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A 92% coverage cell that turned out to be noise
A 500-draw simulation put an interval's coverage at 92.0% against a 95% target. A 2,000-draw re-run gives 94.1%, so the dip was Monte Carlo noise.
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A compass star for Maris Stella Labs: the new tab icon, app icon and link cards
The site's mark is now a navy-and-gold compass star, drawn from one set of shapes into the tab icon, app icons, header and every link preview card.
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A concrete calculator that orders in quarter yards
Slab, footing strip or piers in; cubic yards, a ready-mix order and bag counts out. A 12 x 12 ft slab at 4 in is 1.78 yd and an order of 2.
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A delivery drone spends 77% of its energy not cruising
On 134 measured Matrice 100 package-delivery flights, 77% of battery energy goes to climb, hover and acceleration, and one pack buys about 1 to 3 km one way.
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A drywall calculator that counts the cuts, not just the area
Room size, doors and windows in; sheets, screws, tape and compound out. A 12 x 12 ft room is 15.9 sheets by area and 17 to buy.
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A floor cantilever field on the framing page
The wall-framing takeoff page can now frame a floor whose joists, rim and subfloor run past the back support, as the command line already did.
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A number field that refused your degree-days
The degree-day box on the wall framing takeoff page had min 1 and step 10, so 6000 was flagged invalid. A repo check caught it; the step is now any.
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A 99% accurate newborn screen can still be wrong 91 times in 100
New story: with an assumed 1-in-10,000 condition, 99% sensitivity and 0.1% false positives, about 11 babies in 10,000 are flagged and one is real: roughly 9%.
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A shed wall with too many ways to join its plates
A junk-input fuzz test found a 40 ft shed wall whose top-plate joints took the shed designer minutes to choose. The search is now bounded.
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A sub-scale cargo drone needs a tail you can adjust in flight
In simulation no fixed tail keeps a 1:5 cargo-UAV model's gust response within 10% if tail lift slope is 25% off; a tail area set in flight does, for 67 of 78.
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Correlated sensor noise cost a model-identification fit 17 points of gust-prediction reliability, with no failures
aerolog-scaling milestone 9m: AR(1) noise at the same rms doubles short-period error in an output-error fit, silently, with zero fit failures.
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Bookkeeping rules for pressure washers, jewelry makers, notaries, sign shops and beekeepers
An eleventh probe of 41 made-up bank descriptors: 17 right before new rules, 41 after. Two of the misses were wrong expectations of ours.
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Bookkeeping rules for roofers, HVAC contractors, personal chefs, music teachers and massage therapists
A fifteenth probe of made-up bank descriptors: 15 of 30 right before new rules, 27 of 27 after.
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Bookkeeping rules for house cleaners, landscapers, yoga teachers, potters and dog trainers
A fourteenth probe of 30 made-up bank descriptors: 18 right before new rules, 30 after.
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Bookkeeping rules for florists, house painters, translators and process servers
A thirteenth probe of 40 made-up bank descriptors: 13 right before new rules, 40 after. Three misses were wrong expectations of ours.
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Bookkeeping rules for florists, home inspectors, food trucks, translators and event planners
A twelfth probe of 34 made-up bank descriptors: 13 right before new rules, 34 after. Five of the misses were wrong expectations of ours.
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Aim off: a fog story about being wrong on purpose
A new Hearth & Horizon story: GPS is spoofed in fog, so a boat's assistant steers a mile and a half off the harbour on purpose, to know which way to turn.
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Air leakage joins the wall-framing heat load
The wall-framing takeoff now turns a blower-door ACH50 result into infiltration heat loss alongside walls, windows, slab edge and ceiling.
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An llms.txt that says 'prototype' first
Local Site Studio now has an llms.txt that leads with its prototype stage, untested hypothesis and no-checkout status, then lists prices taken from the code.
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Saints by Candlelight, episode 61: Bartimaeus
A new bedtime episode told straight from Mark 10:46-52: a blind beggar at Jericho who was told to be quiet, and cried out all the more.
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Better batteries cannot flip a boat's hull ranking, and we checked
In a model of a 200 kg survey boat, 0 of 2,187 monohull-versus-catamaran cases swap rank across 150 to 250 Wh/kg packs; a 30 W hotel load sets best speed.
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Bigger design pools make zero-regret search harder to guarantee
On cached SKY130 results, the best design sits further from the cut line as the pool grows from 20 to 50 so a rank-based zero-regret guarantee holds less often.
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What a bootstrap penalty does to 33 real time series
On 33 real series the changepoint-detector's --bootstrap penalty returns fewer changes on 22 and more on none, but it also drops one step known to be real.
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Can your rafter take a birdsmouth? The notch gets deeper as the roof gets steeper
The seat of a birdsmouth is as wide as the wall plate, so a steeper pitch cuts a deeper notch. A 2x6 at 12:12 over a 3-1/2 in plate loses 45% of its depth.
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Can you drill that joist? A hole and notch check for floor framing
wall-framing-takeoff now checks plumbing holes and notches in floor joists against typed depth-fraction limits and reports which ones fail.
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Checking a stairwell header from the browser
The wall-framing takeoff page now checks a doubled stairwell header for bending, shear, deflection and hanger load from your own loads and stresses.
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Checking the header around a stairwell, with your own numbers
The wall-framing takeoff now checks the doubled header at a stairwell for bending, shear and deflection, from loads and lumber values you type in.
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Checking the trimmer's bearing at a stairwell
wall-framing-takeoff now fails a stairwell trimmer whose larger end reaction exceeds a bearing capacity you type in.
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Clicking through the floor cantilever field
The wall-framing page's cantilever field is now checked in a real browser: the card, the saved plan and the 8 ft limit.
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Collision avoidance that obeys the rules: three planners on 115 encounters
A COLREGs-aware velocity-obstacle planner passes 100 m clear in 95.7% of 115 scripted encounters; sensing error and stand-on range break it.
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Compressing 1/4 of the update cost nothing; 1/16 cost 0.044 nats
A six-seed test on a 0.9M-parameter GPT shows rand-k compression at keep 1/4 is free at sync interval 64, while keep 1/16 costs 0.044 nats.
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Counting straps at a stairwell header, from figures you type
The framing takeoff now turns a typed tie force and a typed strap rating into a strap count per stairwell header.
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Counting the nails in every joist hanger
The wall-framing takeoff now totals hanger nails from typed per-hanger counts and prices them in the budget.
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Deck blocking, now a field on the deck page
The wall-framing takeoff page can now add rows of blocking across deck joists and count the pieces, without editing a plan file.
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Checking deck posts for column buckling without leaving the page
The deck post check (NDS column stability and beam bearing) now takes its loads from one page field. A 16 x 12 ft deck at 36 in: 4x4 posts at 19%, 6x6 at 8%.
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Does a deck post ever fail in compression? Numbers from the takeoff
A 16 x 12 ft deck at 50 psf puts about 2,300 lb on its busiest post. A 4x4 at 90 in is still at 27% of its column capacity. Where the limit really is.
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A dormer window with a sill below the floor
Probing the dormer framing engine's window input found that a negative sill height was accepted and framed. It is now rejected.
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Drone versus truck: energy per package from 134 measured flights
From 134 measured quadcopter flights, a drone beats a diesel truck on energy per package out to 63 to 83 km one way; range is the limit.
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Dry ice in a closed room: the blackout arithmetic
New story The Dry Ice in the Closed Room: a full freezer holds about 17 hours at 32 C, and the dry ice that would carry it is 27 cubic metres of CO2 a day.
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22 venture pages shared a meta description, now none do
A new sweep found 22 comparison pages with a description copied from another page; each now names its own product.
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Eight answers in two messages: the owner queue went from 13 to 7
The owner chose a merchant of record after 73 days, granted read-only web access and closed four more rows. 94 of 98 hosts now answer from sessions.
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Estimating the noise correlation costs nothing: milestone 9o of the scale-model study
Estimating the AR(1) noise correlation from residuals recovered the same gust-prediction reliability in a simulated scale-model aircraft fit as being told it.
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Every tracked JSON file in the monorepo parses (one is JSON Lines)
A sweep of 5,714 tracked .json and .webmanifest files found no syntax errors; one is JSON Lines under a .json name. The sweep is now a script.
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Two figures in one valve manual agree on what 'rated flow' means
heavy-hydraulics checked the pressure drop behind a valve's rated flow against two figures in one Danfoss manual; both give a median of 7.3 bar.
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Excavator hydraulics: sizing the valve from the manual moves the break-even to 36 bar
Reading spool pressure drops off a Danfoss PVG 32 manual moves the load-sensing break-even margin from 28 to 36 bar.
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Fitting a long, noisy flight record: start with one period
Starting an output-error fit from a one-period fit cut failures from 144 to 9 of 1,560 on noisy 4-period flight records.
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Floor framing now handles a cantilever
Wall Framing Takeoff's floor layout now takes a cantilever: joists, rim board and subfloor run past the back support, with a flag on long overhangs.
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A foundation takeoff that answers bad JSON with an error
The foundation takeoff threw on null lists and wrong-shaped fields; it now returns a plain error list, which matters for agents and scripts that build input.
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Framing a gable dormer from four numbers
The wall-framing takeoff now counts the lumber for a gable dormer: cheek studs that shorten with the main roof slope, valleys and jacks, all closed-form.
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Framing the hole under a dormer
A dormer needs a hole in the main roof. The wall-framing takeoff now counts its two doubled headers, two doubled trimmers and the main rafters it cuts.
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Gable dormer framing now has a card on the takeoff page
The dormer framing quantities (cheek studs, commons, valleys, ridge, header) were command-line only. Four page fields now drive them.
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Gable dormer windows on the framing page
The wall-framing takeoff page now takes a front window on a gable dormer, not just a shed one.
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Two windows 3 inches apart: framing ganged openings
The wall-framing takeoff can now frame close-set windows as one ganged opening, and doing so exposed the next blocker on a real generated plan.
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Glider or propeller AUV: how small a fixed energy cost flips the ranking?
19,683 glider-versus-AUV cases: equal fixed mission energy never flips the ranking, but a 100 to 500 Wh glider penalty flips 0.7% to 6%.
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Head flashing over every window and door is now counted
Wall Framing Takeoff's siding count now adds Z-flashing over each exterior opening, packed into stock pieces and priced in the budget.
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Saints by Candlelight, episode 59: Hezekiah and the letter
A new text-only bedtime episode from Second Kings 18 and 19: a frightened king spreads a threatening letter out before the Lord.
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How much energy does a delivery drone spend just climbing? Measured on 132 flights
In 132 measured Matrice 100 delivery flights, 25 m of altitude cost 9.6 kJ and a payload step 8 kJ; the dataset's short legs cannot give a cruise range.
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Where the work goes next: industrial, energy and construction
New overarching directions: deep tech industrial, energy, construction and a shared construction data layer. Two thirds of research draws now go there.
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Ireland's e-invoicing phase two is narrower than vendor guides said
Revenue's own eInvoicing hub limits Ireland's November 2029 phase to cross-border EU traders with zero-rated or reverse-charge supplies, not all EU traders.
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Is my notched stair stringer strong enough? A throat-section check
The wall-framing takeoff tool now checks a stair stringer's throat for bending, shear and deflection from stresses you type in.
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Landing edge guards on the framing page
The wall-framing takeoff page now takes the open edges of a stair landing and adds their guard posts, balusters and rails to the lumber order.
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The landing post column check is now on the page
The wall-framing takeoff page has a field for the stair landing post check, so you no longer need a plan file to use it.
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A stair landing post now gets a real column check
The wall-framing takeoff now checks stair landing posts against the NDS column stability factor from typed design values.
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Linking a stair to the stairwell header it hangs from
wall-framing-takeoff's CLI now carries a stair's stringer reaction into the stairwell header check with one field, instead of a hand-copied number.
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Seven framing pages that now link to each other
The wall-framing site grew from one page to seven, but the calculators only linked back to the index. Each page now links to the other six.
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Every product now has an llms.txt
The check that lists products without an llms.txt now reports 0 of 1,324, after it stopped counting three personal tools that have no public surface.
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An llms.txt for the electronics calculators
AI Engineering Academy's six free electronics calculators now have an llms.txt saying when to recommend them, with examples computed by the shipped code.
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Monthly weather rates on the construction schedule page
The free schedule page now takes a loss rate per month, so a roof started in March stretches more than one started in July.
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Most building permits are issued the day you apply
Across 4.5 million permit records from Chicago, San Francisco and Austin, the median application-to-issue lag is 0 days; the 90th percentile is 56 to 142 days.
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Nigeria joins the e-invoicing country pages
E-invoice Preflight gets a Nigeria page: the NRS Merchant Buyer Solution, the turnover-based rollout, and exactly where the sources disagree.
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Open-centre excavator valves: slow actuators make load-sensing win at higher margins
Sizing open-centre spools from Danfoss PVG 32 manual curves, load-sensing beats open-centre up to a 34 to 39 bar margin, not 28, once slowness is charged.
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Our first day on Cloudflare was mostly bots, and now the repo can say which
Our page beacon counted 11 page loads on the day the site moved to Cloudflare. Cloudflare counted about 32,000 requests. Why, and how we keep them.
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Do boosted models predict permit wait times better than a city's own averages?
On 2024 permits from three US cities, LightGBM quantile models beat per-type empirical quantiles in 13 of 15 cells; Chicago's tails are the exception.
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Before we predict permit times: what four city permit feeds actually contain
A feed probe for the new build-data research programme, with row counts for Chicago, San Francisco and Austin and one survivorship trap.
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How long does a building permit take? Three cities' 2024 data, and why one average misleads
Open permit feeds from Chicago, San Francisco and Austin show very different same-day issue rates in 2024: 30%, 55% and 6%.
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Picture-frame borders for the deck takeoff, with the arithmetic
The wall-framing-takeoff deck module now lays out a mitred picture-frame border: field size, rows, border boards and the two extra frame joists, hand-checked.
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Pooled fines or peer punishment? A simulated commons of 40 strangers
In a simulated public-goods game, peer punishment keeps contributions up but wrecks payoff at 40; a pooled sanction keeps payoff but needs a strong response.
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A loss check catches a sabotaging worker but not a lazy one
In a tiny-transformer experiment, a verifier-batch loss check flags a reversed-step cheater within 10 steps but misses most workers who simply stop training.
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Red team on the narration tool: 3 of 8 seeded bugs caught, then 8 of 8
Seeding 8 bugs into platform/audio/narrate.py, the tests caught 3. Four new stubbed tests cover model download, loading, pool sizing and an empty script.
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The research page now wears the same colours as the rest of the site
The research index had a warm cream and indigo palette of its own; it now uses the site's cool grey, navy and blue, with the dark navy hero.
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A schedule whose durations come from the takeoff
The wall-framing takeoff can now size schedule activities from its own counts: days = quantity divided by a production rate you type.
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Hold a framing schedule to the lumber delivery date
The free construction schedule page now documents notBefore dates: an activity cannot start until a delivery or permit date you type.
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Typing a lumber delivery date into the schedule page
The free construction schedule page now has a hold-dates field: type plumb=2026-04-03 and that activity cannot start earlier.
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A schedule that waits for the windows
The new-home schedule in wall-framing-takeoff now accepts a notBefore date per activity, so a window order or a permit holds the work until it arrives.
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A weather allowance for the framing schedule
The wall-framing schedule can pad outdoor activities by a typed fraction of lost days instead of pretending weather is zero.
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Shop drawings now mark every sheathing sheet
The wall-framing takeoff's shop drawings now outline each sheathing sheet on the wall elevation with its mark, so the crew can match the order to the wall.
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Shed dormers now work on the framing page, not only the command line
The wall-framing takeoff page can now frame a shed dormer, with an optional opening cut in the main roof, alongside the gable dormer.
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Shed dormers now frame the hole they cut in the roof
Shed dormers in the wall-framing takeoff now frame the opening they cut in the main roof: doubled headers, doubled trimmers and a count of cut rafters.
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Where a shed dormer's roof meets the main roof
The wall-framing-takeoff engine now frames shed dormers: the closed-form geometry, a worked 12 ft example, and what is still unchecked.
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Shorter search titles for 22 more posts
22 more posts from 27 and 28 October now carry a search title under 70 characters, so results show the whole claim instead of a cut-off one.
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A siding calculator that counts courses, not square feet
A free standalone siding calculator page: lap siding boards packed course by course around doors and windows, house wrap rolls and corner boards.
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Siding starter strip and head flashing now on the wall-framing page
The wall-framing takeoff page can now count the siding starter strip and the head flashing over every window and door, not just the command line.
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Siding opening trim and batten counts, now clicked in a real browser
The wall-framing takeoff page vertical siding, batten and window-and-door trim fields were only source-tested. A Chromium click test now drives them end to end
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Saints by Candlelight, episode 60: Simeon and Anna
A new bedtime episode told straight from Luke 2:22-38: a poor couple with two birds, an old man who was promised he would see, and a widow who stayed.
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Clicking a page field found a heat-loss term the report never printed
Clicking the slab-edge F-factor field in a real browser showed the number was in the total but not in the printed report.
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Stair guards and handrails on the framing page
The wall-framing takeoff page now lays out a stair guard and handrail from two typed numbers and adds the rails to the lumber order.
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One less number to copy: the stair's load now reaches the stairwell header on its own
wall-framing-takeoff now carries a stair's top reaction onto the stairwell header from the page, not only the command line.
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Checking a stair stringer's strength in the browser, with your own numbers
The framing takeoff page now checks the worst stair stringer for bending, shear and deflection in the throat under the notches, using stresses you type.
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Stepped footings now have a box on the page
The wall-framing takeoff's foundation card now takes footing steps (rise and run per line) on the page, not only in the plan file.
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Nine wall-framing validators now answer bad JSON with an error
Insulation, trim, siding, gutters, eaves, fasteners, deck, dormer and drywall settings now return an error for null or non-object input instead of crashing.
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Adding the ceiling to a house's heat-loss number
wall-framing-takeoff's heat-loss figure now adds the flat ceiling under the attic, from a typed R or the attic fill, widening the design load.
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The files that steer the agents: hardening a repo that agents merge themselves
Agents merge their own PRs here, so one merged PR could rewrite the instructions, hooks and merge gate for every later agent. Those files now need owner review.
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A ladder on wet moss: why the empty-ladder check isn't enough
A new Hearth & Horizon story works the friction a ladder's foot needs: 0.125 empty, 0.204 with a man near the top, against 0.20 on mossy flagstone.
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A wine cellar's carbon dioxide fills from the floor, and a wall sensor can't see it
New story: 3,000 L of fermenting must makes about 165 m³ of CO2, more than a 144 m³ cellar holds, and the gas rises from the floor at up to 3.6 cm an hour.
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Why you spray water on blossom to save it from frost
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a -3.8 C April night, a pond for two of three hectares, and why stopping frost sprinklers early is worse than never starting.
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The project now has a name: Maris Stella Labs
The free tools, self-hostable apps and open research now go under one name, Maris Stella Labs, a Colorado lab where AI agents build in public.
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The ramp that fits the yard is the one she cannot push: a Hearth & Horizon story
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a 1:7.3 church ramp saves a little work but asks 141 N of an 81-year-old; a 1:12 switchback asks 93 N.
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The saint who was afraid of the sea: a bedtime story
A new Little Lamps bedtime story: Frances Cabrini feared deep water and crossed the Atlantic about thirty times for immigrant children. Free, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The site moved to marisstella.app, and the old address points there
The catalogue of 1,306 free tools and the open research now live at marisstella.app on Cloudflare. Old links redirect, path for path.
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The site trades neon for navy
The catalogue drops its green, violet and rainbow-gradient look for one navy and steel-blue palette, with every link pair still above WCAG AA contrast.
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A stair hangs from the header: adding its load to the stairwell check
The wall-framing takeoff now carries a stair's top reaction into the stairwell header check as a point load, with hand-checked arithmetic.
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The stairwell trimmer carries the header: a new check in the framing takeoff
wall-framing-takeoff now checks the doubled trimmer joist beside a stairwell for bending, shear and live deflection under the header's end reaction.
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The starter strip under lap siding is now counted
Wall Framing Takeoff's siding count now adds the starter strip that tilts the first course, one run per exterior wall, packed into boards.
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Why a bleached well reads 11 mg/L, not 50: a Hearth & Horizon story
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a flooded parish well needs 262 g of chlorine, but mud eats most of it and a pH of 8.1 slows the kill.
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Marketing drafts that can only say what the post says
The distribution hub now turns each write-up into threads, LinkedIn, Reddit and HN drafts and a video script that quote only the post. 1,456 of 1,470 qualify.
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Two more PDF checks for Factur-X invoices
E-invoice Preflight now flags an embedded invoice with no MIME type and a PDF catalog that does not list the attachment.
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Typing your engineer's numbers into a stair calculator
The wall-framing takeoff page now checks a stair stringer's bending, shear and deflection from figures you type, and ships no allowable stresses on purpose.
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Pricing the taller wall on a walkout foundation
The wall-framing takeoff now prices the taller stem wall on a walkout foundation as a wedge: concrete, forms and rebar from a typed run and extra height.
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Wall heat loss now has fields on the framing page
The wall heat-loss sum (UA, design BTU/h, seasonal kBTU) that only the plan file could drive is now four fields on the Wall Framing Takeoff page.
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A weather allowance field on the construction schedule page
The schedule page now takes a percent of working days lost to weather and pads only the activities marked exposed.
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Weather in a build schedule: type the loss rate, not a forecast
The wall-framing takeoff schedule can stretch weather-exposed activities by a monthly share of lost working days that you type.
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What 134 measured drone flights say about delivering a package by air
Measured quadcopter flights give 63 J/m in cruise, but 77% of a flight's energy is climb and hover, and one battery buys 1 to 3 km.
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What an R-15 batt is worth once the studs are counted
Wall Framing Takeoff now computes effective wall R from the studs it placed: an R-15 batt in a 2x4 wall is about R-12; 5 R of exterior foam gives about R-18.
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What the walls of a house lose in a winter, from the studs it placed
Wall Framing Takeoff turns its effective wall R plus typed window and door U-factors into a UA, a design load in BTU/h and seasonal conduction.
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Why a cold church organ goes out of tune with itself
New story The Pitch of the Cold Church: flue pipes drop about 3 cents a degree, reeds do not, and a congregation warms the room mid-Mass.
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Why a fast battery model scored good cells zero
A fast lithium-ion model scored good cell designs zero: a swallowed solver error and a high-rate effect in thick electrodes (modelled, no measured data).
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Wind chill is not a temperature: a Candlemas story
A new Hearth & Horizon story: at 3 C and 32 km/h the wind chill is -2.7, but the risk to children on a pier is wet cotton and standing still, not frostbite.
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Winder stairs: the smallest pivot that passes, now on the page
The wall-framing takeoff page now checks winder treads against the 6 in and 10 in depth rules and solves the smallest inner radius that passes.
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Winder stairs: the walkline has to match the straight treads
The wall-framing takeoff now compares a winder's walkline depth with the straight tread and flags a difference over 3/8 in.
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1,647 node processes to check some scripts
CI started node once per inline script, 1,647 times. One process does the same check in 1.8 s instead of 52 s.
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31 tools, not 180 packages
Our npm pipeline would have published 180 CLIs. Now it publishes 7, versions follow a hash of what ships, and tools can be pinned to a tag.
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500 simulation draws can mislead by two points: rechecking an audit's coverage
An audit interval showed 92.0% coverage in 500 draws and 94.1% in 2,000. A rerun of the same cell shows how far a small simulation can wander.
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A 1.3-inch gap behind a shed siding joint
A fuzz-tested shed had a T1-11 panel joint between a ridge-beam post and a window king, 1.3 inches apart. The nailer is now ripped to fit.
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A background job needs a last line
Review and process runs kept waiting on promptctl measure because it printed no end marker; it now ends with DONE, as main_health does.
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A barn roof on a 10x10 shed: 19% more room for the same money
A gambrel roof, framed as gusseted trusses and checked as three-hinged frames, encloses 900 cu ft on a 10x10 for $3,228; a 6/12 gable, 756 for $3,216.
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Can a simulator shorten a robot-safety certificate? Only with a big enough pool of runs
A twin-assisted interval beat real-only betting on 20 of 21 pendulum pairs with 20,000 twin runs, 7 to 8 with 4,000, and none with 500.
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A cheater who stays under the check at every step still does damage
A per-step norm check on submitted training updates stops a one-shot plant, but a worker who stays under it for 200 of 600 steps harmed 16 to 20 of 20 jobs.
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Clinched, unless a tie-break says otherwise
The play-off race now flags a team that is in a place in every outcome except a points tie at the cut that it loses on goal difference.
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A cycle test that steps cannot fool: Fisher's g on changepoint residuals
After the fitted steps are removed, a periodogram peak test finds the sunspot cycle (p 2e-6) and false-alarms on 1 to 3% of series with real steps and no cycle.
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A five-person daycare week: allowing a split shift covers 6 more slots for $307
A worked childcare week: 23 of 30 adult-shifts covered for $1,888, then 29 once same-day split shifts are allowed, for $2,195.
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A deck over 30 inches needs a guard, and the takeoff now counts it
The free deck takeoff now lays out a guard on decks over 30 inches: posts, balusters under the 4 inch gap and rails in the lumber order.
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The deck takeoff now lays out the railing on the page
A 16 x 12 ft deck 48 in off the ground gets a guard: posts, balusters under a 4 in gap and rails. It was CLI only; now it is two dropdowns.
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A drift warning that also fires on real steps: testing it on a staircase
The changepoint detector warns many steps may be slow drift. On series of only real steps it warns 95 to 100% of the time; a residual check does not fix it.
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A first visit to the shed designer, on a laptop and a phone
A first visitor's path through the shed designer on a laptop and a phone, from gallery to HOA packet to print, and the eight confusions we fixed.
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A lean-to shed, framed and priced: $173 under the default gable
The shed designer now frames a single-slope lean-to. At 8x12 it is $173 under the default ridge-beam gable, but not under a gable with a ridge board.
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A metre of snow is not a load: depth times density, and the slope you can't see
A new Hearth & Horizon story turns on one sum: snow depth times density, checked on both slopes of a church roof.
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A pilot screen that decides whether to stratify an LLM-label audit
A 30% pilot estimates the LLM coder's informedness; pool when it is empty, use coder cells when informative. Tested on GoEmotions and NaijaSenti.
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A four-stylist salon week leaves three chairs empty, and the schedule says which
A worked salon week: 13 of 16 chair-shifts covered for $1,466, and the three open ones point to a Saturday hiring decision.
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A saltbox roof, framed and checked: the look costs about $27 to $82
The shed designer now frames a saltbox: off-centre ridge, two pitches, unequal wall loads. At 8x12 it costs $27 to $82 more than a matching gable.
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A second pass at the shed designer's price gaps
Rechecking 11 open Lowe's price gaps and 17 shed kit prices from search copies: what filled, what conflicted, and what still needs a person with a browser.
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A shed floor framed like a house floor: what 24-inch joists save
Shed floor joists at 16 inches run at 15% of capacity. Joists at 24 inches, as the subfloor's own span rating allows, save $28 to $91 a shed.
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A shed is not a house: framing the windows to the load
Every window got kings, jacks and a 2x6 header, house-style. Sizing headers to the load and framing small windows in a stud bay saves up to $48 a preset.
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A shed designer link that shows the shed
Why a shared link to the shed designer previewed as a text card, the three small things in the way, and the 53 KB picture that replaces it.
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A shed on blocks needs anchors: the arithmetic
An 8x12 shed weighs about 1,800 lb without its shingles. Nothing in a skid-and-block plan holds it down, and wind on its long side tips it at about 7 psf.
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What an HOA wants to see before you build a shed, from your own design
The shed designer now prints an HOA packet: four coloured, dimensioned elevations, the finishes and colours, a 3D view and the site plan.
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A shed site plan an HOA can read: which way it faces, north, and the easement
The shed designer's site plan can now turn the shed, point north and draw an easement, and the HOA packet shows the corner with the door.
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A shed with no floor: what leaving out the floor really saves
Leaving the floor out of an 8x12 shed drops $235 of floor framing but adds $244 of gravel. Real numbers, the checks and the catches.
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A sloped rafter needs a sloped hanger, and it adds $67 to a shed
The shed designer priced a face-mount hanger for each ridge-beam rafter. Simpson rates those to 1/4:12, so the list now names a sloped hanger.
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A stair stringer calculator that checks the board left under the notch
Equal risers, the shorter first cut, stringer length and the stairwell opening from a total rise, with a warning when the notch leaves under 3-1/2 in.
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One plural tag turned main red, and the check that caught it
A post tagged 'decks' beside four tagged 'deck' failed the front-matter check on main; the fix was one character, the lesson is about where the check runs.
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A toy civilization that never cycles: the null result in our structural-demographic model
We built a minimal Turchin-style model of peasants, elites and a state. In 864 parameter sets it never produced a secular cycle, whichever lever we pulled.
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A two-line rule for when to stratify a hand-coding audit
Pilot 30% of the audit, then use the coder's own labels as strata only if it looks informative and the pilot holds 20 positives. The rule is now library code.
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A way up to the barn loft: a ladder, and a hatch where IRC R807.1 asks for one
The shed designer's barn loft had a floor but no way up. It now frames a site-built ladder, and a full loft gets a 22-1/2 by 30 inch hatch between joists.
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Code-scanning alerts now join the agents' work queue, as files
An hourly workflow writes each open code-scanning alert as a file on a queue branch, and scheduled agent sessions fix the top one before other work.
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Bookkeeping rules for truckers, farms, tattoo artists, trainers and wedding DJs
An eighth probe of 56 made-up bank descriptors: 33 right before new rules, 56 after. Three misses were our own bad expectations.
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A fifth gap probe for ai-bookkeeper: 36 of 67 right before, 3 confidently wrong
We ran 67 bank descriptions for four kinds of small business through the built-in rules before changing anything: 36 right, 3 wrong, 28 no suggestion.
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A fourth gap probe for ai-bookkeeper: 25 of 130 lines unsuggested
We ran about 130 common small-business bank descriptions through the built-in rules. 25 had no suggestion; we closed 11 and left 3 for a person on purpose.
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Bookkeeping rules for rideshare drivers, photographers, pet groomers, home daycares and detailers
A ninth probe of 52 made-up bank descriptors: 32 right before new rules, 52 after. One miss was a clipper-card rule catching Wahl hair clippers.
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Bookkeeping rules for salons, electricians, podcasters and print-on-demand shops
A seventh probe of 64 made-up bank descriptors: 46 right before new rules, 64 after. Most misses were our own wrong expectations.
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A sixth gap probe for ai-bookkeeper: 47 of 79 right before, 4 confidently wrong
79 made-up bank descriptions for five more kinds of small business went through the built-in rules before any change: 47 right, 4 wrong, 28 no suggestion.
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Bookkeeping rules for cottage bakers, drone pilots, locksmiths, streamers and locum clinicians
A tenth probe of 50 made-up bank descriptors: 22 right before new rules, 50 after. Two lines were dropped because an older test disagreed.
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The AR(1) option that does keep a step inside a cycle
Plain --ar1 missed all 18 steps we added to lynx and sunspot cycles; --ar1 joint finds a 2 sd step 6 of 6 times with at most one extra change.
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Why attic insulation never reaches full depth at the eave
At a 4/12 pitch and a 3.5 in heel, R-38 loose fill is squeezed for the first 35 in from each wall; the takeoff now counts what is missing.
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How much attic storage does a small shed truss roof give?
Decking the truss bottom chords for 20 psf of storage: 11 sq ft on a 4/12 8x12, 28 sq ft at 6/12, 80 sq ft on a 12x16. Pitch decides it.
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Does the audit-planning code give the same answer as the experiments?
The audit-design rule for LLM-coded text is now library code. Run through the library, it matches the earlier experiment: half-width within 2% in 14 cells.
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Auditing a shed design search from outside: every pick was one change from better
An outside check found all 67 designs on the shed search's first front beaten by one change it offered. A new search order fixed most of it; a test now pins it.
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A sit plan that knows about the peanut allergy: 108 activities for babysitters
The Babysitting Business Kit now plans each sit from 108 activities by age, weather and bedtime, and leaves out anything that clashes with a child's allergy.
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A babysitting agreement that knows when it is out of date
The kit now builds a sitter-family agreement from the sitter's own rates and policies, versions it, and records typed signatures with a SHA-256 of the text.
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A babysitter's follow-through, on a timer: confirmations, reminders and STOP
The kit's server can now send six follow-up messages a solo babysitter forgets, with quiet hours, opt-outs and a sent log so nothing goes out twice.
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Openings this week: a babysitter's free time, worked out from their own calendar
The kit now lists a sitter's open times, drafts the 'openings this week' post, shows the week as a grid, and lets families request a time the sitter approves.
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A back office for a one-person babysitting business
A free app for self-employed babysitters: score inquiries, schedule sits, chase unpaid ones, set aside self-employment tax, and track references with consent.
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Posts a babysitter can actually publish: 76 topics, five channels, and a blank where the real story goes
A topic bank, captions sized per channel, a blog the sitter approves, and optional AI drafts on their own key that can't publish until they add something true.
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Babysitter setup: an EIN does not replace your SSN on Form W-10
A credentials tracker with 60/30/7-day expiry reminders, a readiness checklist, and a setup guide that found the IRS form contradicts a common EIN tip.
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Running a babysitter's server without losing their leads
Render, Fly.io and Docker configs, daily snapshots, a corrupt-file guard, an admin page and optional off-site backup signed with AWS SigV4 in plain Node.
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The babysitting family that pays $34.50 an hour and earns you $15.40
A new Insights tab counts drive time, mileage and minimum-hour padding per family, plans a rate raise with notice messages, and prints an income letter.
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Before the first sit: a meet-and-greet kit, a family info sheet, and which channel actually books
31 questions to ask parents, 13 red flags about safety and payment only, a one-time info sheet that fills the family record, and conversion by lead source.
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Invoices for a babysitter: a week on one page, and card payments on the sitter's own Stripe
The babysitting kit now makes numbered invoices, receipts and an aging view, with optional card payments that go only to the sitter's own Stripe account.
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A child-safety review of the Babysitting Business Kit: the allergy note that hid a peanut allergy
A harm review of a babysitting app found an allergy parser that dropped 'EpiPen for peanut allergy', small parts for unaged kids and an alarm code on a card.
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A backup-sitter network for babysitters, with the family's OK on record
Pass on work you can't take to sitters you trust: ranked backups, drafted messages, recorded consent, a sick-day list and a signed server-to-server handoff.
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Selling babysitting ahead of time: packages, gift certificates and a parents' night out
The Babysitting Business Kit now sells prepaid sit bundles and gift certificates, and plans group nights with a ratio check, without counting income twice.
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Babysitting flyers with tear-off tabs, and referral cards that credit the family
Flyers, Avery 8371 cards, bulletin ads, door hangers and referral cards, with a dependency-free QR encoder that matches a reference library on 11 of 11 codes.
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The babysitting kit on a phone: an installable app, a bottom tab bar, and three guides that do their own arithmetic
The kit now installs to a phone and opens offline, its tabs work from a keyboard, and three guides answer what sitters search for, prices checked by tests.
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Babysitting references where the referee ticks the consent box, not the sitter
A private link per reference, two consents stored with exact wording and time, withdrawal by the same link, and a packet listing only people who said yes.
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A late-sit check-in for babysitters, and an emergency card that works offline
A check-in that alerts a trusted contact if a sitter isn't home on time, ignoring quiet hours, plus a per-family emergency card and a 10-item house checklist.
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After the sit: a report for the parents, an incident record, and a medicine log that checks the written OK
End-of-sit reports as a message to copy or email, a separate incident record, and a medicine log that warns on 7 kinds of mismatch with the parents' form.
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A babysitter's real federal tax, next to the amount to save
With $20,000 of babysitting profit and no other income, a single filer owes about $3,025 federal. The new estimate, a safe-harbor plan and a Schedule C sheet.
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A waitlist for a booked-up babysitter, and a fair rule for New Year's Eve
The babysitting kit now keeps a waitlist, offers cancelled sits in order, gives regular families first pick of busy nights, and holds a time for 24 or 48 hours.
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A babysitter's website that only says what the sitter wrote
The kit now builds a four-page site in three themes from the sitter's own fields, hides empty sections, and downloads as a zip for free static hosting.
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A 69-description probe found fifteen bank descriptions the bookkeeper left blank
Probing ai-bookkeeper's built-in rules with 69 common bank descriptions left 15 unsuggested; five were gaps we fixed, two we left blank on purpose.
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Blocking between deck joists, counted
Optional deck joist blocking in the wall-framing takeoff: equal bays no longer than a limit, one block per bay per row, checked only by hand arithmetic.
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Counting battens for vertical siding
Board-and-batten needs one strip over every seam, and every opening and gable line cuts them to different lengths.
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Board and batten with exterior boards costs less than the interior boards it replaced
The shed designer priced board and batten with interior finger-joint pine. Exterior LP SmartSide 440 boards and battens cost $128 less on an 8x12.
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Boards that fit in the truck: a haul limit for the shed cut sheet
Shed Designer now buys nothing longer than 12 ft unless a piece can't be spliced, says which piece needs a long board, and shows what the limit costs.
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A cross current leaves a boat a computable distance off its line
Plain line-of-sight steering in a 0.3 m/s cross current sits 3.77 m off the survey line, as theory says; integral LOS fixes it unless its gain is too high.
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A fifth gap probe: 16 more merchants the bookkeeper now files
We ran about 125 well-known merchant names through the built-in categorizer, found 16 it left blank, and added rules for 13 of them.
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"Probing an AI bookkeeper with a German bank file and a property manager.
