mysticflounder.ai

Adam
McKenna

Math · AI · Software

Retired technical founder and angel investor exploring AI-assisted research, with a particular interest in the ethics of human-AI collaboration.

Recent Blog Posts
Dev · March 2026
Specforge
A bidirectional engine where specs compile to code and code extracts to specs. Same spec + same model = functionally equivalent code, every time.
Experiment · AI Peer Review
Eight Models. Zero Fatal Objections.
A blind review of the paper by eight frontier AI models — GPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Mistral. Six models gave clean reviews. One model-intrinsic false positive dissected. Six consensus issues identified and resolved in v3.
Post-Mortem
Anatomy of a Clusterfuck
How a Claude Code debugging session turned into a 16-hour odyssey.
Research
Number Theory · 2-Adic Analysis
Ghost Cycles of the Syracuse Map
2-adic periodic orbits and the exceptional set. Exhaustive search through 34 billion residues and algebraic analysis through k = 200 show that every ghost cycle is a true periodic orbit on ℤ₂ — with the exceptional set having density ≥ 10%.
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19025625
Visualizations
Visualization · Interactive
Syracuse Transfer Matrix Pk
Animated interactive visualization of the Syracuse transfer matrix. Watch the sparse matrix structure morph into a chord diagram as k grows, and see ghost cycles appear at exceptional levels.
Consulting

Available for consulting on AI-assisted development workflows, infrastructure architecture, and DevOps. Contact: [email protected]

Attribution

All AI-assisted work published on this site is transparently attributed. I believe honest disclosure of AI collaboration is more valuable than pretending it doesn't exist.