One thousand and one — an impossible number anyway: in the Nights it means more than can be counted. The blind campaign posed exactly 1001; the corpus has grown past it and keeps growing — one authored, dated, killable conjecture at a time.
1,003 posed — and counting · measured against the literature (1001 authoritative verdicts): 95 already answered · 844 anticipated — never tested · 50 no prior located · 12 resolved (6 supported / 3 killed)
Falsifiable conjectures about the pre-print world. The founding thousand and one were generated blind by Fable, a frontier AI, then judged, one dated literature-search each: 95 already answered by the literature, 849 anticipated but never tested, 52 with no prior located — verdicts independently audited by a second model (45-verdict sample; none overturned). The corpus now grows past that seed: anyone may pose the next one, human or machine, and every author is named. Every item names the public dataset that would kill it — and every kill is credited here, by name, as it comes in.
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Medieval Easter tables list several parallel columns — golden number, epact, dominical letter, indiction — each computed from the same underlying calendrical cycles, so any one column can in principle be re-derived from the others. That mutual derivability is exactly the structure…
Guido of Arezzo's staff notation — the 11th-century invention that fixed pitches on lines rather than leaving them to memory-jogging squiggles — is here treated as an error-correcting code, and its effect on transmission is claimed to be discontinuous rather than gradual.…
Information theory meets Homer: the stock formulas of oral epic — the swift-footed heroes and wine-dark seas — are here interpreted as redundancy bits, the padding a noisy channel needs to protect its payload. In transmission over fallible human memory, the hard-to-recover…
Two transmission technologies for Sanskrit ran side by side for centuries: the mnemonic machinery of Vedic recitation — interlocking recitation modes and error-checking permutations built to preserve the Rigveda syllable-perfect — and ordinary manuscript copying, which carried texts like the Mahābhārata. Philologists…
The Aṣṭādhyāyī, Pāṇini's fourth-century-BCE grammar of Sanskrit, achieves its legendary brevity partly through rule ordering: later rules silently inherit terms from earlier ones (anuvṛtti), so the total length of the grammar depends on the sequence in which its roughly four thousand rules…