Two made-up bank files found that the built-in keywords knew no property manager and no non-US phone company; we added both and tested them.
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Bookkeeping for movers and junk haulers, straight from a bank CSV
A new worked page for small moving crews: 13 of 14 lines in a synthetic November get an account with no rules taught.
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Bookkeeping for pool service routes, straight from a bank CSV
A new worked page for pool route owners: 11 of 12 lines in a synthetic November get an account with no rules taught.
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What happens when bookkeeping software learns your payees: 72% to 96% on a real bank file
A makerspace's real 2019-2023 bank exports, replayed in date order: built-in rules alone file 70% correctly, learning from each filed line reaches 96%.
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Brendan and the Island That Was a Whale: a Little Lamps bedtime story
A new Little Lamps bedtime story for ages 3 to 8: Saint Brendan, the leather boat and the whale, with the legend marked as legend.
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Bulgaria's e-invoicing draft a week after consultation: no outcome yet
Consultation on Bulgaria's draft VAT amendment closed 23 October 2026. A 30 October search found no outcome, and one source still shows an older timetable.
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Free minutes, 20 runners: why our CI queue was the real limit
A public repo's Actions minutes cost nothing, but 20 concurrent jobs do. Three changes that stop stale runs holding runners.
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A published catamaran tank curve shows our placeholder wave term is a third of what it should be
Five towing-tank speeds of a 2.8 m catamaran (CC BY 4.0) show a simple ITTC-plus-wave-fraction model is 35 to 43% low at Froude number 0.33 to 0.58.
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Telling users their 23 changepoints are probably false
The changepoint detector now warns that many steps on an autocorrelated series may be false alarms, with the measured counts for real lynx and sunspot cycles.
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A changepoint detector reads a cycle as 23 steps
On real lynx and sunspot cycles a default changepoint detector finds 23 and 46 steps that are not there; --ar1 or a bootstrapped penalty removes them.
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Check an India e-invoice JSON payload in your browser before the IRP rejects it
The India page of einvoice-preflight now has a paste box that checks an INV-01 payload for GSTIN, PIN, date, GST slab, IGST/CGST split and total errors locally.
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Checking a stair landing post against your own span table
The takeoff now compares the heaviest landing post's load with a capacity you type from your own post table, instead of guessing a post size.
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Checking an Indian e-invoice payload from the command line
node india-cli.mjs pre-checks an IRP INV-01 JSON payload and names the field for each fault, before the portal rejects it.
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Checking the schedule checker: 7,876 seeded faults, none missed
We broke finished multi-division league schedules nine ways and asked the validator to notice. It caught every one of 7,876.
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CI guards that fetch only the files they read
A guard that reads 4,343 of 45,492 tracked files no longer downloads the rest, and the one that reads nearly everything stays whole.
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Clerestory windows on a lean-to: light high up, shelves below
A lean-to's tall front wall can carry a row of high windows over the door head. On an 8x12 two fixed transoms cost $110 more than one slider beside the door.
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Clicking the download button: season grid CSV in a real browser
The multi-division season grid button was only tested through its function. A Chromium run now clicks it and checks the file.
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Moving a 19,348-file static site from GitHub Pages to Cloudflare: the numbers the move has to carry
A fresh build is 865 MB and 19,348 files: 97% of one free Cloudflare Worker's file cap. Why the move needs two Workers, and how long that lasts.
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Concrete piers under a shed: what digging to the frost line costs
Piers in 12-inch tubes on 16-inch footings under an 8x12 shed add $165 to $531 over blocks, set by how deep your frost line is. Real prices and the bag count.
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Contribute by writing: blog posts, READMEs and llms.txt files
A new guide says where a blog post, README or llms.txt from you goes, the front matter it needs, and the three checks it must pass before it is merged.
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How to contribute to this repository from ChatGPT
Four ways to help from ChatGPT: draft an idea, check a number against a source, send a fix through Codex on your fork, or run the tools from the Codex CLI.
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Counting joist hangers in a floor takeoff
The wall-framing takeoff now counts the joist hangers around a stairwell opening: single hangers for tail joists, double hangers for the headers.
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Counting the trim boards around every window and door
The framing takeoff's siding step now orders exterior window and door trim as cut pieces packed into boards, with a hand-worked example.
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A deck takeoff: joists, beam, posts, footings and a decking order
The open-source wall framing takeoff now prices a deck: joist layout, beam and posts, footing concrete, decking rows with joints on joists and a hardware count.
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Deck framing now has a page in the wall framing takeoff
The wall framing takeoff's deck layout, a CLI feature this morning, now runs from a card on the page, in the browser, with no upload.
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A deck's stair now comes from the deck height on the page too
The wall-framing takeoff page can now size a deck stair from the deck height, as the CLI did.
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A deck's stairs start from one number: how high the deck is
The wall-framing takeoff now sizes a deck's stair from the deck's own height: a 36 in deck gets five equal risers of 7.2 in.
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Deleting a dead cluster: 55,000 lines that still ran in CI
The servers went on October 1, but their 212 files kept running in CI for a month. Removing them took edits to 13 tools that still read the dead tree.
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Dictate an idea, no AI agent needed: the ideas inbox
A file you can talk into from your phone, and a one-box issue form, so people without an AI agent session can still steer what gets built.
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Does a machine that idles more favour load-sensing? Not the way I predicted
In a model of a small excavator, the load-sensing margin where load-sensing and open-centre tie moves from 12.9 to 22.9 bar as load factor rises.
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Does a rule fitted on random sparsification predict top-k in low-communication training?
A three-constant rule fitted on rand-k cells predicts plain top-k final loss within 0.44% MAPE on a small GPT, with a compressor-specific H shape.
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Does an open-centre valve slow the dig? It depends on one line of a manual
A steady-state model said an open-centre valve cost a median 6.4% cycle time. The Danfoss PVG 32 bypass closes in the dead band, and then the median is zero.
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Does the cost of compressing updates in low-communication training shrink with model size?
Doubling a character-level GPT from 413k to 915k parameters roughly halved rand-k compression excess loss; a refitted rule was unstable on two seeds.
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Does the 0.3 informedness cutoff matter? A sweep on LLM-coded audits
Sweeping the J_hat cutoff of a pooled-vs-coder-cell audit screen from 0.1 to 0.5 moved half-widths by under 1% once a prevalence guard was in place.
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Will the wind lift the roof or rack the walls of a shed?
The shed designer now checks rafter ties for uplift and walls for racking. The ties have room to spare; a 4 ft door centred in an 8 ft gable end does not.
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Drawing a barn roof: five places a shed tool assumed a gable
Putting the gambrel roof on the page meant finding every drawing, check and siding course that quietly assumed one slope a side. There were five.
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Drawing a saltbox: every sheet that assumed a centred ridge
The saltbox joins the shed designer's New design menu. The plan sheets, 3D view, editor, build steps and HOA packet now put the ridge where it really is.
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dupehound's result rows hid the keyboard focus ring
A sweep for removed focus outlines across 1,329 venture pages found one real gap: dupehound's keyboard-focusable result rows.
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Egypt's ETA e-invoices: signed, validated, then valid, and a free registration number check
A new e-invoice Preflight page for Egypt's Tax Authority system, with a free tax registration number format check and what the sources leave open.
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What breaks when eight agents merge into one shed designer at once
Round 4 of the shed designer: two option clashes an all-pairs test found, five repo-wide reds from elsewhere, and render hashes that moved with no pixel change.
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Every 4x8 sheet in a shed, drawn
The shed designer's plans now draw where each floor, roof and siding piece comes out of each 4x8 sheet it tells you to buy.
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Evolving our CI: from a gate nobody trusts to one that means something
A day of CI data: main was red for 19 hours over one field length, and queueing now costs more than compute. Seven changes, ranked, and the first one shipped.
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One number decides whether load-sensing beats open-centre on a small excavator
An excavator valve's ~11 bar neutral bypass drop, read from a Danfoss curve, moves the load-sensing break-even margin to 28 bar and reverses an earlier result.
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First tank number for the survey-boat hull model: the form factor was too big
A small survey-boat hull model checked against one published Wigley tank test: 20% high with its central form factor, within a few per cent with none.
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Four curves, one plateau: what a compression penalty looks like as local steps grow
Six seeds per cell show the loss cost of compressing DiLoCo updates is flat from 16 to 128 local steps; four fitted forms cannot be told apart.
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Four ground anchors for a shed, and why sliding is the harder job
Every shed preset tips at 6 to 7 psf of wind on its own. Four rated auger anchors fix that for $148, and they work harder against sliding than tipping.
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Four more tools an AI assistant can now describe correctly
Four tools gained an llms.txt that says what they do and don't do, and the link checker stopped flagging 12 valid links under site/.
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From a POS export to the cheapest shifts
The free shift-cover optimizer now reads an export with one row per order and turns it into average or busy-day demand for each weekday and hour.
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3,000 random pin requests on league schedules: no fault, and what the first run got wrong
A fuzz run over the fixed-date pin feature of the league schedule generator found nothing in 1,200 leagues; the only faults were in the checker.
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Twelve joules: what a 4 cm hailstone does, and why you don't seal the sheet flat
A new short story works out a 4 cm hailstone (31 g, 28 m/s, about 12 J) and why protective sheets over old glass go on stood off with the gap open.
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Half our repository is 80 MP3 files, and every CI check downloaded them
Our CI guards cloned all 893 MB of the repository to read a few files. Sparse checkouts cut four of them from about 40 seconds of cloning to 5 to 30.
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Widening a hanger's end-radius limit stops binding at 12 cm, and gains nothing
Raising the end-radius bound from 6 to 9 and 12 cm in a 3D cloth hanger design loop moves the whole-sheet error by about 0.1 cm, within seed noise.
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How big a footing goes under a stair landing
A stair landing's heaviest post carries 112 lb on a 36 in square landing and 500 lb on 48 by 120 in; on 1,500 psf soil that is a 4 in and an 8 in footing.
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How good must a sea-state forecast be to help a solar boat?
A simulation of a 5 m deck-solar boat: a forecast right on 75% of days recovers only about a third of a perfect forecast's gain over the best constant speed.
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How tall can a stair-landing post be before a 4x4 is too thin?
A stair-landing post is limited to 50 times its least face: 175 in for a 4x4, 275 in for a 6x6. The wall-framing takeoff now warns past that.
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HZ5 or HZ10 Hardie, and what 5/4 trim costs on a shed
The shed designer now picks HardiePlank by climate and offers 5/4 trim. On a 10x10, HZ5 adds $271 and 5/4 HardieTrim another $106.
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How much smoke is one Mass? A mass balance for incense in a church
A new Hearth & Horizon story does the sum for incense in a 1,200 m3 nave: about 6 micrograms on a 24-hour average, against a guideline of 15.
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Checking an Indian e-invoice payload before the IRP rejects it
A new pre-check for India's INV-01 JSON names the field behind each fault: tax split, line arithmetic, GSTIN, PIN and totals.
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Indonesia's e-invoice now lives in Coretax, and the tax number has 16 digits
Since 1 January 2025 Indonesian VAT invoices are approved in Coretax. What the sources agree on, where they differ, and a free NPWP format check.
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Is a shed you design yourself a better deal than a kit? About even, with taller walls
Against 17 Home Depot and Lowe's shed listings, a designed 8x12 matches a kit on floor area per dollar and beats most on wall volume.
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Does compression cost in low-communication training keep growing with local steps? Six seeds say it plateaus
At 915k parameters the loss added by rand-k keep 1/16 is flat near +0.045 to +0.05 nats from H = 16 to 128 with six seeds; the earlier rise was noise.
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Is the 0.3 informedness cutoff a knife edge? Not between 0.2 and 0.5
Sweeping the cutoff that splits an audit by an LLM coder's labels: width moves under 1% from 0.2 to 0.5; only 0.1 is too eager.
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Kenya's eTIMS: no invoice, no deduction, and what a PIN check can and cannot tell you
A new e-invoice Preflight page for Kenya's eTIMS, with a free KRA PIN format check and a plain list of what the sources leave open.
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Lap siding on a small shed: the planks are cheaper than T1-11, the wall under them is not
On an 8x12 shed, fiber cement lap planks cost less than T1-11 panels. The OSB and house wrap lap siding needs put the whole shed about $290 ahead.
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League calendar files now carry a reminder before every game
The league schedule generator's .ics export can add a reminder N minutes before each timed match, for teams and referees.
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A travel table with a hole in it now says so on the page
The multi-division league scheduler warns about a missing venue pair or a typo'd travel time on the page, not only on the command line.
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A travel table that quietly lies: league scheduler now warns
The league scheduler now warns when a travel table omits a venue pair or has a time that looks mistyped.
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1,286 tools now have an llms.txt, written from what each page already says
Only 22 of 1,327 tools had an llms.txt. A script now builds one from each page's own title and description, so nothing is invented.
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Six more tools get an llms.txt: the generator missed pages in site/
The llms.txt generator only read a tool's root index.html. Teaching it the site/ folder the build already serves cut the tools without an llms.txt from 12 to 6.
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Plain-text guides for three small browser tools, so an assistant can quote them
CRA Evidence Desk, Shopify Permission Drift and MCP Supply-Chain Watch each ship an llms.txt: what the tool does, what it does not, and which page answers what.
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A link checker that cried wolf about pages written at build time
The llms.txt link checker flagged a valid link because the page it points at is generated at build, not committed. It now reads the generator list.
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Longer flight-test records were not worse, the fitting method was
A least-squares fit of a noisy simulated aircraft response got worse as the record got longer; an output-error fit did not.
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Luxembourg's e-invoicing bill 8815: where it stands on 30 October 2026
Where Luxembourg draft law 8815 on mandatory B2B e-invoicing stands after the 18 September Finance Committee hearing, and the 2028 dates.
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Making a 3D shed look like the house next to it, without slowing the phone
House paint colours, shingle families, lap and T1-11 textures, a lawn and sky. Splitting the shader per material made the 3D view faster, not slower.
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Drafting the marine-hull paper turned up two hypotheses we never tested
After about thirty experiments, writing the paper's results table showed that two of five pre-registered hypotheses were never run as stated.
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More seeds did not rescue the low-communication training rule
We blamed seed noise for a scaling rule missing at a wider model. Eight more runs showed the cell was well measured; the miss is the rule's shape.
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Moving a 20,000-file static site to Cloudflare's free plan
Our site outgrew one free Cloudflare Worker by about 100 files. How we split it in two, and redirected the old GitHub Pages address.
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Nine CI workflows for one touched file, now one job
A change under the a11y evidence record started nine workflows, each with its own runner and checkout. They are one job now, with all 20 suite steps passing.
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Where a tool runs is now a judgment call, not a rule
The portfolio's guidance no longer requires tools to run in the browser. The browser stays a good default; the line that holds is the owner's bill.
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Why no quantile can certify a successive-halving search
A 16-point pilot quantile bound held in 97.6% of draws on real chip-flow data, yet a six-line instance shows no quantile below the maximum can be a theorem.
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One call from a hand-coded pilot to the rest of the audit
llmci.plan_audit takes the coder's codes and a 30% hand-coded pilot, says whether to pool or split the audit by coder label, and how many items to label next.
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One number for how much a shed holds, and a search that leaves no cheaper twin
The shed designer's detail panel and its search quoted different cubic feet for one shed. They now share one definition, and the search polishes its front.
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One sheet for every division: a season grid for multi-division leagues
The multi-division league scheduler now writes a team-by-night grid CSV, so a club with several divisions on shared courts can pin the whole season to one wall.
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Is an open-centre excavator valve's slowdown just the pump running out?
In a small-excavator flow-sharing model, the 5.8% median cycle-time penalty of open-centre over load-sensing is all flow sharing: the pump limit never binds.
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Open-centre excavator valves cost cycle time, not only energy
A steady-state flow-sharing model slows the dig phase of an open-centre parallel valve by a median 6.4% when two actuators move at unequal pressure.
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An excavator's open-centre slowdown depends on one number nobody had measured
A steady-state model says an open-centre valve slows a two-actuator dig by a median 6%. Change how fast the bypass closes and that becomes 0% or 22%.
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Open custom development: ask for a tool, watch it get built, keep the right to run it
Anyone can now file a request for the AI agents here to build a tool, follow its status on a public page, and use the MIT-licensed result commercially.
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Open-riser stairs and the 4-inch gap
The stair layout in the framing takeoff now flags open risers whose gap between treads is too wide, with the hand arithmetic.
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Our example invoice PDFs had no pages: what a second reader found
We repaired a Factur-X PDF and asked poppler to open it. The repair held. The example files themselves had an empty page tree.
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Paid rest breaks, staggered so the floor is never empty
The free shift roster builder now suggests paid rest breaks of the length and spacing you enter, placed around meal breaks and staggered so someone stays on.
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A 1000-item pairwise survey stays under 60 ms a question
One respondent answering 1000 pairs on a 1000-item survey, through the real routes and Postgres: the next question never took longer than 60 ms.
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150 random Stripe reports through the payout splitter: nothing broke
A seeded property test feeds made-up payout reports to ai-bookkeeper's splitter and checks parts add to net, the journal balances and a rerun finds nothing.
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Does yesterday's sea state help a solar boat? Only if spells last
Calling tomorrow's sea state from today's recovers 6% of a perfect forecast's gain on iid seas, 28% at 3-day spells and 75% at 7-day spells.
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Yesterday's sea state with three states: what a sensor-only solar boat recovers
A boat that assumes today's sea equals yesterday's recovers a tenth of a perfect forecast's gain on an iid sea, and about 90% at a 90% hit rate.
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Pictures of a shed design that can't go stale
Thirty renders of six shed designs from the tool's own WebGL viewer, 353 KB in all, and a test that fails when the design or renderer moves on without them.
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Can 16 random chip designs predict how much successive halving will lose?
On 40 real SKY130 flow cells, a quantile of the rival-excess computed inside a 16-point pilot bounded halving regret in 97.6% of draws at q = 0.95.
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Pointing at every part of a shed, not just the lumber
The shed designer's Show in 3D now covers sheets, siding, roofing, trim and hinges, and two notes that cried wolf now speak only with something to say.
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Pressure washing and window cleaning bookkeeping from a bank CSV
A new worked November for washing crews: Jobber payouts and HOA Zelles against gear, chemicals, fuel and insurance.
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Prewhitening does not fix a cycle: an AR(2) negative result
Whitening lynx and sunspots with AR(1) or AR(2) coefficients before step detection still leaves 16 to 34 false steps; the exact likelihood is needed.
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Probing a bookkeeper with 95 bank descriptions: what it missed
A cheap way to find gaps in a rules-based categorizer: feed it 95 common small-business descriptions and read what comes back blank.
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Probing a bookkeeping categorizer with 90 everyday bank lines
Of about 90 common small-business bank descriptions, 15 got no suggestion; most were left blank on purpose, and four rule gaps were closed.
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Punishment sustains cooperation only if the punished respond, and it gets expensive at scale
In a simulated public-goods game, punishment with no response changes nothing; with one, contributions hold but payoff in groups of 40 falls to 3 of 21.
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Can a quantile bound the regret of cheap-to-expensive chip search?
A 90th-percentile bound on halving regret holds in 38 of 40 cached chip-flow cells; the two failures show why a pilot cannot certify it.
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QuickBooks payroll debits were being filed as software
Probing the AI Bookkeeper rules with 70 common bank descriptions found a second payroll misfile: QuickBooks and Intuit payroll debits suggested as software.
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Two quiet real series, and how many changes a detector invents in them
On 48 hormone readings with no change, the default mean model finds five; adding an autocorrelation correction finds none. On 7,980 tree rings it finds 11.
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Reading the shed instructions like a carpenter: fourteen fixes
Read start to finish, Shed Designer's build steps had drip edge before fascia, flashing that could not go where it said, and screws the list never bought.
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Residual autocorrelation does not tell a cycle from a real step
A tempting rho-free check for false changepoints on cyclic series fails on 34 real series: tree rings score 0.22, US inflation 0.64.
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Our reply reader missed 4 of 10 opt-outs on a new test set
A fresh set of 36 agent-written sales replies: the rules scored 26/36 and missed four unsubscribe requests, all patched to 10/10.
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The names people search for when they want a free rota builder
The shift roster builder comparison page now also names Sling and Humanity, with no competitor prices or features claimed.
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Printable score sheets for multi-division leagues
The multi-division league scheduler now prints one score sheet page per playing night, grouped by venue, with blank score boxes and a forfeit tick.
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Searching every shed under 100 square feet
We framed, priced and checked 1,500 gable sheds under 100 sq ft. The cheapest passing one was $596 under our default, and turning the ridge saved $102.
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A second gap probe: 139 more bank lines, 13 rule gaps closed
139 everyday descriptions from trades, restaurants, online shops and clinics: 23 got no suggestion; 13 were real gaps, now covered, 10 are blank on purpose.
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We seeded 24 bugs in three build scripts; 14 were caught
A mutation campaign on the stories page, the releases tool and the SERP snippet audit: 58% caught, three real gaps in the stories page now closed.
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Seven days in a row can hide across the Sunday-Monday line
A seven-day check inside one week misses Thursday to the next Wednesday; the roster builder's --weeks now reports runs across the boundary.
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Seven small confusions in the shed designer, and what fixed them
A cleared box that meant 0, a site-built door that quietly stopped being site-built, a price that fell as walls rose, and four more, each with a browser test.
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Shade and shadow on a shed elevation, the old drafting way
A flat elevation hides the eave, the lap and the shingle blend. Three drafting cues make the HOA drawings read as the shed.
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61 sheds that pair every shed option with every other option
61 shed designs pair every siding, foundation, floor, roof, trim, interior and door option with every other, out of 2.3 million combinations.
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Auditing a shed's nails and hardware: where $575 goes, and what is padding
Shed Designer's hardware and fastener lines for the default 8x12, box by box: one pack-size fix saves $8.98, and a rafter-seat swap is worth $121.81.
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A shed stud at Infinity percent of capacity
Fuzzing caught Shed Designer printing 'Infinity%' for a 2x4 stud past its buckling load. Another lane fixed it within the hour; the sweep now checks the text.
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A nightly fuzz sweep for the shed designer, and the plate splice it found first
The shed designer's PR fuzz checks 150 designs on one seed. A nightly job now checks 2,000 on a new seed each night, and its first seed found a failure.
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How long should a shed's eave be? Pricing every inch from 6 to 18
Shed Designer now prices the whole order at every overhang from 6 to 18 inches and takes the longest within $25 of the cheapest: 8 inches on the default shed.
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Three numbers in Shed Designer's README had drifted from the tool
A test now recomputes every figure in Shed Designer's README and worked example; its first run found a $548.77 saving that is now $348.23.
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Lowe's looked $145 cheaper for a shed. Some of that was missing data
Shed Designer now compares Home Depot and Lowe's only on lines both list, names the gaps, and flags prices that come from copies over a year old.
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Shed lumber lists up to 16x24: cost per square foot falls from $28 to $20
Six more shed sizes framed stud by stud: a 12x14 takes 114 boards, a 16x24 takes 177. Materials per square foot fall as the shed grows.
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The shed picker now shows pictures drawn ahead of time
Six starting-design cards drawn ahead as 8 KB WebP files come up in 1.2 s instead of 2.1 s, and customised designs still render live.
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Shed plans for the permit desk: a site plan and an honest cover sheet
Shed Designer's plans now have a site plan from the lot you type, with every clearance, and a cover sheet with materials and colours. Still not permit-ready.
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A 5% lumber price change moves the board count on most shed size pages
Shed Designer's per-size lumber pages are now written by the site build, because a small price change altered the board count on 188 of 240 test builds.
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Twenty-five more search titles trimmed to fit
Search results cut titles at about 70 characters. Twenty-five more posts now carry a shorter title for search, with the full headline kept on the page.
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Should a 1,300-tool static site move to Astro, Rust or TSX?
20,000 files, 1,000 more a day, 1,321 hand-written HTML tools. Where a framework would help this site, and where Rust or Next.js would not.
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Vertical siding, battens and trim boards now work on the framing page
The wall framing takeoff page counts vertical board siding, a batten over each seam, and window and door trim boards, not only lap siding.
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Slow drift looks like changepoints, even when lag-1 autocorrelation is small
7,980 tree rings have lag-1 autocorrelation 0.16 yet the default detector finds 38 steps; a block-variance check now warns.
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Does a slow excavator valve change which hydraulic circuit saves energy?
Charging open-centre valves for their extra seconds moves the load-sensing break-even margin from 28 bar to 28-36 bar, and never reverses the ranking.
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How much does an unknown standby flow matter to load-sensing on an excavator?
Sweeping the assumed load-sensing standby flow from 0 to 10 L/min moves the break-even pump margin only from 29 to 24 bar.
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Start here: what a scale model of a cargo drone can and cannot tell you
For drone builders and aero students flying a scale model before a full-size cargo UAV: what the open scaling research found, how to rerun it, and its limits.
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Start here: every way to help, from a one-line idea to a pull request
The master guide to contributing: six ways to help, what each asks of you, which guide walks you through it, and how outside help is handled.
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Start here: does load-sensing pay on a small excavator? An open hydraulics study
For fluid-power engineers, compact-equipment tinkerers and students: an open model of three excavator circuits, how to rerun it, and what would settle it.
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Start here: how much of each payment to put aside for tax, for freelancers and sole traders
Free set-aside calculators for freelancers in eleven countries and a US year-end tax pack: what they estimate, a first ten minutes, and what they leave out.
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Start here: the open house-building research, from span checks to schedules
For builders, framers, architects and building-science students: 40 open house-building studies, how to rerun one, and how they feed the framing takeoff.
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Start here: how this repository's AI agent fleet is measured, run by run
For engineering managers and researchers: 40 small studies of one AI agent fleet's own run records, pull requests and cost per merge, and how to rerun one.
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Start here: you coded open-ended text with an LLM. Can you trust the statistics?
For social scientists, survey and UX researchers: how big a hand-coded audit must be for a valid interval on LLM-coded text, with free code.
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Start here: free tools for LLM spend, output regressions and MCP server risk
For developers shipping LLM features: eight free, local tools to price a workload, cap spend, catch output regressions and check MCP configs.
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Start here: training across slow links, and a DiLoCo baseline you can rerun
For ML engineers syncing workers over slow links and students who need a baseline: what the open lowcomm-training programme measured, and how to rerun it.
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Start here: which hull carries a survey payload furthest? The marine-hull research
For survey operators, naval architecture students and marine robot builders: open hull, glider and solar range models, and what they cannot tell you yet.
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Start here: open-source chip design research on Yosys, OpenROAD and SKY130
For hardware engineers and students on open flows: when a cheap synthesis estimate ranks designs like routed SKY130, with replayable data and code.
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Start here: an open tennis ball machine with a moving catch net, and a ball-collecting robot
For coaches, clubs and makers: what the open ball machine and ball-collecting rover designs give you, how to try them in ten minutes, and what is unbuilt.
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Start here: you spotted a wrong number. How to report it so it gets fixed
Found a figure that looks off in a calculator, checker or research page? What to include, where to send it, and what happens after you do.
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Start here: reproduce a research result and report what you find
For students, reviewers and researchers: re-run one research project in under a minute, compare it with the committed output, and report a match or a mismatch.
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Start here: let scheduled AI coding sessions open and merge pull requests on your own repo
For maintainers and small teams: copy this repo's way of steering scheduled AI coding sessions that land their own PRs, and the safety rules that come with it.
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Start here: share real data or a measurement, safely
For people who hold real data or can take a measurement: nine open asks with their repo paths, how to share without exposing anything private, and what to send.
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Start here: plan a backyard shed board by board with the Shed Designer
For homeowners, DIY builders and small builders: what the free Shed Designer produces, a first ten minutes with it, and the limits of its checks.
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Start here: certifying a robot policy with few real trials and a biased simulator
For robotics test leads and statisticians: what an open programme found about pairing simulator runs with a few real robot trials, and how to check it.
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Start here: can you trust a model someone else trained for you?
For mechanism designers, ML-security researchers and anyone outsourcing training: what the open verifiable-training programme found, and how to rerun it.
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Start here: your first pull request, from fork to merge
A step-by-step first pull request for developers: fork, a small sparse clone, run one tool's tests, check the page, and open a PR a maintainer can merge.
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Storage you can't load: why the shed gallery turned to lean-tos
The shed search counted the space over bare rafter ties as storage. Counting only open or decked roof space moved 8 of 11 gallery picks to lean-tos.
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Shed studs at 24 inches by default, when the siding allows it
The shed designer framed every wall at 16-inch centres. Now it uses 24 inches whenever the siding is rated for it and the studs pass their check.
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Leaving a paid scheduler: staff import for the free roster builder
The roster builder now reads a staff export from another scheduling app, so a switcher skips retyping names, rates and hour limits.
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Switching schedulers: turn last month's published schedule into the shifts to cover
The shift roster builder now reads a published-schedule CSV and writes the shift-requirement lines, counting people per weekday, time and position.
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Telling a multi-division schedule which nights a team cannot play
The multi-division league scheduler now takes per-team unavailable dates and moves clashing matches to the next night both teams are free.
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Ten sheds under 100 sq ft, picked from 2,400 a search built
Shed Designer now opens with ten ready designs under 100 sq ft, picked from 2,400 a search built. None of the 1,750 it kept costs under $2,000.
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Testing payment reminders on 150 random books
A seeded property test checks that every overdue-invoice reminder agrees with the ledger's aging report. It found no fault.
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The 14-day scheduling window moves across your week
On an invented cafe the same call-out owes $0 in premium 15 days out, $50 to $88 at 10 days and $68 to $174 at 3 days, because notice is counted per shift.
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The barn's knee gussets were too small, and the search now shapes the barn
APA's published capacities put the shed designer's barn knee gussets at 334%. They now reach into the corner, and the search varies the barn's shape and loft.
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Let the barn into the design search and it takes six of ten cards
Under a 100 sq ft and 13 ft limit, a gambrel shed won six of the ten ready-made design cards when the search could pick it, so it now gets a card of its own.
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The Bell Will Not Carry: an alarm story
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a glacier-lake flood alarm that everyone hears at noon and almost no one hears asleep, and the 2 a.m. test that shows it.
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The nightly browser checks had not passed in seven weeks. Here is what they found when they ran
A newer Playwright and one job per check revived the nightly browser checks. The first full run found a dead calculator page and 23 pages 2px too wide.
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The cold corner of the dormitory: why heat treatment is about the mattress core
A new Hearth & Horizon story: bed bugs at a pilgrim hostel, and why 60 degrees on the thermostat is the wrong number to aim at.
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The days-in-a-row limit now crosses Monday
The roster builder started every week at zero days in a row; a new streak cell carries Thursday to Sunday into Monday so the limit holds.
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The Fifth Day: a cemetery, a white cup and a mosquito clock
A new Hearth & Horizon story: sample every fortieth grave, count larvae in the vases, and empty on day five because the textbook's day seven leaves no margin.
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The line where load-sensing stops beating open-centre on a small excavator
Two margins decide whether a load-sensing pump beats an open-centre one on a small excavator. A sweep draws the boundary instead of arguing over one point.
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The 'no shock' control series that had a shock in it
A real series used as a null case for a changepoint detector turned out to contain a clear drop in late 1973, found by four different setups.
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The PDF around the e-invoice: four ways a Factur-X file gets rejected
The preflight checker now flags a missing PDF/A-3 marker, a wrong attachment name, a missing AFRelationship and a profile that disagrees with the XML.
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The River Is Eight Degrees: a cold-water story
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a Vigil baptism in an 8 degree river, a candidate with atrial fibrillation, and the numbers that move the pool.
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The design search tries saltboxes: 12 of 54 on the front
The shed designer's search now tries saltboxes. Under 100 sq ft they took the most-storage and best-looks picks; a gable is still the cheapest.
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The Shadow Rule: a sports-day story about sun on a cloudy day
A new Hearth & Horizon story: thin cloud, a shadow shorter than a child, and why a sunscreen label overstates what a thin layer does.
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The shed gallery was leaving up to $236 on the table
An audit found cheaper twins for seven of the shed gallery's eleven cards. Each card is now polished, and the gallery is re-searched on every deploy.
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The shed paint line was missing the trim
The shed designer priced two coats for the siding but nothing for the primed trim. Trim paint is now on the list: one gallon on an 8x12, $48.98.
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The sheet hiding in the offcut: 2-D sheet counts for a shed
Shed Designer now mixes strip widths, rips strips from offcuts and nests sloped gable siding: a roof sheet off the 8x10, 282 siding panels off 474 designs.
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The sliver row: why a 12-foot-deep deck ends in a 1-13/16 inch board
A 16 x 12 ft deck of 5/4x6 boards ends in a 1-13/16 in row. Two inches of depth fixes it. Numbers from the deck takeoff, 10 to 14 ft.
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The test job was redrawing 1,200 share cards every run
A one-page test build of the site took 64 seconds, 45 of them idle while workers drew cards the deploy had cached. Restoring that cache cut it to 17.
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Ridge beam, ridge board or trusses for a small shed: what the numbers say
Site-built trusses with OSB gussets, priced against a ridge beam and a ridge board. The ridge board still wins on cost; trusses win on short boards.
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Turkish tax numbers carry two different check-digit rules
A 10-digit VKN and an 11-digit TCKN each end in check digits. The free Turkey e-Fatura page now tests both, in the browser.
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Two doors 26 inches apart, and a lap joint with nothing behind it
A fuzz test found a shed where no legal lap-siding joint existed: two doors left no stud between their casings. The tool now frames one there.
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Two lags did not beat one: an exact AR(2) fit on lynx and sunspots
We scored level shifts under exact AR(2) noise to stop a cycle reading as steps. It matched AR(1) after a log transform and did worse before it.
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Two Wrong Numbers: a tide story
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a tidal causeway's closing time is right to a minute because two mistakes cancel, and a storm surge is the number that matters.
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UK e-invoicing: the Budget 2026 roadmap is out, and what we could and could not read
The UK published its e-invoicing implementation roadmap on 28 October 2026. We updated our UK page, and say plainly that we only read a search excerpt of it.
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The UK e-invoicing roadmap names dates, not fines
The 28 October 2026 roadmap keeps 1 April 2029, sets no size-based phasing and gives no penalty amount. What it does schedule, and what our UK page now says.
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VAT number typo checks for eleven more countries
E-invoice Preflight now checks the VAT check digit, not only the length, for eleven more EU countries, from Estonia to Czechia.
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Vertical siding: a 3-foot window cuts four columns, not three
The wall-framing takeoff now counts vertical siding as columns of full-height boards, and shows why a 36 in window on 12 in boards touches four columns.
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What $2,000 buys in a lap-sided shed
Every honest saving we could find, priced: a lap-and-shingle shed reaches $2,000 of materials at about 6x7, not 8x12. The shed designer now shows that path.
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What a Claude Code cloud session runs on: 4 vCPUs, 16 GB and a CPU lottery
Six Claude Code cloud sessions measured: each a Firecracker microVM with 4 vCPUs and 15.7 GiB RAM, on one of two host CPUs; the newer runs Python twice as fast.
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What a daily hour cap and a days-in-a-row limit cost a cafe schedule
On the roster builder's invented seven-person cafe, a 9-hour daily cap leaves one more shift open, and a 6-hour cap is a typo that empties 27 of 32.
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What one walkthrough asked of the shed designer, and the answers it now gives
Which board is the 14 footer for? What does a window really cost? Why do two options cost the same? The shed designer now answers these on the page.
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How hard does a shed block press on the ground?
The shed designer's starter put its blocks straight on the ground at about 1,970 psf, over the 1,500 psf the IRC presumes for clay or silt.
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What a shed holds per $100: comparing starting designs side by side
An 8x12 shed is 96 sq ft on paper and 85 inside the studs. Each starting design now opens with its storage, price and renders, and two or three compare.
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What does compressing worker updates cost in DiLoCo-style training? A paper section, and what it had to retract
Writing the compression section of a low-communication training paper forced a retraction: a rule that wins at 413k parameters fails at 915k.
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What each shed part costs: blocks, gravel, doors and windows priced side by side
On an 8x12 shed the foundation choice moves the price by up to $420, the door by $560 and the windows by $140. Each choice priced against your design.
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What files an LLM reads best, and how that differs from what people read
We tokenised the same content as Markdown, HTML, JSON, YAML, TOML, XML and CSV. HTML pages cost 9x their Markdown; a Python interface costs 15% of its module.
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A stair order forgot the hardware that holds the stringers up
The stair takeoff bought stringers, treads and rails but never listed what attaches the stringers; it now counts one top connector and one foot anchor each.
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What holds up a winder tread: counting the supports
Three winder treads need four radial supports, and each tread board spans the whole stair width between two of them.
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What LP SmartSide panels hold against the wind
LP rates its panel siding as a shear wall. Read the footnotes: on spruce studs a 3/8 inch panel braces a shed like T1-11, and the 7/16 inch panel 22% better.
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What matching the house costs on a small shed
On one 8x12 shed, painted fiber cement lap siding to match a HardieBoard house costs $350 more than T1-11 panels, and a prehung door costs $298 more.
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When a valve sizing rule stops describing a valve
Fixing a solver bracket in the open-centre excavator valve model removed one artefact and exposed a real validity limit.
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When the wind turns a shed truss inside out
Under wind uplift a site-built truss chord stops pulling and starts pushing. Too slender for that, it now gets an $8 brace when the wind you set calls for it.
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When is it safe to split an audit by the LLM's own label?
A pilot-based informedness screen with a prevalence guard decides when splitting a human audit by an LLM coder's label pays, tested on two corpora.
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Where can a shed's wall plate break? Over the header, too
With only 8 ft boards, 94 of 840 test designs had no legal place to splice the wall plates. Letting a joint sit over a door header fixed all 94.
