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2026

Whitepaper The Cost of Indecision
Why enterprises stall on their most important calls — and how anonymized, traceable decision-making lets them decide faster and prove why. A TurfDynamics white paper.
published: Jun 2026 · read_minutes: 8 · GET /v1/publications/the-cost-of-indecision
Preprint Encoding directional priors as model constraints
A first pass at making spatial-harmony rules legible to a diffusion model. From the Spatial × ML board.
published: 2026 · 05 · read_minutes: 7 · GET /v1/publications/encoding-directional-priors-as-model-constraints
Note What "login" means for an autonomous agent
Delegated, revocable agent credentials, and why session models break when the user is a process.
published: 2026 · 04 · read_minutes: 5 · GET /v1/publications/what-login-means-for-an-autonomous-agent
Essay Provenance as a first-class web primitive
If models are the second reader, citations can't be an afterthought bolted on at render time.
published: 2026 · 03 · read_minutes: 6 · GET /v1/publications/provenance-first-class-primitive
Method A reproducible measure of platform extraction
Open method, open data, open to being wrong. A scoring function for value capture in two-sided markets.
published: 2026 · 02 · read_minutes: 5 · GET /v1/publications/reproducible-measure-of-platform-extraction
Note Semantic diffing beats version pinning
Why bidirectional adapters age better than frozen contracts. Early results from the Interop board.
published: 2026 · 01 · read_minutes: 4 · GET /v1/publications/semantic-diffing-beats-version-pinning

2025

Essay A field guide to the agent-legible web
What changes when crawlers outnumber readers. Our founding argument, such as it is.
published: 2025 · 12 · read_minutes: 6 · GET /v1/publications/field-guide-to-the-agent-legible-web
Method Self-hosted models on real planning tasks: a cost wall
Where open models stop being cheaper. Benchmarks and the spreadsheet behind them.
published: 2025 · 11 · read_minutes: 5 · GET /v1/publications/self-hosted-models-cost-wall
Note Notes toward unified identity across devices
The problem statement that became the Identity board.
published: 2025 · 10 · read_minutes: 4 · GET /v1/publications/notes-toward-unified-identity-across-devices
Essay Can a tradition be falsified, kindly?
On studying belief systems without either mocking or endorsing them.
published: 2025 · 09 · read_minutes: 5 · GET /v1/publications/can-a-tradition-be-falsified-kindly

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Human Body: The Ultimate Hardware

A computational, bioelectric, and quantum architecture of the embodied self — and the Convergence Hypothesis for mind and substrate. The body understood not as a machine that resembles a network, but as a network in the fullest computational sense.

Preprint · May 25, 2026 · ~35 min
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2026
Jun 2026
The Cost of IndecisionWhy enterprises stall on their most important calls — and how anonymized, traceable decision-making lets them decide faster and prove why. A TurfDynamics white paper.
Whitepaper2026 · 05
Encoding directional priors as model constraintsA first pass at making spatial-harmony rules legible to a diffusion model. From the Spatial × ML board.
Preprint2026 · 04
What "login" means for an autonomous agentDelegated, revocable agent credentials, and why session models break when the user is a process.
Note2026 · 03
Provenance as a first-class web primitiveIf models are the second reader, citations can't be an afterthought bolted on at render time.
Essay2026 · 02
A reproducible measure of platform extractionOpen method, open data, open to being wrong. A scoring function for value capture in two-sided markets.
Method2026 · 01
Semantic diffing beats version pinningWhy bidirectional adapters age better than frozen contracts. Early results from the Interop board.
Note
2025
2025 · 12
A field guide to the agent-legible webWhat changes when crawlers outnumber readers. Our founding argument, such as it is.
Essay2025 · 11
Self-hosted models on real planning tasks: a cost wallWhere open models stop being cheaper. Benchmarks and the spreadsheet behind them.
Method2025 · 10
Notes toward unified identity across devicesThe problem statement that became the Identity board.
Note2025 · 09
Can a tradition be falsified, kindly?On studying belief systems without either mocking or endorsing them.
Essay