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How to read this project honestly

This site is full of Brier scores, sealed hold-outs, deflated leaderboards, and falsified mechanisms. None of it requires a statistics degree — but it does require knowing what the numbers mean and, more importantly, what they are not allowed to mean. Seven chapters, written for a general reader.

Including the chapter where the honest answer is still “not yet.”

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competing models in the zoo

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sealed hold-out events

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official ensemble Brier (0.25 = chance)

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research sessions logged

Two ways to read

Front to back — chapters 01 through 06 tell one story: what the project is trying to do, how the machine works, how it grades itself, and why it refuses to believe its own best numbers.

Straight to the point — if you came here from the leaderboard and just want to know what the columns mean, jump to Chapter 05: Reading the Board, then keep the glossary open in another tab.