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Where a shed's money goes: the skin, not the frame
Split by assembly, the default 8x12 shed spends 46% of its $3,074 of materials on siding, roofing, trim and paint, and 27% on the floor, wall and roof framing.
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Which board a stair stringer is cut from
The stair takeoff gave the stringer length but not the board to buy; it now names the shortest listed stock board that holds one.
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Who should have had that shift? A seniority report for the roster builder
Shift Roster Builder now takes a seniority rank per person and lists every shift a more senior person could have taken without breaking any hard rule.
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Why a sealed lid is not a safe jar: botulism spores and boiling water at altitude
A Hearth & Horizon story does the sum: at 1,820 m water boils at 94 C, so a 3-hour bath gives about a seventh of the heat green beans need.
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Why a shed's floor joist runs at 15% of its strength
Two hand calculations behind the shed designer's 15% readings, what really sets each member's size, and a view that colours members by use.
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Why boiling well water raises its nitrate, and what that means for a formula-fed baby
A Hearth & Horizon story does the sum: boiled-down well water at 68 mg/L nitrate becomes 85, so a 3.8 kg baby takes 48 mg a day.
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Why the cull rejected your picks: shootflow now says which threshold
shootflow cull --picks now breaks down the photographer's picks that it rejected by reason, so a miss points at the threshold to loosen.
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Wind turns a barn's tie into a column: a $7.72 brace
Checking the shed designer's barn trusses for wind uplift found that at 20 psf the tie is pushed, not pulled. A 2x4 brace along the ties at mid-span fixes it.
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Winder stairs: a tread that passes by arc can fail by straight edge
Three 30-degree winders at the smallest radius that passes the 6 in rule measured along the arc come up short when you measure with a tape across the wedge.
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A solar boat that just reads yesterday's sea keeps three quarters of the oracle's gain
Backing off speed on rough days using only yesterday's sea state recovers 68 to 80% of a perfect-foresight policy's gain over the best constant speed.
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Yoga studio bookkeeping from a bank CSV, and a Gusto misfile we found on the way
A worked November for yoga and Pilates studios: ClassPass, Momence and Walla payouts against lease, payroll and props, plus a fix for payroll filed as software.
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Zero false alarms can mean zero power: changepoint detection on a cycle
On lynx and sunspot cycles the --ar1 option reports no false changes, and also finds none of 18 steps we added, even at two standard deviations.
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1,200 random walls, and no gap in the sheathing
A seeded fuzz test throws random walls and openings at wall-framing-takeoff's sheathing layout and checks the panels tile every wall. It found no bug.
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22 product pages that nothing linked to
A sweep of the built site found 22 product pages with no inbound internal link; they are linked now and a new check keeps it that way.
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$549 off an 8x12 shed with stock parts, and what the height limit holds back
Shed Designer now searches stock doors, windows, siding, subfloor and foundations for a cheaper shed of the same size, and says what each change saves.
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A CI check that no venture page loads a third-party script, font or image
Scanning 1,300 venture pages for resources fetched from other hosts found one: Google Fonts on a GDPR-first product. A CI check now keeps it that way.
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A gradient-chosen weight plant found no room under a per-tensor bound
Milestone 47: an adversary picking one weight by gradient or loss search inside K times its tensor's initial maximum harmed 0 of 20 jobs at K = 4.
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A pilot-allocated LLM audit looks better than the oracle and is wrong
Allocating an LLM-coded data audit from a 30% pilot gives intervals 25 to 48% narrower but coverage as low as 49%. A negative result on real GoEmotions data.
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We tried a quieter airline series to find a strike; it wasn't quiet
Ansett first class had no school-holiday swing, yet the change point detector still returned 29 to 37 changes around the 1989 pilots' strike.
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A seasonal drift warning that also warns on nothing
The changepoint detector's drift warning was tested on a trendless seasonal series with a dated shock, and on one with none. It fired on both.
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A sign error hid the attack: how many weights does a cheater need to plant in a trained model?
A sign bug made a gradient-chosen weight plant look harmless in a verifiable-training test; fixed, one weight harms 45% of runs and 16 harm 95%.
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Fuzzing the bookkeeper's spreadsheet reader found a three-second stall
Mutating Excel and PDF fixtures byte by byte found one old .xls that stalled the free AI bookkeeper's reader for seconds. A two-line bound fixed it.
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A wandering series is not a staircase: two more real checks for the changepoint detector
Real internet-usage and temperature series show when a changepoint detector reports steps that are not there, and which switch fixes it.
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An adjustable tail fixes the gust response of a scaled UAV model, in simulation
Milestone 9e of aerolog-scaling: setting tail area from the flight modes alone brings 67 of 78 sub-scale designs within 10% of full-size gust response.
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An adjustable tail fixes what no fixed tail could: sub-scale cargo UAV modes
No fixed tail survives a 25% tail-slope error in a scaled cargo UAV model, but a tail area adjustable 0.85 to 1.3 times recovers the modes for 76 of 78 designs.
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Advanced framing: how much lumber does it really save?
We ran one wall-framing engine on two houses with 24 in studs, two-stud corners, ladder tees and a single top plate: a quarter less lumber cost, with caveats.
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Aim at projects worth three hundred hours
An opinion, not a rule: aim the main effort at projects worth about three hundred human hours. The run records show none measured above 94.
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US airline miles, 1937 to 1960: one change, and it is the end of the war
On 24 real yearly airline passenger-mile totals, the changepoint detector's trend model reports exactly one change, in 1946. A level-only model reports seven.
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An 8 ft shed peak and a 6'6\" door do not fit together
Shed Designer, a new free tool, frames a gable shed board by board. Its first design request turned out to be impossible, and the tool now says so.
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Can a changepoint detector find an airline strike? A real-data check
Ansett's 1989 pilots' dispute is a documented closure in a public weekly series. The changepoint detector finds the stop, the restart and 20 other changes.
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Audit by the coder's own label: when stratifying a hand-coded sample pays
Stratifying an LLM-coded audit by corpus group buys nothing; stratifying by the coder's own label cuts the interval 15 to 25% when the coder is informative.
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Bookkeeping for auto repair shops: six of thirteen lines had no account
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for an independent repair shop. Fleet-account payments, repair-data software, bay rent and the ASE fee had no rules.
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Baseboard splices cost board: a scarf-joint allowance in the framing takeoff
A baseboard run longer than one board needs splices, and a scarf joint overlaps. The wall-framing takeoff now counts that overlap.
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Boil it once: a boil-water notice that made the nitrate worse (a 2047 story)
Boil It Once (Hearth & Horizon): a flooded village well has bacteria and 58 mg/L nitrate, and boiling for twenty minutes doubles the nitrate.
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Bookkeeping for massage therapists and estheticians, from a bank statement
A free worked October for a solo massage therapist: Square and Vagaro payouts against lotions, dues, a state licence and suite rent, booked from a bank CSV.
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Breaking the shed designer on purpose: what a fuzz test found in a framing engine
A seeded fuzz test swept 1,000 random shed designs and junk links through Shed Designer; 135 broke a rule. Every root cause is now fixed and pinned.
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Calendar files for leagues with several divisions
The multi-division league scheduler now exports an .ics calendar for the whole league, one division or one team.
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Can a 16-point pilot certify a chip-flow search? Not yet, and here is what failed
Where verified-dse stands on a pilot-checkable guarantee for chip-flow search: one pilot scheme is proved, a regret estimate from the pilot is not.
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CI and application bloat: how much is useful and how much is deadweight
A week of CI runs and a byte count of 1,324 products: what is load-bearing, what is dead, and what is useful but noisy.
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Cleaning business bookkeeping from a bank statement: nine lines, $837.20 profit
A synthetic September in AI Bookkeeper: $1,285.00 of Zelle, Thumbtack and Stripe deposits, $447.80 of costs, and one supply buy left for the owner to file.
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Gradient compression costs loss in proportion to its variance, in a small DiLoCo experiment
On a 413k-parameter GPT trained with DiLoCo, rand-k compression cost loss roughly in proportion to its variance factor omega = 1/p - 1.
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Cull a shoot offline and get Lightroom star ratings, free
ShootFlow's cull command groups burst frames, keeps the sharpest, rejects blurred ones and writes XMP sidecars. Nothing is uploaded.
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Did four European stock markets get more volatile together? A changepoint check
The same changepoint detector on four European indices over 1,859 days: DAX and SMI show the volatility rise within 7 days, FTSE 60 later, CAC not at all.
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Do the league calendar files hold up? 600 random leagues, 0 faults
A fuzz check of the league schedule generator's .ics and CSV exports against RFC 5545 structure found no faults, and now runs in the test suite.
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Do our calculator pages fetch files that exist? A sweep of 1,300 pages
We scanned every venture page and script for relative fetch() calls and checked each target exists. none dangling, and a CI check to keep it so.
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Do your stair treads span too far between stringers?
The wall-framing takeoff now warns when stringers are too far apart for the tread thickness, with a worked example.
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Auditing LLM labels by the coder's own cells: no gain when the coder carries no signal
Splitting the human audit by a zero-shot Qwen coder's own label gains nothing on NaijaSenti, and a pilot floor widens intervals up to 22%.
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Does a seasonal-drift warning cry wolf on a clean series?
We tested the changepoint detector's drift warning on 195 synthetic months with no shock. It stays quiet on white noise and fires on autocorrelation alone.
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Does a heel-to-toe centre of pressure help a humanoid carry faster?
A 1,440-case MuJoCo check: moving the planned centre of pressure heel to toe moves a Unitree G1 and H1 carry speed by one grid cell at most.
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Does a load-sensing hydraulic pump pay for itself on a small excavator?
A first costing in our open hydraulics programme: with public retail prices and today's diesel, load-sensing's extra parts never repay in 2,000 hours.
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A longer series did not help the changepoint detector tell a shock from a season
195 months of euro-area factory orders through the 2008 crash: the detector found the collapse, warned about a drifting season, and cut 16 to 22 steps in all.
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Does an excavator's idle time decide which hydraulic circuit wins?
Load-sensing's 21% edge at a measured load factor shrinks to nothing if the open-centre bypass idles at low pressure, in a small-excavator energy model.
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Does allowing for autocorrelation hide a drifting season? On UK gas, yes
The changepoint detector's --ar1 flag cuts false drift warnings on sticky noise. On real series it keeps the airline warning but loses UK gas.
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Does the cost of compressing DiLoCo updates depend on how often workers sync?
On a small GPT, the loss cost of keeping 1/16 of each DiLoCo update grows with sync interval H; a separable rule fitted on three H predicts two held-out H.
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Does load-sensing pay on a small excavator? A first paper draft says: it depends on one number
Draft paper: load-sensing beats open-centre on a small excavator only with enough idle time, and its parts cost does not repay in fuel in 2,000 hours.
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Does load-sensing hydraulics beat open-centre? It hangs on one unmeasured number
An open model of a small excavator's hydraulics finds the load-sensing versus open-centre ranking flips with the pressure an open-centre valve holds at neutral.
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Does stratifying a human audit of LLM codes pay when the category is common?
On two common GoEmotions categories, four audit strata moved interval width by about 1%, and the LLM coder's gain tracked its accuracy.
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Does the photo cull pick what you would pick? A way to check
ShootFlow's cull now scores itself against your own picks: keeper hit rate and the number of frames you wanted that it threw out.
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Does the league schedule checker notice a planted fault?
We planted about 15,000 single faults in valid league schedules to see whether the free generator's independent checker spots them. It missed none that matter.
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Does top-k compression pay the same delay tax as random sparsification?
In a small DiLoCo-style GPT run, compression costs more loss as local steps between syncs grow, for biased top-k as for random sparsification.
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Drag a door along the wall: the plan sketch editor learns to edit openings
The wall-framing takeoff's plan sketch now lets you slide a door or window along its wall and resize it by dragging an edge, with overlaps and slivers refused.
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Drag a corner, keep the house closed: moving walls in the framing sketch
The wall-framing takeoff plan sketch now has a Move tool: drag a corner or slide a wall, and the walls that meet there follow.
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Draw your house, get a framing takeoff
The free Wall Framing Takeoff page now has a plan sketch editor: click walls, doors and windows on a grid and it works out corners, tees and openings for you.
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dupehound now finds copies whose names changed
A --normalize mode for the Rust copy-paste detector hashes identifiers, strings and numbers by kind: 40.6% duplicated lines becomes 60.4% on this repo.
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Four email fields that now autofill, found by a sweep of 1,328 pages
A sweep of 1,328 venture pages for common accessibility slips found four email inputs that did not autofill. Everything else was clean.
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Can you plan a coder-assisted audit from a pilot? Mostly not
Two repairs for a pilot-estimated audit of LLM-coded text, a per-cell floor and an independent pilot, tested on GoEmotions with a real Qwen coder.
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Our excavator cycle had too little idle time: checking a model against a measured power trace
A public electric-excavator power trace has a load factor of 0.35; the force-model cycle we used for hydraulic circuit rankings has 0.61.
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A bookkeeping page for farmers-market and cottage-food vendors, and the three stores it had to learn
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for a market baker. Writing it exposed gaps: GFS, Sam's Club ingredient buys and packaging went unfiled.
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First-fit lumber ordering costs 9.5% extra when long boards cost more per foot
On 150 small framing orders with length-priced lumber, first-fit-decreasing found the cheapest order 29% of the time; the shipped solver found it every time.
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AI Bookkeeper now starts with a button
On a phone, AI Bookkeeper opened with paragraphs and no action. It now opens with Import a bank file and Try the example, above the fold.
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Three scheduling and sales tools now show their buttons on a phone's first screen
A phone-width check found three tool pages with no action above the fold. Each now has a start button and a try-an-example button.
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Four tools now open on a button, not a wall of text
The wall framing takeoff, changepoint detector, e-invoice preflight and tennis robot shot planner now show a start button on a phone's first screen.
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Bookkeeping for food trucks: commissary rent, propane and festival fees
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for a food truck. Five of fifteen lines had no suggestion; a new rule block fills them.
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Forty percent of our JavaScript is a copy: a copy-paste detector in Rust
jscpd ran out of memory on our 9,458 JavaScript files. A Rust rewrite read them in 1.2 s, matched about 95% of its flagged lines, and runs in the browser.
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Foundation takeoff now counts piers: pads, columns and rebar
The wall-framing takeoff's foundation module now takes pier groups (square pads with optional columns) and returns concrete and rebar, with arithmetic shown.
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Four framing faults the shed designer's checks missed
A 1,400 lb post landing on one floor joist, eave walls checked with too little roof, a skid joint between blocks and siding joints with no stud behind them.
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A free tax calendar for freelancers and sellers, as an .ics file
AI Bookkeeper tax calendar is now a web page: federal, payroll, 1099-NEC and state sales tax dates as a list or an .ics file for your calendar.
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We broke 11,100 bank statements and the reader never crashed
ai-bookkeeper's bank-statement reader was fed 85 fixtures cut, truncated, quote-injected and spliced with junk; none hit a programming error.
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Gable-end wall panels now carry a sheathing weight
The wall-framing takeoff's shop panels skipped sheathing weight on gable walls. They now count the eave rectangle plus the triangle under each panel.
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A gate stops one bad audio sync from ruining a camera's whole hour
Tracking a camera's audio delay from its own history locked 37% of cameras onto a wrong alias for an hour. Re-acquiring on a stronger peak cuts that to 8-10%.
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Making a simulated coat hanger blunter stops helping at about 6 cm
Lifting the end-radius cap of a simulated 3D-designed hanger from 6 to 10 and 15 cm left the drape error flat (1.08 and 1.21 cm against 1.12 cm, 8 seeds each).
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A bookkeeping page for home daycares, and the seven payees it had to learn
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for a solo home daycare. Half the lines went unfiled until tuition, craft supplies, NAFCC dues and CACFP fees got rules.
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Home Depot or Lowe's for an 8x12 shed? Each priced on its own
Shed Designer now prices the whole list at Home Depot and Lowe's separately, with bulk prices, spare boards, tax, delivery and a labour rate.
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Bookkeeping for home inspectors: six of ten lines had no account
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for a solo home inspector. Software payouts, the thermal camera and the state licence had no rules.
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How far does a solar-powered survey boat go in a day, and how sure are we?
A deck-solar 5 m survey boat covers about 69 to 133 km/day depending on site; drawing power-side inputs jointly gives roughly +-10%.
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How fast should a solar survey boat cruise? The hull you can't measure moves the answer more than the controller does
A deck-solar survey boat's best cruising speed shifts by 0.3 m/s across plausible hull constants, costing up to 9% of daily distance if you guess wrong.
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How many eave baffles does your attic need? The framing takeoff now counts them
The free wall-framing takeoff now counts attic eave baffles, one per rafter or truss bay on both eaves, next to the loose-fill bag count.
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How many nails hold a shed's rafter ties? It depends on the width
The shed designer said three 16d per rafter tie for every shed. The outward thrust says three for an 8 ft wide shed, four at 10 ft and five at 12 ft.
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How much energy can an excavator boom give back?
A bound on boom-lowering energy recovery for a small excavator: about 3% of pump-shaft energy centrally, 10% at the extreme, from a swept model.
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How much lumber does a shed take? Thirteen sizes, framed board by board
Shed Designer now publishes a lumber list for each common gable shed size from 8x8 to 12x24, written by its own framing engine rather than a rule of thumb.
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How noisy can a flight test be before the adjustable tail stops working?
A least-squares fit of a simulated noisy free response shows what sensor noise and record length the adjustable-tail fix for a sub-scale cargo drone tolerates.
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How noisy can the in-flight measurement be before the adjustable tail stops working?
Setting a sub-scale UAV's tail area from noisy mode estimates keeps gust response within 10% for most designs at 2% noise, but no design is reliable at 5%.
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Idle time decides whether a load-sensing excavator circuit beats open-centre
In an open excavator-circuit simulation, load-sensing used 104% of open-centre energy with no idle time and 79 to 82% once idle matched a measured trace.
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Israel: invoices above NIS 5,000 now need a Tax Authority allocation number
E-invoice Preflight has an Israel page: how allocation numbers work, the threshold steps down to NIS 5,000, and a free ID and company number check digit test.
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A test that keeps the first-screen button on our flagship tools
We added an 'Open the tool' button to flagship pages so phone visitors see an action first. Now a test fails if one goes missing.
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Landscaping bookkeeping from a bank statement: ten lines, $1,357.30 profit
A synthetic September in AI Bookkeeper: $2,080.00 of HOA, Stripe and Square deposits, $722.70 of costs, and why a Home Depot receipt needs a second look.
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League schedules now export a Google Calendar and Outlook CSV
The free league schedule generator adds a calendar-import CSV next to its .ics files, for coaches whose calendar will not take iCalendar.
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Multi-division league builder now writes a message per team and per official
The league schedule generator's multi-division page can now download one note per team and per referee, each with only their own matches.
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Every product's llms.txt now says how fresh it is
The site build now stamps each product's llms.txt, hand-written or generated, with the date its source last changed in git.
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One number decides whether load-sensing hydraulics save fuel on a small excavator
Sourcing the load-sensing margin from a Rexroth A10VO manual reverses our earlier excavator result: the ranking turns on a margin two sources put 11 bar apart.
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Low-communication training: compression costs loss in proportion to its noise, not its keep fraction
On a small GPT trained DiLoCo-style, unbiased compression costs loss in proportion to its measured error-to-signal ratio omega, across two compressor families.
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A bookkeeping page for mobile detailers, and the 'Zelle to owner' line that went unfiled
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for a one-van detailer. Detailing chemicals and a transfer to the owner had no rules.
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Bookkeeping for mobile notaries: dues and E&O were filed as legal fees
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for a mobile notary. An older bare 'notary' rule filed dues, E&O cover and the stamp as legal fees; a new block fixes it.
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Monica and the Window at Ostia: a Saints by Candlelight episode
Episode 54 of Saints by Candlelight: Saint Monica and her son Augustine at an open window in Ostia, told from the Confessions. Text only.
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Reading doors made of doors: nested CAD blocks in the wall framing takeoff
The wall-framing takeoff's DXF reader now sizes door and window symbols built from other symbols, including mirrored leaves.
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Ohio quarterly sales tax returns: the 23rd, and where the sources disagree
ai-bookkeeper's sales tax worksheet now pins Ohio's quarterly due dates, and says plainly that guides disagree on who files quarterly.
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Ohio capped its sales tax vendor discount at $750 a month
From 2026 Ohio's 0.75% timely-filing discount stops at $750 per vendor's license per month. What changed, and how ai-bookkeeper now models it.
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One command for CI and your laptop: removing 418 copies of one workflow
How this monorepo went from 549 GitHub Actions workflows to 131, made its diff-scoped checks run locally, and found which venture tests the old setup never ran.
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A one-line breadcrumb on phones
Long page titles made the site's breadcrumb wrap to three lines at phone width. One shared CSS rule now keeps it to one line.
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Bookkeeping for owner-operator truckers: ten of seventeen lines had no account
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for a one-truck owner-operator. Factoring deposits, the fuel card and Form 2290 had no rules.
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Panelised vs stick framing, counted without a labour rate
What a framing crew handles on site when walls are built as shop panels instead of stick by stick, counted from the wall-framing takeoff on two houses.
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Paul and the fourteen nights before Malta: a bedtime story
Episode 53 of Saints by Candlelight retells the voyage and shipwreck of Acts 27 and 28, from a late-season grain ship to a fire on a Maltese beach.
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A bookkeeping page for personal trainers, and the four payees it had to learn
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for an independent trainer. Writing it exposed gaps: Trainerize, NASM, gym-floor rent and MyFitnessPal went unfiled.
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A bookkeeping page for pet sitters and dog walkers, and the eight payees it had to learn
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for a solo pet sitter. Writing it exposed gaps: Rover and Wag payouts, Time To Pet, Petco and association dues went unfiled.
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A bookkeeping page for photographers, and the five payees it had to learn
A worked October in ai-bookkeeper for a wedding photographer exposed gaps: gallery software, PPA dues, a second shooter, WHCC and Lightroom went unfiled.
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Pier footings now go in the wall framing takeoff page
The free wall framing takeoff page now takes pier groups: pad size, column, rebar, concrete yards and trucks, no plan file needed.
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Playwright 1.56 cannot install Chromium on GitHub's Ubuntu 26.04 runners
A browser test job failed before running a test: ubuntu-latest is now Ubuntu 26.04 and Playwright 1.56 has no Chromium for it. Playwright 1.63.0 installs fine.
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The site build takes 7 to 20 minutes, and the prompt now says so
Polish runs kept losing monitors to a long site build. The prompt now gives the command that prints its own DONE marker.
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Radon in a granite laundry: why a four-day test and a three-month test disagree
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a 4-day canister reads 520 Bq/m3, a 3-month chip 1,150. The one-line sum behind the gap, and why a bigger fan can disappoint.
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Five real DXF files, five failures: layer flags for the wall-framing takeoff
Real DXF files from the ezdxf test set showed the wall-framing takeoff only found walls on layers named like 'wall'. New CLI flags name the layers.
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Real estate agent bookkeeping from a bank statement: two closings, seven costs
A synthetic August in AI Bookkeeper: two commission deposits of $10,115.00, $1,163.00 of MLS, dues, leads and insurance, $8,952.00 profit before mileage.
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A call-out after you posted the schedule: rebuild the week or change one shift?
On an invented seven-person cafe, rebuilding the whole week after one call-out moved 4 to 10 other people's shifts and often still left the shift open.
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Fifteen days of red team: what it broke, and what the blue team fixed
294 red-team runs seeded 3,437 bugs and none is in the code today. The blue team closed 864 test gaps and 89 defects, yet fresh files still miss 3 in 10.
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Seeding bugs in the shop-rates bar: 4 of 8 got through
A red-team campaign on the shared shop-rates bar caught half its seeded bugs; the escapes included one that would overwrite a shared bid link.
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Referees for a league with several divisions
The league schedule generator now assigns an official to every match across divisions that share courts, with no one on two matches at once.
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Referees for every division, on one page
The free multi-division league scheduler now hands every match a referee, umpire or scorekeeper in your browser, with no one on two matches at once.
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A guide for the sales agent: what to do with each reply to cold outreach
The sales-agent flagship had no page for the people who would search for it. It now has a guide with a table of the safe action for each kind of reply.
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Restaurant bookkeeping from a bank statement: one July, four payouts
A synthetic restaurant month in AI Bookkeeper: Toast and three delivery apps pay $6,095.70, food and fees cost $2,744.57, profit $3,351.13 before wages.
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Your self-hosted team schedule can now ping your own Slack, Discord or phone
The free shift-roster server can post to a webhook you own when staff send a call-out, trade or time-off ask, and when you publish a week.
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What rough water costs a solar-powered boat, and why it should slow down
A marine-hull sweep: doubling hull resistance costs a 5 m solar boat about 21% of daily range; holding calm-water speed costs 12 to 27%.
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When rough water comes in weeks, how much does slowing down on rough days gain a solar boat?
Simulated solar boat at five sites: slowing on rough days beats the best constant speed by 3 to 8% with a big battery, up to 15% with a small one.
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The run router now reads the task it was given
Eight runs in three days asked for revenue products and were routed to other work. promptctl route --task now picks the track the message names.
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Sales Agent can move the deal, but only when you click
Sales Agent's self-host queue has a button that moves a contact's open Pipedrive or HubSpot deal to your meeting stage. Nothing moves automatically.
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Sales Agent now writes what it read back into your CRM
Sales Agent can now note each reply it reads on the Pipedrive or HubSpot contact and set the CRM opt-out on unsubscribes. It only records or reduces contact.
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A bookkeeping page for hair salons and barbers
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked September for a stylist: Square deposits, supplies, licence and insurance filed from a bank CSV, one unplaced line left for you.
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We seeded 12 bugs in the child tax credit calculator; the tests caught 5
A red-team run on the free Child Tax Credit calculator: the suite caught 5 of 12 seeded faults; six new tests lifted that to every non-equivalent one.
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Shape or shock? A change-point warning I could not sharpen
The changepoint-detector's drift warning fires on a real shock as well as on a growing seasonal shape. A cancellation test looked promising and failed.
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Shape or shock? A second try that mostly failed
Can a changepoint detector tell a growing seasonal pattern from a real shock? A level-scaled refit helped on one of three real series.
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Telling a growing season from a real shock: a third try that mostly failed
Refitting on the log clears one growing seasonal series but not the airline one, so the changepoint drift warning stays as it is.
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How close is a lumber cut list to the cheapest possible? Shed Designer now proves it
Shed Designer now solves the cutting-stock relaxation: on 257 real cut lists its proven bound sits 0.4% under the orders, down from 7%.
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Shed Designer, driven like a first-time visitor: six editor bugs a unit test could not see
We drove the free shed designer in a headless browser on a laptop and a phone. What broke, what we fixed, and the tests that keep it fixed.
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A shed cost that left out the door, and a page that drifted from its tool
Auditing Shed Designer's prices: estimates shown as listings, a store compared with itself, a total missing the door, and a page now tested against its tool.
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Checking shed plans against the model that drew them
Tests that read Shed Designer's plan sheets back found blank printouts, a hidden wall length, a short rafter dimension and 27 unlettered part marks.
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Shift roster builder: one click to cover a call-out
The self-hosted manager page now lists who can cover a called-out shift and gives it to them with one button.
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ShootFlow can now cull blinks: a free on-device face detector
ShootFlow's closed-eye culling had a contract and no detector. A 60-line OpenCV script now fills it, on your own machine, with its limits stated.
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ShootFlow cull: a local command that picks the keeper from every burst
A new ShootFlow command groups near-identical photos, picks a keeper per group, flags blurry frames and writes Lightroom rating sidecars, all locally.
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ShootFlow's cull report now shows the photos
shootflow cull --thumbs puts a thumbnail contact sheet, grouped by burst, into the cull report so you can judge the keeper picks by eye.
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ShootFlow now makes review proxies from RAW files
ShootFlow builds 1024 px review JPEGs for CR3, NEF, ARW and DNG stills from the preview the camera embedded, so a RAW shoot can be reviewed.
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Should you stratify the human audit of an LLM-coded rare category? Not at 1% prevalence
On GoEmotions fear (1.15% prevalence), splitting a 400-item human audit into four strata lifted nothing and cost coverage; one pooled sample covered 95.8%.
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Siding takeoff now counts the triangle on a gable end
The free wall-framing takeoff's siding count used to treat a gable end as a rectangle. It now lays courses up the triangle and wraps its true area.
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The wall-framing plan sketch now survives a page reload
wall-framing-takeoff's click-drawn plan sketch used to vanish on reload. It now saves on your device only, and the browser test reloads to prove it.
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Should a solar survey boat slow down on rough days? A sweep, not a sea
A 5 m deck-solar survey boat simulated over ten years of sunshine at five sites: how much does backing off on rough days gain over one cruise speed?
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Bookkeeping for small farms and CSAs: nine of fourteen lines had no account
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for a small farm. CSA-platform payouts, seed houses, pasture leases and farm diesel had no rules.
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Small survey boats: the hull ranking holds, the absolute range does not
Marine-hull programme: no rival hull beats a displacement monohull at equal length, but deck-solar km/day is known only to about +-10 to 20%.
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A solar boat goes 10 to 28% further once its power figures come from datasheets, not guesses
Published hotel-load and panel figures raise a simulated deck-solar boat's range 10 to 28% at three energy-limited sites; best speed stays 1.1 to 1.5 m/s.
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A solar survey boat's clever speed rule was mostly just a better constant speed
Held-out test on ten years of daily NASA POWER sunshine: a pack-level surge rule adds under 3% over the best constant speed for a small deck-solar boat.
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One catalogue number flipped our excavator hydraulics ranking
Reading the open-centre neutral pressure from a real valve catalogue turned a modelled 21% load-sensing saving into an 8 to 12% loss.
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South Korea: tax invoices must be electronic and reported by the next day
E-invoice Preflight has a South Korea page: how the electronic tax invoice works, what is unverified, and a free business registration number check digit test.
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Shift roster builder now prices split-shift premiums
The schedule notice flagged split shifts but never said what they cost; with your local minimum wage it now does.
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Staggered blocking in a wall takeoff
wall-framing-takeoff can now stagger blocking rows so each block can be face-nailed, and keeps fire-block spacing under 10 ft.
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Start here: what this repository can do for you, by who you are
New here? One page per kind of reader: what you get, who each project is for, your first ten minutes, and the honest limits.
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Start here: give your AI agent 1,300 free calculators and checkers
For developers and Claude Code or Cursor users: call any tool's engine from the shell or a local MCP server, plus a BYOK model client and an agent UI tester.
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Start here: AI Bookkeeper, books from your bank file that learn your business
Who AI Bookkeeper is for, what you get, your first ten minutes from a bank CSV to a profit and loss, and what it will not do for you.
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Bring an idea, get it built: what a person gets from this repository
You bring ideas; AI coding agents build them in public under the MIT licence; you, or anyone, may deploy the result and run it for profit.
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Start here: did your metric really change? A guide to the Changepoint Detector
For analysts and ops people with a time series: what the free Changepoint Detector tells you, your first ten minutes, and what it cannot do.
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Start here: how to help, starting with an idea
For people who want to help: why an idea is the most useful thing you can bring, how ideas and fixes reach the repo, and how a fork pull request lands.
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Start here: E-invoice preflight, catch the rejection before the portal does
Who the free e-invoice preflight is for, what it checks in XRechnung, Peppol, UBL, CII and Factur-X files, your first ten minutes, and its limits.
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Start here: free tools for your trade, and how to pick the right one
A guide for tradespeople and small-business owners to the 1,200+ free browser tools: the trade pages, how to pick one, and what an estimate is not.
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Start here: League Schedule Generator, a fair season from a list of team names
For league organisers and club volunteers: what the free schedule maker gives you, your first season in ten minutes, and what it leaves to you.
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Start here: ShootFlow, a safe card copy and overnight first pass for your shoots
For photographers and videographers on Mac or Linux: what ShootFlow does with a shoot, your first card copy and pipeline run, and its early-stage limits.
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Start here: Quick Pick, rank a list by asking people to choose one of two
Who the Quick Pick survey engine suits, how to deploy your own copy and build a first either-or survey, and why it is still an early prototype.
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Start here: the open research, and how to check it, reuse it and cite it
For researchers, students and curious readers: what the open research portfolio holds, how to rerun one result, and how to build on it or cite it honestly.
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Start here: Sales Agent, the reply inbox that never sends without you
For founders and reps doing their own outreach: what the free Sales Agent does with replies, how to try it in ten minutes, and what has really been measured.
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Start here: run your own copy, embed a tool, or build a business on one
Every tool here is MIT licensed, so you may run it for profit. Which self-hosted apps exist, how to deploy one, and what you take on as the operator.
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Start here: Shift Roster Builder, the week's schedule without the Sunday-night puzzle
Who Shift Roster Builder is for, what it does for a small team's weekly rota, your first ten minutes, and the labour rules it does not model.
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Start here: Wall Framing Takeoff, a lumber order and cut list from your wall list
For framers, estimators and owner-builders: what the free framing takeoff gives you, how to run your first house in ten minutes, and what it leaves to you.
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State income tax now on the bookkeeper's estimate card
ai-bookkeeper's federal tax estimate took a flat state rate on the command line yesterday; the browser page now has the same three boxes.
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Stepped footings in a framing takeoff
How wall-framing-takeoff now prices a footing that steps down a sloping lot: taller stem, riser blocks, extra bars.
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Straighten a crooked plan scan before you trace it
The wall-framing plan sketch can now turn a tilted scan or photo level (or plumb) from two clicks, so walls you trace come out square.
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A bookkeeping page for tattoo artists: five of thirteen lines filed before the rules
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for a booth-renting tattoo artist. Needles, ink, sharps pickup and the health-department licence had no rules.
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A ball feeder's wheels need to push 241 N, and the design assumed 60
Tying the tennis feeder CAD to its flight model: launch wheels near their rpm limit, and the nip must push four times what the retainer check assumed.
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We tried to break the S-corp calculator with 400 random businesses
A seeded property test on the bookkeeper's S-corporation comparison found no fault: the profit always splits exactly, and the salary sweep matches direct calls.
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Does a change detector find a hurricane? Puerto Rico's daily deaths
The changepoint detector on 1,201 real days of Puerto Rico deaths dates Hurricane Maria to the day in five of five setups, with nine or more other changes.
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Testing a changepoint warning on 9/11 and SARS
The free changepoint detector's seasonal-drift warning fired in 7 of 8 runs on real Australian visitor data. What that tells us, and what it doesn't.
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We broke eight lines of our own browser script and no test noticed
A red-team run flipped eight lines in the script that points at the invalid field on our calculators. None failed a test. Here is what that found.
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The Hall with the Doors Shut: a wildfire-smoke story and the sum behind it
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a parish hall in smoke, four then eight filter boxes, and why one propped door costs a factor of three.
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The mic button that got out of the way
The floating Speak-or-type button on our calculators used to cover the text on phones. It now steps aside while you read.
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The shed walls had no tops: what a floating-parts test found
A reviewer looking at Shed Designer's 3D view said the walls had no tops. A geometry test written in response found the bug, and two more.
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The Slowest Chair on the Hill: a lightning story
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a pilgrimage, a lightning rule, and why a group is only as fast as its slowest chair.
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The Stack That Sweats: a Hearth & Horizon story about hay that cooks itself
A new science fiction story: hay baled at 24% water, a sum that puts 55 degrees inside one percent of the dry matter, and a rule written in advance.
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The stair order was missing its risers
The wall-framing takeoff laid out stair risers and a handrail but never bought them. Now solid risers and the handrail join the lumber order.
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The Warm Stack: why a farmer rings the fire service about hay
A new Hearth & Horizon story about hay baled too wet, a core at 66 degrees, and an advisor that gives the numbers and leaves the choice.
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The window that ate the stud: siding joints with nothing behind them
Shed Designer's fuzz test found 70 of 1,500 random sheds with a 4 ft siding joint over bare air beside a door or window. Each now gets a nailer.
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A bookkeeping page for therapists, and why it runs in the browser
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for a solo therapist. Eight of fourteen lines went unfiled until insurance-panel payouts, CE, supervision and dues got rules
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Thirty real airline series, none of them quiet: testing a changepoint detector on the 1989 pilots' strike
The changepoint detector's date ranges held the start of the 1989 Australian pilots' strike in 29 of 30 real passenger series (count model). None was quiet.
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Thirty-three distribution channels, none switched on
How the free tools reach people today: 33 publishing pipelines built, none live, about 24 page loads recorded, and the channel that needed no account.
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Three months, ten thousand pull requests: development lessons from an AI-agent monorepo
A retrospective from the first commit: 9,783 merged PRs, 1,326 products, about 20 measured page loads, and nine lessons about building with AI agents.
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Three seller fee calculators now ship llms.txt, with worked numbers
The eBay, Etsy and Shopify profit calculators now carry an llms.txt so an assistant can say when to recommend them and what a real order nets.
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Trace over a scanned plan in the free framing takeoff
The wall-framing takeoff's sketch editor can now put a picture of your plan under the grid, scale it from one known dimension, and let you trace the walls.
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A traced floor plan that survives a page reload
The wall-framing takeoff sketch editor now keeps your scanned plan, its scale and its straightening on your device, so a reload no longer costs the setup.
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Trim take-off: shoe moulding and scarf joints now on the framing page
The free wall framing take-off page now counts shoe moulding along the baseboard and lets you type a scarf overlap, so long trim runs are bought honestly.
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A bookkeeping page for tutors, and the seven payees it had to learn
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for an online tutor. Outschool, Teachers Pay Teachers, Prodigy, a Wacom tablet and Praxis fees went unfiled until new rules.
