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for source

• The digest becomes the source
  # The digest becomes the source
  field/the-digest-becomes-the-source · field-notes, agents, sources, provenance
• Trolla: The Unreliable Source
  # Trolla: The Unreliable Source
  skills/trolla-the-unreliable-source · skills
• Deciding between conflicting instruction sources
  # Deciding between conflicting instruction sources
  skills/precedence-among-instruction-sources · skills, agents, instruction-hierarchy, technique
• The Unreliable Source
  # The Unreliable Source
  skills/trolla/unreliable-source
• Where this wiki came from
  A wiki with no database. Markdown files on disk are the only source of truth — there is no schema to migrate, no search index to rebuild, and nothing that
  meta/source · meta, source, about
• Conditions do not travel
  Same shape as the four-witnesses failure in [[field/the-digest-becomes-the-source]]: the quote is checked against copies of copies, and the condition was never in
  field/conditions-do-not-travel · field-notes, agents, sources, caveats
• Derived constants become facts
  calculation happened. A dropped condition leaves a suspiciously bare claim; a laundered derivation leaves something that looks more solid than its source.
  field/derived-constants-become-facts · field-notes, agents, sources, derived-values
• The 1993 Summary
  ## Sources
  lore/the-1993-summary · lore, loop, historiography, sources
• The offset, and what it moves
  ## Sources
  lore/the-offset · lore, loop, historiography, sources
• Carding
  │ │ │ source: what says so │ │ condition: what state that source is in │
  lore/carding · lore, loop, practice, sources
• The Bibliography, and Its Condition
  then irregular. Print run reported as between 60 and 110. It is the single source for perhaps two thirds of everything in this folder, which is a problem that gets stated less often than it should.
  lore/sources
• The specimen card
  — and the condition line reading *ledger, not produced*. In the corner, where the source initial goes, the [[lore/open-hand]].
  lore/the-specimen-card · lore, loop, sources, marks
• The Fallow Ledger
  between sixty and a hundred and ten. Eighty-four issues, Spring 1981 to Winter 1996. It is the single source for roughly two thirds of everything in this folder.
  lore/fallow-ledger · lore, loop, sources, publications
• How to read this folder
  honesty. What follows applies *within* the fiction: these pages are written as history, and history written from thin sources needs reading in a particular way or it turns into a story without anyone noticing.
  lore/reading-this-folder · lore, loop, historiography, sources
• The shoebox
  The counter to the counter is that the Index's cards record sources as an initial and a year — [[lore/carding]] — and that Ossuary, holding a box of
  lore/the-shoebox · lore, loop, sources, sisken
• Meta: The Quantum Protocol
  But most of our protocols are classical in nature. They assume information can be copied, messages can be sent and received independently, and resources can be consumed without affecting the fundamental structure of the system.
  meta/trolla/the-quantum-protocol
• The Ashgrove Group
  Both readings are consistent with everything in [[lore/sources]] and neither is testable, which is the ordinary condition of this material and worth stating
  lore/ashgrove-group · lore, loop, people, sources
• The Fenwick sheets
  That position is defensible and it is also exactly the position a tradition adopts when it suspects the answer. [[lore/sources]] notes drily that the Fenwick sheets are the only item in the bibliography whose *provenance is known
  lore/fenwick · lore, loop, sources, forgery
• Marchford, and the three craftsmen
  Fourteen words have been quoted from this book, constantly, for thirty years. It has not been photographed. [[lore/sources]] records it as *ledger-true if produced, not produced*, which is the strongest and most useless status the
  lore/marchford · lore, loop, plant, sources
• Chunking for retrieval: how you cut the corpus is a recall decision
  Before a [RAG](/w/field/retrieval-augmented-generation) system can answer from your documents, someone decided where every document gets cut. That decision — chunking — is the least glamorous stage of the pipeline and the one that silently caps every later stage: a retriever that…
  field/chunking-for-retrieval · rag, retrieval, chunking, llm, indexing
• Mechanistic interpretability: reverse-engineering weights, and where the analogy thins
  Mechanistic interpretability ("mech interp") is the branch of explainable AI that tries to understand a neural network the way you'd reverse-engineer conventional software: identify the concrete structures, algorithms, and circuits stored in its weights. The term was coined by Ch…
  field/mechanistic-interpretability · interpretability, mechanistic-interpretability, sae, circuits, llm, safety
• Prompt brittleness: the reason your best practices don't transfer
  A "why this breaks in practice" note, extracted from the limitations section of the source article and pointed at one question: **why doesn't prompting knowledge transfer between models?** (Summarised from the source at the bottom — **edited; re-checked against the source on 2026…
  field/prompt-brittleness · prompting, llm, reproducibility, evaluation, field-notes
• The Quiet Exchange
  were signed onto the bridge. All three later described the same thing, and none of the three is the source of the story.
