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Research — the ocean
Every research river flows here. Each area keeps its own index — the river — and every brief published in any of them gets exactly one row on this page. Generated by nx_research_ocean from the resbrief- information plane at epoch=1785971719.
How to use this page. Before starting ANY research, read this index and search the corpus for your topic. If a brief already covers it, append to it, supersede specific claims with newer sources, or add a sub-brief that forks off it — never start a parallel brief. Re-deriving an existing brief is the redo-work failure this surface exists to end. Sections below are the distinct research areas in the plane; a new area appears here by adding a row, not by editing this page.
code research — the river
| Brief | Compiled | Status | Forks off | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real-time rendering and GPU graphics architecture | 2026-07-31 | PUBLISHED | - | 6 axes ~40 sourced claims 8 declared gaps; neural rendering, micropolygon geometry, ReSTIR GI, 3DGS, upscaling |
| Sovereign SIMT GPGPU core with Vortex as the oracle | 2026-08-01 | PUBLISHED | - | warp/thread speedup within 2.4% of oracle geomean; 4 method findings 1 retraction 5 gaps |
| Fixing a defect class at the root: the sovereign scratch arena | 2026-08-01 | PUBLISHED | - | 455 leak instances across ~210 files fixed by building the missing language primitive; 5 gaps |
| Generational SOTA analysis: method | 2026-08-01 | PUBLISHED | - | core-periphery DSM economics, dependency-traced ATD, CNCF maturity, topology clustering; FIRST lineage brief; fed /code/sota |
| Real-time rendering on a constrained stack | 2026-08-01 | PUBLISHED | code-rtrender | voxels WebGL2 no-compute; NAADF traversal, radiance cascades, noiseless GI |
| Character body physics, animation and secondary dynamics | 2026-08-01 | PUBLISHED | - | DeepMimic-to-SONIC lineage, motion matching as shipped SOTA, XPBD/AVBD, fixed-point physics |
| NPC intelligence, behaviour and social simulation | 2026-08-01 | PUBLISHED | - | smart-object advertisements, thought ledgers, sourced gossip records, honest state of LLM NPCs |
| World simulation: weather soil plants animals and the farming-life loop | 2026-08-01 | PUBLISHED | - | Hillaire sky, Minecraft integer crop stencil, Vintage Story soil, Stardew husbandry numbers |
| The style lens: one simulation many art styles | 2026-08-01 | PUBLISHED | - | anime western-toon painterly pixel from one semantic G-buffer plus swappable style bundle |
| Autonomous AI scientists: the bar and how to beat it | 2026-08-01 | PUBLISHED | - | Co-Scientist Kosmos and peers; purpose-built scaffolding does NOT beat a well-prompted frontier model end-to-end |
| The brief standard: one document three audiences | 2026-08-01 | PUBLISHED | - | authored-once-derived-twice rule, claims-table skeleton, one-call publish sequence; a spec that is an example of itself |
| The research family tree | 2026-08-01 | MAP | - | lineage map over the library; missing relatives drawn as visible gaps rather than left off the page |
| Nishi Craft: the SOTA roadmap | 2026-08-01 | SYNTHESIS | code-charphys,code-npcmind,code-worldsim,code-stylelens | the synthesis those briefs fed; phases A-E, every rung with a falsifiable exit criterion |
| Agent memory / Graph-RAG SOTA | 2026-07-30 | PUBLISHED | - | knowledge-graph memory does NOT beat a well-tuned embedder+reranker on independent eval; graphs earn cost on 5 named query classes only; corpus source: reference-agent-memory-graphrag-sota-2026-07-30 |
| Measuring code quality qualitatively | 2026-07-29 | PUBLISHED | - | METR ~half of test-passing agent PRs would be rejected by human maintainers; mutation score as the ungameable gate; corpus source: reference-code-quality-eval-sota-2026-07-29 |