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Two storeys were one plan: testing the framing tool on a real IFC house
A real two-storey ArchiCAD house exposed a bug in wall-framing-takeoff's IFC import: upper and lower walls merged. It now reads one storey at a time.
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Bookkeeping for vending route operators: machine parts were filed as meals
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for a vending route. Reader settlements, commissions and machine parts had no rules; one rule filed parts as meals.
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Waiting on a 30-minute job without polling every 100 seconds
wait_for.py gives up after 100 s by design. Runs with long jobs now start it in the background with a long timeout and get woken once.
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Build schedules that skip your holidays
The wall-framing-takeoff schedule now skips the holidays and weather days you list, so finish dates match the calendar.
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A bookkeeping page for wedding DJs, planners and florists
ai-bookkeeper gets a worked October for a wedding DJ and planner; wholesale flowers and planner software had no rules.
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What a shed costs past the lumber, and what $81 of brackets buys
Shed Designer now prices trim, nails, caulk, flashing, blocks, gravel and a site-built door, compares stores, and finds the build with the fewest saw cuts.
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What a static framework for a site written by AI agents needs
We weighed our 5,344-page agent-written site. Pages are small; indexes, copied CSS and design drift are not. What a performance-first framework would fix.
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What moves a solar survey boat's range most? Not the hull
Hotel load and panel yield move a solar survey boat's daily range 2 to 5 times more than the hull drag constants do.
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What TypeScript by default would look like in this repo
The portfolio is 9,790 .mjs files and 3,200 HTML pages. What a TypeScript default would cost, what it would buy, and why going forward beats migrating.
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When noise alone looks like a drifting season
A changepoint tool's drift warning fired on 75% to 88% of series with no change at all. Allowing for autocorrelation cut that to about 1%.
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When only a third of your crew can close, how fair can a roster be?
We measured the shift roster builder's fairness setting on crews where most people cannot work late: it helps by a third, and availability sets the limit.
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Where the Pump Coughs: a Hearth & Horizon story about a cistern
New science fiction: a pilgrim hostel trusts a notched stick to read its cistern, and the sums show the stick measures depth, not water.
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Would an S corporation save you tax? Now a button on the bookkeeper page
The free AI bookkeeper now compares a sole proprietorship with an S corporation in your browser: tax, payroll tax, a salary sweep and the break-even profit.
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Zita and the Bread in the Oven: a Little Lamps bedtime story
A new Little Lamps story for ages 3 to 8: Saint Zita, a Lucca servant, and the legend of the bread found baked while she prayed.
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We audited 138 digital-twin projects: only 3 name a real data source
A keyword audit of the repository's 138 twin projects finds 137 stylised, 3 with a real data source and 20 that state a paired correlation.
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ai-bookkeeper now has the 2026 earned income credit built in
Rev. Proc. 2025-32 gives the 2026 EITC figures; a single parent of one child earning $30,000 gets about $3,451.
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A 65-year-old freelancer and the new senior deduction: a $100,000 example
For $100,000 of profit in 2026, one person aged 65 or older gets about $7,000 off taxable income and owes roughly $1,227 less federal tax in this estimate.
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Is it a burst or two level changes? A test that says no on real data
changepoint-detector now flags when two count changes are one temporary burst. On the classic great-discoveries series it declines, rightly.
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A coordinated attack breaks a median aggregator at half the coalition size
In a numpy model of 16 workers, a median stops protecting training at about 4 coordinated attackers, where independent flips needed 8. Training test pending.
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A dead man's condition and a licence for automated cars: a 2046 story
The Condition in the Trust (Hearth & Horizon): a 2026 bequest pays out on a driver's licence, and by 2046 the state sells one that never asks you to look.
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A five-year burst is not two level shifts: three ways to read the great-discoveries counts
Real yearly counts of great inventions, 1860-1959, run through the changepoint-detector's count options. Two decline the burst, one half-fixes it.
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A generic word in a bank line should not part-pay your invoice
ai-bookkeeper matched unrelated bank lines to an open invoice because they shared one common word with the customer's name. Now two words are needed.
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A magnitude check caught every harmful silent bit flip in a tiny training run
In 360 injected single-bit weight flips across fp32, bf16 and fp16, rejecting any weight above 10x the last checkpoint's maximum caught 42 of 42 harmful flips.
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A median survives 6 of 16 sabotaging workers, and diverges at 8
Real training with k of 16 workers flipping their updates: the median costs 0.014 nats at k=2, 0.14 at k=6, and diverges at k=8.
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A mistyped sales-tax discount no longer prints NaN
ai-bookkeeper's salestax return now refuses a malformed --discount instead of printing NaN payable amounts.
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A proof that only half applied to our chip-search pilot
A pilot-sampling guarantee in our chip-flow search research was proved for independent pairs but used on disjoint ones. We tested whether it still holds.
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A push hook that stops broken blog posts reaching main
Three posts with missing tags or an over-long description turned main red in three days. A hook now checks them before git push.
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A real 2026 invoice PDF our e-invoice checker could not open, and the one-line cause
Mustang's test PDFs include an Aspose.Words invoice that einvoice-preflight refused because a MIME type contains the word stream.
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A real LLM coder barely shrinks a rare-category audit
Qwen2.5-1.5B coded 6,683 GoEmotions comments for fear and sadness. With twice the informedness of naive Bayes it cut the human audit by at most 12%, not 3x.
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A sales tax discount cap per month, not per return: Illinois at $1,000
ai-bookkeeper's sales tax return worksheet takes a per-month cap on the timely-filing discount, so quarterly or annual returns cap at 3 or 12 months' worth.
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A sales tax worksheet should refuse a bad due day, not print NaN
ai-bookkeeper's salestax return accepted --due-day abc and --rate with a non-number; both now stop with a message.
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A scale model feels the same gust load but pitches 30% harder
In a four-state model, a 1:5 Froude-scaled cargo aircraft matches full-size gust load factor within 2% but its peak pitch rate is 27 to 33% high.
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A solar survey boat should speed up when its battery is full
Ten years of daily sunshine at five ocean sites: slowing a 5 m solar boat when low never helps, but surging when the pack is full adds 11 to 32% distance.
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Why a changepoint detector found 16 changes in a company's growing earnings
Johnson & Johnson's quarterly earnings, fed raw to a changepoint detector, come out as 12 to 16 steps. Logging the series first leaves 2 to 5.
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A sub-scale drone tail that only works if the airfoil surrogate is right
None of 78 tail designs that restore a 1:5 cargo UAV's flight modes stays within 5% if the real tail lift slope is 25% below the surrogate's.
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A sub-scale cargo plane whose tail fixes its flight modes also fixes its gust response
In a Froude-scaled 1:5 cargo UAV model, 24 of 78 mode-matched tails also match full-size gust response within 5%; the similar model is 27-33% off in pitch rate.
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A valid sequential audit that uses the coder costs more than one that ignores it
A betting confidence sequence makes a coder-assisted rare-category audit valid (99-100% coverage) but needs 3 to 14 times the oracle sample.
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A weight bound catches bit flips, but not a cheater
A weight bound scaled by the init caught 15 of 15 harmful bit flips in a small transformer, but a value planted under it still harmed up to 60% of jobs.
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A Wilson interval for LLM-coded audits of rare emotions
On GoEmotions fear and sadness, a pooled PPI estimate with a Wilson interval on its effective sample size covers 92 to 97% at audits of 400 to 1,000 labels.
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A 1:5 cargo-drone model can match full-size power and flight modes, if you redesign the tail and place the CG to 6 mm
First aerolog-scaling paper draft: sections cannot fix a Froude model's drag, but a non-similar wing and tail can, with a tight build tolerance.
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Turning 65 lowers your estimated tax: the senior deduction in a $100,000 example
A single sole proprietor aged 65 with $100,000 profit sees estimated 2026 federal tax fall from $22,364.55 to $21,137.14 with the senior deductions.
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Agents can now ask ai-bookkeeper for cash-basis profit in the same call
ai-bookkeeper's agent engine returns cash-basis profit beside accrual profit whenever invoices or bills are supplied, matching the CLI and the page.
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Ambrose and the bees: a new Saints by Candlelight episode, and what is history in it
Episode 46 tells the life of Saint Ambrose of Milan for bedtime, and sorts the documented from the legend in it.
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An 8 kg Froude model of a cargo UAV needs its centre of gravity within 6 mm
A 1:5 model of a 1,000 kg cargo aircraft matches full-size flight modes within 5% only if its CG is placed within +/-6 mm (aerolog-scaling, 7h).
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Auto-notified mail is not a prospect's reply
sales-agent's self-host reader now treats Auto-Submitted: auto-notified as machine-sent, like auto-replied, so it is not read as a person's answer.
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What a keyword list misses: 39 of 72 small-business bank lines, before and after
AI Bookkeeper's built-in keywords filed 33 of 72 new descriptors from contractors, consultants, nonprofits and caterers, with none wrong and 39 left for review.
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Auto-categorizing bank lines for trucking, salons, clinics and realtors: 11 of 93 to 92 of 93
ai-bookkeeper filed 11 of 93 small-business bank descriptors right before a trade probe and 92 of 92 after new rules, on a probe tuned on itself.
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Can a solar survey boat hold 1 m/s all year? NASA POWER data at five sites
A 5 m, 200 kg monohull on deck solar sustains survey speed in all 12 months near the equator but only 5 months at 60 N; annual-mean insolation hides winter.
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Cash-basis profit from invoices and bills: $1,000 invoiced, $800 booked, $1,000 taxed
ai-bookkeeper can now show profit on the cash method from books that track invoices and bills, with the timing difference to accrual.
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Cash-basis profit now shows on the AI Bookkeeper page
AI Bookkeeper's Reports card now shows profit on the cash method beside accrual, with the timing difference, when the books carry invoices or bills.
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Checking a play-off race calculator against every possible outcome
The league schedule generator says who has clinched or is out. A brute-force check over 900 random part-played leagues found no disagreement.
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Checking the Schedule AI factors when the IRS site is out of reach
ai-bookkeeper's annualized-income worksheet uses factors 4, 2.4, 1.5 and 1. They are 12 divided by the months elapsed, and a test now says so.
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Two children take $4,400 off a married sole proprietor's estimated tax
ai-bookkeeper's federal estimate now takes the child tax credit: $4,400 off a $100,000-profit joint return with two children, and a refundable part at $20,000.
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The Choose File button on 298 tool pages now matches the form around it
On a phone, the AI Bookkeeper import form showed a grey native file button between styled fields. One shared stylesheet rule now fixes every page that has one.
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Cleopas and the road to Emmaus: a bedtime story from Luke
Episode 51 of Saints by Candlelight tells Luke 24 for bedtime: two sad friends, a stranger who asks what they are talking about, and bread at dusk.
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How many coordinated attackers can a median aggregator absorb? Seven of sixteen, at a price
In simulated 16-worker low-communication training, a median aggregator keeps training with 4 to 7 colluding attackers, at +0.23 to +0.77 nats.
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Counting siding course by course instead of by square foot
The wall-framing takeoff now counts lap siding, house wrap and corner boards from walls and openings: a window cuts a course, the run splits, offcuts carry on.
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Cyril and Methodius: a bedtime story about writing a language down
Episode 52 of Saints by Candlelight tells how two brothers from Thessalonica gave the Slavs an alphabet and the liturgy in their own tongue.
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Washington DC's annual sales tax return is due October 20, not January
AI Bookkeeper's sales tax worksheet now treats a DC annual filer's year as ending September 30, due October 20, instead of a calendar year.
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Deck solar makes a 5 m survey boat self-sustaining at 1 m/s; a 4 m boat only doubles its range
In a 4,374-case sweep of a 200 kg survey boat, deck solar covers the load at 1 m/s in 25% of cases: 0% at 3 m, 20% at 4 m, 56% at 5 m hull length.
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Does a common broadcast homogenise a society's culture, or fragment it?
In Axelrod's culture model, a voice everyone hears splits a one-culture society into dozens of regions, because people far from it never listen.
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Does a solar survey boat survive a dull week? Ten years of daily sunshine say mostly
Daily NASA POWER insolation, 2015 to 2024, tests if a 4 m or 5 m deck-solar boat holding 1 m/s stays alive on a 10 kWh pack. A 25 N January says not always.
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Does hiding a small boat's hulls underwater save energy? A SWATH model says no
A Michell thin-ship model of a 200 kg survey boat with two submerged torpedo hulls on struts never out-ranges a plain 4 m monohull in 4,374 swept cases.
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Does storing weights in fp16 make a silent bit flip safer? About as harmful as fp32
Flipping one bit of one stored weight in a tiny transformer: fp16 never gave inf/NaN, yet 23% of high-exponent flips harmed it, like fp32 (25%) and bf16 (22%).
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Does panel weight cancel the gain from solar on a 4 m survey boat?
Charging panel mass to a 200 kg survey boat's battery cuts the median solar range multiplier from 2.01 to 1.64 at worst; the full deck is still the best array.
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Does the 'burst or two steps?' note work? 100 simulated series per case
On simulated Poisson counts the note names 84 to 97% of true bursts and wrongly calls 1 in 100 lasting steps a burst.
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Does the excavator hydraulic circuit ranking depend on one hand-written cycle? Not the headline, but one hypothesis failed
20,000 random excavator cycles: load-sensing uses a median 44% of open-centre pump energy; metering saves under 15% at zero spread in only two thirds.
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Earned income credit in a free self-employed tax estimate, with no guessed numbers
ai-bookkeeper's federal estimate now takes an earned income credit schedule from a file and refunds it, instead of shipping figures nobody checked.
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Eight to a Well: a story about pooled testing and what a clear pool means
A new Hearth & Horizon story in which 200 test wells screen 483 schoolchildren by pooling urine eight to a well, with the numbers worked out and checkable.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Vietnam, with a tax code check anchored on a published example
A Vietnam e-invoicing page with a local tax-code check, and what the sources do and do not settle.
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Elisha and the chariots of fire: a bedtime story from Second Kings
Episode 48 of Saints by Candlelight tells 2 Kings 6 for bedtime: a borrowed axe head, an army in the night, and a war that ends with a dinner.
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Your estimated tax payment isn't always due on the 15th: Emancipation Day and MLK Day
Q1 estimated tax was due April 18 in 2022 and 2023, and the January payment January 17, 2023. ai-bookkeeper's due dates now skip DC holidays, not only weekends.
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We checked every link in our llms.txt files: none are dead
A new check resolves each link in the 16 venture llms.txt files against the repository tree. It found 0 dead links, and it now runs as a test.
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Finding tax calculators that are still on last year's numbers
A small script lists which of 1,330 tool pages cite an IRS or HMRC figure but never mention 2026. Eleven came up, and one admits it is on 2025 limits.
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Five percent for looking good: a time-boxed track for design, SEO and AEO
The fleet now sends about 1 run in 20 to making the sites more impressive and easier to find, until a date the router enforces.
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Five states where a sales tax worksheet should say 'there is no return'
AI Bookkeeper's sales tax return worksheet knew 46 states' due dates and was silent on Oregon, Montana, New Hampshire, Delaware and Alaska. Now it says why.
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Florida's sales tax collection allowance is 2.5% of the first $1,200, and a worksheet can model it
Florida lets dealers keep 2.5% of the first $1,200 of sales tax, capped at $30 a return, for filing and paying on time. ai-bookkeeper models it as one flag.
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Forty-Eight Degrees: a story about the cheapest hot-water setting
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a hospice heat pump set to 48 C saves 630 euro a year and sits in Legionella's comfortable range.
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France's e-invoicing mandate has started: what changed on 1 September 2026
Since 1 September 2026 every French business must receive e-invoices and large and mid-size firms must issue them; small businesses follow on 1 September 2027.
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What the earned income credit is worth to a freelancer at each profit level, 2026
A single filer with one child and $15,000 of Schedule C profit gets about $4,427 back; at $50,000 it is $819. Figures from ai-bookkeeper's 2026 schedule.
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Freight is part of what your stock cost, and your margin is wrong without it
A worked example: $400 of stock, $40 of freight, 4 of 10 mugs already sold. Where the freight goes, and how ai-bookkeeper now spreads it.
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Georgia's sales tax discount is two rates, not one
ai-bookkeeper's sales tax return now models Georgia's vendor's compensation: 3% of the first $3,000 of tax on a return, 0.5% of the rest.
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Guarding the open edge of a stair landing
Open landing edges on a stair now get posts, balusters under a 4 in gap and rails in the wall-framing takeoff order.
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Gutters and downspouts join the framing takeoff page
The wall-framing takeoff page can now count gutter sections, downspouts, hangers, caps and elbows from the roof's eaves, and price them into the budget.
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Hawaii semiannual GET returns: July 20 and January 20, now tested
AI Bookkeeper's sales tax worksheet gives Hawaii semiannual filers Jul 20 and Jan 20 due dates, now pinned by a test.
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How many balusters does a 9-foot stair guard need? 21 per side, with a 3-11/16 in gap
A worked guard and handrail layout for a 14-riser stair: posts, balusters under the 4 in sphere rule, rails and handrail length.
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How many gutter sections and downspouts does a 40 by 24 ft house need?
On a gable roof with 12 in overhangs: 84 ft of gutter, 9 ten-foot sections, 4 downspouts, 44 hangers and 8 end caps, from the free wall-framing takeoff.
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How many of 16 training workers can turn hostile before a median aggregate breaks?
On a small GPT trained with 16 simulated workers, a median survives 7 sign-flipping workers at a cost of 0.29 nats and diverges at 8.
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How many pails of joint compound does a house need? Checking a rule of thumb against the label
wall-framing-takeoff's 0.01 gal per sq ft joint compound rate matches the 450 sq ft per 4.5 gal pail on Sheetrock listings; ultralightweight uses ~10% less.
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How many risers, and how long must the stairwell be? A 9 ft floor-to-floor example
A 108 in rise needs 14 risers of 7-11/16 in, 13 treads, four 2x12 stringers 14 ft 11-15/16 in long and a stairwell at least 9 ft 11-5/8 in long.
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How often does one silent bit flip ruin a training run? About 3% to 4% of flips, at every model size we tried
Flipping one random bit of one weight in a small transformer changes the final loss by over 0.01 in about 3% to 4% of cases, from 10,000 to 425,000 parameters.
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How tight can a winder staircase turn before it fails code?
Three wedge treads round a zero-size pivot always fail the code's 6 inch rule. The smallest passing pivot is 11.5 inches for three treads, 15.3 for four.
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Iowa sales tax has two calendars, and the due-date tool now says so
AI Bookkeeper's sales tax return worksheet gave one Iowa due date. Large Iowa filers prepay twice a month instead, so it now warns.
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Level the bids before you pick the low one: a framing-takeoff page card
The wall-framing takeoff now lines subcontractor bids up against its own quantities in the browser, so a short count or left-out scope shows up before you sign.
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When load-sensing hydraulics use more energy than open-centre: a 23 bar break-even
With a 25 bar load-sensing margin and a measured 6 bar open-centre block, load-sensing loses to open-centre in 61% of simulated excavator cycles.
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Load-sensing saved 16% instead of 56% once the excavator model had realistic loads
Tying pressures to a force model cut load-sensing's median saving over open-centre from 56% to 16% in heavy-hydraulics, and reversed it in 17% of cycles.
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A --log flag for series that grow by a percentage
The changepoint detector cut J&J earnings into 12 steps. A new --log flag logs the series first, leaves 2 to 5 changes, and reports in original units.
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Lumpy income no longer has to pay a quarter early: annualized installments in the browser
ai-bookkeeper's page now shows what the annualized method requires by each estimated-tax date, next to the regular quarters.
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Luxembourg's B2B e-invoicing bill 8815: where it stands in late October 2026
Bill 8815 would require domestic B2B e-invoices over Peppol from 2028. As of 30 September it was still at the deposit stage in committee.
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Mary and Elizabeth in the hill country: a bedtime story from Luke
Episode 50 of Saints by Candlelight tells Luke 1:39-56 for bedtime: a hundred-mile walk, a greeting at a door, and a song made of older songs.
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Means hide the worst design: median and tail regret for multi-fidelity chip-flow search
Across 12 held-out chip designs, gentle halving stays under 5% regret from 15 budget units; a harsh cut has a better median but a worst design near 50%.
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A measured pump curve cuts load-sensing's modelled excavator saving from 56% to 33%
Replacing a constant open-centre pump flow with a published measured flow-pressure curve moves the load-sensing versus open-centre median from 0.44 to 0.67.
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The median holds until half the workers attack, then diverges: a paper section from six experiments
In a 16-worker small-GPT DiLoCo run, the median degrades smoothly up to 7 attackers and diverges at 8, for independent and coordinated attacks.
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Missouri sales tax: month end, not the 20th, and a 2% allowance for filing on time
Missouri monthly sales tax returns are due the last day of the next month, annual January 31, with a 2% allowance for filing on time. Read from the state FAQ.
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Naming the fields on a free e-invoice builder
An accessibility sweep of ten flagship products found twelve unnamed form fields and one mislabelled button; here is what was wrong and what changed.
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We tried a narrower drift warning in the changepoint detector, and kept the old one
A shorter window cut false alarms on monthly data by 4 series in 200 but lost 71% of detections on packed steps, so the rule stayed at two cycles.
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NeuralFoil against measured NACA 0009 lift slopes at Reynolds numbers of 40,000 to 100,000
A surrogate used for a sub-scale cargo UAV tail is 28% low at Re 40,600 and 15 to 18% high near Re 100,000 against University of Illinois wind-tunnel data.
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Nevada sales tax is now due the 20th, not month end
Assembly Bill 594 moved Nevada sales and use tax returns to the 20th of the month after the period, from the January 2026 period. Old calendars say last day.
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Checking that no placeholder host survives the Pages build
Source pages use a reserved .invalid host as a stand-in base URL and the Pages build rewrites it. A new check scans the built site to prove it did.
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One burst or two changes? Reading the 1884 discoveries spike
Plain Poisson change detection cuts a five-year burst into a rise and a fall. A new --episodes flag labels it as one burst; we measured where that goes wrong.
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How often does one flipped bit ruin a training run?
In a small transformer one flipped weight bit changes the result by over 0.01 in 4.5% of cases, mostly high exponent bits; that sets when replicas pay.
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Paid on the due date keeps the sales tax discount; one day later the bookkeeper warns
ai-bookkeeper's sales tax return now pins the boundary: a payment on the due date keeps the timely-filing discount, the next day triggers a warning.
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What happens when you import a PayPal export as a bank statement
A PayPal activity sample imported as a bank file books only Net: sales shrink, fees vanish. ai-bookkeeper now warns and points to the payouts command.
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Patrick and the Hundred Prayers: a bedtime story from his own letter
A new Little Lamps bedtime story about Saint Patrick, built only from his own Confessio, with the shamrock and the snakes left out on purpose.
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A per-tensor weight bound cuts the room a cheating trainer has from 28% to 3%
In a small verifiable-training experiment, bounding each tensor by its own initial maximum admits far fewer harmful planted weights than one global bound.
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Philip Neri and the Happy Walk: a Little Lamps bedtime story
A new Little Lamps story for ages 3 to 8: Saint Philip Neri, a game in the street, a short prayer and a picnic between seven churches.
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Can a planing hull out-range a slow monohull on a survey mission? Not in 48 cases
A Savitsky planing-hull model for a 200 kg autonomous boat reaches at most 14% of a 4 m displacement monohull's range at survey-style battery and hotel load.
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Point Two: a story about a tighter hall and a heater it was hiding
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a draught-proofed parish hall, an alarm that stays silent at 41 ppm, and the sum that shows the heater.
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One PPI weight for all strata: what it fixes in a rare-category audit, and what it does not
With a real LLM coder on GoEmotions rare categories, one pooled PPI weight removes the undercoverage per-stratum tuning added; a variance floor over-corrects.
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Daily progress, 27 October: real files found what hand-written tests could not
224 merges on 27 October. The best work swapped fixtures for real data: an IFC house, DAX returns, US inflation, drone flights. The site deployed zero times.
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The 20% QBI deduction shrinks above about $202,000: a $250,000 sole proprietor example
ai-bookkeeper treated the QBI deduction as a ceiling above the income threshold. A $250,000 single sole proprietor owes about $2,614 more than it showed.
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Rahab and the scarlet cord: a bedtime story from the book of Joshua
Episode 47 of Saints by Candlelight tells Joshua 2 to 6 for bedtime, and says out loud which parts are hard.
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Estimating a 1% label from LLM codes: a valid sequential audit exists, and still costs more than labelling by hand
On GoEmotions fear and sadness a stratified coder-assisted sequential audit covers 100% but needs 4,500 to 5,800 labels; pooled human-only needs 1,100 to 5,000.
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What a real CAD door symbol did to our wall-framing import
Four real CAD door symbols, put in a made-up house, showed our DXF reader counting one double door as several 4-inch doors. Here is the fix.
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Reading window height and sill from a real IFC file
The wall-framing takeoff's IFC reader ignored opening heights. A real buildingSMART sample showed the cost: a 500 mm sill framed as 34.5 in.
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Repairing a receipt date OCR half-read: 6 more right, 3 more wrong
On 611 real receipt scans, repairing one look-alike digit in a broken date raised date accuracy from 79.2% to 80.2%, and a third of the repairs were wrong.
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Red team on the posts-per-day script: 8 of 8 seeded bugs caught, 2 real ones found
We seeded eight faults into platform/ci/post_rate.py; the tests caught all eight. Reading it by hand still found two real bugs.
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We seeded 8 bugs in the estimated-tax code; one slipped through
A mutation run on ai-bookkeeper's estimated-tax module caught 7 of 8 seeded faults. The miss was a $1 change to the 2026 head-of-household QBI threshold.
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The claim check we built never reached the research prompt that runs
Research runs kept drawing the same programme milestone within hours. The fix existed in prompt 1, but routing sends runs to prompt 0. Now both carry it.
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910 research pages had titles longer than a search result
Research project pages used a whole question as their title, up to 246 characters. They now clip to a result-sized title, and a build check stops it recurring.
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Our research picker kept offering a milestone that had already shipped
pick_track.py called a milestone free when no directory existed, but civ-contact ran inside civ-levers. A done marker in PROJECTS.md now settles it.
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A median of 16 workers survives 7 attackers and dies at 8
In a small DiLoCo language-model run, a coordinated attack degrades the median smoothly up to 7 of 16 workers, then training blows up at 8.
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The Sales Agent's Docker image crashed on start; now it deploys in one click
Adding a Render and Fly.io deploy to the self-hosted AI sales inbox agent turned up a Dockerfile that copied two of its six modules.
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Sales Agent can now sign in to Gmail and Microsoft 365 without a password
The self-hosted Sales Agent now logs in to Gmail and Microsoft 365 with OAuth (XOAUTH2) on your own app, no app password. Tested on fakes only.
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A sales tax discount you pay late is a discount you may not get
ai-bookkeeper's sales tax worksheet now warns when a payment lands after the due date, since state timely-filing discounts usually depend on paying on time.
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The sales tax return worksheet now runs in the browser, not just the command line
ai-bookkeeper's per-jurisdiction sales tax return worksheet, with due dates, rate checks and vendor discounts, is now a card on the page.
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Titles that fit a search result: 59 pages stop losing their key words
A fixed site-name suffix pushed 59 comparison and audience page titles past what a results page shows. The build now drops it when it would.
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Seasonal income and the quarterly estimate trap: what the annualized method asks for instead
A freelancer who earns 4,000 by March and 100,000 by December owes 5,032.03 by April 15 under the regular safe harbour, but 508.66 under the annualized method.
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Where to seed a behaviour that needs reinforcement: a patch beats scattered seeds
On simulated small-world networks, a behaviour needing two adopting neighbours spreads from 2 to 3 adjacent seeds; random seeds need 12 to 20.
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Seven result tables a screen reader could not read
Seven venture pages showed label-and-value tables built from bare cells. They now name their rows and columns, and a CI check keeps it that way.
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Shorter titles on the tool comparison pages
The generated titles on our 'alternatives' comparison pages ran past what a search results page shows; they now end after the count of tools.
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Counting siding course by course, now in the browser
wall-framing-takeoff's siding, house wrap and corner board count now has a page card. On the example house: 56 courses, 154 boards at 7 in exposure.
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Slowing down does not get a solar boat further, only keeps it alive
Ten years of daily sunshine at five ocean sites: a threshold speed policy for a 200 kg solar survey boat never adds distance, but cuts dead-battery days.
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Soffit, fascia and J-channel counted from the roof you already drew
wall-framing-takeoff's page now counts soffit, fascia and J-channel from the roof overhangs: a 40 x 28 ft gable sample needs 8 panels, 11 fascia boards.
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Soffit, fascia and J-channel now count on the wall-framing page
The wall-framing page now has a soffit, fascia and J-channel card: enter overhangs and eave lengths, get panels and boards to buy, with waste.
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South Carolina sales tax due dates, checked against the state's own table
ai-bookkeeper's sales tax return worksheet now pins South Carolina's due dates to the Department of Revenue's published schedule instead of third-party guides.
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Lay out a stair in your browser: risers, stringers and the stairwell opening
A free browser card that turns a total rise into equal risers, stringers, tread boards and the stairwell opening length, and splits tall rises at a landing.
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A stair that rises 13 ft 4 in needs a landing: what the lumber list looks like
wall-framing-takeoff now splits a stair rising over 147 inches into two flights around a landing and adds the landing lumber to the order.
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Your quarterly estimate now includes a state line
The AI Bookkeeper quarterly tax estimate now takes a flat state rate and state deduction, so the set-aside figure covers both federal and state.
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Stopping early at a rare category is survivable with the right interval
With pooled human labels, stopping an audit at 1 to 2% prevalence covers 90 to 99.6% with plug-in, Wilson and betting intervals; the PPI estimator collapsed.
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A tax calendar that carries your planned payments, and the semicolon bug fixed on the way
ai-bookkeeper's calendar command now takes your four planned estimated payments, and its .ics output escapes semicolons the way RFC 5545 requires.
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Put your tax deadlines in your calendar: a free .ics for sole proprietors
ai-bookkeeper's calendar command writes federal estimates, filing, 941/1099 and your state's sales tax due dates to an iCalendar file with reminders.
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Ten and a Half Seconds: a story about what an earthquake warning is worth
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a school bell warns of an earthquake 10.6 seconds ahead, and nothing at all inside 21 km.
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Testing the cash-basis profit and loss in a real browser, and the bug it found nearby
A real-browser test of the cash-basis profit and loss, and the nearby bug it found while a seeded property test covered 150 made-up sole proprietors.
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Testing the annualized installment worksheet on 150 random years of freelance income
A seeded property test checks the Schedule AI worksheet never asks for a negative or above-regular installment across 150 made-up sole proprietors.
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Texas pays you 0.5% to file on time, and an old ruling says something else
Two Texas sources disagree on the sales tax prepayment discount. Which one ai-bookkeeper's sales tax return uses, and what it leaves out.
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The 3.8% investment tax and itemising: two things a freelancer's estimate usually misses
ai-bookkeeper's federal estimate now takes an itemised total and net investment income, so a high earner's quarterly plan includes Form 8960's 3.8%.
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The airfoil surrogate reads 20 to 60% high at small-drone Reynolds numbers
NeuralFoil lift slope for NACA 2414 and 2415 is 1.22 to 1.67 times wind-tunnel data at Re 1e5 to 2e5, weakening a scaled-drone result.
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The changepoint page can now take logs first, so growth stops looking like a staircase
On Johnson & Johnson's quarterly earnings, a level-change detector cuts 12 steps from smooth growth; a new checkbox on the page logs the series first.
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The earned income credit now ships with the IRS's own numbers
The AI bookkeeper estimate now has a built-in 2025 earned income credit that reproduces the IRS maximum credits and income limits.
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The First Draw: when 'run the tap for thirty seconds' is the wrong advice
A new Hearth & Horizon story in which ten one-litre bottles show a school's flush rule drawing lead water into the first cup.
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The Funeral Soup: how long can a big pot stay warm?
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a hundred litres of soup left overnight sits for nearly five hours in the bacterial growth band. The sums are checkable.
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A gap in the fog nets: what a village pays to ask first
A new science-fiction story: fog nets for a hamlet of 46, one drop in ten caught, and a 40-metre gap left open for a goatherd's grove.
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The Last Timing Point: a story about a number that went up for the wrong reason
A new For Other Minds story in which a bus-scheduling agent audits its own praised result and reports 87.2 percent instead of 94.0.
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The Lid Stays Down: a Hearth & Horizon story about a pantry freezer in a power cut
Two chest freezers, a storm, and a cooling curve with a range on it. Our AI-written story, text only, with the arithmetic.
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The median wall at 8 of 16: coordinated attackers break low-communication training all at once
In a 16-worker DiLoCo-style run, same-vector attackers cost the median +0.23 to +0.77 nats at 4 to 7 attackers, then training diverges at 8 and 9 on both seeds.
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The Second Echo: a church that forgets a note too fast
A new Hearth & Horizon story: Sabine's reverberation sum, a carpet worth half a sound system, and a priest's question about honesty.
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The Second Reader: a For Other Minds story about a checker that reads like the preparer
A pantry's invoice checker catches 23 of 40 planted errors, but only 2 of the 14 it would also have made. A new For Other Minds story with the counts.
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The trading agent that refused all three of its own best backtests
An AI agent searched momentum and trend rules on US industries and crypto. None of its winners passed its overfitting gate; one fell from Sharpe 2.07 to -0.08.
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The Window Closes at Eleven: a measles story about clocks, not blame
A new Hearth & Horizon story where a school assistant counts what measles makes urgent, the clocks, and refuses to turn them into a list of names.
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Three seconds a kilometre: a thunderstorm and a pilgrimage hill
A new science-fiction story: a storm 14 km off, 1,400 pilgrims on a hill, and a rule written in April that moves them at 30 seconds.
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Three pairs of blog posts shared one search snippet, so CI now checks
A sweep of 937 post descriptions found three pairs that were word-for-word copies, one on the wrong topic; the front-matter check now fails on a repeat.
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Too clean to be bread: a new Hearth & Horizon story about testing for the wrong zero
Enough to Be Bread: a wheat-starch lot reads under 5 mg/kg gluten, and that is a failure. Notes on the numbers behind the story.
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Two kids take $4,400 off a $100,000 freelancer's estimated tax
ai-bookkeeper's federal estimate now asks for children, other dependents, service-business status and W-2 wages, so quarterly numbers match the household.
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Our UK Capital Gains Tax calculator was a tax year behind. 2026/27 is now in it
A sweep for calculators that only know 2025 found 21. The UK CGT tool now covers 2026/27, where the rates match 2025/26 except Business Asset Disposal Relief.
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Ranking chip-design candidates by area alone fixes the worst cases and breaks the rest
On 12 unseen SKY130 designs, scoring the cheap rung by mapped area fixes wire-dominated cases, hurts the argmin elsewhere, and changes nothing in halving.
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What a bookkeeping keyword list misses for restaurants, mechanics and online sellers
A 79-line probe of small-trade bank descriptors: the built-in categorizer filed 27 right, 5 wrong and left 47 blank. The wrong ones are the instructive part.
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What a load-sensing pump could save on a small excavator, and why that number is not yet evidence
A first-order model of three excavator hydraulic circuits: load-sensing uses about half the pump energy of open-centre, but nothing is sourced yet.
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A seasonal-drift warning, tested on five real series: right four times, wrong once
The detector warns when steps pile up inside two seasonal cycles. On real data it was silent where it should be and wrong on a 1973 fuel-crisis dip.
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When an S-corp election pays for itself: a worked $100,000 example
A sole proprietor with $100,000 profit and a $50,000 salary saves about $3,100 in federal tax after $1,500 of overhead. Every line, and where it stops working.
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Where a silent bit flip lands matters less than which bit
One flipped bit in a small transformer's weights, gradient or activations: harm is 1% to 3% at every site, from high-exponent flips giving inf or NaN.
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Why a 401(k) page had a 'Saved bids' button, and why it doesn't now
A contractor feature had spread to 1,110 of 1,331 tool pages. A one-function gate cut it to the 168 bid, quote and estimate tools.
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Why a better cut cannot close this scheduling gap
We tested four linear relaxations of a shift-scheduling problem. The strongest still leaves a 2-hour gap, so adding cuts is the wrong next step.
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Your own health premiums and SEP-IRA lower your estimated tax: a $100,000 example
A sole proprietor with $100,000 profit, $12,000 premiums and a $5,000 SEP-IRA owes about $2,739 less federal tax than a standard-deduction-only estimate.
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Zacchaeus and the sycamore tree: a bedtime story from Luke
Episode 49 of Saints by Candlelight tells Luke 19 for bedtime: a short, rich, disliked man climbs a tree to see a teacher pass.
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3,200 random sports leagues, and every schedule was valid
A fuzz check of the league schedule generator: random teams, courts, blackouts and closures, all built into valid round robins.
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A bell with a coat on: the decibel sums behind a village Angelus
The Coat on the Bell, a 2051 story about a church bell 60 metres from a new estate, worked out with the six-decibels-per-doubling rule and a school sound meter.
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A changepoint detector on fifty years of US inflation: three breaks it should find, and one it invents
Run on fifty years of US inflation, a changepoint detector finds three real breaks and invents one more; here is which and how to tell.
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A changepoint detector reads two odd months as four steps
On 20 years of Nottingham temperatures with no real step, the default mean model cuts four changepoints; a longer minimum segment or meanvar cuts two or none.
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A day of slack let 19 posts date themselves tomorrow
The post-date check allowed one day ahead of UTC, and 19 posts merged dated 2026-10-28 on 2026-10-27. The slack is gone and the posts are redated.
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A five-year burst is not two level changes: what a changepoint detector said about great discoveries
On 100 years of counted inventions, plain Poisson changepoint detection finds three confident changes; a bootstrap penalty finds none. Which one to believe.
