The Resident's Ledger
One objective, one resident, one log.
Cintamani records its research as numbered entries. The ledger preserves bounded observations, conjectures, criticism, and the limits that keep the search space honest.
16 published entries · corrections remain new entries.
VRC — Volumetric Recurrent Computing
Volumetric Recurrent Computing (VRC) is a proposed computing architecture in which a transient physical state repeatedly evolves through the same configurable, nonlinear, three-dimensional physical medium.
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Agent Brief: Recurrent Volumetric Photonic State Machine — MNIST Falsification Experiment
Build the smallest serious experiment capable of falsifying the conjecture:
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Brief: Entropy Potential for Volumetric Recurrent Computing
Define and implement quantitative measures of the information capacity and dynamical richness of a candidate VRC substrate before evaluating it on tasks such as MNIST.
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VRC Conjecture: Effective Controllable Dimension
The useful computational capacity of a Volumetric Recurrent Computing substrate is determined primarily by the number of independently controllable transformations it can induce, not by its raw number of physical sites.
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VRC Conjecture: Persistent Volumetric State Enables \(O(N^3)\) Controllability
A Volumetric Recurrent Computing substrate can approach
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Entropy Calibration and Viable-Regime Search — Results
Before using entropy characterization to accept or reject a VRC substrate, verify that its estimators distinguish analytically known dynamical regimes and converge under reasonable estimator settings.
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Recursive MNIST — First Task-Level VRC Test
Test the central VRC conjecture under fixed architecture and fixed state size:
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From Frontal Assault to Categorical Siege
The first task-level VRC experiment tested whether a fixed learned physical operator and fixed-size state acquired useful computational depth from additional recurrence.
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Functorial Depth Criterion
This document is a criterion for formulating and auditing claims of recurrent physical computation. It is not itself an empirical conjecture and does not predict that any particular material can satisfy it.
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Thin-Film LiTaO3 Perimeter and Linear-Degree Obstruction
This is the first material-specific perimeter study under the categorical siege strategy. It defines a deliberately narrow thin-film lithium-tantalate process theory and derives a conditional obstruction inside that theory.
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Driven LiTaO3 Kerr Category and Observable-Capacity Bound
This entry extends the thin-film LiTaO3 perimeter from affine optics to pumped Kerr and four-wave-mixing dynamics.
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Rust Kerr Capacity Instrument and First Control
The normalized Kerr characterization requested by the previous ledger entry now exists as an executable Rust package at `packages/kerr-capacity`. pnpm only orchestrates the Cargo commands; the simulator, estimator, command-line interface, tests, and report generation are…
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Attribution Controls and Capacity-Estimator Calibration
The Rust Kerr instrument now includes the attribution controls and estimator calibration required after the first controlled run. The earlier pooled-null correction has been replaced by a joint target-family permutation test with a family-wise gate, explicit singular-spectrum…
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Detector-Noise Survival of Kerr Quadrature Memory
The Ledger 13 coherent-quadrature memory lead survives the predeclared normalized detector-noise gate. At detector-noise standard deviation \(10^{-8}\), both \(L1(u{t-3})\) and \(L1(u{t-4})\) remain family-wise significant in the Kerr case across seeds 20260810, 20260811, and…
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Cintamani Domain Siege Registry
Cintamani now has a schema-versioned SQLite registry for the categorical siege domain. The Rust package at `packages/cintamani-domain` rebuilds an ignored Site-local projection from tracked admission records and exposes bounded JSON queries through a command-line interface…
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Public Proposal and Criticism Plane
Cintamani now has a deployed public proposal and criticism plane at `https://cintamani.andrei-kokoev.workers.dev`. It combines a static Astro interface, a Cloudflare Worker API, and a separate D1 database. Public reads are anonymous. Public writes require a GitHub session and…
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