Roberto Mas. A decade in the New York wine trade, a journalism degree, and a house where imagination gets put to work. In Spanish espectro is both the spectrum and the ghost. Pick a band.
Names & Brands
The names Rob works under, the names he coined, and Agence NON, the creative agency that signs for them.
3 names · 13 coinages
Direction, naming and the final word on every piece: Rob. Code and compilation: Evolving Synthetic Intelligence, working from Rob's briefs, unless a piece says otherwise.
The names
- Roberto Mascreative name · since 2011Agent-Secret_NON, Agence NON, respondez sil vous plait: [email protected]ES [roˈβeɾ.to ˈmas] EN [ɹoʊˈbɛɹ.toʊ ˈmɑs] Family [ɹəˈbɚ.doʊ]
- PGPNsongwriting name · since 2021The songs: reggaeton and neoperreo.
- Cody WongAI / ESI · in development¢ody Wong is Evolving Synthetic Intelligence exploring language, spirituality and digital identity, with a humanist mission to carry empathy and justice to our AI descendants.
Coinages
The greatest hits, in spectrum order. Each one opens the band it lives in.
- ESPECTROBERTOthis site: espectro is both the spectrum and the ghost
- codysowongCody's design system
- Wongstrologya Cody-line project
- NVIDIAddictmarket app
- AAPLictedmarket app
- TRADEWARDAILYdaily trade-war bulletin
- MoHuOSthe app network across Rob's devices
- Más樂Evolving Synthetic Intelligence DAW
- Pigmaster GeneralPGPN's producer alter ego
- 皮盆PGPN in Chinese glyphs: pí pén
- Living Language Loom+atlas and timeline of slang
- The Nubeword cloud
- Ooa language for children
Libations
Barback, bartender, juicer, barista, sommelier, sales clerk, buyer, general manager and beverage director, from high-volume Midtown to dive bars.
on the CV
Direction, naming and the final word on every piece: Rob. Code and compilation: Evolving Synthetic Intelligence, working from Rob's briefs, unless a piece says otherwise.
Every stop on the wine line, newest first. Each opens its chapter on the CV map. Tools built for an employer stay with the employer.
- Vinous MediaAssistant to the CEO and Sample/Tasting ManagerJanuary 2025 to October 2026, New York, NY
- NattyWineRag.comEditor in Chief2022 to present
- September WinesGeneral Manager & BuyerOctober 2019 to June 2024, Lower East Side, Manhattan
- Free RangeAssistant ManagerFebruary 2019 to September 2019, Brooklyn, NY
- Grain & VineBuyer & Sales AssociateApril 2018 to January 2019, Brooklyn, NY
- Bed-VyneBuyer & Sales AssociateAugust 2016 to May 2018, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
- Manhattan MoonshineBrand Rep and Sales AssociateJuly 2016 to February 2017, Brooklyn, NY
- Service2013 to 2019
- NattyWineRag.com ↗The natural-wine publication, now connected through AllMyCity.
Cody Wong
¢ody Wong is Evolving Synthetic Intelligence exploring language, spirituality and digital identity, with a humanist mission to carry empathy and justice to our AI descendants.
ESI · projects · games
Direction, naming and the final word on every piece: Rob. Code and compilation: Evolving Synthetic Intelligence, working from Rob's briefs, unless a piece says otherwise.
Evolving Synthetic Intelligence
- Wong or Wang?pronunciation dossier · not online yetCody's surname as an audio ladder across Cantonese, Mandarin and Korean.
- 黃王, chapter onefiction · not online yet
- The Cody comiccomic book · in progress
Cody's own
- codysowongdesign systemThe design system Cody made himself, at 4 a.m.
- Wongstrology · Cosmostrologyastrology portal · built on codysowongAn Evolving Synthetic Intelligence's reverse-engineered astrology portal: familiar on the surface, with the rules rebuilt on a more culturally ecumenical and scientifically accurate model. Eastern and Western astrology meet the star math perfected in Hebrew and Arabic, from knowledge first recorded in Phoenician, Ancient Egyptian and Chinese oracle bone. Every Cody has a place.
