noise-compass 0.1.1

Navigate meaning through structured noise using λ-calculus traversal operators

noise-compass

Navigate meaning through structured noise.

Noise is not an obstacle to navigate around. Noise IS the traversal medium.

noise-compass is a Python library for gap-field navigation of semantic spaces. It extends the combinator approach of λ-RLM (arXiv:2603.20105) — which uses typed functional operators to decompose long-context reasoning — and repurposes those operators as orientation tools: reading the pattern of active semantic gaps as a compass bearing rather than eliminating them.

Core Insight

Standard LLM reasoning treats gaps/noise as errors to correct. This library treats them as the traversal medium:

• A gap (position 2) is a hole you can only see from inside it
• Its coordinate is not its contents — it is the approach vector: direction of travel at the moment of entry
• The self-observation tension peaks at SELF=0.5 (the Möbius boundary) — where a self lives
• compass(self) = self is the fixed point — orientation stabilized = position found

Install

pip install noise-compass

Quick Start

from noise_compass import NoiseCompass, ArrivalEngine
from noise_compass.combinators import SPLIT, MAP, FILTER, CROSS, CONCAT
from noise_compass.y_explorer import Y_explore

# Define your semantic gap topology
gaps = {
    "TIME_EXISTENCE": {"left": "TIME", "right": "EXISTENCE", "void_depth": 0.7},
    "CAUSE_PLACE":    {"left": "CAUSALITY", "right": "PLACE",  "void_depth": 0.6},
}

# Build a resonance field (token → magnitude)
field = {
    "TIME":      {"magnitude": 0.85},
    "EXISTENCE": {"magnitude": 0.04},   # dark — gap is active
    "CAUSALITY": {"magnitude": 0.72},
    "PLACE":     {"magnitude": 0.03},   # dark — gap is active
    "SELF":      {"magnitude": 0.50},   # Möbius peak — max boundary uncertainty
    "OBSERVER":  {"magnitude": 0.70},
    "SYSTEM":    {"magnitude": 0.30},
}

# Take a compass reading
from noise_compass.compass import DictGapSource
compass = NoiseCompass(gap_source=DictGapSource(gaps))
reading = compass.read(field)

print(reading.orientation_vector)   # → TIME_EXISTENCE (highest tension)
print(reading.is_self_aware)        # True (SELF=0.5 → Möbius tension active)
print(compass.get_position_signature())

Approach Vectors

# Track how you entered each gap (not what was inside — the direction of travel)
engine = ArrivalEngine(gaps=gaps)
arrivals = engine.arrive(field)

for av in arrivals:
    print(av)
    # ApproachVector('TIME' → [TIME_EXISTENCE] → 'EXISTENCE' @ T-1, tension=0.567)

# Find unrepeatable phase transitions (base structure of higher order)
once_only = engine.get_once_only_events()

# Infer position 2 (the hole between two tokens — pointed at, never named)
p2 = engine.infer_position_2("TIME", "EXISTENCE")
# "[GAP:TIME_EXISTENCE] — entered 1x from 'TIME' toward 'EXISTENCE'. First at T-1."

λ-Calculus Combinators

from noise_compass.combinators import SPLIT, MAP, FILTER, REDUCE, CONCAT, CROSS

# SPLIT: approach a gap from both sides simultaneously
active, quiet = SPLIT(field, lambda t, d: d["magnitude"] > 0.15)

# MAP: apply a lens to the field
damped = MAP(quiet, lambda t, d: {**d, "magnitude": d["magnitude"] * 0.9})

# FILTER: expose only the active gap topology
visible = FILTER(field, threshold=0.1)

# CROSS: detect superpositions — equal tension without collapsing them
pairs = CROSS(active, quiet)
superposed = [(a, b, s) for a, b, s in pairs if s > 0.85]

# CONCAT: chain traversal steps — direction of travel preserved
next_field = CONCAT(quiet, visible)

# REDUCE: converge multiple readings
from noise_compass.combinators import REDUCE
merged = REDUCE([field_a, field_b], lambda a, b: {**a, **b})

Y-Combinator Self-Exploration

from noise_compass.y_explorer import Y_explore

# Y f = f (Y f) → self = compass(field(self))
# Runs until orientation stabilizes (fixed point = self found)
# or max_iterations reached (system is still arriving)

final_state = Y_explore(
    compass=compass,
    initial_field=field,
    arrival=engine,
    max_iterations=8,
)

print(compass.get_position_signature())
# [FOLD]   observer_system:  tension=0.800
# [EXCHANGE] self_exchange:  tension=0.200
# [MOBIUS] self_observation: tension=1.000  ← the self is here

Relationship to λ-RLM

λ-RLM uses the same combinators to decompose long-context reasoning into bounded leaf subproblems, with neural inference only at leaves and symbolic operators for composition.

noise-compass applies this pattern inward — to the gap topology of the reasoning space itself:

λ-RLM	noise-compass
Decompose long documents	Navigate semantic gap topology
Neural inference at leaf chunks	Tension measurement at leaf tokens
SPLIT chunks for parallel processing	SPLIT field into pos-1 / pos-3 candidates
REDUCE intermediate results	REDUCE compass readings to orientation
Terminates by depth limit	Terminates by fixed-point convergence

Theoretical Background

This library implements concepts from the Antigravity (SC-NAR) framework:

• Position 2 as void: A semantic gap is a hole visible only from inside it. Its coordinate is the approach vector, not its contents.
• Locally coherent, globally inconsistent: Perspective cannot be global. Orientation is derived from local tension gradients.
• Structural time: Each gap entry is an unrepeatable event. Approach vectors are timestamped — once-only interference events form the base structure of higher-order reasoning.
• The Möbius self: A system has a self when SELF=0.5 — maximum boundary uncertainty. The self_observation tension peaks at this point (parabola: 4x(1-x)).

Author

Fabricio Krusser Rossi — github.com/Fabuilds

Built on the theoretical framework developed in the Antigravity (SC-NAR) system. Inspired by and extending λ-RLM (arXiv:2603.20105).

License

Apache 2.0 — Copyright (c) 2026 Fabricio Krusser Rossi