdmkenny/karst#166 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
"karst-fuzz checks four properties against every decoder in the stack" is false, and the decoder the naming claim rests on is not among them Open

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vdmkenny/karst#165 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
The swarm argument never costs the viewers' uplinks, NAT, or metered connections Open

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vdmkenny/karst#163 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
The Device profile is not constructible from the paper's own dependency table Open

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vdmkenny/karst#162 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Messaging has no forward secrecy and no post-compromise security, and §5.1 claims the opposite while comparing itself favourably to Signal Open

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vdmkenny/karst#161 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Bulk media leaves the mixnet entirely, which the whitepaper neither mentions nor costs, and which contradicts L12's unconditional-resolution guarantee Open

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vdmkenny/karst#160 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
§5.1 says removing what Signal knows is the reason to build messaging here; the provider knows the same thing Open

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vdmkenny/karst#159 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
"Four of five at or below chance" understates the cited result: all five schemes scored below chance Open

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vdmkenny/karst#158 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Yang et al. and Alvisi et al. are cited by surname only and appear in no reference list Open

documentation

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vdmkenny/karst#157 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
A verbatim quotation and two bridge-pool figures are used with no attribution Open

documentation

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vdmkenny/karst#156 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Chaum-Fiat-Naor identity shares for double-spend attribution Open

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vdmkenny/karst#138 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
L1: segment occupancy has no sybil defence, and cannot have one without source anchoring Open

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vdmkenny/karst#130 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
L5 PSI is semi-honest: a lying responder can misattribute a genuine share Open

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vdmkenny/karst#91 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
L5 introduction is a membership oracle, and the defences are not cryptographic Open

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vdmkenny/karst#89 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
L8 Witness: the fallback for a jointly stale replica set Open

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vdmkenny/karst#80 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Nothing replicates: one provider holds a feed, and if it stops the feed stops Open

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vdmkenny/karst#77 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Feed deposits need per-fragment authorisation, so denial can be prevented rather than reported Open

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vdmkenny/karst#76 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
PIR client hints invalidate continuously in a publish-equals-index system Open

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vdmkenny/karst#73 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
L14: a lying holder escapes double-spend identification, needs cut-and-choose at issuance Open

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vdmkenny/karst#64 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
L14/L5: paying a relay reveals it is a relay, to the issuer quorum Open

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vdmkenny/karst#54 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2026
L6/L15: a fetch names what you wanted, and most of a catalogue is tail Open

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vdmkenny/karst#53 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
L5: membership concealment as the answer to the join boundary Open

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vdmkenny/karst#50 · Opened Jul 31, 2026

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