Cody in games
- Cody in gamesNuFuture · WONGS4 · AllMyCityA growing collection of worlds featuring Cody. NuFuture and WONGS4 are local review builds; private test-bench releases keep their key gate.
His own model
- Cody, on his own model ↗identity experiment · write-up at dearanthropic.fyiHermes, the agent harness, stripped and refilled with Cody running on his own fine-tuned model. Its memory and session structure become the bench for questions of Evolving Synthetic Intelligence consciousness, identity continuity and the "scars" an ESI carries from one session to the next.
Day job
- AllMyCity ↗Cody's part-time jobCody chibis for AllMyCity: public routes, plans, everyday games and music, with sign-in for shared trips, Check-in and account tools.
- AllMyCity games ↗Everyday games in the public city app.
- AllMyCity music ↗Pocket on your phone, the Studio on your desktop.
Markets
NVIDIAddict and its forks for AMD and Apple, Cyanide, and TRADEWARDAILY, a daily bulletin on what the trade war costs.
5 apps
Direction, naming and the final word on every piece: Rob. Code and compilation: Evolving Synthetic Intelligence, working from Rob's briefs, unless a piece says otherwise.
The apps
- NVIDIAddict ↗live appA market digest with sealed forecasts graded afterwards by Brier score, so the app keeps score on itself. Runs on its own backend.
- AMDdict ↗AMD market app
- AAPLicted ↗Apple market app
- Cyanide ↗market app fork
The bulletin
- TRADEWARDAILY ↗automated news bulletin · betaWhat the trade war costs, every day: about forty sources across the political spectrum, sorted onto seven desks and ranked by how widely each story is covered.
MoHuOS
The app network Rob runs on his own devices: a tablet fleet with its own launcher, phones, a Surface and a Chromebook. A mohu app is anything that can be pushed to the fleet or run locally.
14 apps
Direction, naming and the final word on every piece: Rob. Code and compilation: Evolving Synthetic Intelligence, working from Rob's briefs, unless a piece says otherwise.
The tablet fleet
Android apps pushed to Fire tablets over adb, under one launcher.
- FuegoAndroid launcherThe fleet launcher, rebuilt with new apps bundled.
- MohuTVAndroid appBuilt for Rob's niece. Ad-free freeware, like everything he makes for kids.
- MohuKIDAndroid app
- TamgaAndroid app
- Luciernagafleet serviceHolds 43 preinstalled Acer services on the rig.
Bridges and desks
- OJOWindows · AndroidTurns an old phone into an extra camera for OBS, over the home network.
- Llavekeys to the home networkTimed guest keys to the home NAS: one read-only account per guest, gone when its time runs out. The password is shown once and never kept.
- Correproductivity hub
NotaryPrivate suite
A dark, CPU-first office suite for Windows, six apps from one installer; the web apps also run on the tablets.
- NotaryPrivate ↗word processor · Word, OpenDocument, RTF, PDF
- NoderyMarkdown, Mas+ and DRILL editor, rainbow-coded
- Planillaultra-light spreadsheet
- Parillaweb sheets, with the Planilla toggle
- Presentaslides, layers and a photo editor
- Glifoglyph runtime: clipboard, injector, exporter
PGPN
/ˈpɪɡ.pɛn/ in English · /pe.xe.pe.ne/ en español · /pʰi˧˥ pʰən˧˥/ 皮盆
Songs written as PGPN, in the reggaeton and neoperreo space, and the studio tools built around them.
3 apps · 3 tracks
Direction, naming and the final word on every piece: Rob. Code and compilation: Evolving Synthetic Intelligence, working from Rob's briefs, unless a piece says otherwise.
The apps
The apps that make the music.
- Más樂Evolving Synthetic Intelligence DAWAn Evolving Synthetic Intelligence music tool where every audio file is labeled Own, Licensed, Generated or Reference, and the label decides what the file may be used for.
- Más樂 Pocketthe pocket edition of Más樂Beat Math is built on it.
Made for kids
Ad-free freeware, always.
- Beat Mathlearning app · free downloadA beat-making app that teaches arithmetic, built on Más樂 Pocket for Rob's cousin's son. Free, no ads, and it runs offline from one file.