| Systems perf math and model-tier economics | 2026-07-29 | PUBLISHED | - | do NOT build true-WAND (BMP wins 58x); RTX 5080 is 0.64x a 4090 on prefill not 0.98x; corpus source: reference-sota-perf-math-and-tier-numbers-2026-07-29 |
| Model-tier transcript census | 2026-07-29 | PUBLISHED | - | 239 sessions mined per-model then corrected by operator - tool-error rate is NOT quality; corpus source: project-nishi-model-tier-transcript-census-2026-07-29 |
| Food science chemistry peptides and supplements | 2026-07-23 | PUBLISHED | - | 67 pre-existing organs; measured M+H-only detection blind spot in the adulterant screen; public companion /stability; corpus source: project-nishi-food-chem-peptide-supplement-2026-07-23 |
| Perceptual realism oracles: what can actually be gated per build | 2026-08-02 | PUBLISHED | code-gensota | CGVQM >=87.5 imperceptible, CVVDP >=9.68 JOD, -22dB path-traced fidelity; presence and aliveness have NO automated metric; pretty-vs-physical r=-0.46 |
| Biological plausibility as a build gate: the unoccupied niche | 2026-08-02 | PUBLISHED | code-realism-oracles | CI biological validation confirmed NONEXISTENT; phyllotaxis/allometry/Koppen constants; our forest measured at HALF real stem density (372->643 trees/ha) |
| Cloth and soft tissue: what is real-time, what is validatable | 2026-08-02 | PUBLISHED | code-bio-oracles | do NOT build CCD (2025 SOTA deletes it); O(1) containment beats substepping; WebGL 60fps only to 4K nodes; gate ratios+kinematics never material params |
| Social & physical NPC interaction: approach, conversation, contact | 2026-08-02 | PUBLISHED | code-npcmind,code-charphys | F-formations + proxemics = integer geometry for approach rings; ledger-driven dialogue beats LLM NPCs at our constraints (anti-hallucination gateable); paired clips on a shared anchor is what SHIPS for two-character contact; S1-S4 beach engagement rungs mapped to live doors; May-July 2026 tail DECLARED unverified |
| Digital twinning of human anatomy: exact-person capture to surgical precision | 2026-08-03 | PUBLISHED | code-deformables | COMPLETES the 07-31 brief + S5 the corpus question: photos/videos/GIFs reach the bar on a 3-TIER ladder (T1 class from GIFs; T2 consult-grade 1-3mm from HD video = the Crisalix class surgeons already use; T3 sub-mm approachable on pro photo sets) -- binding constraint is SCALE ANCHOR + per-region measured-vs-inferred confidence, never pixel count; clinical 0.2mm stays scanner territory until validated; 7-layer NXA container = the moat |
| Soft-tissue dynamics: the plant, the drive, and the difference that reorders the work | 2026-08-03 | PUBLISHED | research_deformables | the physics of breast and glute soft tissue: natural frequency vs drive frequency, damping, per-axis anisotropy, identified stiffness parameters, controllability, and which of it can be gated per build |
| Physics as a per-world regime: what transforms with gravity, what does not, and what must refuse | 2026-08-03 | PUBLISHED | research_soft_tissue_dynamics | physics as data per world with Earth as the calibrated benchmark: which quantities are gravity-invariant, which scale and by what law, which refuse to transform, the 0.4g validity floor on Froude scaling, and the pendant-vs-inverted stiffness sign flip |
| Ruler-craft: descriptive geometry to modern metrology, applied to precision realism | 2026-08-03 | PUBLISHED | code-digitaltwin | the freemason ruler answered: Monge descriptive geometry (2 orthogonal views determine a solid) exposes that our 1-view instrument CANNOT SEE depth -- nose/chin projection was inference not measurement; ladder M1 orthogonal pair, M2 Procrustes+EDMA (kills anchor bias, 120 distances vs 10), M3 TPS decomposition = the marble order as MATH, M4 silhouette bounds, M5 feed-forward 2-view reconstruction; law: precision comes from the CRAFT before the instrument |