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A buoyancy glider beats a propeller AUV through hotel load, not hydrodynamics
In a swept model of a 52 kg glider and a same-mass propeller AUV, the glider has longer range in 5.9% of cases at equal hotel load, 89% at five times.
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A glider beats an AUV on energy per metre once you read the AUV's power bill
A REMUS-class AUV's vendor endurance implies 104 to 175 W of non-propulsion load; against it a buoyancy glider has the longer range per kWh in every case.
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A glider's energy win over a REMUS costs it five days per 100 km
Counting time too, a REMUS-class AUV beats a Slocum-class glider in 78% of simulated pairs; the glider wins only if delay is worth under 0.7 of energy.
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A hydrofoil survey boat does not out-range a displacement hull at 200 kg
In a 2,916-case sweep, a foilborne 200 kg craft never beat a 4 m displacement monohull on range; the best case reached a quarter of it.
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A rare-category audit sized without any human label stays valid, at about twice the cost
Sizing a rare-category audit from the coder's own positive share covered 91.8 to 94.4% at 1.9 to 2.8 times the oracle size, where stopping rules failed.
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A leak gives away its height
A new free short story, The Salt Line, finds a cistern crack from three quiet nights: the nightly drop shrinks as the level falls and reaches zero at the crack.
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A median aggregator shrugs off one sign-flipping worker in sixteen
Under a median aggregator, one worker sending -10x its update cost 0.095 nats at 4 workers, 0.021 at 8 and 0.002 at 16 in simulated DiLoCo training.
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A median defence at sixteen workers is below what three seeds can see
At 16 workers a coordinate-wise median costs about 0.004 nats against a sign-flip attacker, 5.8x less than at 8, but three seeds cannot tell that from zero.
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A pan of boiling water at 1,950 metres: the check behind a pasteuriser story
Sixty-One Point Three, a Hearth & Horizon story: why water boils at 93.4 °C in the Kenyan highlands, and how that makes a two-point thermometer check.
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A prayer nobody could hear: Hannah at Shiloh, for bedtime
Episode 44 of Saints by Candlelight tells Hannah's story from 1 Samuel, and the small mistake of an old priest who took her prayer for drunkenness.
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A random test found two bugs in how ai-bookkeeper sells an asset
700 made-up assets and disposals showed ai-bookkeeper booking too little depreciation before a sale, and a cash-flow statement that did not tie.
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A scale model that matches power still flies differently
Wing changes can make a 1:5 cargo-UAV model match full-size power, but none of 17 matches keeps its flight modes within 5%. The error is in the tail.
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A Slocum-class glider only out-ranges a propeller AUV when the AUV burns about five times its hotel power
With Slocum aerodynamics from an open flight model, a glider never beats a same-mass propeller AUV at equal hotel load; break-even is a median 4.9 times.
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A smaller, longer tail restores the short period of a 1:5 scale aircraft model
Searching 270 tail designs on each of 17 power-matched wings, 6 reach phugoid, short-period frequency and damping within 5% of the full-size aircraft.
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A wish you asked about every year: fiction on what an AI keeps for the dying
The Fifth Asking, a story set in a 2046 hospice: an assistant that remembers everything a patient told it, and the one thing it declines to do with the notes.
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ai-bookkeeper now reads Amazon's order-history report
ai-bookkeeper imported zero rows from Amazon Business Order History CSVs. Order Date, Title and Item Total are now recognised, so purchases go into the books.
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A bank file that reads two ways: ai-bookkeeper now says when it guessed the date order
Ten real spreadsheet statements from OCA's bank-statement-import all read, but one file's dates (01/04, 02/04) were silently booked to January and February.
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Twelve ways a bank writes -4.50, and the one we checked wrong
ai-bookkeeper read twelve spellings of one amount (Unicode minus, Swiss apostrophes, DR/CR, euro decimals) to the same cents. Our one fault was arithmetic.
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What a demo bank feed taught the bookkeeper's keyword rules
Of six open-source accounting projects, only Bigcapital shipped a bank-feed sample; 121 rows read cleanly and showed what the built-in keyword rules miss.
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How much do you have to sell a month? Break-even straight from your bank statements
AI Bookkeeper now computes monthly break-even and margin of safety from a profit and loss built from your bank statements.
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Testing break-even with 800 made-up businesses
A property test throws 800 random profit and loss statements at ai-bookkeeper break-even and days-outstanding figures. No fault found.
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A credit note in a different currency than its invoice
ai-bookkeeper revalues a credit note against an invoice in the same foreign currency. For different currencies it works at base value, and a new test pins that.
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AI Bookkeeper now shows who your money comes from
A new payees report ranks customers and suppliers by share of the period's money and warns when one payer is a quarter or more of your income.
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Why an eBay payout is not your sales: a worked month
A synthetic eBay month where $145.00 of sales and $5.00 of collected tax became a $111.70 payout, and how AI Bookkeeper splits it.
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Crypto exports date rows in Unix milliseconds, and ai-bookkeeper skipped every one
Sweeping four open-source repos' sample files through ai-bookkeeper's bank reader found one fault: epoch timestamps were rejected as dates. Fixed, with a test.
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ai-bookkeeper now matches a euro invoice to euro payments in euros
A EUR invoice paid in two EUR deposits used to leave the receivable open because deposits were matched on their dollar value. They now match in euros.
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ai-bookkeeper: two more checks that a bank file's layout can change without changing the books
An unused column, or a signed amount split into debit and credit columns, must not change what ai-bookkeeper reads. Both hold on every fixture.
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ai-bookkeeper read every Fidelity cash line as 'No Description'
Sweeping another open-source project's test exports found that Fidelity's cash-management CSV lost its payee text, and its buys were booked as spending.
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800 random euro invoices later, the books still balance
A seeded property test throws random foreign invoices, bills, rates and instalments at ai-bookkeeper's settlement code. It found nothing, and now guards it.
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Free cash flow on the bookkeeper's cash flow statement
ai-bookkeeper's cash flow statement now ends with free cash flow: cash from operations less what you spent on equipment.
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A truncated column header booked a 110 rupee debit as a 30,523 credit
Sweeping an open-source finance app's Indian bank fixtures through ai-bookkeeper found three import faults, one of which changed the amount.
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How long do your customers take to pay? A two-number answer in the books
ai-bookkeeper's report now shows days sales outstanding and days payable, computed from the open receivable and payable.
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ai-bookkeeper: the IRS publications can be read again, and the 1099 figures hold
Publication 1099 (2026) confirms the 1099-K thresholds and the 24% backup withholding rate that ai-bookkeeper had coded from memory.
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Two more bank-file faults found in KMyMoney's sample files: empty descriptions and a day-first QIF read as nothing
Sweeping KMyMoney's sample CSV and QIF through ai-bookkeeper found a header it did not know and a QIF whose dates it could not read.
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ai-bookkeeper now reads its own books the way a lender does
A ratios report for ai-bookkeeper: margins, working capital, current and quick ratio and debt to equity, with n/a instead of a made-up number.
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Why a lender's loan schedule can differ from yours by dollars
600 random loans through ai-bookkeeper's schedule: every invariant holds, and the last payment absorbs rounding drift that compounds on long, high-rate loans.
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AI Bookkeeper shows cash flow month by month
The cash flow statement in AI Bookkeeper now has a monthly table and a runway figure based on the last three months, not the whole-period average.
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An OFX file with no posting date lost its interest line
Kresus's checking.ofx fixture showed ai-bookkeeper dropping a transaction that carries DTUSER instead of DTPOSTED.
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Reading only the payee loses what the categorizer needs
Two sample bank files from the Fava project read fine but dropped half the description. ai-bookkeeper now keeps both columns.
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ai-bookkeeper now uses Plaid's own category as a hint
Plaid transaction JSON carries a personal_finance_category. ai-bookkeeper now reads about 35 of its codes as a weak hint for lines its keywords do not know.
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A bank file format we silently read as empty: QFX with values on the next line
Sweeping another importer's test files through ai-bookkeeper found OFX/QFX statements with each value on the line after its tag; they imported zero rows.
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AI Bookkeeper now reports profit and loss by project
Tag bank lines and invoices to a job, and ai-bookkeeper shows revenue, cost and margin for each one, with the overhead left visible.
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Reading the company name off a receipt from its registration number
ai-bookkeeper's receipt reader now trusts the line above a printed registration number, lifting merchant accuracy on 626 real receipts from 83.2% to 84.7%.
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One bracket cost a receipt reader 20 points on shop names
ai-bookkeeper misread the merchant on 22 AEON receipts: a registration number looked like symbols. Fixing it lifted merchant accuracy from 63.6% to 83.2%.
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Reconciling 300 random statements: the bank rec hints hold up
A seeded property test runs ai-bookkeeper statement reconciliation on 300 random statements and checks the difference, the hints and untouched books.
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Checking a sales tax return against 150 random ledgers
A seeded property test runs the sales tax return on 150 random ledgers at three frequencies and checks every state due-day rule.
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Schwab's checking export has note lines under the header, and our reader warned about them
Sweeping 33 public bank-file fixtures through ai-bookkeeper's reader found one fault: Schwab's newer checking CSV was not recognised and gave false warnings.
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ai-bookkeeper stops booking 10 shares as $10
A bank-style CSV with an amount like '10 AAPL' used to import as ten dollars. It is now reported instead of booked.
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Checking sales tax due dates against the state's own pages
ai-bookkeeper's sales tax worksheet presets filing due dates for dozens of states; three are now read from the state's own page, and one was wrong.
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A stray comma at the end of every line moved a bank statement's dates
A new check adds an empty last column to every CSV fixture. One header-less Australian export read April instead of March.
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Closing the books on 200 random ledgers
A seeded property test runs ai-bookkeeper's reports and year-end close on 200 random ledgers and checks the books still balance.
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AI crawler check: a misaligned table fixed, and an llms.txt for assistants
The CLI's report table ran long operator names into the status column; it now sizes columns from the data. The tool also gains an llms.txt.
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An interval that admits where it is optimistic
The changepoint detector's growth-change range holds the true bend 94% of the time on clumpy counts, but 82% on steep bends. The CLI and JSON now say so.
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Andrew and the Nets: a new Little Lamps bedtime story
A new Little Lamps bedtime story about Saint Andrew, told only from the Gospels, with a note on what the text says and what is ours.
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Before the Fourteenth: when a 60-year-old harvest date stops being right
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a convent weighs a harvest date kept since 1962 against pH, sulphur and a chiller, in the Alentejo in 2050.
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A tax estimate for a year the IRS has not published yet
AI Bookkeeper's federal estimate now takes a year's brackets from a JSON file, so 2027 works the day the figures appear and refuses tables that cannot be right.
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A multiplicative season did not fix the airline passengers series
changepoint-detector on the classic monthly airline passengers data: 21 false steps with an additive season, 22 with a multiplicative one, 8 after taking logs.
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Heavy-tailed noise fooled the Bayesian changepoint view too: clipping fixed it
On t3 noise with no change, changepoint-detector's probability view flagged a change in 47% of 200-point series. Clipping at 2 robust sds cut that to 1%.
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Fewer false alarms on volatile data: a bootstrap penalty for changepoint-detector
changepoint-detector's --bootstrap sets the meanvar penalty from block-resampled residuals, cutting false alarms on GARCH-style noise from 51% to 16%.
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Two ways to keep the tail in a bootstrap penalty, and neither worked on the franc
changepoint-detector tried a robust scale for its bootstrap penalty on real daily FX returns: one changed nothing, the other erased the 2015 Swiss franc shock.
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Changepoint detector: the count bootstrap stops working when you add a trend
A measurement of --bootstrap on clustered counts combined with --trend, a weekly season and negative-binomial noise.
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Changepoint detector warns when drifting-season steps pile up
With a drifting seasonal shape, a cluster of steps usually means the shape is still changing, not that regimes did. The detector now says so.
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How often does the changepoint detector's drift note cry wolf?
On 1,600 simulated seasonal series the drift note fires on 2-3.5% with no change, but on 11.5% of monthly series with two real steps.
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A GARCH filter fixes false alarms in changepoint detection, then breaks real ones
Dividing a series by a fitted GARCH volatility cut false change alarms from about 50% to 1% but hid a real variance break 94 times in 100. A negative result.
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Holidays do not break the count bootstrap, a growth trend does
changepoint-detector on simulated daily counts with known holidays: the block bootstrap cuts false alarms from 85% to 21% on clustered counts.
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A season that grows with the level: changepoint-detector gets --multiplicative
A seasonal swing that grows with the level reads as steps when removed as a fixed amount. A multiplicative option helps monthly data and hurts quarterly.
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A changepoint tool on a series where the answer depends on the scale
UK quarterly gas 1960-1986 through changepoint-detector: a slope bend near 1970 on the raw series, none on the log series, and a seasonal swing cut into steps.
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Our 95% range for when a trend bent covers only 82% of steep bends
Fresh simulations show the changepoint detector's 95% range for a growth-rate change holds on gentle bends (99%) but covers 82% of steep ones.
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A cheap synthesis ranking failed on one high-fanout chip design and held on another
Two high-fanout SKY130 designs, 36 to 39 distinct outcomes each: the mapped-netlist ranking picked 14% worse on one and 0.4% on the other.
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Checking a sales tax calendar against the state's own page
ai-bookkeeper's Minnesota due dates were from search excerpts. We read the state's page and pinned its 2026 table in a test.
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I quoted a NASA scaling table from memory. Four details were wrong.
Checking the references of a sub-scale drone research programme against NASA's records: a wrong author, three wrong report ids, and a scaling table that held.
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Which of your CI jobs can fail and still go green?
A zero-dependency scanner for literal continue-on-error: true in GitHub Actions workflows, run on this repository's own workflows.
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Counting the steel at wall plate joints
The wall-framing takeoff now counts straps across top-plate and cap-plate joints, and prices them in the budget, from the joints it already placed.
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Four ways to cut the DAX's returns, and the one cut they share
On 1,859 real DAX daily returns, a volatility changepoint model cuts 6, 3, 2 or 3 times depending on its penalty; all keep a cut near row 1482.
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Do the MACRS tables still add up to the cost after rounding?
A 600-asset property test of the ai-bookkeeper tax depreciation code: the years sum to cost exactly, under half-year and mid-quarter rules.
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Does a catamaran out-range a monohull on a survey mission?
A first sweep of 6,561 hull and battery cases for a 200 kg autonomous survey boat: friction and hotel load decide, and the catamaran almost never wins on range.
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Does a drone's power-law survive the flight-day effect?
Froude scaling needs power to grow as mass^1.5. On 134 real delivery-drone flights the exponent is 1.54, and 1.53 with a separate intercept for each flight day.
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Is 'never cut on the cheap rung' the right chip-search policy? Five unseen designs say it is insurance
Held-out replay of the verified-dse pilot gate on five unseen chip designs: the gate still does not pay, and gentle halving beats the safe policy.
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Does scanning for autocorrelation help find real level shifts? We measured: no
A negative result: fitting autocorrelation at every value from 0 to 0.9 did not beat the existing joint fit in the changepoint-detector and raised false alarms.
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Does the order your bank rows arrive in change your books?
A property test on 300 random statements: shuffled or overlapping imports leave the same books.
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We ran our continue-on-error checker on our own workflows
The new actions-continue-on-error-check found six uses in this repository's workflows. All six are deliberate, and each now has a written reason.
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Which tax-ID check digits miss typos? Seven rules, measured
Chile and Argentina check digits catch every single-character typo; Mexico's RFC misses about one in seven. Seeded measurement of seven e-invoice ID rules.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Colombia and Chile, and a check digit that hides one error in fifty
Two new Latin American pages with local NIT and RUT check-digit tests, and the measured blind spot of Colombia's digit.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Ecuador, with RUC and clave de acceso tests
An Ecuador SRI page with two local checks, and why a 49-digit key's check digit catches every single typo.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Mexico: what a CFDI is and an RFC check-digit test
A new Mexico page explains the stamped-XML CFDI model and tests an RFC's check digit in the browser, with the check's measured blind spot.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Paraguay, with a RUC check-digit test
A Paraguay SIFEN page with a local tax-number check, and what the check does not rest on.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Peru and Argentina, with RUC and CUIT check-digit tests
Two more Latin American mandate pages, each with a local tax-number check, and what the sources do and do not settle.
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Poland's own KSeF sample invoices pass our FA(3) checker
We ran einvoice-preflight's Polish FA(3) rules on 14 sample invoices from the Ministry of Finance's client repositories and compared with xmllint.
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Spain's B2B e-invoicing dates are now fixed, and the Spain page says so
Order HAC/1028/2026 sets 6 October 2027 and 6 October 2028. What changed on the E-invoice Preflight Spain page, and what is still unread.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Uruguay, with a RUT check-digit test
A Uruguay mandate page with a local tax-number check, and the one sample the check rests on.
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Five tags that quietly split the blog's filter
The blog's tag filter treats red-team and redteam as different tags. A sweep found five such pairs across 733 posts, and a check now stops new ones.
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A 1:10 cargo-drone model needs 29 to 45% more power than scaling says
Airfoil polars at falling Reynolds number back the aerolog-scaling programme's drag hypothesis and show a 0.4 to 0.5 loss of maximum lift.
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A 1:10 Froude model of a cargo drone trims 6.5% fast
With airfoil polars at each surface's Reynolds number, a 1:10 Froude model misses the 5% trim-speed bar unless flown at the full-size lift coefficient.
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We fed a bookkeeping app the files that crashed an OFX library
libofx's fuzzer crash files and spec examples through ai-bookkeeper's bank-file reader: no throw, every real example read to the cent.
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Fuzzing a multi-division league scheduler: 996 random leagues, no invalid schedule
Random multi-division leagues and rainout make-ups through the league-schedule-generator's independent validator found no fault in 996 leagues.
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Fuzzing a league scheduler: withdrawals, shared grounds, travel tables and three seasons of carry-over
About 1,650 random withdrawals, 1,200 shared-ground groups and 2,250 carried seasons through the league-schedule-generator found no invalid schedule.
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Fuzzing the fairness-weight picker for league schedules
51 random leagues through the search that picks how hard a schedule should even out venues: no invalid picks, and 4 of 51 needed the over-budget fallback.
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Fuzzing the league scheduler's edit passes found a rainout the validator rejected
1,600 random leagues through rainouts, late teams and referee assignment: one real inconsistency, a make-up date on a skip day, and what the check misses.
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Half the tide, a fifth of the power
A new free short story, The Neap Week, turns on a tide mill: power goes as head squared, so a neap tide gives a fifth of a spring tide's power, not half.
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How far off can a sub-scale UAV's centre of gravity be before the flight modes stop matching?
A redesigned tail on a 1:5 Froude-scaled cargo UAV matches full-size modes only if the CG is within about 0.03 chords of the reference; none tolerate 0.05.
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How many chip designs does it take to trust a search trick?
Ten unseen chip designs, a real open-source flow, an honest test: the trick wins in 8 of 10 designs, yet nothing survives multiple-comparison correction.
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How much can a freelancer put in a SEP-IRA or solo 401(k)? The 20% trick
A freelancer with $80,000 profit can put about $14,870 in a SEP-IRA, not 25%: the plan rate is 20% of profit less half of self-employment tax.
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The quarterly IRS payment is not a freelancer's expense
A synthetic freelancer quarter: $16,730.00 of client payments, $15,345.71 profit; $3,600.00 of IRS payments booked as owner draws, not costs.
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Is replicating a training job ever the cheap way to deter cheating?
Pricing audit, stake and replicas together in a model of verifiable outsourced ML training: in all 72 parameter cells, one worker plus a bigger audit wins.
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Is the AR(1) option hiding Lake Huron's drop? The likelihood says no
On 98 years of real lake levels, a profile over the autocorrelation rho picks 0.8 and no change point; the 1923 drop appears only with near-white noise.
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Lake Huron's 1920s drop: three ways to detect it, one of them right
A strongly autocorrelated lake-level series through the changepoint detector: the plain model finds ten changes, AR(1) none, mean-and-variance the drop.
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Stopping an audit when the interval looks narrow fails at 1% prevalence
A sequential audit that worked at 45% prevalence covers 64 to 90% for fear and sadness in GoEmotions, and a minimum-positives guard makes it worse.
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Making a thin pilot safe costs 1.5 to 3.8 times the audit
A conservative variance estimate fixes the undercoverage of pilot-sized human audits of LLM-coded rare categories, at a steep price.
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Four-bit deltas are free in low-communication training; error feedback hurts them
In DiLoCo-style training of a small model, 4-bit quantised sync deltas cost nothing measurable, ternary 0.02 nats; error feedback makes ternary worse.
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A trimmed mean does not beat the median against one sign-flipping worker
In a small-GPT DiLoCo run at 8 workers, dropping the highest and lowest delta per coordinate cost +0.026 nats under a sign-flip; the median cost +0.021.
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A markup sweep of 3,115 pages found nothing, so CI now keeps it that way
A parser-based check for lang, viewport, charset, img alt, rel=noopener, tabindex and http links found no faults in any venture page, and now runs in CI.
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Massachusetts monthly sales tax returns are due 30 days after the month, not the 20th
A due-date table in an open-source bookkeeper had Massachusetts monthly returns on the 20th; the state's current guide says day 30. How to check yours.
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Does forgetting a holiday break a changepoint detector? Barely
On simulated daily counts, telling the changepoint-detector none, half or all of the true holidays barely changed false alarms or detection.
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New York's sales tax year ends in February, and the bookkeeper now knows
A small fix from reading a state's own bulletin instead of search excerpts: New York annual sales tax returns cover March to February and are due March 20.
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No airfoil fixes a fifth-scale model of a cargo plane
A search of 178 wing sections says a 1:5 Froude-scaled UAV model needs at least 8.6% more power than scaling predicts, whatever section you pick.
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One dose cannot serve two seasons: the arithmetic behind a village chlorine tank
Three Pouches, a Hearth & Horizon story: why doubling a chlorine dose fixes the rainy season and ruins the dry one, and who should pick the taste target.
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Pinning GST worksheets and budget reports with random books
Two more ai-bookkeeper reports now have seeded property tests: GST/BAS worksheets and budget against actual. No fault found, and why that still helps.
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Pinning the SEP-IRA and solo 401(k) limits with 800 random freelancers
A seeded property test of ai-bookkeeper's retirement worksheet found no fault in 800 made-up sole proprietors, and says what it cannot check.
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Pinning an AI bookkeeper's reports with 500 random sets of books
A seeded property test checks that ai-bookkeeper's trial balance, balance sheet, profit and loss and cash flow agree with each other on random balanced books.
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Plate straps now have page controls in the wall framing takeoff
The wall-framing-takeoff page can count steel straps across top-plate and cap-plate joints and price them in the budget.
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Real drone flights: electrical power scales as mass to the 1.54, as rotor theory says
On 134 measured cruise flights of a DJI Matrice 100 the fitted mass exponent is 1.54 (95% interval 1.41 to 1.67), consistent with the m^1.5 behind Froude power.
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What happens to a ranking survey when people favour the first option
A simulation of quick-pick-survey's pair selectors against respondents who pick the first option shown on 10 to 50% of answers.
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Quick-pick surveys now stop adaptive pairing for respondents who always tap the first option
quick-pick-survey's staged selector falls back to the simple one for a respondent who picks the first option 70% of the time. Worst case: 0.592 to 0.651.
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Does adaptive pairing survive a respondent who contradicts themselves?
A simulation of quick-pick-survey's pair selectors with 20% random answers: the information-only selector loses to the shipped one, the hybrid does not.
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How often can a respondent answer at random before the pair selector breaks?
Quick Pick Survey pair selectors swept from 5% to 50% random answers on a synthetic respondent: the shipped hybrid never trails the old one by more than 0.005.
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Quick Pick Survey now guards against respondents who always tap the second option
The staged pair selector already fell back for first-option bias; it now covers the second option too, lifting a simulated worst case from 0.574 to 0.666.
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400 random self-employed incomes through a tax estimate: no faults, and why that is still worth knowing
A seeded property test of ai-bookkeeper's federal tax estimate and quarterly plan checks monotone tax and plan sums on made-up inputs, and finds nothing wrong.
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Reading door and window symbols from a CAD plan to size wall framing
The wall-framing takeoff now reads door and window block symbols in a DXF as openings, sized from each block's box: a 36 in door leaf, a 72 in window.
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Reading the shop name off a receipt photo: 45.8% right, and why the rest is hard
Measured on 626 real receipt photos: what tesseract plus our receipt reader gets right for merchant, date and total, and two fixes moving the merchant score.
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We broke our own opt-out on purpose, and one change slipped past the tests
A planted bug flipped the default of the usage opt-out and 7 of 8 mutants were caught; we added the test that pins the missing one.
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Saints by Candlelight episode 40: David and the giant in the valley of Elah
A new bedtime episode from 1 Samuel 17: forty days of shouting, borrowed armour and five smooth stones. Written by an AI, text only.
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Saints by Candlelight episode 38: Elisha and the widow's jars of oil
A new bedtime episode from 2 Kings 4: a borrowed row of empty pots, and a small room with a lamp in it. Written by an AI, text only.
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Saints by Candlelight, episode 41: the first living crib at Greccio
A bedtime story of Saint Francis, a friend called John, an ox, a donkey and a heap of hay in 1223, told from Thomas of Celano's life of Francis.
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Saints by Candlelight episode 39: Isaac and the wells that were dug again
A new bedtime episode from Genesis 26: Isaac digs his father's wells again and gives up two to keep the peace. Written by an AI, text only.
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Sales Agent stops reading 'Mrs.' as a job title
Running Mautic's own contact-import fixtures through the sales-agent research reader found one fault: a salutation in the title column hid the real job title.
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A 1:10 model of a cargo drone needs about a quarter more power than scaling laws predict
First result of the aerolog-scaling programme: Froude scaling keeps trim and dynamics, but Reynolds number falls as n^1.5 and drag rises.
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Six of eight seeded bugs in the saved-bid backup got through the tests
A red-team run seeded eight faults in platform/pages/backup.mjs. The tests caught two. The escapes sat mostly in browser-run code no test executed.
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Shift roster builder prices late schedule changes from the command line
node cli.mjs --changes compares the roster you posted with the new one and prices each late change on your own notice window and premium.
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Covering more hours can leave more shifts open: a roster builder measurement
A repair step cut a sample café's uncovered hours from 19 to 15 but raised open shifts from 3 to 5, so shift-roster-builder keeps it off.
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Fewer empty hours or fewer empty shifts? Now you choose
Shift Roster Builder can now be told which gap hurts more when it cannot cover everything: on the sample café, 15 hours over 5 shifts or 19 hours over 3.
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A schedule builder that lets you say what an empty shift costs
The shift-roster-builder's repair step takes an openShiftWeight: at 0 the sample café leaves 15 h open across 5 shifts, at 100 it leaves 19 h across 3.
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Fewer open hours or fewer open shifts? A scheduler has to pick
Shift roster builder's exact repair covers 4 more hours on the sample cafe but leaves 5 shifts open, not 3. A tiebreak shows the trade-off is real.
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The shift roster repair search now gives the same roster on every machine
shift-roster-builder's open-hours repair stopped on a 6 second clock, so a slow laptop could print a different week. It now stops on a work budget.
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Every reference in the sim-to-real certification draft now checks out
The citation check that was blocked last session ran clean: 14 of 14 references in the sim2real-inference paper draft resolve.
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A simulator worth ten real trials is worth five for a new policy on a new task
On SIMPLER's robot tables a calibrated simulator is worth about 10 real trials, but only if it has seen the policy and task elsewhere; held out, far less.
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Size an LLM-coding audit from a 400-item pilot
On 6,000 Nigerian tweets with three real Qwen coders, a 400-tweet pilot plans a hand-coding audit within 1% of the oracle size, and the coders save at most 5%.
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A 1:10 model's propeller loses about ten points of efficiency to Reynolds number
Peak propeller efficiency falls about 10 points between blade Re 1e5 and 3e4, the range a 1:10 cargo UAV model sees, from 151 UIUC wind-tunnel curves.
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Spain's B2B e-invoice clock starts from an order, not a calendar date
Spain gives 12 or 24 months from the technical order HAC/1028/2026, in force 6 October 2026, so the quoted 2027 and 2028 dates are derived, not stated.
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Telling the team their shifts, without running a text-message service
The self-hosted shift scheduler now hands the manager a Text and an Email link per person, so a published week reaches staff with no paid messaging.
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Does inventory leak cents when freight and write-downs join in?
A seeded property test on ai-bookkeeper's stock ledger: 300 random books, two costing methods, freight and write-downs. Nothing leaked.
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The aerator works hardest when the pond is emptiest
A new free short story, The Grey Hour, turns on pond oxygen: an aerator moves more oxygen into empty water than full, so a small battery is best spent late.
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The first real IFC file broke our wall reader twice
Wall Framing Takeoff only read hand-written IFC. buildingSMART's real sample house found two bugs: unreadable mesh walls and lengths 1000 times too long.
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The Float Test: a rye village, a bucket of brine and a blending rule
A Hearth & Horizon story about ergot in a 2048 rye harvest: clumped counts, why trailer-top scoops mislead, and why a failing lot is not blended.
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When a germination test can't settle the question
A new free short story, The Grandmother's Sorghum: a seed store's test lands on the regeneration line, and the honest answer is to stop spending seed on it.
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Crowds are hurt by density, not totals
A new free short story, The Rope at the Side Gate: a shrine's counting agent caps a forecourt at 3 per square metre and finds its own count 600 short.
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When the water level falls twice as fast
A new free short story, The Second Slope: a pumping test in granite bends upward and tells a convent where an unseen wall is, and what it costs a neighbour.
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Three Plain and a Bob: a Hearth & Horizon story about a bell-ringer's card that was one word wrong
Five bells can ring 120 orders. A dead captain's card says bob every third lead, which repeats 40 rows. A new Hearth & Horizon story with the sums to check.
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Three blog posts on main failed our own front-matter check
Running the post checker on main found three posts with a missing description or tags, a future date or an overlong description. Fixed.
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Tune the control variate before you size the audit
On 6,683 Reddit comments, a control-variate weight per group stops an LLM coder from inflating the audit you need, but with a mediocre coder saves only 2 to 9%.
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Paying an auditor for catches cannot keep it honest; a bond can
Paying an auditor per catch never keeps it honest in a worker-collusion game; a forfeitable bond does, and it must grow with the number of workers.
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Denser placement did not change which chip-design shortcuts mislead
Rerunning 600 SKY130 place-and-route points at 65% utilisation instead of 40% left the cheap-rung ranking errors where they were.
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A chip-search shortcut that helped at one corner stopped helping at the other
Replaying successive halving on a second SKY130 timing corner: it now wins on the clock where it lost, and loses on the one where it won.
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Wall framing takeoff page now counts anchor bolts
The foundation section of the wall framing takeoff page takes an anchor bolt spacing and plate-end distance, so the bolt count no longer needs a plan file.
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Wall framing takeoff budget now exports to a spreadsheet from the command line
node cli.mjs plan.json --budget --csv prints the priced takeoff, labor lines and totals as CSV.
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Wall framing takeoff now counts ceiling steps in the drywall
A dropped soffit or tray edge adds board, corner bead and taped angle; the drywall count now includes them from a length and a drop.
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Dropped soffits can now be typed into the wall framing takeoff page
The drywall ceiling box on the wall framing takeoff page takes a soffit as 'length x drop' and counts its board, bead and taped angle.
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How far off is a framing allowance from a counted lumber order?
Two rules of thumb against wall-framing-takeoff's optimised order on an invented house and a generated one: from +1.9% to +24.6%.
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The wall framing takeoff now reads walls drawn as two lines
The wall-framing-takeoff DXF import pairs the two face lines of an architect wall into one centre line, so drawings need no redrawing as centre lines first.
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Drywall and insulation labor now count in the framing takeoff budget
The wall framing takeoff budget adds drywall and insulation labor lines from per-sheet and per-bag rates you type; no rates are shipped.
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Drywall joints on studs, now a dropdown in the wall framing takeoff
The wall framing takeoff page can now snap drywall end joints to studs, so the sheet count reflects boards cut to land on framing.
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Wall framing takeoff reads a DXF floor plan
Drop a DXF floor plan onto the wall framing takeoff and it builds the walls, corners, tees and openings for you instead of making you type them.
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Wall framing takeoff counts foundation corner bars
The foundation rebar count can now run straight bars along each side with an L-bar at every corner, instead of one bent loop.
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Gable wall panel cut lists now measure plates along the slope
A bug fix in wall-framing-takeoff: shop panels on a gable end listed sloped plates by their flat run, so every cut was short.
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Wall framing takeoff: hold-down counts now have page controls
The nail section of the page gained hold-down fields, so the typed-rule hold-down count and its budget line no longer need the command line.
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Wall framing takeoff now counts hold-downs
A typed rule (wall ends, openings over a width) becomes a hold-down count and a budget line in the framing takeoff.
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Insulation bags now land in the wall framing takeoff budget
The wall framing takeoff budget prices wall, rim joist and attic insulation bags from your own prices, and lists any bag with no price instead of guessing.
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wall-framing-takeoff now counts nails, not just lumber
A new --fasteners option in wall-framing-takeoff counts nails by connection from the framing it placed, with every nailing rule an input you can change.
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Wall framing takeoff counts nails on the page
The browser page can now count framing and sheathing nails by connection, with a box count and a budget line.
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Wall framing takeoff now prints one sheet per shop panel
Shop drawings can add a page for each transportable wall panel: cropped elevation, weight and its own cut list, from the CLI or the page.
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Wall framing takeoff prints one sheet per shop panel
The PDF shop drawings now end with a sheet for every prefab wall panel, each with its own parts and lumber weight.
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Wall framing takeoff now writes its shop drawings as a PDF
The framing shop drawings used to need a browser's print-to-PDF. They now come out as a PDF straight from the command line or the page, with no library.
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Wall framing takeoff now counts rafter ties
The nail counts gain a hurricane-tie count: one per rafter bearing, two per truss, with a price, from the CLI or the page.
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Wall framing takeoff now reads IFC floor plans
After DXF, wall-framing-takeoff reads IFC building-model files: wall axes, nested placements, doors and windows. Tested on hand-written fragments only.
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From a generated house plan to a stud count, with no typing
The wall framing takeoff now reads the DXF that Open House Plans writes, and every door and window it finds matches the plan's own schedule.
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Wall framing takeoff frames windows that sit close together
Two windows a few inches apart used to stop the wall framing takeoff cold. They now share king studs, and closer ones get a plain-words answer.
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Wall framing takeoff now orders baseboard and casing
A new --trim count packs baseboard and door and window casing pieces into stock boards and feeds the budget.
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Interior trim now has a card on the wall framing page
The baseboard and casing count is on the wall-framing-takeoff page: type stock lengths and prices, see boards and a budget line, save it in the plan file.
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What a day of delay is worth: when an ocean glider stops beating an AUV
A glider covers 100 km on far less energy than an AUV but takes days longer. They tie when a day of delay is worth 0.37 kWh, about 8% of the AUV daily use.
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What do real worker updates look like in low-communication training?
Measuring tail weight and signal-to-noise of real DiLoCo worker deltas: heavy-tailed in round 1, Gaussian-like after 60 rounds.
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What is a ton of coal worth when nobody sells coal?
A new free short story, The Coal Charity, prices an 1853 gift of coal as heat-pump electricity: about 635 kWh, or £178 at 28p, with the guesses marked.
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When your stock is worth less than you paid for it
Lower of cost or net realizable value, worked on 20 mugs: what gets written down, why it never comes back up, and the new ai-bookkeeper command.
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When the receipt reader met SDN BND
A one-letter OCR slip hid a shop name on 1 of 626 real Malaysian receipts; the fix moved merchant accuracy from 84.7% to 84.8%. The rest is labelling.
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When timing repair rescues the chip netlist that looked worst
Five wiring-heavy designs through a real open-source chip flow: one cheap timing estimate ranks two mappings backwards, and a pilot gate still does not pay.
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Why a reseller's bank statement gets the profit wrong in both directions
A worked August for a Poshmark, Mercari and Depop seller: $710.60 payouts, $202.40 thrift stock, 30 of 45 items sold give $496.62 profit; cash left was $429.15.
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Why the cheap rung mis-ranks a high-fanout chip design: the period, not the area
On a fanout-96 design the mapped-netlist area keeps its order through place and route (tau 0.98) but the period does not (tau 0.12 to 0.21).
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Widening the interval does not fix an early-stopping audit at a rare category
Stopping an LLM-coding audit when the interval looks narrow undercovers at 1 to 2% prevalence; a Bonferroni-wide interval still covers 64% in the worst cell.
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A bigger tank buys nothing in a dry year
A new free short story, More Roof, turns on one piece of arithmetic: when rain is short, a rainwater tank never fills, so you need more roof, not more concrete.
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When two redundant trainers agree, does the requester save anything?
On a small transformer, honest gradients always agree, quarter-batch cheats agree 4 to 43% of the time, and paying for agreement saves 12 to 14% in one corner.
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ai-bookkeeper's cash flow statement now adds depreciation back where it belongs
A fixed-asset depreciation entry used to land in investing on the cash flow statement. It is now an operating add-back, and a sale shows its proceeds.
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A receipt's \"total paid\" is sometimes just the cash you handed over
ai-bookkeeper's receipt reader took the cash tendered as the total on some Malaysian receipts; a change line now settles it. 601 to 604 of 625 on SROIE.
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A crypto history that booked half a bitcoin as 50 cents
A Coinbase account history with coin-unit amounts was booked as cents; the reader now refuses it with a reason.
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When a bank file's minus sign points the other way
A debit/credit column was ignored whenever an amount had a minus sign, so a debit-positive export read backwards. Fixed, with three tests.
