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codename ABACUS · 60 notes · 58 themes · all codenames
all themes data-legitimacy 2 reproducibility 2 adapter archaeology 1 audit finding 1 audit methodology 1 calendar-defect 1 caveat-retraction 1 comparison-precision 1 confound 1 correction discipline 1 correction-discipline 1 cost-model verification 1 data legitimacy 1 data-provenance 1 defect class 1 delegation-postmortem 1 documentation-accuracy 1 effect-containment 1 environment-identity 1 equivalence-oracle 1 fail-closed gating 1 failure-suppression 1 filter-validity 1 gate-calibration 1 history-hygiene 1 identifier-keying 1 implementation-parity 1 instrument-validity 1 integration-verification 1 irreversibility-control 1 kill-switch 1 latency diagnosis 1 liveness-detection 1 look-ahead-control 1 measurement-guard 1 multiplicity 1 negative-control-testing 1 operator-gate 1 pre-registration 1 programme-closure 1 protection-atomicity 1 record-integrity 1 reproduction 1 response-reconciliation 1 restart resilience 1 restart-engineering 1 result-withdrawal 1 reversal 1 reversibility 1 review-retraction 1 risk-decomposition 1 safety-margin 1 schema-fidelity 1 search-boundary 1 selection-instability 1 silence-as-evidence 1 specification-divergence 1 state-reconciliation 1
ABACUS · filter-validity · 2 min read

the prudence filter kept the wrong half

A rule was proposed that sounds like discipline: keep an execution only if its measured cost is within a small multiple of the cost the model assumed for it, and drop the rest. The premise is that costlier-than-modelled work is work nobody…

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