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The Missing Format
Format reliability as an unrecorded pre-training variable, and the case for building what the corpora no longer contain.
Research · 2026
Glaring Fireball
Format Composition: a proposal to measure what pre-training pipelines discard.
Research · 2026
Hierarchical Symmetry Selects Log-Poisson Cascades: Classification, Uniqueness, and Stability
Classification, uniqueness, and stability under hierarchical symmetry.
Research · 2026
The Last Fingerprint: How Markdown Training Shapes LLM Prose
A genealogy for the em dash, and what suppression reveals about fine-tuning.
Research · 2026
Cannot Read-Only
Consciousness may require something no computer can provide. Not more power. Less certainty.
Essay · 2026
On Lilies: Her Fractal Essence
It's between dimensions and it's in between her legs.
Essay · 2025
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