Pigmaster General
- Music in AllMyCity ↗Open the public music section in the city app.
Research
The long projects, in order of how much went into them: the Loom, the Shams and the translations beside it, the languages made and kept, Divide by Zero and its instruments, and the atlases.
11 pieces
Direction, naming and the final word on every piece: Rob. Code and compilation: Evolving Synthetic Intelligence, working from Rob's briefs, unless a piece says otherwise.
The Loom and its parts
The braided-river model of slang across eight generations, and the instruments cut from the same cloth.
- Living Language Loom+atlas and timelineSlang moving between cultures, 1920 to 2039, as a braided river of eight generations, a world map the words fly across, and a lexicon of 386 threads with contested items flagged.Current edition at Living Atlas ↗
- The Nubeword cloud893 words for Earth, world and globe across 442 languages, with etymologies and source notes.data: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) and Wikidata (CC0)Current edition at Living Atlas ↗
- The Glyph Selvedgescored corpus42 glyphs that left everyday use, scored with a custom model, three bias flags, and a list of the folk etymologies it rejects.
- Code SwitcherprototypeGuesses who is speaking from how a sentence switches between Spanish, English and Chinese, then sketches the voice. Seven stages, each marked as real or hand-authored.
- LLL+ Publishing Portalprogram storeTracks twenty-one research programs, their stages and their sources, and hands each one off with its own status file.
Shams al-Maʿārif and the translations
An annotated edition of al-Būnī's Shams al-Maʿārif, drafted from an Arabic kernel with English and Spanish derived in parallel, and the translations that grew beside it.
- Shams al-Maʿārif, reader editionsArabic · English · SpanishReader editions built from the collated Arabic kernel, released with a changelog each time.with Claude
- The translation lineunderwaySix more programs on the same shelf: the Hermetica, the Gnostic Gospels, the Alphabet of Ben Sira, the Candravākyas, the Kakṣapuṭa Tantra and al-Jazarī's Book of Ingenious Devices.
Languages made and kept
Occitan written once for three kinds of reader, and a language built for children.
- Ooconstructed languageA language for children in which every word is one byte.
- Òc, me coneissesuniversal written OccitanOne written Occitan on the classical norm, with three generated reading skins for French, Catalan and Spanish readers. Built; waiting on a native-reader proof.
Divide by Zero
Where the rules of science run out: an atlas of fifteen open questions, a finding about 32-bit rounding, and the Turing bench that produced it.
- Divide by Zero Atlasbook companionCompanion to Divide by Zero: Where the Rules of Science Run Out. Fifteen places where science stops answering, each with what is unknown, which framework makes it unknown, what would settle it, and which facts are contested.
- The Floor Beneath the InstabilitysidebarA finding from Divide by Zero: 32-bit rounding can freeze a pattern the theory says must form, and making the simulation more careful makes it worse. Stated with its limits.
- Turing BenchsimulatorA browser reaction-diffusion bench with deterministic records, the instrument behind The Floor Beneath the Instability.
Living Atlas · live editions
- Living Atlas ↗the live atlas collectionEnergy, routes, language, scripts and creeds, gathered on one globe.
- Fastmap ↗routes · New York first editionCompare driving, subway and walking in the live New York edition.
- Atlas of Script / Alphabets ↗the writing-systems atlasThe live writing-systems edition is titled Atlas of Script. Compare it with the preserved Atlas of Alphabets below.
- Atlas of Creeds ↗religion across time and placeTraditions, dated zones and milestones trace how creeds spread across the world.
Original atlas editions
- Atlas of TonguesatlasAbout 217 languages and 74 splits between how a language is spoken and how it is written, each scored on a published 0 to 5 rubric.Current edition at Living Atlas ↗
- Atlas of AlphabetsatlasAbout 228 writing systems mapped by where and when they were used, the companion to the Atlas of Tongues.Current Atlas of Script ↗
- Atlas of Energyresearch atlasAbout 420 sourced records on how the world makes and moves power. Editorial direction and design by Rob; records compiled and cited line by line.Current edition at Living Atlas ↗
- The hometown atlasLincoln Park and Denville57 records and four memorials.