Reference
Glossary
The words we use, defined plainly — so the precise language is a help, never a hurdle.
The vocabulary
- Signal
- A short dispatch on something new — a paper, release, or kernel — with a clear read on why it matters for the code you write.
- Explainer
- A deep, evergreen, code-aware walkthrough of a technique — written to go far enough that you could reimplement it yourself.
- Reproduction
- We re-run a published result under recorded conditions (harness, seeds, hardware) and report honestly whether it holds.
- Recreation
- We rebuild the idea from scratch in our own minimal, annotated, runnable code — and say how our numbers came out.
- Library
- An honest spotlight on a tool you might actually run: what it is great at, what it costs, and whether to switch.
- Essay
- A thesis-first argument about where the frontier is heading, leading with a bet you could actually check.
- Checkpoint
- A saved, time-stamped reading of the frontier — and our citekey for one (e.g. CHECKPOINT 0010).
- Verdict
- Our honest call on a reproduction — reproduced, partly there, didn’t reproduce, or contested. The six verdicts are defined on the reproductions page.
- Delta (Δ)
- The gap between a reported number and the one we measured, shown with its direction and sign.
- First-party
- A result we produced ourselves, as opposed to one we are citing from someone else.