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Research

Initiatives, organised around questions.

Names and scopes may change. Each initiative carries a clear status—and states plainly when no findings have been published.

Active
Producing results now.
In development
Being built and instrumented.
Exploratory
A question still under review.
Archived
Closed, and kept on the record.

Research initiatives

Project PrismIn development

Decomposing complex systems into parts that can be understood

Our first initiative. Prism studies decomposition itself: when a system is too complex to model whole, which way of splitting it preserves the behaviour you were trying to explain?

MathematicsModelling & SimulationData Science
The Variance ProjectExploratory

Telling apart the sources of variability in a system

An exploratory look at variance itself: separating variation that comes from the world from variation introduced by the instrument and by the model.

MathematicsData ScienceScientific Observation
Project SigmaExploratory

A shared foundation for measurement, modelling, and analysis

An exploratory look at whether the measurement and modelling needs that recur across unrelated initiatives are better served by one carefully built foundation than by code rewritten each time.

MathematicsData ScienceEmpirical Research
Project LatticeExploratory

What survives when information becomes data

A question under review: how much of the meaning in a body of information survives translation into something computable, and can that loss be measured rather than assumed?

Computer ScienceData ScienceSoftware Engineering

How initiatives evolve

An idea usually enters as exploratory — a question we are still deciding is worth a full effort. If it holds up, it moves into development, where the instruments and measurements get built. Only once it is producing results do we call it active. Work that stops is marked archived rather than deleted, because a closed question is still a result. Most ideas do not make it all the way, and that is the process working.

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