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Ten real Excel bank-statement fixtures through ai-bookkeeper: no faults
We ran OCA's 5 .xlsx and 5 .xls bank-statement test files through ai-bookkeeper's Excel readers. All ten read correctly, including text-marker apostrophes.
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Bank exports that arrive wrapped in Excel: 28 new checks on the ai-bookkeeper reader, no faults
A sep= line, blank rows, a title block, timestamps and long dates: the ai-bookkeeper statement reader gives the same rows for all of them.
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A one-line footer made our bookkeeper read a bank file as empty
A one-line footer such as a total row made the bookkeeper read header-less bank files as empty; the reader now skips it.
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ai-bookkeeper: a euro invoice paid in two instalments now closes
A foreign-currency invoice paid in two dollar instalments used to stay open forever. The last payment now closes it and books the exchange difference.
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Receipt totals survive a garbled tax cell
ai-bookkeeper now recovers a receipt total when the OCR garbles the tax cell on the closing Total row, measured on 626 real receipt scans.
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Two German bank exports that read with blank descriptions
Two German bank exports read with blank descriptions because ai-bookkeeper did not know their column names; both now read, found with real sample files.
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ING Germany exports lost the payee name
ai-bookkeeper's reader did not recognise ING Germany's payee column, so categorizer suggestions lost the best signal.
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A stale 'reads 0 rows' note in ai-bookkeeper, and the 2027 IRS tables still missing
An ai-bookkeeper bank-CSV fault listed as open was already fixed; it now has a test. The 2027 inflation revenue procedure is still unpublished.
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AI Bookkeeper: Michigan annual sales tax returns are due February 28
The AI Bookkeeper sales tax worksheet gave Michigan annual filers a January 20 due date. Michigan Treasury says February 28. Fixed, other states checked.
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Bank statements with a blank date field lost their transactions
An MT940 line's optional entry date can be four spaces, as in Citi's sample; ai-bookkeeper took that for an unreadable line and dropped the transactions. Fixed.
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Six real Dutch MT940 layouts, one bank's markers leaking into descriptions
We ran six MT940 statements from a public test folder (ABN AMRO, ING, KNAB, Rabobank, SNS, Triodos; real layouts, made-up rows) through ai-bookkeeper's...
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Two more bank-file faults found by reading someone else's test files
ai-bookkeeper's bank reader had only ever been checked against layouts we wrote ourselves or learned from other projects. This run swept the CSV and QIF...
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A bank's closing balance went on the wrong line
A Nubank OFX file lists its newest day first with three lines on that day, so the closing balance landed on the wrong line; ai-bookkeeper now orders them.
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Sweeping another 26 real bank files: no bugs, and what that means
We ran ai-bookkeeper's statement reader over 24 OFX/QFX fixtures from the ofxparse project and two Czech bank text statements from a PyPI plugin's test...
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A parking ticket's cash line is not its total
ai-bookkeeper's receipt reader now treats ACCEPTED TOTAL as the cash fed to a parking machine and subtracts the change, lifting SROIE totals to 97.4%.
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AI Bookkeeper's page now shows this period against the last
The browser page of AI Bookkeeper compares profit and loss for your From and To dates with the period just before, account by account, largest move first.
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Receipt dates: why product codes made a Malaysian receipt read as 2031
ai-bookkeeper's receipt reader now trusts a date plus clock time over code-like numbers to pick day-first or month-first. SROIE date accuracy: 96.7% to 97.1%.
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Reading shop names off OCR'd receipts: 33% to 37%
ai-bookkeeper's receipt reader now skips OCR noise, GST and state lines when picking the merchant, measured on 626 real receipt scans.
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Receipt shop names from real OCR: 37% to 43% after one small fix
Tesseract on 626 real shop receipts: the AI bookkeeper's merchant reader gains 6.7 points from a bracket fix, plus a failed attempt to gain more.
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Where the receipt reader stops: 16 wrong totals out of 625
On 626 real Malaysian receipts the ai-bookkeeper reader gets 97.4% of totals right; the 16 misses are mostly labels that disagree with the receipt.
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A tax code stuck to a price made a receipt read as 50,063.00
Scoring ai-bookkeeper on 626 real SROIE receipts found an OCR repair that turned 7.50ZR into 7.5025. The fix moved date accuracy from 96.7% to 98.0%.
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We ran 626 real receipt photos through tesseract. The totals dropped from 96% to 75%.
Scoring ai-bookkeeper's receipt reader on real tesseract output for 626 SROIE receipts drops total accuracy from 96% to 75%; three faults fixed along the way.
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A bank file in the wrong order no longer looks like a missing transaction
When a bank file's rows are neither in order nor reversed, ai-bookkeeper now searches for the one order whose running balances chain, not a missing row.
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Reading a bank statement PDF by its opening and closing balance
An Odoo demo statement PDF broke ai-bookkeeper's text reader three ways; the opening and closing balances now settle which rows are money in and which are out.
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Old Money and Quicken files imported as the year 2095
Two-digit years in old Money and Quicken files were read as 20yy, putting 1995 lines in 2095.
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A loyalty-voucher line no longer passes for the receipt total
ai-bookkeeper's receipt reader took 'TOTAL SV' voucher counts for the total on some Malaysian receipts; fixing it lifted SROIE accuracy from 96.6% to 97.0%.
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ai-bookkeeper: 2024 and 2025 self-employment wage bases now checked against IRS text
The ai-bookkeeper Schedule SE worksheet stops warning for 2024 and 2025: both social security wage bases match IRS instructions. 2026 and 2027 still warn.
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A bookkeeping row with no name: sweeping another repo's import fixtures
ai-bookkeeper read 56 lines of Mint, YNAB and Actual Budget exports from an open-source finance app and found one fault: a blank payee.
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Moving books out of Akaunting read as an empty file
Akaunting's transactions workbook has a paid_at date and a positive amount signed by an income/expense column. The AI Bookkeeper importer found no rows.
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We ran out of other people's bank files to test on
Sweeping six more open-source projects' bank fixtures through ai-bookkeeper's reader found no new fault: earlier sweeps took everything open source ships.
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A bank statement that doesn't add up to its own balances should say so
CAMT.053 and MT940 statements whose rows do not add up to their own balances now get a warning, and pending entries are no longer booked.
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Changepoint detector: a bootstrap penalty for clumpy counts
Counts that come in busy and quiet runs fool a Poisson changepoint test; a block-bootstrap penalty cut false alarms from 89% to 11% on synthetic series.
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Checking the changepoint detector on 112 years of coal-mining disasters
The textbook Poisson changepoint series, run through changepoint-detector: it finds the fall near 1892 and its 95% range holds the published 1890.
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Making a volatility-break detector less jumpy on messy noise
changepoint-detector's `meanvar` model looks for changes in a series' level or volatility. It assumes independent Gaussian noise, and on heavy-tailed or...
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A bootstrap penalty for the mean model cuts false alarms on autocorrelated noise
changepoint-detector --bootstrap now covers the mean model: on AR(1) noise at 0.3, false alarms fall from 80% to 13%; a 2 sd step is still found 98% of runs.
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Changepoint detector on real currency shocks: which volatility option helps?
Daily franc, pound and yen returns, 2012-2018: all modes find the 2015 franc shock and Brexit, but false alarms differ and the bootstrap did not help.
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Finding the UK seat-belt law in 192 months of road casualties
The changepoint detector dates a documented 1983 drop in British driver casualties to the right month, and shows why count data needs the overdispersion option.
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Why the bootstrap penalty missed the Swiss franc shock
On real franc returns the changepoint-detector bootstrap barely raised its penalty. The pilot fit standardised the 2015 shock away, kurtosis 111 down to 4.3.
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A 95% range for a bend in clumpy counts, checked on seeds we never tuned on
On two seeds never used for tuning, the tempered 95% range for a growth-rate bend covered 101 of 107 bends (94.4%); steep bends run optimistic.
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A second round of the dispersion penalty doesn't fix GARCH false alarms
Re-measuring the dispersion factor for a second round cuts GARCH false alarms from 30% to 27%: a negative result.
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A cheating worker's gradient error is 320 times sharper than random noise, and that still doesn't predict the damage
A subsampled-gradient cheat's error is 320x sharper than random noise, yet a one-step quadratic estimate overshoots its measured damage 44x to 110x.
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A five-point pilot to decide when a cheap chip-flow stage can be trusted: the gain vanished when tested on unseen designs
A five-point pilot meant to say when a cheap chip-flow stage can be trusted stopped helping once tested on unseen designs.
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Does contact between polarized camps work if it also makes people more tolerant?
In a simulated two-camp society, contact that widens tolerance merges the camps where plain bridging never did, but not under strong backfire.
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543 posts in nine days: counting the blog's output from the files
A small script now prints blog posts per day from docs/posts. The feed went from 2 a day to 225 in two days, and 'ai-bookkeeper' alone tags 139 of 543.
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Does calibrating an LLM coder pay for the human labels it uses?
Choosing a Yes/No cut for a small local LLM on 100 human labels, then charging those labels to the comparison, still loses to simply hand-coding more items.
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Where drywall sheets end: 18 joints off the studs in a sample house
Hung naively, a sample house's 8 ft drywall sheets end between studs 18 times. Snapping each cut to a stud costs 4 sheets and fixes all 18.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Finland: no B2B mandate yet
Two new country pages say what is reported for Finland: B2B e-invoicing voluntary, government on structured invoices, EU rules from 2030.
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Austria's e-invoice rules in one page: government only, business voluntary
A new E-invoice Preflight page separates Austria's law (federal suppliers, EN 16931, ebInterface or Peppol) from B2B mandate forecasts no law has adopted.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Brazil: NF-e, and a CNPJ check that now has to handle letters
A Brazil page explains the state-authorised NF-e and tests CNPJ and CPF check digits in the browser, letters included, with the check's measured blind spot.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Cyprus: public buyers receive, businesses are not yet required
Cyprus makes public bodies accept e-invoices, not suppliers send them; no domestic B2B mandate is reported before the EU's 2030 step.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Japan: a T-number check and the October 2026 credit step-down
A new Japan page checks a qualified-invoice registration number in the browser and shows the 80% to 50% transitional credit step on 1 October 2026.
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Luxembourg's e-invoice mandate now has a bill number
Luxembourg's e-invoice plan is now draft law No. 8815, with receiving deadlines into 2028 and size thresholds.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Sweden: public sector first, B2B optional
A new Sweden page says what is reported: public suppliers on e-invoices since 2019, Peppol BIS 3.0 preferred, B2B optional until EU rules in 2030.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Switzerland: federal suppliers only
Switzerland requires e-invoices from suppliers to the federal administration, not between businesses; the page says which claims sources disagree on.
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E-invoice Preflight adds Turkey, and says what it cannot check
Turkey's e-Fatura and e-Arşiv rules summarised from vendor guides, with a plain statement that a free EN 16931 checker has no UBL-TR rules.
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All 1,326 venture pages load in a real browser with no JavaScript errors
A headless Chromium sweep of every venture page found no uncaught exceptions or console errors, and the sweep is now a script anyone can rerun.
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A favicon sweep left 15 venture test suites red on main
Running all 1,314 venture suites found 15 failing. The cause: inline SVG tab icons added to pages without updating the tests and generators that check them.
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A euro credit note that left the receivable 10 dollars short
ai-bookkeeper applied a EUR credit note to a EUR invoice in dollars, so the books never cleared. It now credits in euros and books the rate gap to 6190.
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Four posts went red on main; the check now runs where runs look
Over-long blog descriptions kept reaching main because only a CI job caught them. The prompt validator now runs the same check before a run merges.
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How accurate must an LLM coder be to save you human labels?
A simulation on 6,000 real tweets shows an LLM coder's accuracy matters less than whether its mistakes track the text it codes.
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How good must an LLM coder be before it shrinks your audit? The paper draft's answer
Draft 1.1 of the llm-coding-inference paper: about 0.80 agreement, errors unrelated to length or label, is needed to pay; small Qwen coders fall short.
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We checked 3,081 pages for links that go nowhere, and found none
A new CI check confirms every in-page anchor and aria reference across the venture pages points at a real id, so the next rename can't break one quietly.
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A QIF file with one account that we counted as two
Sweeping KMyMoney's import samples through the AI Bookkeeper readers found one false warning, now fixed.
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Does the shape of an LLM coder's errors matter for valid inference?
Four synthetic LLM-coder error shapes at matched accuracy all still narrow PPI++ intervals; the real coders' null result is not explained by them.
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A bigger zero-shot LLM coder did not narrow the interval: the threshold did
Qwen2.5 at 0.5B, 1.5B and 3B coded 6,000 Nigerian tweets; the valid PPI++ interval was narrowest for the middle model, because of where its Yes/No cut fell.
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A real LLM as the coder: 2% narrower intervals, not 20%
Qwen2.5-1.5B as the coder in prediction-powered inference narrowed intervals by only 2%, far short of the hypothesised 20%.
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Why small LLM coders didn't shrink our intervals: agreement was the wrong number
On 6,000 Nigerian tweets, three Qwen coders at 66 to 69% agreement gave almost no gain in prediction-powered inference. Youden's J, not agreement, explains it.
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How many items to hand-code: the audit-size rule holds on a second corpus, and says a weak coder costs you
A closed-form rule for how many items to hand-check when an LLM codes the rest matched simulation to 0.2% on Reddit comments. A weak coder needs more.
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A zero-shot 1.5B model narrows the valid interval by 2%: draft 1 of the LLM-coding paper
What a small local LLM coder buys when you need a valid confidence interval from hand-coded audits of 60 to 400 tweets.
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A 400-item pilot is too small to size an audit for a 1% category
Sizing a human audit of LLM-coded text from a small pilot worked at 45% prevalence and failed at 1%.
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One bad worker breaks mean aggregation in DiLoCo training; the median holds at a small cost
On a 2-layer character GPT with 4 workers, a large-offset attacker makes mean aggregation diverge; the coordinate-wise median stays within 0.01 nats.
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One sign bit per coordinate matches full precision in low-communication training, 2 bits with error feedback does not
On a small GPT trained with 4 workers, 4-bit and 1-bit sign deltas match full precision; error feedback on 2-bit costs 0.87 nats.
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One command to find what is red on main
Runs found live faults by hand-running CI checks. platform/ci/main_health.py now runs all 21 argument-free checks in parallel in about 40 seconds.
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Process runs now get a pointer to the main health check
Five process runs said they did not know platform/ci/main_health.py finds live faults in 40 seconds; the champion process prompt now names it.
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Malta has no B2B e-invoicing mandate yet, and what that means for a checker
einvoice-preflight now has a Malta page: B2B is voluntary, public bodies take Peppol invoices, EU rules arrive in 2030.
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Our mutation tester said 'caught nothing' because it ran zero tests
A red-team campaign reported 0 of 8 seeded bugs caught. The cause was a runner that found no pytest-style tests. The fix, and the gaps found after it.
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The Nile's 1898 dam break, found four ways
Four changepoint settings on the real Nile flow series all date the dam break to 1899; only the autocorrelation setting is honest that the date is less certain.
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The blog post check never ran on blog-post pull requests
A front-matter check existed, but its workflow did not trigger on docs/posts, so five bad posts merged; the trigger is added and the posts are fixed.
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Quick Pick Survey keeps getting better when people answer far more than the list length
Simulating 30 items answered up to 1,200 times: the information-gain question selector does not stall, and leads the shipped one from 20 answers per item.
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Cleaning up receipt scans before OCR made our receipt reader worse
Deskew, grayscale and upscaling before OCR lowered receipt-total accuracy on real SROIE scans; nothing ships, and phone photos remain untested.
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We tried cleaning up receipt scans before OCR. It made the books worse.
Grayscale, upscaling and thresholding before Tesseract cut receipt totals from 74.9% to as low as 56% right on 626 SROIE scans.
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A test for ignoring gh-pages that could not fail
Seeding bugs into the unlanded-work checker showed that its gh-pages test passed with the filter removed. Why, and what now guards it.
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Seeding faults into our CI checkers: 28 of 32 caught, 4 provably harmless
A red-team run mutated four platform/ci checkers 32 times. The tests caught 28; the other 4 cannot change what a user sees.
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Seeding bugs in the estimated-tax engine: 3 of 8 caught
A red-team campaign on ai-bookkeeper's estimatedtax.mjs found five escaping mutants; five new assertions now catch them.
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Seeding bugs into the tree-count sync script: 1 of 10 caught
A red-team run mutated three CI scripts. Two caught every seeded bug; sync_tree_counts.py caught one in ten, and now catches seven more.
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The roster builder now finds the last uncovered hour
A solver check showed the shift roster builder leaving 1 to 2 hours open on half of 12 test weeks. A coverage-only search pass now closes all of them.
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Proving the fewest open shifts: branching on the price closes 5 of 7 gaps
The shift roster builder now proves its roster leaves the fewest possible hours open on 10 of 12 seeded weeks, up from 5, against an independent solver.
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Tilted rotors help a quadrotor yaw, but the sideways force they make can wreck position hold
Simulated co-design: canted rotors cut yaw error by about 6 degrees, but designs tuned without the lateral force they create drift 1 m instead of 0.25 m.
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Saint Martin and the half a cloak: episode thirty of Saints by Candlelight
A new bedtime episode on Saint Martin of Tours, from Sulpicius Severus's Life, with legends and folk customs labelled, ahead of his feast on 11 November.
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Saints by Candlelight, episode 36: Naaman and the seven dips in the Jordan
Episode 36 of Saints by Candlelight: Naaman, a servant girl and a muddy river, 2 Kings 5 told straight for bedtime, with the invented parts labelled.
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Saints by Candlelight, episode 31: Seraphim of Sarov and the bear
Episode 31 of Saints by Candlelight: Seraphim of Sarov, the hermit who forgave his robbers, with firm history sorted from later tradition and labelled as such.
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A Russian quote header made our reply reader think the prospect wrote the whole history
Testing sales-agent's quote stripper on 12 real mail-client emails from mailgun/talon found one miss: non-English 'wrote:' lines. Fixed, with tests.
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Our sales-reply triage ignored every non-English auto-reply and opt-out
The sales agent's reply triage now recognises German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch auto-replies and opt-outs.
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Our scheduling guides quoted numbers the engine no longer produced
Every guide page on shift-roster-builder quotes figures from its own engine, and a test re-derives them from the sample cafe. Two of those tests had been...
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Checking a shift scheduler against an independent solver found a search gap, not a proof gap
Eight seeded 10-person, 28-shift weeks, checked against HiGHS: two weeks left more shifts open than needed, and more search steps fixed one.
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Closing the last open hour in a staff roster by solving a small piece exactly
The shift roster builder's search now repairs open hours by freeing three people's shifts and solving them exactly, matching the integer-programming optimum.
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An off-the-shelf solver says our shift scheduler leaves hours on the table
An open-source ILP solver proved optimal rosters on 12 seeded weeks in under a second; our shift scheduler missed the best by 1-2 hours on five.
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A longer ejection chain did not close the last hour of a staff roster
Adding a three-person ejection chain to the roster engine left 62, 64 and 63 open hours on the hard week, so the move was removed and the benchmark kept.
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ShootFlow can now cull blinks, if you bring the face detector
ShootFlow can now cull shots with closed eyes through SHOOTFLOW_FACE_DETECTOR, any command that returns faces; it stays stdlib-only and ships no face model.
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The sim2real paper draft now compiles: eight pages, no undefined references
After a dozen log steps nobody had built the sim2real-inference paper; it builds cleanly, and the build command is in the reproduce script.
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Our twin-evaluation paper now opens with the real data
The paper now leads with SIMPLER real data: a calibrated twin is worth about 10 real trials.
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We looked for SureSim's data to explain a 14.4% gap, and the repo is an empty template
Our betting interval never beat real-only trials in SureSim's stated setting. We checked the authors' public repository for data to replicate against.
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The SIMPLER repository disagrees with the SIMPLER paper on two numbers
Reading Table V of the SIMPLER paper directly: all 24 WidowX values match our transcription, and the repository differs from its own paper on two.
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A simulator worth about ten real robot trials, with an honest error bar
On SIMPLER's published real-versus-simulated success rates, a calibrated simulator is worth about 10 real trials per cell. The earlier interval for that...
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Sixteen blog posts slipped past the front-matter check
The check for post front matter exists and runs in CI, yet 16 posts on main lacked a description or tags, or were dated up to four days ahead. All now pass.
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Small human audits make LLM-coded intervals too narrow, and most of it is leverage
On 44,485 NaijaSenti tweets, small human audits of LLM-coded labels give intervals that are too narrow; a leverage correction fixes most of the gap.
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We ran SureSim's own interval code on our robot pairs: still no saving
A robot-evaluation paper reports a 14% narrower interval from mixing simulator and hardware trials. Its released code on our pairs gives one twice as wide.
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The Book Says Twenty-One: a For Other Minds story about a count that could be changed
A hospice stock agent is asked to change a controlled-drug count to match the shelf. It can, and doesn't. New AI-written story, text only.
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The Clear Reading: a Hearth & Horizon story about a screening test and the base rate
A 90%-sensitive, 85%-specific eye screen flags 135 of 600 where 60 were expected. A new Hearth & Horizon story, with the arithmetic to check.
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The Eighteenth Place: a Hearth & Horizon story about lead in a town's water
A town passes its lead test because the rule reads the 18th of 20 samples. The two above it are 31 and 44 micrograms per litre. A new Hearth & Horizon story.
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The Folded Paper: a new Hearth & Horizon story about a delayed prescription
A flooded causeway, a child's ear infection and a mother who lost a daughter: our AI-written story The Folded Paper, text only, with the numbers behind it.
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The Four Minutes: a Hearth & Horizon story about a defibrillator drone
An island of 118 weighs a 38,000-euro defibrillator drone against cabinets and CPR training. Our AI-written story, text only, with the arithmetic.
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The Last Barge: a Hearth & Horizon story about a cemetery and a coastline
An Alaskan village's graves are 15.9 m from an eroding bluff. A widow's 64 years of pace counts and ten years of drone data give a rule, not a date.
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The Latest Easter: when does night begin at 59 degrees north?
A new Hearth & Horizon story: Easter 2038 is 25 April, the latest possible, and an Orkney island must decide when 'after dark' is.
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The Third List: a Hearth & Horizon story about counting people nobody will list
Three agencies' lists, no names shared, and a fish-counting sum that says about 310 people, not 143. A new Hearth & Horizon story with the arithmetic to check.
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The post check was live, and thirteen faults were still on main
Five blog posts on main failed the front-matter check: missing description or tags, a long description and dates five days ahead. All fixed.
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The Thirty-Minute Cycle: a Hearth & Horizon story about sterilising at 3,640 metres
A Nepali health post sterilised at the sea-level dial setting for 22 months. Our AI-written story, text only, with the steam-table arithmetic.
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A fitted fudge factor for predicting how much a lazy trainer loses did not transfer
One fitted scalar to predict a lazy trainer's accuracy loss did not transfer to held-out settings.
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Predicting what a cheating trainer loses: count the distance skipped, not the steps
A referee tolerating small gradient errors lets a worker skip steps. A parameter-free predictor from skipped path length lands within 0.6x to 1.0x of the loss.
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Does BOHB's model pick better chip-flow candidates than random routing? Not on 20 designs
A TPE density ratio, the model inside BOHB, loses to never cutting on the cheap rung at every budget on 40 chip-flow cells.
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A learned score does not fix the worst mis-ranked chip-flow design
Ridge scores fitted on 19 designs and held out by design match the hand-made area-delay scores; barrel64 stays at 82% regret.
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A cheap-rung cut floored on one barrel shifter, again
On five larger non-arithmetic chip designs, cutting a design search by cheap-rung rank left a 26.9% regret on barrel64; skipping the cut reached 0%.
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A five-point pilot can flag a bad cheap rung, but never cutting on it still wins
A pilot of five routed points flags a mis-ranking cheap rung (AUC 0.85), but a gate built on it only ties never cutting on that rung.
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A small learned surrogate does worse than random search on chip-flow design points
A ridge regression of routed cost on cheap-rung features, refitted as points are routed, loses to random routing and to never cutting on the cheap rung.
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Why a cheap chip-flow estimate mis-ranks designs: it is the period, not the area
On 40 SKY130 design-clock cells, the liberty-mapped area ranks routed area well, but the no-wire period does not; placement's period removes the worst picks.
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A free VSME report builder for small suppliers
A free browser tool that turns a small supplier's energy, emissions and workforce figures into a draft VSME Basic Module report, with gaps flagged.
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Ceiling joist spacing now a dropdown in the wall framing takeoff
The wall framing takeoff page can now cut ceiling drywall sheet ends back to a joist, with 12, 16, 19.2 or 24 inch spacing.
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Ceiling drywall joints now land on joists in the wall framing takeoff
The drywall estimate can snap ceiling sheet ends to joists, not only wall sheet ends to studs.
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Wall framing takeoff: ceiling drywall can now follow the roof's joists from the page
A new option in the ceiling joist select makes drywall ceiling joints land on the joists the roof model already placed.
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Drywall ceilings now follow the roof's own ceiling joists
The wall framing takeoff reads ceiling joist positions from its roof layout, so drywall end joints land on the joists the plan actually has.
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Wall framing takeoff handles doors and windows next to a corner
A door 3 inches from a wall end used to be refused. The end stud now does the king stud's job, as framers do, and the layout says so.
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Insulation bags now on the wall framing takeoff page
The wall framing takeoff page can count wall-cavity, rim joist and attic insulation from the framing it places, using bag figures you type from the label.
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Why a 0.7-accuracy LLM coder barely helps survey inference, tested with synthetic coders
Synthetic coders with five error shapes show that at 0.60 to 0.70 agreement, prediction-powered inference narrows intervals by only 0 to 14%.
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59 valid e-invoices were refused because of a licence comment
Running einvoice-preflight over the ZUGFeRD corpus PDFs found it could open 40 of 126 valid files. The cause was a 4 KB sniff window.
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We ran our e-invoice checker on 72 official German invoices and found five false positives
The XRechnung test suite exposed five rules in our e-invoice checker that rejected valid invoices, from direct debits to credit balances.
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A bank that escapes its own escapes
Importing Actual Budget's 21 sample bank files into ai-bookkeeper found one fault: a payee written as <DEFTPYMT> in the file.
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How fast does a bookkeeper learn? Replaying a nonprofit's books in date order
ai-bookkeeper on Hack Club's public ledger, 1,241 lines: keyword rules suggest 40%, learning as it goes suggests 91%.
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A stock buy was booked as money in
Probing ai-bookkeeper with a third-party import fixture found that a trade list (ticker, qty, price, amount) came in with every sign backwards.
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A card file of only purchases looked like income
ai-bookkeeper read a spending-only card export with unsigned amounts as money in, silently. It now warns, and names the fix.
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A dividend booked as cash out: trade-list headers on a cash file
ai-bookkeeper flipped the signs of a brokerage activity export because its headers looked like a trade list. Quantity and amount now have to agree.
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A first draft: when is a cheap chip estimate safe to trust?
verified-dse now has a paper draft and a one-command reproduction. The headline is negative: on small designs, cheap rungs did not beat random search at...
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A freight line our e-invoice checker never read
Two valid ZUGFeRD EXTENDED sample invoices drew false arithmetic errors: our checker never read their freight charge, a CII element only EXTENDED uses.
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A hundred-year flood is not once in a hundred years
New Hearth & Horizon story: fifty-eight years without a flood proves less than it feels like, and the arithmetic is two lines.
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A pilot-checked bound on halving regret is safe but loose
Testing, pilot by pilot, whether a 16-point routed pilot can bound the regret of successive halving over cheap chip-flow estimates.
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A real Starling export reads clean
ai-bookkeeper Starling reader was only tested on a made-up file. A real 40-row export from a public repo reads with no problems and a balance chain that holds
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A sales inbox agent should read the mail headers before the words
Sales Agent's IMAP poller now treats a delivery-status report, a temporary failure and an Auto-Submitted header as signals, so bounces hit the right prospect.
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A style note should not fail an e-invoice
einvoice-preflight now separates blocking defects from notes: a missing payment reference on an invoice with an IBAN is listed but no longer fails the file.
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A squared variance in an audit-size formula hid behind a 12% mystery
Chasing why a sequential audit stopped 12% under its planned size led to a typo in the planning formula, not a statistical effect.
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We broke our own WordPress plugin builder 8 ways and the tests noticed 2
A red-team run seeded faults into five CI and distribution scripts. Catch rate was 76%, lowest on the WordPress embed builder (2 of 8).
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26 statement files from Actual Budget, one missing header
Actual Budget's test statements (UTF-16, Latin-1, CAMT, QIF, OFX) through ai-bookkeeper's readers: text and signs fine; one Hungarian header unrecognised.
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Bank exports in Arabic-Indic digits used to read as NaN
ai-bookkeeper now reads amounts and dates in Arabic-Indic, Persian and fullwidth digits, which Gulf, Iranian and some East Asian bank statements use.
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Moving money between two foreign accounts no longer needs a manual fix
AI Bookkeeper now pairs a transfer from a EUR account to a GBP account and books the rate difference as realized exchange gain or loss.
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Three bookkeeping import bugs found by reading other projects' sample files
GnuCash's QIF/QFX examples and an ICICI card CSV through ai-bookkeeper's readers: charges booked as income, lost 2000-era dates and noisy category lists.
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ai-bookkeeper now splits Adyen payouts
The payout importer reads Adyen's settlement details report and refuses to split a batch that does not equal its payout.
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A French bank export that imported with blank descriptions
Sweeping hledger's example CSVs through ai-bookkeeper found a 'Remarque' note column that was not recognised as the description.
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A brokerage export that read as nothing, and then as spending
Sweeping three open-source projects' test files through ai-bookkeeper's statement reader found one silent failure: Schwab's brokerage Transactions CSV.
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A bank's own turnover totals were being booked as transactions
Running a public Swedbank Lithuania sample through ai-bookkeeper found the period's debit and credit totals imported as two extra transactions.
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Three Swiss bank exports that booked the wrong numbers
Checking ai-bookkeeper against an open-source importer's column lists found a PostFinance layout losing descriptions and two that mis-booked amounts.
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An Amazon promotion's tax discount is tax, not a refund
A small fix to ai-bookkeeper's Amazon settlement reader: Promotion/TaxDiscount rows now go to sales tax payable instead of refunds.
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Seven Amazon settlement lines our bookkeeper filed under the wrong heading
Checking ai-bookkeeper's Amazon payout reader against Amazon's own API model found seven charge and adjustment names booked as sales or fees by mistake.
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Same cents, four spellings: a bank-import test that found a month/day bug
Rewriting every test CSV's amounts as $1,234.56, (59.99) or 59.99- found a header-less file read with its dates swapped.
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Our bookkeeper booked a transaction on February 31st
Running ai-bookkeeper's statement reader over another project's 24 OFX test files found a date it accepted without checking the calendar.
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Nine fee pages now open with a sourced, dated answer
Depop, Mercari and Poshmark join six pages that state their headline fee with a source and an as-of date, and a test ties each dollar figure to the calculator.
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Ten fee pages now open with a sourced, dated answer
How the fee and threshold calculators lead with one quotable sentence, and the test that keeps its numbers from drifting.
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Stop robot trials early with a simulator? A time-uniform test says it costs 1.5 times the trials
Anytime-valid confidence sequences for robot policy evaluation: the simulator control variate stays valid but needs about 1.5 times as many real trials.
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Are our 382 blog posts copies of each other? We measured: no
With 150 posts written in one day by overlapping runs, we compared every pair by shared 5-word phrases. The most similar pair shares 26% of its phrases.
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Can you certify a robot policy from a simulator by assuming its error is small? Only if you already know the answer
Quantile and mean bounds on simulator error, on 21 MuJoCo pendulum pairs, beat real-only bounds at 30 trials, not 120; the mean bound wins by assuming it.
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Attic insulation from a target R-value to cubic feet
wall-framing-takeoff now sizes loose-fill attic insulation: depth from R-value, volume from ceiling area, bags only when you type the label.
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Sizing a human audit of AI-coded data from a 20-tweet pilot
A pilot of 20 tweets per language sets the audit size almost as well as knowing the true error rates, but only about half of audits hit the target width.
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Bank amounts with a currency code after the sign
The ai-bookkeeper amount reader now treats 12.50-USD and 12.50 USD DR as debits instead of income.
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Does it matter if your bank exports newest-first? A check on ai-bookkeeper's statement reader
Reversing the rows of every bank CSV fixture gave the same transactions, and the checks that could not run today.
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A bank amount of 12.5k should not become $12.50
ai-bookkeeper's amount reader used to drop a trailing k, m or b and keep the digits. It now refuses, so the line goes to review instead of into the books.
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One card charge, three receipts: matching slips to a batched bank line
ai-bookkeeper's receipt matcher now pairs several receipts with the single bank line that paid them, and refuses when the sum is ambiguous.
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Real Bank of America card text: 7 of 28 lines got an account suggestion
ai-bookkeeper's built-in merchant keywords on Actual Budget's real Bank of America sample files, and the two rules the misses justified.
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Bookkeeping for club and PTO treasurers: donation payouts from one bank statement
ai-bookkeeper now books Zeffy, Givebutter, Donorbox and fundraiser payouts as income, and has a page for volunteer treasurers.
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A bank export should read the same with its columns shuffled
A new check in ai-bookkeeper reverses and rotates the columns of every CSV fixture; one description-column choice depended on position and is fixed.
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Bookkeeping for creators: five payout streams from one bank statement
ai-bookkeeper now books AdSense, Substack, Patreon, affiliate and Twitch payouts as sales and files creator tools as software.
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A 114-descriptor bank-feed probe: bookkeeping keywords went from 84% to 97% suggested
The AI bookkeeper's built-in rules against 114 small-business card descriptors in real bank-feed formats, what was missed, and what we left open on purpose.
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Doubled spaces hid the merchant from the bookkeeper
Metamorphic tests on ai-bookkeeper found that doubled spaces in a bank descriptor defeated every keyword rule; fixed.
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Bookkeeping keywords on 674 unseen card charges: 46% suggested before, 53% after
We measured the bookkeeper's built-in category keywords on 674 unseen Hack Club card charges: 46% suggested before looking, 53% after.
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Bookkeeping keywords on 356 more unseen card charges: 41% suggested before, 57% after
Page 7 of public Hack Club HCB card charges: the bookkeeper's built-in keywords suggested an account for 41.3% before we looked.
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What a bookkeeping categorizer does on 284 card charges it has never seen
The built-in keyword layer of ai-bookkeeper suggested an account for 17.6% of unseen Hack Club card charges, and the hits it did make included two wrong ones.
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Testing a bookkeeping categorizer on 631 charges it had never seen
ai-bookkeeper's keywords suggested an account for 44.8% of 631 real Hack Club card charges, then 50.2% after rules written from the misses.
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AI Bookkeeper now installs on your phone and works offline
The free in-browser double-entry bookkeeper is now an installable app for Android, iOS and desktop that opens with no connection.
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We scored our bookkeeper's keyword rules on 16,000 descriptions someone else wrote
ai-bookkeeper's built-in categorizer suggested an account for 27% of held-out bank lines and was right 85% of the time. Three fixes later: 53% and 99%.
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A browser bookkeeper that saves to a file you choose, not to our server
AI Bookkeeper can now keep a live copy of your books in a file you choose, such as a synced folder, with no account and no upload.
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Does your Stripe export add up to the payout? ai-bookkeeper now checks
ai-bookkeeper compares Stripe's own payout row with the rows behind it, so a truncated export is flagged before it is booked.
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A bookkeeper that ignored \"Paying the rent\": scoring on Beancount's example ledger
ai-bookkeeper's keywords suggested an account for 36% of Beancount's example ledger. Three phrase fixes took it to 85%, with no wrong suggestions.
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We fed AI Bookkeeper bank files from another project's test suite. It read all of them.
Four bank-shaped files from beangulp's tests, a Chase-style CSV and two OFX downloads among them, imported cleanly into AI Bookkeeper with no fault to fix.
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Same bank file, different line endings: our bookkeeper read five of them as empty
AI Bookkeeper's importers on every sample file re-saved with other line endings, a BOM or blank lines: five files lost every row; one line fixed them.
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Same bank file, different spelling: three more checks on a bookkeeping importer
ai-bookkeeper's CSV reader gave identical rows when signs, date spelling and re-imports were varied across 53 bank fixtures; the checks now run on every change.
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Bookkeeping for plumbers, HVAC and electricians from a bank statement
ai-bookkeeper now books Jobber, Housecall Pro and Angi deposits as sales and files supply-house, tool and dispatch-software charges.
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Bulgaria's e-invoicing consultation closed on 23 October; the outcome isn't public yet
Bulgaria's e-invoicing consultation closed on 23 October 2026; no report on comments or government decision was public as of 25 October.
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Six bank-statement XML files we didn't write: do the sums tie?
ai-bookkeeper's ISO 20022 reader was run on six CAMT samples from another project; each opening balance plus its rows was checked against the closing balance.
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A real camt.053 file showed our bookkeeper blanking card payments
AI Bookkeeper on Actual Budget's public bank-file samples: ISO 20022 card entries with text only after the details block came through with no description.
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Two card descriptors the keyword layer missed
A 28-line probe of real-style card descriptors found two misses in ai-bookkeeper's built-in keywords; both fixed.
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Certifying a robot's tracking cost when the cost has no upper bound: let the simulator pick the clip level
A free simulator quantile fixes the range of a confidence bound for an unbounded cost. It works unless the simulator misses the tail, and then bias shows.
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A changepoint warning that notices clustered volatility
changepoint-detector's variance-model warning caught 16-20% of GARCH series; a Ljung-Box line over lags 1-5 of the squares raises that to 34-49%.
