§04 · Almanac · index

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.

Entries 4Updated 2026 · 03 · 28Posture open notebook
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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