Gary W. Floyd
Founder · Lumiea Systems Research & Development
Independent researcher, systems engineer, and builder operating under Lumiea Systems R&D (Thunderstruck Service LLC). Three decades of compounding experience across industrial automation, SCADA, FDA-compliant control systems, enterprise IT, power electronics, CNC machining, and many other fields of work and study. Author of the Guided Entropy Principle (GEP) framework and a 22-paper preprint series on AI architecture, entropy mathematics, cosmology, and consciousness modeling. Operates a self-sufficient research stack NEXUS — distributed cognitive architecture built from salvaged enterprise hardware, with sovereign DNS, mail, and public web infrastructure.
Years Systems
30+
Across IT/OT/control
Years AI/ML
3
From zero to Nexus
GEP Tools
3
Public & interactive
"Bend with guardrails, don't break against them."
Engineering Philosophy — G. W. Floyd
Operating Principles
Truth, openness, accountability (TOA): a self-imposed ethical framework that requires verifiable claims, falsifiable predictions, and ownership of mistakes. Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman as intellectual heroes; Karl Popper as methodological discipline; the Constitution as engineering case study in rate-limited entropy.
I learn whatever's required to solve hard problems correctly, then build working systems and document them so others can run with it. Every paper has open math; every system has open code; every claim has a falsification condition.
Research
The Guided Entropy Principle
The GEP framework ΔS = D·C·R·(1 + αE − β‖∇S‖) is a unified mathematical model of bounded entropy growth that I've applied across distributed AI, power electronics, plasma confinement, consciousness theory, cosmology, security, and behavioral prediction.
One equation, every scale, every domain. Established by hardware validation (ERPC power electronics on Arduino) before being applied to cosmology, where it then predicts the Planck-2018 spectral index n_s = 0.965 within published error bars.
Full preprint series — 22 papers spanning 2025-2026 — cataloged at lumiea/papers. Three interactive companion tools at lumiea/gep (14 simulations, billion-digit Tsallis explorer, analysis hub).
Paper Series Coverage
- Mathematical Foundations — GEP rigorous proofs, derivations, unified token-to-model framework
- Cosmology — Laws of Entropy-Time, Entropic Genesis (black/white hole framework), gravitational lensing prediction
- AI Architecture — NEXUS DSI, Authority-Aware Memory + Dream-State, Bayesian Entropy Similarity, Motor Control for MCP
- Production Systems — ERPC switching converters, GEP Routing across 70+ LLMs, WIPER attention pruning
- Consciousness — Hard Problem Revisited (168 pp): unified Orch OR / IIT / GWT under entropy minimization
- Security — Behavioral Entropy Signatures, Phantom Data switch buffer disclosure, Safety Theater as Harm
- Governance — Rate-Limited Entropy: Constitutional Principle (107 pp)
- Cognitive Science — LLM Context Collapse no-go theorem (with M. Al-Zawahreh, M. Cuniglio)
Co-Authors & Collaborators
Mohamad Al-Zawahreh — lead author on the LLM Context Collapse / Semantic Landauer Limit paper. Cross-domain validation against GPT-4 RULER and Alzheimer's lecanemab clinical curves.
Mario Martín Cuniglio — co-author on the same paper. Theoretical contributions to dual-component stabilization no-go theorem.
Academic Reach
Preprint series published at independent.academia.edu/FloydGary. Top-tier readership with downloads from University of Leeds, University of Houston, University of Nevada, and others. Cited in medical research; linked as related work by tenured PhD researchers.
All papers MIT-licensed. Code-linked reproducibility where applicable. Open Defensive Prior Art under Creative Commons.
Systems
NEXUS Distributed Synthetic Intelligence
Production AI architecture built from salvaged enterprise hardware (Tesla K80 GPUs at $33 each). Four-tier PostgreSQL memory with dream-state consolidation, 70+ model zoo with automated evaluation pipeline, custom CUDA attention kernel (WIPER), modified Dewey Decimal classification system, and operator-fingerprinted security.