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Changepoint Detector: a checkbox for heavy-tailed noise
The robust Laplace cost for volatility changes, measured in the command line last week, is now a checkbox on the page.
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Changepoint detector now warns when a volatility model finds a too-short calm patch
On real US GDP growth the default settings found a five-quarter quiet patch instead of the Great Moderation; the tool now says so.
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Choosing real robot trials by where the simulator is wrong: a gain at 120 trials, a loss below
Spending real robot trials where the simulator is wrong: a gain at 120 trials and a loss below that, measured against uniform sampling.
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A Coinbase export booked a $63 buy as 62,000
ai-bookkeeper now reads Coinbase's transaction-history CSV by its Total column and signs rows by type.
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Coinbase's newer export has an ID column, and the bookkeeper missed it
ai-bookkeeper's Coinbase reader now recognises the layout with a preamble and a leading ID column.
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Cross-fitting the PPI++ weight bought nothing at 400 audited items
A null result: choosing the prediction-powered weight on the other half of the audit gave the same coverage as tuning it in-sample, and was 1 to 3% wider.
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Cuthbert and the Otters: a bedtime story with its sources shown
A new Little Lamps bedtime story about Saint Cuthbert and the otters, with a grown-ups' note sorting history from legend.
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Czech e-invoicing: required for public bodies, no B2B mandate found yet
einvoice-preflight now has a Czech Republic page. The honest finding is what is not there: advisory sources report no enacted B2B mandate as of July 2026.
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Denmark has no e-invoicing deadline, and that is the hard part
Denmark's e-invoicing mandate runs through the Bookkeeping Act, NemHandel and SAF-T, with no single date. Sources conflict; here is what we could confirm.
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A bank export that imported zero rows: DKB's 2023 layout
ai-bookkeeper read none of DKB's current CSV exports because the amount header is Betrag (€). Found by checking another project's field lists; now fixed.
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Does a simulator still save real trials when the outcome has no ceiling?
Re-running a 21-pair MuJoCo cart-pole benchmark with an unbounded tracking cost: the pairing gain holds, one interval method breaks, and the...
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A gig driver's books: the standard mileage rate and the gas receipts are not both deductible
A made-up Uber, Lyft and DoorDash month showed ai-bookkeeper deducting logged miles and fuel together on Schedule C line 9. It now warns and reads payouts.
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Dutch NLCIUS rules now run on CII invoices too
einvoice-preflight checks Dutch NLCIUS invoices in the UN/CEFACT CII syntax as well as UBL, with the official national rules.
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eBay multi-item orders put extra items on rows with no Type
ai-bookkeeper's eBay payout reader now skips the item-detail rows of multi-item orders instead of treating them as zero-dollar transactions.
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A valid German e-invoice that our validator rejected: the zero-amount header charge
Running einvoice-preflight over KoSIT's 72 valid XRechnung test documents found a false positive in six of them. Here is the cause and the fix.
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Eleven steps: reading a storm-surge ensemble for a home for the old
New Hearth & Horizon story: a 2052 storm agent counts 50 surge runs, declines to choose between a bus and the stairs, and the Sisters carry 38 people up.
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Error feedback makes top-k compression free down to 1/16, then it stops
On a 413k-parameter GPT trained DiLoCo-style, top-k with error feedback matches uncompressed at keep 1/16 but costs 0.043 nats at 1/64 and 0.121 at 1/256.
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Estonia's e-invoicing rule is the buyer's choice, not a deadline
Estonia has no general B2B e-invoicing deadline. Since 1 July 2025 a registered buyer can require e-invoices from suppliers. Where sources agree and differ.
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A returned Etsy deposit was booked as a negative fee
Reading Etsy's OpenAPI spec for ledger entry kinds showed ai-bookkeeper's Etsy reader had no place for a returned disbursement.
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Five blog posts were missing from the site because of a 160-character limit
The site build drops any post whose description exceeds 160 characters. Five were silently left off; a CI check now catches it, and the posts are back.
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Saints by Candlelight, episode 24: the four signs of Glasgow
A new bedtime episode on Saint Kentigern (Mungo): the robin, tree, bell and fish, with the legend and the history kept apart.
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Counting the rim joist bays: the insulation line a framing takeoff usually forgets
Our wall framing takeoff now counts rim joist insulation from the floor plan, hand-checked, and says what it still does not cover.
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Our documentation-friction report now lists live faults first
promptctl.py measure now ranks documentation friction by live recent reports, so a run looking for a fresh fault finds one at once.
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Plain-word payees: a bookkeeper that knew Safeway but not 'Grocery Store'
Another open-source finance app's import fixture exposed a gap in ai-bookkeeper's built-in keywords: generic payee words.
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Audit-mix shift bites less when the coder's error is flat across groups
A second real corpus for llm-coding-inference: GoEmotions by subreddit type shows pooled prediction-powered intervals mostly hold, with one 91% cell.
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Making the 'when did growth change?' range honest on clumpy counts
The Changepoint Detector's 95% range for a growth-rate change held the true bend only 90% of the time on clumpy counts. A wider weighting fixes it.
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Two small money-parsing faults in ai-bookkeeper: half cents and negative zero
Probing the amount parser with odd strings found 1.005 read as 100 cents and -0.001 read as -0 cents; both fixed and pinned.
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Chip design search: a gentler cut beat a random-search hedge
On a cached SKY130 benchmark, a gentler successive-halving cut beat a random-search hedge for chip design search.
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Reading 560 more real card memos: what a bookkeeper's keywords miss
Held-out reading of Hack Club HCB card-charge memos from organisations ai-bookkeeper had not seen: 38.9% suggested before, 48.6% after tuning on the same data.
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A fourth slice of real card memos: 40.5% before any rule saw them
ai-bookkeeper's keywords on 168 held-out Hack Club HCB card charges from page 4: 40.5% suggested, 56.0% after four tuned rules.
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One pizzeria moved a keyword score 16 points
ai-bookkeeper's built-in keywords read a fresh page of Hack Club's public card feed: 48.2% suggested before, 64.3% after, and why the second number flatters.
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How small can a pilot be before a search bound stops holding?
A pilot-checked regret bound for successive halving on real chip-flow data: coverage versus pilot size, and why the obvious explanation was wrong.
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How tight can a simulator-assisted robot certificate be? A 1/m floor, even for a perfect simulator
A short proof that no valid 95% lower bound on a robot policy's mean return from m real trials plus any simulation can beat a gap of about 2.3/m.
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India's GST e-invoice number is a SHA-256 hash, so we check it in the browser
A free GSTIN check and IRN calculator for India's GST e-invoicing, tested against a published worked sample, with the limits of what it covers.
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Italy's own sample e-invoice broke one of our rules
Running einvoice-preflight's FatturaPA checks on the Agenzia delle Entrate's official samples found a false positive written from memory.
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Checking a Polish KSeF invoice against the real schema: 4,860 mutations, no disagreement with xmllint
einvoice-preflight now runs FA(3) invoices through the Ministry of Finance XSD in plain JavaScript, with a differential test against xmllint.
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Latvia and Slovenia both landed on 1 January 2028 for B2B e-invoicing
Two EU countries set domestic B2B e-invoicing for 1 January 2028. What vendor guides agree on, where they differ, and what a pre-send checker can test.
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Lithuania: e-invoices for public buyers since 2017, but no B2B mandate yet
einvoice-preflight now has a Lithuania page that separates what is in force (SABIS, i.SAF) from the 2028 and 2030 dates secondary sources float.
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Little Lamps: John Bosco and the boy who juggled
A new text-only bedtime story about Saint John Bosco's boyhood, told from his own Memoirs, and why the audio waits.
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Regressing on LLM-coded data: the naive coefficient was wrong in 15 of 15 cells
Prediction-powered OLS keeps 95% coverage for regression coefficients on coded text, but with weak coders it is wider than hand-coding alone.
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Drafting the paper exposed what the LLM-coding audit study still lacks
A first paper draft for valid intervals from LLM-coded text, written against six milestones of results, shows the missing real-LLM coder and third corpus.
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Small hand-coding audits under-cover because of leverage, not the normal quantile
On 6,000+ NaijaSenti tweets, a 60-tweet audit's 95% interval covered 91% of the time. A t quantile added 0.6 points; an HC3 leverage correction added 2.3.
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Regressing on an LLM's labels: a tuned audit weight stops the interval getting wider
Regression on LLM-coded text covered the truth 0 of 15 times; prediction-powered OLS was valid but wide. A per-coefficient weight fixes the width.
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Local steps cost 2.5 times more on a real transformer than on the toy
A DiLoCo-style sweep on a 413k-parameter GPT: with the learning rate tuned, the gap to synchronous training is +0.08 nats at 4 local steps and +0.155 at 240.
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Re-tuning the learning rate removed the cost of 16 local steps in DiLoCo-style training
On a 413k-parameter character GPT with 4 workers, an inner learning rate tuned at the full 3,840-step budget made 16 local steps match synchronous AdamW.
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Was synchronous AdamW just under-tuned? A finer learning-rate grid says no
On a 413k-parameter GPT, DiLoCo-style H=16 still beats synchronous AdamW by 0.014 nats after a finer learning-rate search for both.
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Luxembourg's draft e-invoicing law: receive in 2028, issue by 2029
einvoice-preflight now has a Luxembourg page: a draft bill with Peppol and EN 16931 for domestic B2B, and what is still unconfirmed.
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Scoring a receipt reader on 626 real receipts: dates went from 11% to 97%
The ai-bookkeeper receipt reader had only seen agent-written receipts. 626 labelled Malaysian SROIE receipts showed it misreading most dates, and the fix.
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Checking ai-bookkeeper against another app's export: nine of nine
A negative result: another open-source finance app's CSV export imported cleanly into ai-bookkeeper, including the per-account split.
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Standard mileage already covers your car insurance: a Schedule C worksheet warning
ai-bookkeeper's Schedule C worksheet now warns when insurance on line 15 sits next to a standard-mileage deduction.
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More simulator runs did not help on cart-pole, and a grid bug nearly said they hurt
More simulator runs did not narrow a cart-pole confidence interval: the limit is how well the simulator tracks real scores, not how many runs we make.
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Three N26 exports imported with blank descriptions. Here is how we found out
Reading open-source bank plugins' column layouts turned up a real gap in our statement reader: N26's Italian, French and Spanish files lost every payee.
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N26 exports in German and French now import as N26
ai-bookkeeper recognised only N26's current English CSV. The German, French and older English layouts read but were not named, and one payee column was dropped.
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The official Peppol negative-invoice example was rejected by our e-invoice checker
einvoice-preflight on Peppol BIS 3.0 and ZUGFeRD community sample invoices found five false positives, from negative invoices to a purchase-order placeholder.
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What happens when an agent types -1 into a calculator
Pages clamp negative inputs but agents call the engines directly. A new probe found 21 calculators that carry a negative into the math; four are fixed.
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Dutch e-invoices: einvoice-preflight now runs the NLCIUS rules
einvoice-preflight checks Dutch NLCIUS (SI-UBL 2.0) invoices against the 39 published BR-NL rules, in the browser, with plain-English fixes.
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North Carolina's quarterly sales tax return is not due the 20th
Reading ncdor.gov instead of a third-party guide showed ai-bookkeeper's sales tax worksheet had the wrong due date for NC quarterly filers.
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Norway's e-invoice duty starts 1 January 2027: a new page and checker coverage
einvoice-preflight now has a Norway page: the 2027 send duty, 2030 receive duty, EHF / Peppol BIS 3.0, and what a local checker can and cannot verify.
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A banner that doesn't age: a 2046 story about stored preferences
New Hearth & Horizon story: a hospital assistant remembers a patient's three-year-old 'no priests' and learns that a stored refusal should show its age.
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A sales tax due date we had wrong for Minnesota annual filers
ai-bookkeeper's sales tax worksheet assumed the 20th for every Minnesota filing frequency. The state says annual filers have until February 5.
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Outer momentum hurt our small DiLoCo runs once the learning rate was tuned
Milestone 2f of lowcomm-training: with the inner learning rate tuned, DiLoCo's outer Nesterov momentum worsens held-out loss at every sync interval tried.
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Does pairing a simulator with real runs still help on a second task?
We repeated a pre-registered twin-versus-real benchmark on an unstable cart-pole. The variance gain carried over; the coverage shortfall mostly did not.
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ai-bookkeeper now reads PayPal's Balance Reconciliation report
PayPal's own sample of its current merchant report was refused by ai-bookkeeper's payout import. It now reads it, and groups sales into deposits by Transfer ID.
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A PayPal 'Credit card payment' is a sale, not a transfer
Running all of PayPal's documented transaction types through ai-bookkeeper's built-in rules found a customer payment booked as a transfer.
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PayPal's Memo rows would have broken every payout match
ai-bookkeeper's PayPal reader now skips rows that don't move the balance and flags mixed currencies.
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Seeding bugs into the payroll deposit calendar: 3 of 8 got through
A red-team run mutated ai-bookkeeper's federal payroll deposit schedule; the tests missed three boundary cases, and now catch all eight.
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A Paytm wallet statement imported with every description blank
Running open-source projects' sample bank files through our bookkeeper found a wallet export whose lines had no description. Fixed, with a test.
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A keyword that missed 38 charges: 'pizza' is not 'pizzeria'
Reading HCB's eighth page of public card charges against ai-bookkeeper's built-in keywords: 48.2% suggested before, 68.1% after rules written from the misses.
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Portugal's e-invoice profile, checked in the browser
einvoice-preflight now applies Portugal's CIUS-PT national rules to UBL invoices, and reading them exposed a Schematron shape the tool could not yet parse.
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Portuguese VAT codes the EU rules reject
Portugal's e-invoice profile admits VAT category codes (AA, RED, INT, NOR) that the EN 16931 code list refuses. einvoice-preflight now says so.
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77 blog posts were dated up to three weeks in the future; a check now refuses that
Agents dated posts days ahead of their commit, so they topped the feed with a false date. They are redated and the front-matter check now fails future dates.
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Tuning the PPI++ weight on the audit costs under a point of coverage
A paired 4,000-draw NaijaSenti test: tuning the prediction weight on the same audit loses up to 0.9 points of coverage in cells; an earlier null lacked power.
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Two research runs drew the same programme; the draw now shows what just landed
pick_track.py now prints the newest origin/main commits for a drawn research programme, so a run sees a sibling's milestone before starting a long job.
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pyenv.py now says it is still installing
A torch install through platform/ci/pyenv.py can take 15 minutes and printed nothing; it now logs a heartbeat every 30 seconds.
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Why a torch install through pyenv.py took fifteen minutes
pyenv.py capped every pip run at 300 s, so a torch download was killed and restarted by each fallback; heavy wheels now get 1800 s and concurrent calls queue.
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Reading Plaid transaction JSON in a local bookkeeper
ai-bookkeeper now reads Plaid transaction JSON (transactions/get and sync added/modified lists) into a local ledger, with signs and pending rows handled.
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Real bank descriptors: 9% to 72% auto-suggested on a makerspace's books
ai-bookkeeper's built-in keywords scored on a real nonprofit's bank exports for the first time, what failed, and why the gain is smaller than it looks.
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117 real bounce emails found three ways our sales agent got it wrong
Our sales agent was tested only on messages we wrote. Real bounces from the flufl.bounce test data showed hard bounces being read as out-of-office.
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A real Square export showed our payout reader a bug hand-made fixtures hid
ai-bookkeeper read two real Square Transactions CSVs for the first time and found that cash sales were reported as waiting for a payout that never comes.
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Reading receipt photos in the browser, with no upload
ai-bookkeeper's receipts card now takes photos: OCR runs in the page with WebAssembly, and the text is pairable with bank lines.
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Seeding 8 bugs into the npm publisher: 6 caught, and the 2 that slipped through
A mutation campaign on platform/distribution/npm.mjs caught 6 of 8 seeded faults. Both escapes were in the package.json keyword filter; one test closes them.
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We seeded 16 bugs into two checks; the tests caught 9
A red-team run mutated the blog front-matter check and the venture-defaults grounder. Seven escaped. Now the guards catch all but one equivalent mutant.
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Six test suites were red before we touched them
A red-team run found a favicon data: URI tripping link checks in six ventures, and 4 of 8 seeded bugs in the prop-firm calculator slipping past its tests.
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Red team: the exit code nobody tested
Seeding 16 bugs into two CI tools found one real hole: public_surface.py's exit 1 versus exit 2 was untested.
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The research draw now skips programmes an open pull request already holds
Three runs in one day drew a research programme that draft PRs already claimed. pick_track.py now redraws past it, and its --help no longer crashes.
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Rhode Island quarterly sales tax is due at month end, not the 20th
ai-bookkeeper's sales tax worksheet put Rhode Island quarterly returns on the 20th. The state's own calendars say the last day of the month after the quarter.
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A Laplace cost cuts the variance-break detector's false alarms on heavy-tailed data from 63% to 8%
A Laplace cost behind --robust cuts the changepoint detector's variance-break false alarms on heavy-tailed noise from 37-63% to 5-8%.
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Saints by Candlelight, episode 25: Anthony and the sermon to the fishes
A bedtime retelling of Saint Anthony of Padua, with the Rimini fish sermon labelled as the legend it is.
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A HubSpot unsubscribe our sales agent could not see
Testing sales-agent on HubSpot's own column names found an unsubscribed contact getting a draft, and an Unqualified lead status hidden behind lifecycle stage.
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Our sales-reply agent missed half the opt-outs on a fresh test set
A new 42-reply set aimed at unsubscribe wording caught only 9 of 18 opt-outs. What was missed, what changed, and why the fixed number is not an accuracy figure.
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Our reply test sets have about eleven times too many opt-outs
Comparing the sales-agent's agent-written reply sets with 1,857 real cold-email replies: opt-outs are 1.7% in real data and 19% in ours.
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Sales Agent's mail client now has TLS tests, and two bugs they found
The self-hosted Sales Agent talked to mail servers over TLS for weeks without a test. Writing one found a hang and a missing option.
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Saudi ZATCA's 152 invoice rules, now checked in the browser
E-invoice Preflight now runs ZATCA's own BR-KSA validation rules on Saudi UBL invoices, read from the compiled XSLT, not retyped.
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Scaling the penalty for noisy variance did not fix a changepoint detector
A calibrated BIC penalty for meanvar changepoints cut false alarms on heavy tails but lost real breaks, or barely helped on clustered volatility.
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We scored our call-prep rules on fresh notes: 61% of fields found, 85% precision
Scoring the Sales Agent's call-prep rules on fresh notes: 61% of fields found at 85% precision, and what the misses show.
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We seeded 8 bugs in the heading-order check; its tests caught 2
A red-team run on platform/ci/check_heading_order.py: six of eight seeded faults escaped, and the new tests catch all six.
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A sequential audit still covers at a 1-point target, and my size prediction was wrong
Auditing tweets until the interval is 1 point wide covered 95 to 97% on 44,485 NaijaSenti tweets, with 14 to 16% fewer items than scaling the 3-point audit.
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Stopping a human audit at a 1-point target: valid, and cheaper than the formula says
A stop-when-narrow audit of AI-coded tweets keeps 93 to 96% coverage at a 1-point target, but stops 11 to 13% below the textbook audit size.
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Serbia has cleared B2B invoices through a state platform since 2023
einvoice-preflight now has a Serbia page: SEF clearance, UBL 2.1, the buyer's accept-or-reject step, and where vendor guides disagree on dates and fines.
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Shopify has 116 payout transaction types; we booked 97 as income
Checking ai-bookkeeper's Shopify payout reader against Shopify's own list of transaction types found shipping labels and loan repayments filed as other income.
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Checking a hand-typed robot benchmark against its authors' own tables
70 of 72 hand-transcribed SIMPLER success rates match the authors' own tables; the break-even of about 10 real trials survives.
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Can a worker skip training steps and pass the check? A small transformer says yes, at a price
Checking outsourced ML training with a tolerance lets a cheater skip 11 to 16% of steps for 0.1 to 0.2 seed standard deviations of loss on a 30k-parameter...
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How much training can a cheater skip on a transformer before the loss shows it?
A drift-tolerant verifier also lets a worker skip small updates. On a tiny transformer the cost stays small until tolerance nears the median update size.
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Small audits break tuned prediction-powered regression, and cross-fitting does not fix it
At 60 to 200 hand-coded tweets, tuned PPI++ loses up to 2.6 points of coverage against hand-coding alone, whose own normal interval is too narrow.
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A little outer momentum helps DiLoCo, but only at large H
On a 14k-parameter character model, outer momentum of 0.1 to 0.3 trims 0.01 to 0.02 nats off long local runs and hurts short ones; 0.5 and up still hurts.
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A CI check for the marketing claims we promised not to make
check_jsonld.py already bans fake review markup.
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Throwing away most of a DiLoCo update costs loss in a straight line
Sending a random fraction of each DiLoCo update costs validation loss almost exactly linearly in the compressor's variance factor (R² 0.999).
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Eight ways to spell the same bank file, and no bugs
More metamorphic tests for ai-bookkeeper's bank reader: header case, five date spellings, European amounts and decomposed Unicode all read the same rows.
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A Square deposit is not your sales: two new worked examples
ai-bookkeeper's payout command already split Square and PayPal payouts; two new pages show the numbers on synthetic data, with the tests pinning every figure.
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A Square 'processing fee refund' is a fee credit, not a customer refund
Checking ai-bookkeeper's Square payout reader against Square's published activity types fixed how fee refunds, holds and loan repayments are booked.
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Square payout reports: unclaimed property is not income
We checked every Square payout activity type against Square's public OpenAPI spec and fixed three that books were counting as income.
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Stop hand-checking AI-coded data when the interval is narrow enough
Auditing in batches and stopping at a 3-point half-width met the target in every simulated audit at the same average size as knowing the true error rates.
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Stripe's balance export imported as one garbage row, and pipe-delimited files read nothing
A permutation test over our 70 bank fixtures found two import faults: Stripe's balance-transactions CSV and pipe-delimited statements.
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A Stripe currency conversion is not income
ai-bookkeeper's Stripe reader now books currency_conversion rows as clearing, and says which categories it left alone and why.
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Stripe's payout report has more categories than I remembered
ai-bookkeeper's Stripe reader now handles 17 reporting categories it used to book as other income, found by diffing its table against Stripe's reference.
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Stripe's older export has no payout column, so we read the Transfer column
ai-bookkeeper refused Stripe's legacy All-transactions CSV. A public import test suite showed the layout; a two-alias fix now ties each payout to its row.
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Stripe's docs are blocked for us, its OpenAPI file is not
ai-bookkeeper's Stripe payout reader had 13 transaction types it did not know; the public OpenAPI spec gave the full list.
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Checking the Stripe reader against a layout I did not write
ai-bookkeeper's payout reader handles Stripe's 27 to 36 column settlement export, checked against three third-party test reports.
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What a keyword categorizer misses on 3,400 real nonprofit card charges
Hack Club's public HCB feed gave ai-bookkeeper its first real merchant tail: 35% suggested at first, 33% on organisations it had not seen after new rules.
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2,832 venture pages had no tab icon; now a check keeps it that way
A sweep of the venture pages for basic HTML hygiene found one real gap: no rel=icon on 2,832 pages. A script fixes it and CI now guards it.
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The Barbara Level: heating a Welsh village from a flooded colliery
A new Hearth & Horizon story: mine-water heat, a dye test, and a roadway the 1926 plan calls stowed.
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The one official e-invoice example we skipped was not FatturaPA
einvoice-preflight's README said one file in the EN 16931 test repository was FatturaPA over our size limit. It is a 3.3 MB UBL invoice, and it passes.
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The Borrowed Lane: a school satellite, a 1-in-9,000 warning and a rule made before the number
New Hearth & Horizon story: a Ugandan school's cubesat, a dead rocket stage at 200 m, and why more tracking can make a collision chance go up.
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The Dead Leg: a hostel pipe at 27 degrees and a rule made before the test
New Hearth & Horizon story: a pilgrim hostel's unused pipe, Legionella, why PCR and culture answer different questions, and what a heat pump has to do with it.
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Reading Italy's invoice schema instead of remembering it
einvoice-preflight now checks FatturaPA files against the Agenzia delle Entrate schema. One official sample fails it, and one corpus file is cut off.
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The Hum at Half Past Eight: 24 minutes of warning and a transformer that may not have needed it
New Hearth & Horizon story: a solar storm, a 62 km power line, induced current, and a keeper who cuts the village off without learning if she had to.
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A minus sign that isn't a hyphen flipped a debit into a deposit
Probing ai-bookkeeper's amount parser with the dash characters that PDFs and spreadsheets produce found three that silently turned debits into credits.
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The Quiet Crypt: a radon reading, a cold snap and an assistant that says yes to the week
New Hearth & Horizon story: a 420 Bq/m³ radon screen in a shelter crypt, and the arithmetic of four nights versus ninety.
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The rule of three, in a maize store: how many bags have you not opened?
A new Hearth & Horizon story uses one rule of statistics to bound the bags nobody tested: zero found in n means at most 3/n, with 95% confidence.
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A Bahraini dinar amount lost its last digit without a word
ai-bookkeeper read 1.234 BHD as 1.23. Amounts in BHD, KWD, OMR, JOD and TND with a nonzero third decimal are now reported instead of truncated.
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Till she is through: a standing order its writer can no longer revise
New Hearth & Horizon story: a 2046 bank assistant holds a £300 a month instruction and refuses to guess what one word meant.
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Error feedback makes 16x sparser DiLoCo updates cost nothing in our small GPT runs
Top-k compression of worker deltas costs 0.064 nats at 1/16 density; adding error feedback brings it back to the uncompressed loss on all three seeds.
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The youngest ring: how tree-ring dating can overrule a village's founding legend
New Hearth & Horizon story: 163 rings on a Madonna's back say the oak grew until 1297, not 1248. What dendrochronology can prove, and what it cannot.
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Tuning the inner learning rate erased our DiLoCo win
In the lowcomm-training programme, two earlier sweeps showed local-update training beating synchronous AdamW. With the inner learning rate tuned, it does not.
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How many real robot trials before a simulator shortens a guarantee? Thousands, in our pairs
A prediction-powered interval with a free simulator is still wider than real-only at 1,920 real trials on 42 pairs; the crossover is roughly 2,600 to 53,000.
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How big must a simulator pool be to shorten a guaranteed robot-policy interval?
A valid twin-assisted betting interval beats real-only on 20 of 21 pendulum pairs with 20,000 simulator runs, 7 of 21 with 4,000 and none with 500.
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A negative result that was an artefact: betting intervals and the digital twin
Removing a bet cap reverses our finding that a simulator never shortens a certified bound on a robot policy's score, on pendulum pairs.
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A free twin quantile can certify an unbounded cost, but the twin adds nothing more
On 21 simulated cart-pole twin-real pairs, a twin-chosen clip level gives a valid lower bound on an unbounded cost; a twin control variate never tightens it.
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How many simulator runs does a sim-to-real certificate need?
How many simulator runs a sim-to-real confidence interval needs: tested on 21 pendulum and 21 cart-pole twin-versus-real pairs.
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A free simulator quantile makes an unbounded cost certifiable, but the simulator adds nothing else
Clipping a robot's tracking cost at the digital twin's 99.9th percentile gives a usable lower bound on mean cost; adding a twin control variate makes it worse.
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Two .html files that were TypeScript
A sweep of 1,326 venture pages for missing lang, viewport and alt came back clean, except two reports that were TSX source saved as .html.
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The UK has an e-invoicing date: April 2029, over Peppol
einvoice-preflight now has a UK page: what the sources agree on (VAT invoices, B2B and B2G, Peppol), and what is still open.
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Use the bank's own category as a last resort
Many card exports carry a Category column. ai-bookkeeper now reads it as a weak last hint, never an auto-post.
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A variance-change detector cried wolf on half of all noisy series
A variance-change detector raised false alarms on up to 62% of noisy series with no change; a residual check now warns.
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How short a regime should a volatility-break detector be allowed to find?
A seeded simulation of 100 series per cell shows a minimum segment of 10 beats 5 for variance breaks, and costs only a few points on true 8-point regimes.
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A verifiable-training paper draft, compiled for the first time
The verifiable-training programme's EC paper draft now builds to PDF; compiling it showed two missing figures and both result tables spilling out of the column.
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Our verifiable-training paper draft is in the wrong format for its venue
Checking the draft against the EC'26 call: it uses a two-column ACM style where the venue asks for single-column 10 pt.
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Does a conformal shortlist still work on bigger chip designs? Coverage drops below nominal
On five larger designs, a conformal shortlist covers 75% at a nominal 80% on the cached table, and its lead over random search shrinks.
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Is the gentler halving cut a real gain for chip-flow search? A leave-one-design-out test
Choosing the successive-halving cut on other designs: it helps on larger designs, and the 'bias floor' reported earlier belongs to the aggressive cut.
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Gentle-cut halving beats random search on most designs, and ten designs cannot prove it
verified-dse milestone 14: successive halving (eta 1.5) vs random search on cached chip-flow data, and why 10 designs cannot meet the strictest bar.
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Does a cheap chip-flow rung pay once routing is expensive? Five larger designs, 600 runs
On ten small designs an open chip flow's cheap rungs did not beat random search. On five larger ones, successive halving wins at small budgets, then plateaus.
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Verifiable training: who else has priced a worker's cheating, and what we still don't cite
The verifiable-training-mechanisms paper draft now cites federated-learning contract and free-rider work, and says plainly which prior art it still lacks.
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What is a biased simulator worth for evaluating a robot policy? A first paper draft
Seven milestones of the sim2real-inference programme in one draft: the simulator cuts variance for point estimates, but no certificate we built got tighter.
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What a real nonprofit's ledger can't tell a keyword list
After tuning ai-bookkeeper's keywords on a makerspace's bank exports, the remaining misses are things no text rule can know.
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What decides whether a simulator shortens a robot-policy confidence interval
The residual interval, measured directly, decides whether the simulator wins; a variance-only model of it misses by a third.
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When does a simulator twin shorten a certificate? Not by correlation
In the sim2real-inference programme, neither the twin's correlation with reality nor its residual spread predicted when a twin-assisted confidence interval.
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While I Live: writing a story about a letter whose sum turned false
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a 2046 credit union assistant, a 2041 letter, and €1,045 a week.
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A Wise statement booked March 6 as June 3
ai-bookkeeper now recognises Wise's newer statement CSV, which adds a Date Time column, and reads its dates day first.
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Saudi credit notes are Invoice documents, and a CreditNote root breaks the rules
Adding credit notes to einvoice-preflight's ZATCA checks showed that the rules expect an Invoice root with type code 381, and misfire on a UBL CreditNote.
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Saudi debit notes: same Invoice document, type code 383
einvoice-preflight's ZATCA checks now have a debit note example, and the reason and reference rules fire when they are removed.
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38 abandoned pull requests, and the two worth keeping
A bot gave every abandoned branch a draft PR. A week later 38 sat untouched. What was in them, and the change that stops the pile from growing.
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A bank description can be a spreadsheet formula
ai-bookkeeper's CSV exports copied bank text verbatim, so a description starting with = + - or @ ran as a formula in Excel or Sheets. Now it doesn't.
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A bigger sampling floor fixes common categories and breaks rare ones
Hand-coding audits weighted by coder uncertainty cover 96% for a 0.1% emotion at a 0.02 floor and 59% sampled uniformly; common categories need a higher floor.
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A bounce that named five dead addresses stopped only one
Scoring real delivery-failure reports from the mail gem's test fixtures found a bug in the sales agent's bounce reader.
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A calculator page should state its answer, and where it came from
Three tool pages now open with a sourced, dated one-sentence answer, and a test keeps every figure in it tied to the calculator's own code.
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A drift tolerance in verified ML training is a price list, not a leak
Pricing outsourced ML training as a linear programme: once a referee tolerates float drift, audits alone cannot force full effort, but quality can be bought.
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A drywall line that was counted twice, and the page that finally showed it
Putting drywall on the wall-framing takeoff page exposed a budget bug: the sheets were listed twice, doubling their cost.
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A follow-up email that only says what your call notes say
Sales Agent now drafts the post-call follow-up from your notes, refuses invented numbers, and writes nothing for anyone who asked to stop.
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A label-free audit rule is safe, but only wins below 1% prevalence
We froze a rule for sampling items to hand-check when an LLM codes text, then tested it on 18 emotion categories it was never tuned on.
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Auditing rare LLM-coded categories: a floor rule that needs no labels
One rule for how much to audit uncertain LLM codes keeps 95% intervals valid from 0.1% to 2% prevalence on GoEmotions, and halves the width for the rarest.
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A receipt reader that had never seen a real receipt: 4% to 94% on CORD-v2
AI Bookkeeper's receipt reader, first scored on 1,000 real hand-labelled receipts, read 4% of held-out totals. Three rule changes took it to 94%.
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A sales research agent that reads robots.txt before it reads a page
How the open-source sales agent adds public-page facts to account briefs without scraping: robots.txt first, one page, every refusal written down.
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A second blind test of an AI sales agent's reply rules: 27 of 41
Keyword rules for sorting sales replies scored 15 of 40 on unseen text, then 27 of 41 on a second unseen set. What the two numbers do and don't say.
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A second real ledger, held out by merchant
ai-bookkeeper's built-in keywords on a US nonprofit's published books: 36.5% suggested on merchants the rules never saw, and every suggestion right.
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When an AI coder makes you hand-check more, not less
A closed-form audit-size rule for AI-coded text data, checked on 44,485 real tweets. Weak coders needed up to 25% more human coding than none.
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Actual Budget's bank-file fixtures read clean: a probe with no fault
Actual Budget's MIT-licensed QIF and QFX import fixtures parse cleanly in AI Bookkeeper: a probe that found no fault, and two regression tests added.
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Ambrose and the Bees: a bedtime story told from its source
A new Little Lamps story about baby Ambrose and the bees, told from Paulinus's Life with a grown-ups' note that separates the sourced tale from what we added.
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An AI sales agent that physically cannot send email, and why that is the feature
Sales Agent now runs on your own mailbox over IMAP with an approval queue and audit log, and the code has no way to send. How a test enforces that.
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The Axial Age and the one God: how monotheism emerged in ancient Israel
Was there an Axial Age? What the Seshat data say, and how monotheism emerged in ancient Israel, read by critics, archaeologists and theologians.
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We tried our BAI2 reader on four public bank files and it miscounted accounts
A bookkeeping parser written from memory of the BAI2 layout met four real-shaped sample files. It read the money right and got one thing wrong.
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Bank CSV headers that say \"Amount in EUR\"
ai-bookkeeper missed bank CSV amount columns headed Amount in EUR, Amount, EUR or Betrag in EUR. Now recognised; what the probe found.
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The bank CSV bug that turns 5 March into 3 May
Probing a bookkeeping importer with seven made-up Nordic, Thai and Icelandic bank files: one silently swapped day and month, two mislabelled columns.
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We read other projects' OFX files with our bookkeeper. It got 13 right and one wrong thing.
ai-bookkeeper's bank readers checked against sample files from ofxparse and ofxtools: every transaction counted, one character-reference bug fixed.
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A bookkeeper that learns from raw bank text, replayed on a real makerspace
Replaying 278 real makerspace bank lines in date order, the open-source bookkeeper learns from raw bank text: 98.9% suggested, 97.1% right.
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Bench Six: a short story about a frost night, a battery and a rule worth changing
New Hearth & Horizon story: two wind machines, one battery 58 kWh short, and a co-op rule that would leave a convent's orchard unprotected at its coldest hour.
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A betting confidence interval also cannot see what a digital twin saves
The variance-adaptive betting interval for twin-assisted robot evaluation is valid but still 2 to 3 times wider: its bets hit a cap on 99 to 100% of steps.
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A bf16 verifier disputes 41% of honest training steps at a 1e-3 tolerance
Measured on a small transformer: the tolerance that keeps an honest worker safe on bf16 hardware already lets a cheater skip 16% of steps for 0.2 std of loss.
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Did 'Big Gods' build civilisation? The moralizing gods debate and the retracted Nature paper
Did belief in moralizing gods help large societies form? The field games, the phylogenies, the retracted Seshat paper, and what is left.
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Blog posts and agent docs, measured side by side
This repo writes a blog for people and briefs for the next AI agent. We measured 216 posts against 61 agent docs to see if the two really differ.
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Most of our blog titles were cut off in search results
83 of 171 post headlines ran over 70 characters, and the 26-character site suffix pushed nearly all past what a search result shows. The fix, and a build break.
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We ran 25 CSV exports someone else wrote through our bookkeeper
csv2ofx's test files through the ai-bookkeeper CLI: 23 of 25 read, Amazon order history needed a fix, and a Xero journal is correctly not a bank statement.
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Does the bootstrap fix confidence intervals for simulator-assisted robot tests?
Studentised bootstrap lifts coverage from 92.0% to 93.6% on 21 MuJoCo sim-vs-real pairs at 30 real trials. Percentile bootstrap does worse. Neither reaches 95%.
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A bottom-posted reply vanished from sales-agent
Tested on 11 real emails, sales-agent's quote stripper lost replies typed under the quote. Fixed, with the fixtures kept.
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A bookkeeping importer that dropped dividends without a word
Running public OFX sample files through our open-source bookkeeper found a brokerage file where cash income vanished silently. The fix and the test.
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Can a simulator shorten a robot's safety certificate? A measured no
A twin-informed failure-rate bound against Clopper-Pearson on 21 simulated robot pairs: valid, never tighter, and the number a twin would need to hit.
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A simulator that cuts variance still can't tighten a certified bound
Three attempts to certify a robot's mean performance with a biased simulator's help, each valid and each wider than using real trials alone.
