Introducing CatColab
Today we’re excited to announce the first pre-alpha release of our new software CatColab 0.1: Hummingbird. CatColab is software for making models of the world together. We aim to build a tool that can guide your thinking across different domains from unstructured notes all the way to an elaborate model composed of contributions from a large team and quantitative enough to allow for numerical simulations.
Your model is a formal object—it can be visualized, but as an emergent view on its more fundamental, mathematical semantics. You build your model in your preferred domain-specific logic, which you can think of as a kind of programming language, the first few of which are available for experimentation today. Depending on the logic, there are various well-specified analyses that let you compute things about your model, such as finding potentially powerful feedback loops in a social network or simulating the development of an ecosystem over time.
Soon, we’re going to implement capabilities to migrate models among various logic, so that you can communicate with your friends and collaborators without everyone being forced to settle on a single language. CatColab aims to be your universal translator for expressing precise structural thoughts about our world.
