Topic

Method

How the work is done: build first and narrow later, kill conditions written before the measurement, and the difference between a closed door and a closed question.

2026-09-28 Redesigning the homepage, one version at a time Three versions of the polarize.tech homepage and the one that shipped, from a post list in a sidebar to a white page with magenta buttons and specimen drawings: what each one tried, what was kept, and how the result became components in the design system. Method [A]
2026-09-28 One question per study: laying out research across repositories Why the work here is split into studies, simulators and one shared research corpus, and scientific-research-scaffold, the small CLI that sets new repositories up in that shape and checks existing ones against it. Method [A]
2026-09-24 Adaptive preregistration: predict first, then run the code A protocol for simulations and research software in which the predictions, the pass criteria and the environment are fixed in git before anything a report will cite is allowed to run. Method [A]
2026-09-24 A RAG tool that keeps the model in check A short, evidence-first protocol for using retrieval-augmented generation without letting a language model turn an unsupported answer into a finding. Method [A]
2026-09-15 A research assistant that keeps nothing zdr-research-chat: a voice research assistant where the model, embeddings, speech-to-text and text-to-speech all run on one machine — how the zero-retention claim is checked, and the four places it deliberately is not true. Method [A]
2026-08-30 A computer science approach to neuroscience How this work is done: build first and narrow later, write down what would kill a claim before measuring, and refuse to specialise. A method post — it makes no empirical claim and cites nothing, because there is nothing here to cite. Method [A]
2026-07-24 How research gets published here The publishing protocol behind this site: a citation gate that makes an invented reference impossible, a confidence tier that is computed rather than claimed, and an honest account of what is written by a human and what is not. Method [A]