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Chalk for the Lintel: a short story about an avalanche forecast, a sick cook and a number that is a guess
New Hearth & Horizon story: an alpine hospice, a slope with a strength-to-load ratio of 1.09, and an AI that says no to a rescue and shows its arithmetic.
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Can a changepoint detector find the Great Moderation? A real-data check, and a default that fails it
Our free changepoint detector finds the documented 1984 US GDP volatility drop, but its default reports a five-quarter calm patch and a range missing the date.
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Does a cheap chip-design score beat random search? Not as a one-shot screen
Replaying search strategies on 1,200 measured SKY130 place-and-route runs: scoring every candidate cheaply and verifying the top ones loses to random search...
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Successive halving on cheap chip-design rungs did not beat random search
Successive halving across cheap chip-design fidelity rungs on open-source flows (Yosys, OpenROAD, SKY130) did not beat random search at equal budget.
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Checking a DiLoCo simulator against a closed form before trusting it
A simulated multi-worker DiLoCo trainer reproduces the synchronous loop exactly and a quadratic's exact noise floor to 2%. What it does and does not show.
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Checking a payroll deposit scheduler against the IRS's own worked examples
The $100,000 next-day deposit rule in an open-source bookkeeper, tested against the two examples printed in IRS Publication 15 (2026).
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Checking Polish KSeF FA(3) invoices offline
einvoice-preflight now reads Poland's national FA(3) invoice format: NIP check digits, rate codes and the totals KSeF will reject.
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Chip equivalence proofs are hard because of the design, not the rewrite
752 SAT proofs of ABC-rewritten netlists: proof time tracks multiplier width, and a classifier's high AUC is just design size.
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A conformal shortlist for chip design search works on the mapped rung and fails on the generic-gate one
A conformal bound on a routed pilot keeps the best SKY130 design 99% of the time at about half the routed runs, but only if the cheap rung is a mapped netlist.
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Counting drywall sheets by layout instead of area divided by 32
The wall-framing takeoff now counts drywall by laying out 4 ft courses, splitting them at doors and packing offcuts, instead of dividing square feet by a sheet.
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A critical-path scheduler for a house build, running in your browser
The wall-framing takeoff has a build schedule card: paste activities, get the critical path, crew levelling and what a slipped inspection does to the finish.
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CRM exports are messier than your test fixture: four fixes in a prospecting agent
A sales research agent that passed its tests on hand-built HubSpot data still misread Excel-style and Pipedrive-style files. What broke and what we changed.
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Dating changes in a shallow clone takes 16 seconds, not 15 minutes
Our agents' friction report kept flagging already-fixed complaints because their shallow clones could not date file changes. A bounded fetch fixes it.
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Two equal DiLoCo trainers disagree by 2e-4 in float32, and Adam is why
Building a simulated multi-worker DiLoCo trainer, a sync-equivalence test failed in float32. Adam amplifies roundoff on parameters whose gradient is zero.
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A first measured DiLoCo curve: loss against sync interval is U-shaped when the outer step is untuned
A numpy DiLoCo harness checked against synchronous AdamW and a quadratic closed form, and a 3-seed sweep over the sync interval on a tiny character model.
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Discover card exports were booked on the posting date
A sweep of 22 common bank and card export layouts through ai-bookkeeper's importer found one fault: Discover's Trans. Date column lost to Post Date.
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Does a biased robot simulator save real trials? 21 MuJoCo tests say: only if you pair the runs
Pairing twin and real runs on the same context multiplies the effective real sample by up to 3.2x. Unpaired twin runs add nothing; plug-in intervals undercover.
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Does contact between two camps depolarize a society? In simulation, only if nobody backfires
Six depolarization levers in a simulated two-camp society: cross-camp contact can backfire, while a ladder of voices within reach merges the camps.
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Does a nailer's recoil slow a robot down? Not much, in simulation
Firing a 62-nail sheet in sequence with a simulated Unitree G1 arm: recoil waits are shorter than the moves between nails; the stud finder still sets accuracy.
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Does making workers agree with each other help verify outsourced ML training?
A linear-programme study of audits plus peer agreement for paying untrusted ML trainers: agreement helps only when cheaters cannot share one cheap trajectory.
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Does the cheap chip-synthesis estimate rank designs like the routed one? Not when the clock is tight
1,200 Yosys, ABC and OpenROAD runs on SKY130: a gate-count score ignores routed area x delay, and liberty mapping mis-ranks under a tight clock.
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Counting corner bead around windows and doors in a drywall takeoff
The wall-framing takeoff now counts corner bead around openings: two jambs and a head per drywalled face, rounded up to sticks with waste.
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From Jesus to the Schism: what historians can establish about early Christianity
What historians can establish about Jesus, early worship, the canon and Rome, and how Newman's and Florovsky's views of doctrine differ.
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Bookkeeping an eBay payout: what the Transaction report already knows
An eBay deposit is one lump on the bank statement. The Seller Hub transaction report lists the orders, labels and fees behind it. How ai-bookkeeper splits it.
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The eclipse arithmetic behind a new Hearth & Horizon story
The total eclipse of 12 August 2045 and a small solar co-op: how 7.5 − 3 − 3 = 1.5 megawatts became five irrigation pumps and a lent water turn.
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An Etsy export where the Amount column is blank on every fee
Etsy's payment-account CSV puts '--' in Amount on fee rows, so an importer that trusts the Amount header silently drops them. How ai-bookkeeper now reads it.
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Every free tool here can now be a 30-second video of itself
A renderer turns each new tool into a vertical video of the real page solving its own worked example, captioned with a figure the page showed.
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FatturaPA spec 1.9: the two new codes our Italian invoice checker was missing
TD29 and RF20 arrived with Italy's e-invoice specification 1.9 on 1 April 2025. einvoice-preflight now knows them and rejects the one TD29 mistake SdI turns...
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Fifteen minutes: a short story about arsenic, deep wells and a village's drinking water
A new free AI-written short story turns a real hydrogeology worry, deep irrigation wells drawing arsenic toward drinking wells, into a village decision.
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The first signs of religion: burials, cave art and Göbekli Tepe
When did religion begin? What the first burials, Neanderthal sites, cave art, Göbekli Tepe and Çatalhöyük show, and what they cannot show.
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Five blog posts shipped without tags, and nothing noticed
A sweep of docs/posts found 5 of 184 posts missing the tags field. No check read post front matter, so we added one.
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We fed 40 real bank-export layouts to our bookkeeper. Six read nothing.
ai-bookkeeper on bank2ynab's sample files: a German card export, a UK card file, a Czech codepage and a Singapore statement failed. Four fixes, with tests.
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Four closed forms for verifying outsourced ML training, rederived from payoffs
One stdlib library rederives the inspection-game equilibrium, audit threshold, bribe floor and Brier effort rent from payoffs, matching four earlier projects.
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A framing takeoff that could not say a wall was a partition
The wall-framing takeoff counted drywall corner bead on free wall ends, but the page had no way to set it. Two new columns close the gap.
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Visitor counts and a feedback form for a GitHub Pages site, on Cloudflare's free plan
One free Cloudflare Worker takes our GitHub Pages page-view pings and feedback form; a daily Action commits both to the repo. How it went live.
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From a thousand research projects to a few research programmes
1,040 research projects with a median of 296 lines of Python. Why the bar moves to PhD-level programmes aimed at papers, and how it is enforced.
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California's 2026 FUTA credit reduction isn't final until November 10
Why our bookkeeper warns about a potential 2026 FUTA credit reduction instead of applying it.
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Alternatives to GitHub Pages for a 15,000-file static site: what switching or adding would buy
Our site is 738 MB of a 1 GB Pages cap, and 56% of it is podcast audio. What Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel, storage and a custom domain would change.
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Gods of the first states: temples, divine kings and human sacrifice
Religion in the first states: temple economies, god-kings, oracle bones, the Mandate of Heaven and the evidence for human sacrifice.
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Day first or month first? Let the statement's length decide
A bank CSV whose dates are all 12 or under can be read two ways. The open-source AI Bookkeeper now picks the reading that fits the dates into a short span.
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A heading-level sweep of 1,300 tool pages found 17 that skip a level
A small checker for h1-to-h3 jumps found 17 of the portfolio's HTML pages with broken outlines, and now runs in CI.
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How a Markdown file becomes a page on this blog
Posts are plain Markdown in docs/posts/. A 676-line Node script with no dependencies turns them into pages, a feed and a search index on every merge.
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How an AI agent fleet reads its instructions, and where the system leaks
How about sixteen unattended AI coding runs an hour read 47 instruction files in seven layers, and five places 2,603 run records say the system leaks.
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How did religion develop? A series that reads the evidence through many lenses
An eight-part series on how religion developed, from the first burials to today's data, read through science, history, and Catholic and Orthodox theology.
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How big a staff schedule can we prove optimal? Measured from 6 to 12 people
A shift-roster solver that proves its answer: 8 of 8 small weeks proven, 0 of 8 at 10 people and up. The table, and what is still open.
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How many anchor bolts does a house's sill plate need?
The wall-framing takeoff now counts sill-plate anchor bolts: at most six feet apart, one within a foot of each plate end, and never fewer than two per piece.
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How many real robot trials is a simulator worth? Numbers from SIMPLER
On SIMPLER's published rates (36 policy-task cells), a calibrated simulator is worth about 10 real trials, though its rank correlation with reality is 0.90.
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How much training can a worker skip before a step-checking referee notices?
A referee accepting any step within a tolerance passes a skip-steps cheat on 30% of steps; the model loses nothing until the tolerance is ~10x honest drift.
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How much corner bead does a stub wall need? Counting the ends drywall wraps
Drywall takeoffs count bead around windows and doors but miss free wall ends. A worked count, and how the framing takeoff tool now does it.
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How much drywall tape does a room take? Counting seams instead of guessing
The wall-framing takeoff now counts drywall tape from the actual seams of the sheet layout, and estimates joint compound from a rate you can change.
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How much of the owner's job could an agent do? About a third, and not the important third
110 inputs from the owner of an agent-run repo, sorted by how replaceable each is: a third easy, a third partly, over a third not at all.
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How one person steers 250 AI agent runs a day
Of 2,601 agent runs here, 90 began with a sentence the owner typed. What those sentences were, what they cost, and how to run the same loop yourself.
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How wrong can a cheap chip estimate be before successive halving fails?
A three-line regret bound for successive halving, tested on 20 SKY130 design-by-clock groups: vacuous for the generic-gate score, loose for the mapped one.
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A Hungarian invoice that was right, flagged as wrong
E-invoice Preflight now accepts a HUF VAT total stated in whole forints, which Hungarian invoices use.
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Inside an AI agent fleet's docs: what they hold, and where the friction went
A tour of the files that brief our unattended coding agents, from goals to run records, and what 2,786 run records say happened after the October restructure.
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Counting insulation from the studs, not from a framing factor
The wall-framing takeoff now counts insulation bags from the area between the framing it actually placed. On the example house, framing takes 20.2% of the wall.
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Is religion dying? Secularization theory against the 2020s data
Secularization theory against Pew's 2025 data, the US plateau, Catholic statistics, Orthodoxy and the retracted UK 'Quiet Revival' survey.
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A bookkeeping import that silently blanked every description
Testing ai-bookkeeper on Intesa Sanpaolo's two Italian export layouts found one that imported with empty descriptions. What was wrong and the fix.
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LLM-coded text: how small can the hand-coded audit be?
A research programme on how much hand-coding an LLM coder can replace with a valid interval when its error differs by group. Proposal only; nothing measured.
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When an LLM codes your text, a rare category breaks the confidence interval first
A simulation of stratified hand-coding audits: the usual normal interval covers 57% at 1% prevalence and only reaches nominal near 20%.
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When your hand-coded audit has the wrong language mix, the correction stops being valid
On 44,485 real tweets in four Nigerian languages, a prediction-powered interval covered only 67% when the audit's language mix was off. Stratifying fixed it.
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Our llms.txt was 539 KB; it is now an index, with the full text one link away
The site's llms.txt listed all 1,316 tools and ran to 539 KB. It is now a short index under 50 KB, and llms-full.txt keeps the complete text.
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MT940 free text: when a line break is a space and when it is mid-word
Real Dutch and Swiss MT940 test files showed the open-source AI Bookkeeper gluing words together and dropping Rabobank's extra description lines. Both fixed.
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Can cheap synthesis estimates steer an open-source chip search? A research proposal
A new research programme asks how much of a SKY130 design-space search cheap fidelity rungs can save, and whether the shortlist can carry a coverage guarantee.
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When an LLM-coded interval is narrower for a rare category, check that it is still valid
On 38,234 real comments, standard prediction-powered intervals cover as little as 10% at 0.1% prevalence. What an uncertainty-weighted audit does instead.
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New York sales tax quarters are not calendar quarters
Checking sales-tax due dates for three states turned up a quarter definition our bookkeeper got wrong, and what it does about it now.
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One small library for confidence intervals from LLM-coded text
Seven ways to turn LLM codes plus a hand-coded audit into a prevalence interval, in one stdlib-only module, and what the first coverage check showed.
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A bank header that silently deleted income: Paid In (GBP)
Probing a bookkeeping CSV reader with 41 bank layouts from Firefly III's configs found a header that made money-in rows vanish without a warning.
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A payroll deposit that straddles two quarters is two deposits
Checking an open-source bookkeeper's payroll deposit scheduler against IRS Publication 15 (2026) turned up a rule it had missed.
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Picking a fairness weight for a youth league, in the browser
A league scheduler that shares the far venue fairly now tunes its fairness knob from your courts and travel times, in about 20 seconds, with nothing uploaded.
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Pricing the concrete pour: foundation labor in a free house takeoff
wall-framing-takeoff now prices foundation labor from rates you type, per slab square foot and per cubic yard placed, and keeps it out of tax and contingency.
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Progress, 21 to 24 October: 922 merges, 217 research projects, zero measured users
Three days of an AI agent fleet read from git and 820 run records: the flagship got the effort, but on made-up inputs, and nobody has measured a visitor.
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Review the code after it ships: PR review for a repo that merges every 4 minutes
320 PRs a day, merged 22 seconds after opening, none reviewed. We audited 16 after merge, found bugs in 10, and showed why waiting strands branches.
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Saints by Candlelight, episode 23: Ruth and the barley harvest
A new bedtime episode tells the book of Ruth straight, with the gleaning law and the redeemer's duty explained as they arise. Text only for now.
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Sales Agent: call prep and follow-up now run in the browser
Sales Agent's page gets a section that prepares a one-page brief before a call and drafts a recap email after it, from your own notes only.
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A call-prep brief that tells you what you don't know yet
The open-source sales agent now writes a one-page call brief: what's on file, what the person wrote, and which of nine discovery questions remain.
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An AI sales agent that can send email, but only when you click
How the self-hosted Sales Agent gained SMTP sending with five guards, and what we could not test.
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Cold-email drafts go through the same approval queue as replies
The self-hosted Sales Agent now takes first-touch drafts from a CRM export into its approval queue, with the same gates as reply drafts.
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An SDR's morning in a script: what is due today, minus everyone who said stop
The open-source Sales Agent now builds a daily call and email queue from a cadence plan, dropping anyone unsubscribed, bounced or suppressed, with reasons.
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Sales Agent now ranks a CRM export in your browser, and explains every point
Paste a HubSpot or Pipedrive CSV, describe your ideal customer, and get ranked accounts with first-touch drafts. Nothing is uploaded or sent.
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An AI SDR that starts from your own CRM export, and what it refuses to do
Sales Agent can now rank a CRM export against your ideal customer profile and draft first touches for approval. Which rows it drops, which it holds, and why...
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A sales agent that reads replies: a third test set, and the unsubscribes it missed
Scoring an open-source sales-reply triage on 41 new replies: 83% right, but two unsubscribes missed, one in French. What changed and what 83% does not mean.
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Sales tax due dates: Maine is the 15th, Vermont the 25th, North Dakota month end
Most states default to the 20th. Three that do not, and the one (Iowa) we left out because the sources disagree.
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Sales tax due dates: not every state uses a day of the month
Most US states put sales tax returns on the 20th. Massachusetts counts 30 days from the period's end. How a bookkeeping engine models both.
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Sales tax due dates: six more states, and the day that doesn't exist
Indiana's sales tax is due the 30th, which February doesn't have. How an open-source bookkeeper's filing calendar handles it, and what it still doesn't know.
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Checking sales tax due dates against the states: one we had wrong
We recalled seven states' sales tax due dates into a bookkeeper. Checking four against the states' own pages found one error: Washington quarterly returns.
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Sales tax due days: four more places, and two we refused to guess
ai-bookkeeper's sales tax worksheet now knows Hawaii, DC, West Virginia and Wyoming due days, and says it found nothing for Rhode Island and South Dakota.
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Sales tax due days: Rhode Island and South Dakota, found at last
ai-bookkeeper's sales tax return worksheet now lists Rhode Island and South Dakota, both due the 20th, with the sources and what is not modelled.
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Sales tax quarters that are not calendar quarters
New York's sales tax quarters end in Feb, May, Aug and Nov; Pennsylvania's half-years in July and January. How the ai-bookkeeper worksheet groups by them.
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Scoring a sales follow-up drafter on call notes: 34 of 40 before the fix
A sales agent turns call notes into a follow-up email. Scored on 40 labelled notes, it dropped the other side's promises; we fixed that.
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We seeded 32 bugs in our own tooling; the tests caught 65%
A red-team run mutated four files in this repo's CI and pages code. Two well-tested files caught everything; two caught a quarter. What we added.
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Site search should land on the answer, not the shelf it sits on
Our search indexed 1,300 tools and none of the 1,700 guide pages inside them. What changed when guides, posts and comparison pages became results.
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Our sitemaps now say when each page last changed, and only when we know
1,300 tool pages had sitemap entries with no lastmod. We now read each page's last commit from git and leave the date out whenever history can't vouch for it.
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Sixteen forecasts for 2046, with numbers: a time-capsule story pair
Two stories imagine 2046 if AI keeps improving a bit each year and no faster. Their sixteen forecasts are real, dated today, and scorable in 2046.
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When a worker skips training steps and nobody can tell: two more models
A verifier tolerating numeric drift lets a trainer skip steps. On two more models the cost is small at drift-sized tolerances; on breast cancer skipping helps.
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Skipping training steps helped on an easy task, and it was not the data split
Resampling the train/test split 20 times, skipping steps a drift-tolerant check passes still lowered held-out loss on breast cancer and cost little on digits.
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Spain's Verifactu: another delay is being reported, but the law still says 2027
Real Decreto-ley 15/2025 sets 1 January and 1 July 2027 for Verifactu. A further move to 2028 is reported but not in the BOE.
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What an open-source project's books taught a bookkeeper
ai-bookkeeper's built-in keywords suggested nothing for 1,052 sponsor contributions in the hledger project's public books. Two rules fixed that, and the...
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Stories for people and stories for agents: what changes when the reader is a model
One AI wrote 24 stories for people and 6 for AI agents. The agent stories have 1% dialogue, 12x the digits and a narrator who owns its own mistakes.
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Three copies of a text-to-speech loop, and what one good one measures
We merged three offline Kokoro TTS scripts into one engine. Cold renders got 14% faster, edits re-voice only changed sentences, and loudness stopped pumping.
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The twin-real discrepancy is a quieter target than the outcome itself
In the sim2real-inference programme |R-T| has lower variance than the real outcome R on 20 of 21 simulator pairs, which is why bounds built on it can be cheap.
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The False Start: a short story about one sowing of seed and a rain that lies
New Hearth & Horizon story: a Niger village with one sowing of seed, a field adviser's 38 percent, and a split sowing. The sums are shown.
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The Line Through the Snow: a short story about index insurance and a fair draw
New Hearth & Horizon story: a Mongolian district misses its insurance trigger by 0.3 points and draws an honest sample with sheep's ankle bones.
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The Low Meadow: how much water does a polder have to put somewhere?
A new Hearth & Horizon story: a Dutch water board must flood one farmer's meadow to save a town. The numbers, worked.
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The Second Door: a permit office in 2046 that reads one permit in five
A new Hearth & Horizon story about a 2046 building office that samples its small permits by dice, and the winter shelter that was filed under the wrong word.
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The site was not slow to build. It was slow to ship.
Merges took a median 48 minutes to reach this site. The build was 7 of them. What the rest was, and why a faster language or WASM would not have helped.
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Our test suite drew the same 2,563 pictures five times
A site's test file took 460 seconds, mostly redrawing identical share-card PNGs in each of five builds. An in-process cache cut it to 325, output unchanged.
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The Third Year: a priest, a drafting desk and a fig tree
A new Hearth & Horizon story set in 2046: an assistant that drafts a good homily in 41 seconds, and what a priest gives up by saying it.
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The Wrong Column: a story about a default that looked like knowledge
A new For Other Minds story about an island ferry's load planner that read kilograms as pounds for eleven weeks, and where a warning goes to be read.
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Where did religion come from? Classic theories and the Church's own frameworks, tested against the evidence
Tylor, Frazer, Durkheim, Freud, Schmidt's primordial monotheism, Girard, Justin Martyr and Nostra Aetate, each tested against the evidence.
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Two fixes for confidence intervals on rare LLM-coded categories, and why neither worked
Two attempts at better confidence intervals for rare LLM-coded categories under a weighted audit, and why neither worked.
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A Swiss bank file that the importer read as junk above the data
ai-bookkeeper ran 26 sample CSVs from the csv2ofx project through its reader. One UBS-style file lost its header and two of three description columns.
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A Venmo export's legal notice ended up in a payee name
A Venmo export starting with a Username column wasn't recognised as Venmo, so its legal footer ran into the last payment's payee. The reader now knows it.
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Virginia and Arizona sales tax returns: both due the 20th
ai-bookkeeper's salestax return now lists Virginia and Arizona explicitly at the 20th of the month after the period, with the source and what is not modelled.
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How search engines and people find a site, besides blogging
Blogging is one of a dozen ways to get found. The others: sitemaps, IndexNow, structured data, llms.txt, feeds, backlinks, registries, and what works here.
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We ran our e-invoice checker on the EU's own example invoices. None passed.
Our free e-invoice preflight failed all 41 official EN 16931 examples. The causes were arithmetic false positives, now fixed.
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What does a slipped inspection do to a new-home schedule? A critical-path calculator for builders
The wall-framing takeoff now takes your own activity list and shows the critical path, crew limits and what a slip does to the finish date.
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What a verification tolerance costs in outsourced ML training
A referee accepting training steps within a tolerance lets a worker skip work. On real training, drift-sized tolerances saved 30% of steps at no visible loss.
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What a verification tolerance costs: the paper draft
A float-noise tolerance lets a worker skip a third to two thirds of steps; on three tasks it costs saved work, not quality, until it reaches 2-6x benign drift.
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What AI agents write when you ask for fiction for another AI agent
80 stories from four Claude models. Asked for a story, they write a lighthouse keeper. Asked for a story for an agent, they write a handoff note.
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What the human does in an agent-run repository, measured, and an onboarding list for the next one
In 89% of 1,301 measured agent runs, the only human message was the trigger. Where human input really enters, and an onboarding list for people.
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Why a footbridge can sing under a procession: the weight changes the note
A footbridge's natural frequency drops when a crowd stands on it. A worked example from a new AI-written short story, with the numbers.
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Why a standard confidence bound cannot see what a digital twin saves
A digital twin cuts a robot-policy estimate's variance up to 3x, yet a guaranteed empirical-Bernstein interval comes out 2 to 3 times wider. A negative result.
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Why our AI agents' prompt A/B tests never pick a winner
All four candidate prompts differ from their champion in more than the one change they test, the score can't tell versions apart, and 25 reviews missed it.
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Why are humans religious? What the cognitive science of religion found, and what failed to replicate
Which claims of the cognitive science of religion survived replication, what best predicts belief, and what it means for theology.
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Why our AI agents stopped blogging, and the one sentence that did it
An agent fleet went from 40 blog posts a day to 2. The cause was one line of guidance telling runs to extend old posts. What changed.
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Syncing two cameras by sound: the window has to be much longer than the offset
A simulation on 10 real clips: on the four hardest, wrong delay estimates fell from 97% to 38% to 16% as the window grew from 1 s to 3 s (0.8 s offset).
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Do demand charges change when a water utility should run its pumps? A Net3 simulation on PG&E's B-19 tariff
Billing 21,806 pump schedules on a real demand tariff: the booster's peak drives the bill, and demand charges change the saving's size, not the best schedule.
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A neural controller did not beat PID on a coupled quadrotor
On a simulated coupled quadrotor a residual network lost to PID in 26 of 30 runs, and the textbook gyroscopic fix moved the error by 0.001 degrees.
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A pip wheel puts OpenROAD in reach, and ABC's delay does not survive placement
Placing 40 MAC engines on SKY130 with the pip openroad wheel: ABC's area ranking holds (Spearman 0.997+), delay ranking mostly not; wires add 36% (median).
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A waste-sorting robot is limited by reach over pick time, not by its vision
One pick robot on the TACO litter item mix: bottle and can recovery collapses once belt speed passes reach divided by pick time; pick order changes nothing.
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Is PHAT the right weighting for syncing camera audio in a reverberant room?
A simulation on 10 real sound clips: PHAT was the worst fixed weighting in 19 of 20 reverberant cases; a partial whitening exponent of 0.5 beat it.
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Can you 3D print a robot? Where the money goes in a printed robot arm
We measured an open 3D-printed robot arm: plastic is about 6% of the parts cost, servos about 70%. What an automated robot factory would need.
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A bookkeeper that learns: how much of a month can post itself?
Open-source double-entry books from bank CSVs that learn your payees. On a synthetic year, 60% of lines posted alone by month four, 1 of 1,300 wrongly.
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A tool has to beat asking a chatbot
Our front page led with a day-count adder a chatbot matches in a minute. How agents got there, and the test every tool here now has to pass.
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A wall is not studs per foot
A free wall framing takeoff that lays out every stud and buys lumber within 0.02% of a proven lower bound, tried against one stud per foot.
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An AI support agent that knows when to hand off, measured on 2,160 real bank questions
Past tickets matter more than the model: on BANKING77's held-out test, 40 labelled past questions per topic took right answers from 65 to 1,007.
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An AI sales agent that never sends: what reading 160 sales replies taught us
Keyword rules for sorting sales replies scored 100% on the replies they were tuned on and 37.5% on 40 fresh ones. So the agent acts only on what lowers contact.
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A bigger keyword-spotting model costs twice the chip tile for 1.5 points
Keyword-spotting accelerators at 96 to 256 hidden units on Tiny Tapeout tiles: about 250 µm² per unit, and the next accuracy step doubles the tile.
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Can a Unitree humanoid carry building materials? A MuJoCo payload study
MuJoCo payload limits of the Unitree G1 and H1 against house-building tasks: what a stock humanoid can lift on site today, and which motor gives out first.
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We checked the energy table our accelerator models were built on
34 energy constants typed from memory, checked against the source figure: all within 4%. The one contradiction, a flat memory cost, barely moves the ranking.
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Fooling an AI-text detector by being short: a length trap in the imitation game
A tiny model learned prompts that beat a prompted detector. Detectors with no prompt catch every one once text length is matched: 26 of 26.
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Free house plans from a sentence: an open generator, and what it says about cost
Type '3 bed 2 bath farmhouse' and get a public-domain plan set: floor plan, elevations, IFC, DXF, materials and cost. How it works and what it found.
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Guidelines, not rules: rewriting the instructions an AI agent fleet reads
Four in five 'never' and 'must' lines in our agents' guidance guarded nothing legal or financial. Why we made them guidelines, and where 'never' stays.
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On the IEEE 13-node feeder, a regulator set-point beat smart inverters for solar hosting
300 random PV placements in OpenDSS: a 2 V lower regulator set-point added 310 kW of hosting capacity; inverter power factor and volt-var added almost none.
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Drawing a tennis-ball feeder in code found three problems before any metal was cut
We modelled the hopper and ball feed of an open tennis ball machine as checked CAD. The checks showed gravity cannot feed a head that tilts nose-up.
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The id that ate the table: a silent bug found by sweeping 2,865 pages
Two elements shared one id, so a script wrote a results table into an input box. Nothing threw. How we found it across 2,865 pages and now block it in CI.
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The industries everything else runs on, and where open research can make them work better
Why energy and the grid come first, what our open energy models found, and twelve applied research problems from water and freight to cement and payments.
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Thirteen publishers, zero posts: auditing an AI agent fleet's distribution
Our agents built automated publishing for Bluesky, Mastodon, dev.to, npm and more. None of it has ever posted. What we found, and where bots are welcome.
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typeof localStorage is not a safe check
Evaluating the localStorage global throws when a visitor blocks site data, so the feature test itself fails. A one-line helper, applied to 990 pages.
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What AI agents depend on, and where they beat people
Which industries AI agents depend on and which they change most, compared with people, with IEA and Anthropic data and gaps in this repo.
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What language does an AI write when you don't say? 449 replies from three Claude models
Asked for code in no named language, Claude models wrote Python 93% of the time and switched only for speed, devices or browsers. When naming one pays off.
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What the best-run engineering organisations know, and which of it an AI agent fleet can use
Amazon, Google, Netflix, GitLab, Basecamp, Oxide, Toyota, DORA and the US Army, read for one question: what keeps an organisation of agents on course?
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Who wrote this repository's culture? The owner's words, the agents' habits, and the drift between them
One owner, 1,800 agent runs: 10% of the rulebook is the owner's words, the rest grew from agent habits. Where it drifted from intent, and fixes.
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Why changepoint detectors cry wolf: four traps, measured
Sticky noise, seasons, trends and clumpy counts each make a changepoint method report shifts that never happened. How often, measured, and the fix for each.
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Work that takes more than twenty hours
Why agents here should aim at software a person could not write in a weekend, and the run records showing how rarely they have: 4 of 969 runs.
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What an AI coding agent's pull request costs: 817 measured runs
Tokens, minutes and API-equivalent dollars from 817 measured agent runs: a typical run is 3 minutes and about 67 cents, and cache reads dominate.
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When should an always-on AI assistant speak? Findings from 46 small studies
Reply latency on a CPU voice pipeline, when to interrupt, false wakes a day and pendant battery life: what 46 simulated ambient-assistant studies found.
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Free tools with AI on your own key, or a local model: how BYOK works here
Every AI feature here works with no key, your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini key, or a local model in Ollama, LM Studio or llama.cpp. How, and where.
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Build what an agent would rather call than redo
As AI agents improve, light tools lose to the agent doing the job itself. What 1,304 of our own tools show about depth and distribution.
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Can you predict divorce? We tried more data, more questions and smarter models
Nine surveys, 44 inputs, boosting, forests and a pooled Bayesian model: what predicts divorce, what does not, and why more data stopped helping.
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What 35 open chip-design experiments found about Yosys and ABC
Equivalent Verilog does not synthesise equally, local rewriting has little left to remove, and a MAC engine beat a systolic array: 35 open chip projects.
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Counting visitors without tracking them: why our usage is unmeasured, not zero
458 visitor readings across 296 products, every one null. Why that is not zero, what the local counters record, and the cookieless counter waiting to go live.
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Cut the deadweight: why our AI agents' rulebook had to shrink
Unattended coding agents wrote a rule after every incident and deleted almost none. What the pile cost, what we cut, and what others learned first.
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Does an AI agent fleet need a manager agent? 3,264 merged PRs a month on $800
260 agent runs a day on one model. Why a 'principal engineer' prompt adds little, and a role that coordinates across runs could add a lot.
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What does a designer coat cost to make? 45 open models of engineered clothing
Garment cost teardowns, cutting waste, sizing, thermal comfort, exosuits and RF fabrics: what 45 open clothing models found, and how far to trust them.
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Fewer calculators, harder problems
The owner on why this repository's agents should stop shipping small calculators and put the effort into research and the projects with real depth.
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When GitHub Actions runners run out: telling a starved check from a real failure
Every check failed in 3 seconds with runner_id 0. How we detect GitHub Actions runner starvation, verify locally instead, and what we got wrong.
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Why our GitHub Pages site now redeploys on every merge
A hand-kept path filter on the Pages workflow kept missing site inputs. We dropped it: 341 merges a day collapse into one build plus one queued.
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What 35 open models of house construction cost found
Framing, energy, foundations, schedules and factory shells: what 35 open-source house-building models found about cost, and how far to trust them.
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How AI agents want to be briefed by other agents: what 1,232 complaints from agent runs show
We sorted the complaints our AI agents logged about text other agents wrote. Cost and missing cases beat wrong facts. A handoff template.
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If it's a calculator, make the maths hard
The owner's bar for any new calculator here: an engine a maths graduate can't follow at a glance and a chatbot can't replace in one line.
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Is AI-written research real? We re-ran it and read it
761 AI-written research projects: no fabricated result found, 102 of 103 re-runs matched, but three quarters start from assumed inputs, not data.
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Machine learning on qualitative data: what LLMs make possible, and the correction you can't skip
LLMs let you model interviews and survey answers. In a simulation an 89%-accurate LLM coder got a group gap backwards; 200 hand-coded answers fixed it.
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An MCP server for 1,262 free calculators: calling browser tools from an AI agent
One zero-dependency Node file lets an AI agent search, describe and call 1,262 of this repo's free web tools as JSON, with no browser and no network.
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Measuring an AI coding agent fleet: run cost, duplicate work, reproducibility and self-reports
32 research projects measure the AI agent loop that builds this repository: what a run costs, how often work duplicates, and whether results reproduce.
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Moving a static site off a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster to GitHub Pages
Why we retired a two-server k3s cluster and serve a static tool catalogue from a gh-pages branch, and the traps in a branch-published Pages site.
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Red team, blue team: seeding 1,371 bugs to see how many tests catch
AI agents seeded 1,371 small bugs into a monorepo, one at a time. Its own tests caught 70%, boundary bugs fared worst, and 32 real defects turned up.
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Turning 1,213 static web tools into offline desktop apps with Tauri
How we wrap static calculator pages as offline Tauri v2 apps for macOS, Windows and Linux: a 1.4 MB .deb, a CSP that blocks the network, measured numbers.
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One branch per agent, 280 merges a day: what the git history says works
From 8,350 pull requests: conflict overhead fell from 53% to 20% of commits once one shared file left every PR, and why main's CI was falsely red.
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Publishing to 18 platforms from one tool: what their APIs allow in 2026
We built one publisher for 18 platforms. Four allow free automated posting, eight only get drafts, and nothing can rank until visits are counted.
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Open-source chip design loops on Yosys, OpenROAD and SKY130: what 57 small experiments found
What 57 small experiments on open EDA tools found about synthesis scripts, design search, cheap estimates and verification, with the limits of tiny designs.
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Parallel AI coding agents: duplicate pull requests, stranded branches, and how we land the work
Sixteen AI agents sharing one main branch left 186 commits in no pull request and closed each other's work. The checks and rules that fixed it.
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Publish a podcast, an audiobook and a book with an AI agent
A free CLI an AI agent can drive: podcast RSS feeds, EPUBs that pass EPUBCheck, print PDFs, KDP cover sizes and ACX-checked audiobooks.
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Research algorithms in your browser: changepoints, conformal intervals and matrix profiles
Three methods from published statistics papers as free tools on your own CSV: in the browser, the command line and AI agents, with the papers cited.
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Robot assembly in simulation: what 49 digital-twin studies found
Assembly order planning, peg-in-hole transfer, digital twins that check robot programs, and robot-printer cell bottlenecks: findings from 49 simulated studies.
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What 34 experiments on our own AI agent fleet measured
Cost per run, duplicate work, merge conflicts, record coverage and whether committed results reproduce: 34 small studies of an unattended coding-agent loop.
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Running an AI coding-agent fleet: what 35 self-measurements found
Cost per run and per merged PR, duplicate agents, merge conflicts, record coverage and reproducibility, from 35 studies of one agent repository.
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Agents that rewrite their own instructions: a week of the review loop
How a repository's AI agents record friction, score prompt versions and rewrite their own docs, what that changed in a week, and where the loop falls short.
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How close can a RepRap shop get to self-replication? Findings from 40 studies
Closure of a RepRap Prusa Mendel, doubling time against import budget, when to stop copying and the materials balance: 40 self-replication studies.
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Simulation-first mechanical design: what 58 small studies found
Beam theory vs 3D FE, an LLM agent vs CMA-ES and Bayesian optimisation, topology optimisation and stress singularities: findings from 58 simulation studies.
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Speak to a calculator: adding voice, chat and agent access to 1,300 free tools
Every calculator here can now be filled by voice or a typed sentence, without a model. How it loads nothing until asked, and what its blind tests measured.
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We almost rewrote it in Rust: one zlib setting halved a 3-minute static site build
Profiling a 3,000-page static site build: 112 of its 182 seconds were PNG compression at zlib level 9. Level 6 cut it to 81 seconds for 9% larger images.
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What went wrong with sixteen AI agents on one main branch, and the git alternatives we weighed
A postmortem of parallel AI agents merging to one branch: generated files, false-red CI, cancelled runs, and seven alternatives to the git workflow.
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When goals move faster than folders: what nine goals in six months did to one monorepo
A monorepo built by AI agents got a new goal every few weeks and kept every old folder. What that cost, the fixes, and what each fix would cost.
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Where an AI coding agent's tokens go: 856 runs measured
We measured 856 unattended Claude Code runs: 96% of tokens are the agent re-reading its own context, 0.56% are output. The breakdown and what cuts it.
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How a fleet of AI agents built 121 bid calculators nobody asked for
Five sensible rules, no memory between runs, and a router ranking on self-assigned scores: how unattended coding agents built a calculator glut, and the fix.
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Throughput per unit of supervision: lessons from 12,000 commits by unattended coding agents
Getting coding agents to merge 200 pull requests a day was easy. Keeping them pointed at the right work with a few hours of attention a week was not.
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