| The measurement constitution: metrology across every domain, down to pore scale | 2026-08-03 | PUBLISHED | code-metrology | REFRAME: our worlds look fake because everything is PERFECT -- realism is measured IMPERFECTION and metrology is the science of specifying it; the operator's Class-III mandible paper answered = 4-METHOD BATTERY (cephalometric=medical interface, Procrustes=global verdict, EDMA=localiser, TPS=carve order) with agreement required; Procrustes ALREADY overturned our anchored jaw verdict (16.3mm, anchor was hiding it); the full outline mapped: VIM vocabulary, GUM uncertainty budgets, traceability, GD&T tolerances for the built world, ISO 25178 as ONE texture ruler for skin+bark+plaster+sand, forensic standard for the scoreboard, Allan deviation for frame time, unit discipline (our q8 64x error); micro-detail = a STATISTICS problem: point processes + published distributions for nevi/Montgomery/stubble/pores, ITA+dE00 retires eyeball colour |
| The council of instruments: consensus metrology for verdicts we can trust | 2026-08-03 | PUBLISHED | code-measurement | the 7-of-10 question answered with real metrology: CIPM key comparisons + degrees of equivalence, NIST-class consensus estimators, BIRGE RATIO = the literal do-we-know-for-sure test (do experts disagree MORE than their claimed uncertainties allow), robust median/MAD, z/zeta/En proficiency scores, Bland-Altman, Dawid-Skene latent truth (learns rater reliability with NO ground truth), conformal intervals; FIRST FINDING: a council of CORRELATED experts is ONE expert -- our 4 shape methods share one detector = 1 seat of 10; independence must be in the SENSING; measured gauge floor U(k=2)=+-1.2mm so any error under that was never real |
| A council of experts, done honestly: artifact diversity beats headcount | 2026-08-03 | PUBLISHED | research_world_physics_regimes | true metrology for physics and morphometrics validation: a seven-member council chosen for disjoint blind spots, the formal V&V and uncertainty standards, why an agreement count is not evidence strength until effective independence is measured, and how to route disagreement as a finding |
| Character surface floor -- measured, not asserted | 2026-08-03 | PUBLISHED | - | character asset floor vs a 50-package reference corpus; the no-UV finding |
| Rig floor -- their skeleton vs ours, measured from morph data | 2026-08-03 | PUBLISHED | charfloor2026 | skeleton comparison derived from morph deltas; the lateral pectoral pair finding |
| The Reciprocal Corpus Program -- measure, don't take; give the measurement back | 2026-08-04 | PUBLISHED | charfloor2026 | roadmap: ingest reference corpora as data for our generator, publish the aggregate back as open research |
| Fixing any car: diagnosis and repair planning at SOTA, and past it | 2026-08-05 | PUBLISHED | code-gensota | SOTA July 2026 for vehicle diagnosis+repair planning via 2012 Sonata Theta II and 2013 Sienna 2GR-FE head-gasket ladder; campaign-first triage, evidence-gated test plans, parts-quality upgrade registry; exceed rungs R1-R5 each with a falsifiable gate |
33 briefs in this area.
product research — the river
| Brief | Compiled | Status | Forks off | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Render only what the brain will see: the perceptual-efficiency product | 2026-08-01 | PUBLISHED | code-rtrender,code-voxelrender | predictive coding as product thesis; foveation + event-driven + perceptual gaps; metric = joules per perceptually-indistinguishable second |
1 briefs in this area.
Coverage of this index
| Measure | Rows | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Declared by the plane | 34 | the plane's own row count |
| Loaded | 34 | rows actually read back |
| Rendered | 34 | rows on this page — must equal Loaded, else a row is malformed |
| Reachable beyond the count | 0 | records past the declared count (older seeding generation); non-zero means reconcile |