The control: a subject with no pull on him, gathered the same way. A research program Kieran shapes and a model (the "seat") writes down. "I" in these files is the seat unless a line is quoted as his. The model's priors were frozen in a dated file before the corpus was read. Kieran holds no weights of his own, on purpose. Published here: the method, the model's frozen file, his thirty entry points verbatim (the model's frozen priors cover the first seventeen), the control, and counts. Never the transcripts, posts or usernames. Snapshot of 2026-10-15 from the private repo; local addresses and paths scrubbed, nothing else changed.
topics/erie-canal — the control
A subject Kieran has no pull on, gathered with the same connectors and the same kinds of queries as Tartaria, with entry points of the same shape. Its purpose is comparison: what do the decade histograms, overlaps and claim shapes look like for a topic without a narrative? Same contract as topics/tartaria (see its README).