instruments / the evidence method / tartaria-README.md · raw

The folder contract: a fetch is a noticing from a position. 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/tartaria

First topic. Chosen deliberately (2026-09-06), against the rule that a chosen topic collapses the pipeline into that topic. The guard: nothing under sources/ or derived/ may know the word "tartaria" except as a parameter; the same connectors run on the control topics.

sources/<connector>/     raw bytes as fetched, content-addressed; NEVER edited
sources/manifest.jsonl   one line per fetch: id (sha256), url, connector, fetched_at,
                         fetched_by, via_proxy, bytes, path — the POSITION of the noticing
beliefs/<origin>-<date>.md   frozen, dated weights per claim, per origin; never edited after
                         freeze — a new file is a new freeze
claims/                  extracted statements, each pointing at a source id + quote span
derived/                 vectors, projections, instrument outputs; reproducible from
                         sources/ + code hash

A fetch is a noticing from a position. The manifest records the position. Nothing here is frame-free.

What is in here (2026-09-07)

Sources are append-only; this list is a guide, sources/manifest.jsonl is the record.

wikipedia/ 10 pages (core + controls) · web/ 5 arc-of-interest pieces · x/ 4 search runs
openalex/ 2 queries · ia/ ~25 period texts (Tartary 1655-1706, fair reports 1892-93, Children's Aid Society 1854, 1871 fires, fortification 1636-73, incubator 1906)
ca/ 36 newspaper pages (orphan trains, incubators, Peshtigo, Chicago fire, Jackson Park, Tartary)
commons/ ~2,200 images: Maps of Tartary, Old maps of Asia, Maps of Siberia, the 1893 / 1904 / 1915 / 1889 expositions, star forts (241 subcategories), neonatal incubators, article images
locpic/ ~1,100 Library of Congress photographs: the 1893 fair, Detroit Publishing Co. court houses / city halls / high schools / post offices / capitols / libraries / stations, 1871 fire, orphan asylums, incubators, fortifications

Every image has a vision vector in the same space as the text (see pipeline/embed_images.py).

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