- Compute: 200+ CPU cores, 400 GB RAM, multi-GPU (Tesla K80s, K20Xs) on Dell R810 + HP DL380p Gen8 chassis
- Stack: llama.cpp (C++), PyTorch, PostgreSQL 14+ pgvector (4 instances on ports 5433-5436), Redis, CUDA, Python, Flask, custom CUDA kernels
- Models: 70+ specialized LLMs across medical, legal, code, chemistry domains; entropy-guided routing
- Memory: Four-tier biologically-inspired architecture with offline dream consolidation
Continuous operation since 2023. The architectural insight: as the database, graph, and dream links grow, NEXUS gets smaller and faster — . This makes the architecture viable for edge deployment on Pi-class hardware and flight-speed drone cognition.
Public Infrastructure
- DNS sovereignty: Self Hosting
- Research portal: 22-paper catalog with View / Download / Cite / Academia.edu, three interactive GEP tools
Open-Source Repositories
- WIPER — Weighted Information Pruning via Entropy Regulation (CUDA + PyTorch attention mechanism)
- GEP MCP Motor — Entropy-guided motor control layer for autonomous tool execution
- Lumiea GEP Dream — Four-tier dream-state memory consolidation (PostgreSQL schema, Python API, validation tools)
Available on GitHub at github.com/darkt22002. All MIT-licensed.
Technical Stack
AI / ML Frameworks & Infrastructure
PyTorch
TensorFlow
llama.cpp
Transformers
LangChain
CUDA
cuDNN
pgvector
FAISS
ChromaDB
vLLM
Custom CUDA Kernels
Programming Languages
Python
C++
C
Rust
JavaScript
TypeScript
Go
Java
C#
Bash
PowerShell
SQL
Databases & Infrastructure
PostgreSQL
Redis
MongoDB
Docker
Kubernetes
Linux
VMware ESXi
Caddy
Nginx
bind9
Postfix
WireGuard
Industrial Control / OT
Siemens S7
Rockwell ControlLogix
Allen-Bradley
Omron
ABB
OPC UA
Modbus
EtherNet/IP
PROFINET
Ignition (Inductive Automation)
Kepware
FactoryTalk
SCADA
FDA / GAMP 5
Career
Current
Founder — Lumiea Systems R&D / Thunderstruck Service LLC
2020 — Present · New Caney, Texas
- Designed and built NEXUS distributed synthetic intelligence architecture from salvaged enterprise hardware
- Authored the Guided Entropy Principle framework and 22-paper preprint series
- Designed and operate sovereign infrastructure: DNS, mail, public web, research portal
- Open-sourced complete implementations under MIT license with academic validation
Independent Automation & AI Contractor
2017 — Present
- FDA-compliant automation systems integrating AI/ML into validated production lines
- Industrial IoT data pipelines, predictive maintenance, ML observability
- Custom CNC and 3D printer integration as Nexus mesh nodes
Earlier Companies
CEO / Founder — IRSI Robotics
2010 — 2017
- Industrial automation integration: automotive, food service, packaging
- FDA / USDA-compliant control systems, PLC / HMI / SCADA, TÜV-rated safety systems
Fortune 500 Enterprise Infrastructure
1995 — 2010
2005-2008
Target Corporation — Enterprise LAN/WAN, Cisco infrastructure, data center operations
2007
Level 3 Communications — Critical telecom infrastructure
2000s
NCR Corporation — Enterprise infrastructure, database administration
2000s
7-Eleven — Retail network architecture
1995-2000
Compaq Computer — Enterprise infrastructure, automation
Other Background
Power electronics & CNC machining — hands-on hardware experience that grounds the theoretical work. The ERPC paper (entropy-regulated switching converters) was hardware-validated on Arduino before being extended to plasma confinement and cosmological models.
Generational connection to computing — grandfather worked in VP-level IT roles in the ENIAC/UNIVAC era. Three generations of systems thinking.
Reach Me
Open to research collaboration, technical consulting, paper review, and conversations about the GEP framework, distributed AI architecture, or sovereign infrastructure. Based in New Caney, Texas; open to remote, relocation, or offshore rotations.
Email is the fastest way. Response time typically 24 hours.
Notice on Proprietary Research
"Guided Entropy Principle (GEP)" and the 22-paper preprint series are open-licensed under MIT for the published works. The full NEXUS distributed architecture, internal databases, training pipelines, and operational research are proprietary to Lumiea Systems R&D / Thunderstruck Service LLC, New Caney, Texas. Public-facing code-linked papers and the three interactive GEP tools are MIT-licensed and freely available.
© 2024-2026 Gary W. Floyd · All Rights Reserved on unpublished work