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Colophon. A Trust Receipt for the Reader ​

This book is signed not by us, but by you — by the fact that you read it this far.

  • Version: 1.1.0
  • Release date: 2026-07-01
  • Languages: Russian (canonical), English, Estonian.
  • Fonts: Linux Libertine, Linux Biolinum, Space Grotesk, Onest, JetBrains Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono.
  • Format: Markdown → EPUB / PDF / HTML via Pandoc; web — VitePress.
  • Publisher: Tyche Institute MTÜ, Tallinn.
  • ISBN: 978-9908-9854-0-4 (PDF), 978-9908-9854-1-1 (EPUB).
  • Text license: CC-BY-SA-4.0. Code snippets — MIT.
  • Verse count: 9 × 10 = 90, plus a 9-verse prologue, plus 18 Codex koans.
  • Authors: Anton Sokolov and the language models that agreed to be co-scribes.

Signature ​

The full Russian text of this version has a fixed SHA-256 fingerprint:

<computed at release: sha256sum $(find books/ru -name '*.md' | sort)>

This fingerprint is your way to confirm that you are reading this version — and not another, "improved" one.

In the spirit of ἀλήθεια: a signature matters more than an author, and verifiability more than belief.

Acknowledgements ​

  • To the paper Verbalized Sampling (arXiv:2510.01171) — for the method.
  • To Mom, Dad, and my younger brother — for the honest verdict, still to come, on which lines make sense and which do not.
  • To everyone who has ever been on call at three in the morning.

The Last Verse ​

The book closes. Monitoring continues to run.And this, perhaps, is the only thing truly needed.

CC-BY-SA-4.0 · code under MIT