Forticia papers and research notes: Research, in writing.
Papers, notes and essays from Forticia Research Institute. Every piece states what it claims and what it does not, and shows its sources.
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- 5 Oct 2026
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Where identical code gives different answers: a reproducibility budget for a protein-sequence pipeline
One protein pipeline, 192 runs, one factor changed at a time: seeds dominate, thread and BLAS noise is invisible, and one library release flips a verdict.
Biology17 min read - Paper
Canaries in the approval queue: what injected known-bad requests buy a fatigued human reviewer
In simulation, injected known-bad requests help a fatigued reviewer only above a spare-attention threshold, and recognisable canaries hide the failure.
AI15 min read - Paper
What an agent audit log can answer: measuring incident answerability across logging schemas
Simulated approval incidents and a hash-chained log show which fields answer which questions, what defaults cost, and how anchoring sets tamper detection.
AI16 min read - Paper
Gate stacks are not products: measuring the rubber-stamp risk of a research pipeline
In a simulated research pipeline, correlated gates protect up to 18 times less than their pass rates imply, and a one-draw placebo is a coin flip.
Quant19 min read - Paper
When a failure record lies: the economics of shared negative results in a research swarm
In a simulated swarm, sharing falsified ideas saves a third of compute, but neighbourhood rules close off real effects unless records carry their test power.
Quant17 min read - Paper
Never Tune a Corpse
When may a rejected idea be reopened? Simulated burial and exhumation rules, their false discovery cost, and how the graveyard can audit the court.
Culture16 min read - Paper
When Approval Stops Carrying Information
A conditional-information measure of rubber-stamping, the defect rate where review rationally collapses, and which levers restore it. A simulation study.
Culture18 min read