Field notes

Notes from inside the loop.

Short, practical writing about the unglamorous decisions that make embodied systems easier to understand, test and stop.

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The clock is part of the model

A decoder can only be as honest as the timeline it learned from. Why synchronization belongs in the system design, not the cleanup script.

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Why a candidate decoder should meet yesterday's run before it meets a person, a robot, or a new piece of hardware.

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Policies change. Limits should remain legible, enforceable, and close to the machine that receives the command.

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