Method, and what the lab learned about doing it
Most of the lab’s early findings turned out to be known. The lab keeps 27 lessons on method; the main ones are below.
- Predictions are registered before the data exist, and the commit times are verified.
- A prior-art check runs before any work starts. Of 28 directions checked, 0 were clear, 18 narrow, 6 known, and 4 were dropped.
- Hardware is calibrated on the day of the run, not from the vendor’s snapshots.
- Tests are built so they can fail, and mutation checks show that they do.
- Any scan over many settings gets a trials correction.
- A robustness check has to be sharp, not only smooth.
- Each claim has one canonical record, and its file header carries dated notes when it changes.
Lab records: ledger/knowledge/lab-lessons.md (27 lessons).