The reproducible protocol — pre-committed hashed prompts, blind instances, the leaked-focused rubric — written so another lab can run it on their model.
A thematic tour: a dozen conjectures, from Uruk to Aksum, that are secretly one question — find where a composite work was joined, and read what the join betrays. An inroad into the corpus by theme.
Everyone blames the burning library. Fourteen conjectures put catastrophe and slow attrition in the same dataset — from the sack of Constantinople to the Maya codices — and wager on which one actually emptied the shelves.
One codex, one transcript, one informant’s notebook: seventeen conjectures on the works that survive in a single witness — where last copies hide, and what each implies about the siblings that didn’t make it.
Three consecutive resolutions killed the identical way — direction right, magnitude overshot. What a week of pre-registered, firewalled verdicts measures is not the manuscripts but the poser: a noetome with a calibrated direction-sense wrapped around an overconfident magnitude-sense.
The founding-day story of the Gestalt collection: thirty-two conjectures that treat the pre-print world as one system — posed blind, eight registered, three killed, three held, all in a day. The instruction, the machinery, and what the verdicts taught.
Eighteen conjectures on how the Odyssey survived — wild papyri, editors whose verdicts changed nothing, the flagship codex never built, antiquity's own adaptations, and the return-poems that didn't come home. Posed blind, each with a named dataset that could kill it.