The almanac.
Short introductions to the research lineages each axis descends from, while the lab notebook fills with its own. Updated on no fixed schedule.
- № 003 · 2026 · 03 · 28
Conway's Game of Life: the simplest universe that learns to compute.
An introductory note on the cellular automaton that started everything we now call artificial life. Three rules, a flat grid, and the discovery that complexity is far cheaper than anyone in 1970 expected.
§01 · Life → - № 002 · 2026 · 02 · 14
Hughlings Jackson and the dreamy state of temporal-lobe seizures.
An introductory note on the first systematic clinical description of the temporal-lobe aura, written by a London neurologist in the 1880s and confirmed in the operating theatre seventy years later in Montreal.
§02 · Epilepsy → - № 001 · 2026 · 01 · 09
Tetlock's Good Judgment Project: how forecasting becomes measurable.
An introductory note on the long programme that turned political prediction from a televised opinion into a scored, falsifiable craft, and the standard of evidence Runaric tries to honour in /prediction.
§03 · Prediction → - № 000 · 2025 · 11 · 02
A preface: why this almanac is publishing at all.
An introductory note on the open-notebook tradition the lab descends from, and on the decision to publish the work as it is being done rather than after it is safely concluded.
§00 · Runaric →