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Which Rules Matter Now? Policy-Centroid Routing Before an Intelligent System Acts
arXiv:2608.30757
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More Context, Same Budget: Dual-Bounded Relational Recall Beyond Top-K Retrieval
arXiv:2608.18448
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Allostatic Control Systems: Goal Governance in Changing Environments
arXiv:2607.21771
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Which Rules Matter Now? Policy-Centroid Routing Before an Intelligent System Acts
A theory and research-program preprint on routing proposed actions to the policy regimes that warrant authoritative review. It reports no empirical efficacy result and does not make permission, prohibition, legality, breach, compliance, certification, or enforcement determinations.
Lineage: policy routing, semantic representation, information retrieval, hierarchical classification, selective prediction, human review.
Read preprint and arXiv recordMore Context, Same Budget: Dual-Bounded Relational Recall Beyond Top-K Retrieval
A public information-retrieval preprint showing that, under a frozen HotpotQA FullWiki design and matched budget, relational context allocation recovered complete supporting-evidence sets more often than flat top-k retrieval. The outcome is evidence recovery, not answer accuracy.
Lineage: top-k retrieval, multi-hop question answering, graph-based retrieval, context-budget allocation, HotpotQA evaluation.
Read preprint and arXiv recordAllostatic Control Systems: Goal Governance in Changing Environments
A systems-and-control preprint on goal governance: a fast loop regulates under the current reference while a slow loop decides whether that reference should move, tested in a preregistered synthetic experiment that produced a negative result.
Lineage: W. Ross Ashby's ultrastability, physiological allostasis, bio-inspired allostatic control, adaptive control, supervisory control, reference governors, model predictive control.
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The Five Engines of Narrative
A testable narrative-theory framework asking whether stories move audiences through recurring structures of force, release, revelation, gathering, and held contradiction.
Lineage: Propp, Campbell, Booker, Vonnegut, Kishotenketsu, cognitive narratology, computational narrative analysis.
Read research pageThe Great Vowel Shift and the Geometry of English
A testable account of English vowel movement as structural change shaped by lexical mass, print standardization, schooling, pulpit reading, and prestige networks.
Lineage: J. R. Firth, historical phonology, distributional semantics, print history.
Read research pageThreshold Dynamics in Endosymbiotic Origins
A falsifiable threshold model for mitochondrial endosymbiosis, treating stable integration as a crossing preceded by failed encounters, genomic residue, and barrier reduction.
Lineage: Lynn Margulis, Martin and Muller, Gould and Eldredge, Asgard archaea research.
Read research pageThreshold Dynamics in a Living Model of Organellogenesis
A falsifiable research program using Paulinella as a living model of organellogenesis, with organisms on both sides of the endosymbiotic threshold and observable gene-transfer dynamics.
Lineage: Paulinella research, plastid evolution, endosymbiotic gene transfer, Doolittle, Nowack.
Read research pageNovel Financial Instrument Proliferation
A financial-history and systemic-risk research program asking whether instrument novelty, counterparty expansion, and professional withdrawal appear before threshold financial events.
Lineage: Hyman Minsky, Kindleberger, Reinhart and Rogoff, financial innovation literature, systemic-risk network research.
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A financial NLP research program measuring divergence among filings, earnings calls, product claims, strategy language, and market attribution before ordinary indicators fully register distress.
Lineage: Hyman Minsky, financial disclosure research, organizational theory, optimal transport.
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A computational Sinology and textual-transmission hypothesis treating The Art of War as a strategic core refined by a professional advisory community over multiple generations.
Lineage: Classical Chinese textual studies, Warring States history, authorship studies, computational stylometry.
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Policy-Centroid Routing
Artificial intelligence and policy-governed systems
A theory and research program for routing a proposed action to policy regimes that warrant authoritative review. It is not an adjudicator and reports no empirical efficacy result.
Relational Information Retrieval
Information retrieval and natural language processing
Fixed-budget evidence retrieval: dual-bounded relational context allocation recovered complete HotpotQA supporting-evidence sets more often than matched flat top-k retrieval. The reported outcome is not answer accuracy.
Allostatic Control Systems
Control systems and systems engineering
Goal governance for systems whose defended reference can become inappropriate as environments change, with a preregistered negative result for one mature-evidence mechanism.
Threshold Dynamics in Life Sciences
Evolutionary biology and genomics
Endosymbiotic origins, organellogenesis, and biological transitions modeled as threshold events with measurable precursors and residue.
Financial Belief and System Coherence
Finance, economic history, and organizational measurement
Instrument proliferation, stakeholder narrative divergence, belief-pool movement, and coherence fracture as testable signals before ordinary measures register distress.
Language, Narrative, and Cultural Form
Humanities and social systems
Historical linguistics, narratology, textual transmission, and creative structure treated as domain-native research problems rather than decorative examples.
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