How important
is π?
The physical world spins. Computers draw straight lines — and every near-miss compounds. Autocosm builds silicon that counts cyclic events as exact integer state in coprime rings: no drift, no carries, no approximation within range.
THE BILL
Approximation has a bill.
In Dhahran, a 24-bit clock truncated one ten-millionth of a second per tick. Over 100 hours the drift compounded to 0.34 s, a Patriot battery's range gate slid 687 meters, and it never fired. 28 soldiers died of a rounding error.
Nearly two-thirds of system energy on measured consumer workloads is spent moving data, not computing it. Linear registers pay rent on every carry — the reason always-on awareness hits a power wall.
Continuous RF awareness breaks battery budgets, so operators schedule blindness — exactly what a frequency-hopper exploits. One drone over Gatwick cost ~£50M in a single weekend.
TWO ACTS
One architecture. Two acts.
autocosm-rf-v1: always-on RF event detection in the 902–928 MHz band. It hears the frequency-hoppers that duty-cycled radios sleep through — on a µA-class power target, not watts.
A reflex tier beneath the OS and the planner: local integer hardware that keeps machines alive while the AI brain thinks. Safety enforced by silicon geometry — pathways that physically cannot execute an unsafe command.
TEAM
A small team with an exact obsession.
Autocosm is a founder-led team in Pittsburgh building physics-native computing — silicon whose internal geometry matches the world it measures.