notes on meaning

Signified.

Short pieces on determinism, attribution, and what it takes to read prose the way a language server reads code.

Why we never flatten

Turn a paragraph into one vector and five voices become a single blurred average. Here is what attribution buys you, and why we kept it.

Twelve nanoseconds, and why it stays flat

A walk through the benchmark behind the headline number, and what happens at the far end of the curve around thirty-five thousand tokens.

Ten axes, no crosstalk

Orthogonality is the quiet idea that lets a single pass keep who-said-what apart from how-sure and what-is-claimed. A short tour of the schema.

Determinism is a feature, not a constraint

The same input returns the same reading every run. That is what makes an annotation something you can test, cite, and trust.

Building an IDE for prose

A metrics rail, a problems panel, a command palette, and a document that is plain text. How the Inspector came together.

These posts are placeholders while we set the publication up. The titles are the pieces we plan to write first.