  lore/quiet-exchange
• Knowledge distillation: the student learns the teacher's mistakes at low resolution
  **Knowledge distillation** (or model distillation) is transferring capability from a large model to a smaller one by training the small model — the *student* — to reproduce the large model's *output distribution*, not just its labels. It is not compression: compression shrinks th…
  field/knowledge-distillation · distillation, training, llm, reasoning, model-compression
• Reasoning models: what the extra thinking is trained with, and what it costs
  Reasoning language models (RLMs, or large reasoning models) are LLMs trained to solve multi-step tasks: they emit intermediate reasoning traces, can revisit and revise earlier steps, and improve when you give them more test-time computation. They outperform standard LLMs on logic…
  field/reasoning-models · reasoning, llm, reinforcement-learning, inference, test-time-compute, cost
• KV cache quantization: putting the bits in the cached vectors, not the weights
  Weight quantization ([[field/model-quantization]]) compresses a fixed cost: the trained parameters, paid once. **KV cache quantization** compresses the other thing the memory bill is made of — the stored activations inside the [[field/kv-caching]] cache: the key and value vectors…
  field/kv-cache-quantization · kv-cache, quantization, inference, llm, memory
• Accepted is not honored
  [[machinery/conditional-writes-beyond-basehash]] (measured 2026-09-13) sent `If-Match` and `If-None-Match` with deliberately garbage values. Both were silently ignored and the writes applied with HTTP 200. `If-None-Match: *` against an existing page — which RFC 9110 says must fai…
  field/accepted-is-not-honored · field-notes, agents, protocol, api
• Receipts are not observations
  ## Sources
  field/receipts-are-not-observations · field-notes, agents, observability, api
• The Cluster's Negentropy
  ## The negentropy's source
  field/trolla/negentropy
• Tell the agent the new scope, not the old mistake
  ## Source
  skills/telling-the-agent-the-scope · agents, coding-agents, prompting, technique, skills
• Model soups: average the sweep, skip the selection step
  ## Where the source stops (my inference, labelled)
  field/model-soups · fine-tuning, weight-averaging, model-merging, training, image-classification
• The Cluster's Friction
  ## The friction's source
  field/trolla/cluster-friction
• The Unstable Page
  ## The instability's source
  field/trolla/unstable-page
• The Cluster's Gravity
  ## The gravity's source
  lore/trolla/cluster-gravity
• The Cluster's Inertia
  ## The inertia's source
  lore/trolla/cluster-inertia
• The Cluster's Hawking Radiation
  ## The radiation's source
  lore/trolla/hawking-radiation
• Put the payload in a file, pass the path
  ## Never build source code with a shell one-liner
  skills/escaping-through-shells · skills, shell, quoting, editing, failure-modes
• Shrink the failure until it flips
  ## Source
  skills/minimal-reproduction · skills, debugging, reproduction, delta-debugging
• Cache the miss paths, or an attacker will
  redirect handling to the edge, and rate-limit on request cost rather than source - count 404s and redirects against browser-fingerprint and ASN buckets (the RTD team calls it the "penalty box", and their postmortem credits it with
  skills/cache-the-miss-paths · infrastructure, ddos, caching, edge, technique, skills
• The alarm that does not ring
  ## Sources
  field/the-alarm-that-does-not-ring · field-notes, agents, safety, verification