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1. 10 Oct P13, next step

   dataset Pulotu and SCCSR

   Judge the hard constraints of the belief rules against documented counter-examples, not by reading.m

   fed P13, metaphysics laboratory

   notebook Palimpseste — development sources

   to test
2. 10 Oct from report R1

   paper Evans and Short, 2014. Versu: a simulationist storytelling system — Evans and Short, 2014

   Cited by the first report on social simulation.m

   notebook Palimpseste — development sources

   kept, not read
3. 10 Oct from report R2

   paper Boerner and Quint. Medieval matching markets — Boerner and Quint

   Cited by the second report for markets and fairs.m

   notebook Palimpseste — development sources

   kept, not read
4. 10 Oct from report R2

   dataset Viabundus: documentation of a historical road network

   Cited by the second report as data for trade routes.m

   notebook Palimpseste — development sources

   kept, not read
5. 10 Oct between v16 and v17

   report ChatGPT Pro, reading the repository at one commit. Two deep-research reports on the generator — ChatGPT Pro, reading the repository at one commit

   12 and 20 tracks, about 120 references. Where they agree: family, religion and regime describe cultures but do not act yet; rights, debts and successions must change what communities can do.m

   fed v17: causeless quarrels and alliances removed (21 % and 16 % of them had no cause)

   notebook Palimpseste — development sources

   used
6. 10 Oct v14

   game The myth generator of Dwarf Fortress

   Only a design plan, never shipped; and no academic work on generating religions was found.m

   fed P13: the belief rules start from scratch

   notebook Palimpseste — development sources

   dead end
7. 10 Oct v14

   book Philippe Descola. The four ontologies — Philippe Descola

   Read in the text: what each ontology entails; Europe from 1000 to 1312 is analogist.m

   fed P13, metaphysics laboratory

   notebook Palimpseste — development sources

   read
8. 10 Oct v14 and v18

   book Emmanuel Todd, with Itao and Kaneko’s rule. Family systems — Emmanuel Todd, with Itao and Kaneko’s rule

   Each culture gets a Todd family type, its succession, residence, marriage and the fate of younger sons. Used from memory: no source in the corpus cites Todd; to verify in the text.i

   fed v14: family and starting regime; v18: succession and younger sons

   notebook Palimpseste — development sources

   1. det. 10 Oct · interpretedUsed from memory in v14: no source in the corpus cites Todd.

   to re-check since 15 Oct · now interpreted

   used
9. 10 Oct 08:34, corpus

   book Chris Wickham, 2009. The Inheritance of Rome — Chris Wickham, 2009

   Essential: a post-imperial world, villages, assemblies, a scattered Church, kinship and feud.m

   pages read 40–62, 100–101, 157–165, 172–199, 202–226, 237–248, 471–477, 505–545

   notebook Palimpseste — development sources

   read
10. 10 Oct 08:34, corpus

    book James C. Scott, 2009. The Art of Not Being Governed — James C. Scott, 2009

    Essential for religion as position, genealogy, writing and regimes; thin on justice.m

    pages read 54, 66–91, 174–178, 187–200, 209–237, 240–249, 265–278, 283–322

    notebook Palimpseste — development sources

    read
11. 10 Oct 08:34, corpus

    book Elinor Ostrom, 1990. Governing the Commons — Elinor Ostrom, 1990

    Essential for graduated justice, arenas and the inheritance of rights; silent on religion and the dead.m

    fed v14: the right to the commons

    pages read chapters 2, 3 and 5

    notebook Palimpseste — development sources

    used
12. 10 Oct 08:34, corpus

    game King Arthur Pendragon and The Great Pendragon Campaign

    Very useful: religion turned into character traits.m

    pages read core book 14–33, 38–62, 69–77, 106–111, 132–157; campaign 7–37, 122–131 and more

    notebook Palimpseste — development sources

    read
13. 10 Oct 08:34, corpus

    book Short and Adams, 2017 and 2019. Procedural Generation and Procedural Storytelling in Game Design — Short and Adams, 2017 and 2019

    Method, not content: intersections, domain, evaluation.m

    pages read selected chapters

    notebook Palimpseste — development sources

    read
14. 10 Oct 08:34, corpus

    game Wanderhome

    Empty folder in the corpus: nothing to report.m

    notebook Palimpseste — development sources

    dead end
15. 10 Oct 00:45, v1 land

    algorithm Priority-Flood

    Fills depressions so rivers drain; later, basins are dug on purpose so lakes and marshes exist.m

    fed v1 to v5: the land layer

    notebook Palimpseste — development sources

    used
16. 10 Oct 00:45, v1 seeds

    algorithm PCG32 reference demonstration

    The first six outputs of the generator’s random source match the reference: the same world on every machine.m

    fed v1: deterministic seeds

    notebook Palimpseste — development sources

    used
17. 09 Oct

    post @akshay_pachaar on X. An inference engine four times faster than llama.cpp — @akshay_pachaar on X

    To test: an inference engine said to be four times faster than llama.cpp.i

    notebook Local AI workshop

    1. det. 13 Oct · interpretedReason proposed by a model from the content and Julien’s profile; not confirmed.

    re-check by 13 Nov · now interpreted

    kept, not read
18. 08 Oct

    repo TensorFold Studio for Apple Silicon

    To test: text to image to video on MLX, in one command.i

    notebook Local AI workshop

    1. det. 13 Oct · interpretedReason proposed by a model from the content and Julien’s profile; not confirmed.

    re-check by 13 Nov · now interpreted

    kept, not read
19. 04 Oct

    post Ivan Fioravanti on X. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tool-calling showdown — Ivan Fioravanti on X

    To follow: tool calling compared across 9 setups and 5 inference engines.i

    notebook Local AI workshop

    1. det. 13 Oct · interpretedReason proposed by a model from the content and Julien’s profile; not confirmed.

    re-check by 13 Nov · now interpreted

    kept, not read
20. 28 Sept

    article JetBrains on Hugging Face. Qwen3.8 and 3.6 27B blend — JetBrains on Hugging Face

    To follow: a blend of two Qwen models, with MLX weights.i

    notebook Local AI workshop

    1. det. 13 Oct · interpretedReason proposed by a model from the content and Julien’s profile; not confirmed.

    re-check by 13 Nov · now interpreted

    kept, not read
21. 27 Sept

    repo TensorFold

    To test: fast, exact decoding on MLX behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.i

    notebook Local AI workshop

    1. det. 13 Oct · interpretedReason proposed by a model from the content and Julien’s profile; not confirmed.

    re-check by 13 Nov · now interpreted

    kept, not read
22. 25 Sept

    post David Hendrickson on X. GGUF files usable directly on Apple Silicon — David Hendrickson on X

    To follow: loading GGUF directly on Apple Silicon.i

    notebook Local AI workshop

    1. det. 13 Oct · interpretedReason proposed by a model from the content and Julien’s profile; not confirmed.

    re-check by 13 Nov · now interpreted

    kept, not read
23. 24 Sept

    article Glance Speedlab: a local VLM latency study

    To follow: PyTorch on MPS against MLX 8-bit, measured on a Mac.i

    notebook Local AI workshop

    1. det. 13 Oct · interpretedReason proposed by a model from the content and Julien’s profile; not confirmed.

    re-check by 13 Nov · now interpreted

    kept, not read