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      "id": "fig-why-im-building-talaria",
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        "slug": "why-im-building-talaria",
        "title": "Why I'm building Talaria Scientific",
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      "caption": "Ideas should set the pace of science: Talaria moves the schlep into the harness, raises the bar to trusted and reproducible, and speeds the flywheel for finding the next idea.",
      "alt": "Ideas should set the pace of science: Talaria moves the schlep into the harness, raises the bar to trusted and reproducible, and speeds the flywheel for finding the next idea.",
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        "slug": "the-right-model-for-the-job",
        "title": "The scientific flywheel that can lead to abundance",
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      "caption": "Talaria makes the models, TauOpt picks and searches over them, the harness accelerates both; the outputs serve discovery (fluids, materials, energy) and just-in-time physics for physical AI.",
      "alt": "Talaria makes the models, TauOpt picks and searches over them, the harness accelerates both; the outputs serve discovery (fluids, materials, energy) and just-in-time physics for physical AI.",
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      "creator": "Scott Clark",
      "date": "2026-08-31"
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    {
      "id": "fig-frontier",
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        "slug": "the-right-model-for-the-job",
        "title": "The scientific flywheel that can lead to abundance",
        "url": "https://talariasci.com/blog/the-right-model-for-the-job"
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      "caption": "A simple example frontier: model classes on the accuracy-versus-cost plane. It used to be a handful of hand-built points; the agenda's first half (part 1) is filling it in and pushing it out so there are more and better options to pick from.",
      "alt": "A simple example frontier: model classes on the accuracy-versus-cost plane. It used to be a handful of hand-built points; the agenda's first half (part 1) is filling it in and pushing it out so there are more and better options to pick from.",
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      "creator": "Scott Clark",
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    {
      "id": "fig-loop",
      "url": "https://talariasci.com/blog/the-right-model-for-the-job#fig-loop",
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        "slug": "the-right-model-for-the-job",
        "title": "The scientific flywheel that can lead to abundance",
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      "caption": "One pass through the loop: cheap surrogates explore the space, the policy exploits what they learn to call costlier models, expensive models verify, and every run (cheap or expensive) improves the next choice.",
      "alt": "One pass through the loop: cheap surrogates explore the space, the policy exploits what they learn to call costlier models, expensive models verify, and every run (cheap or expensive) improves the next choice.",
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      "creator": "Scott Clark",
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        "slug": "the-right-model-for-the-job",
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      "caption": "Two wheels on one record: the models and the search improve each other, and use improves the products that spin them. The outputs are honest search for discovery and the right model per task for world models and physical AI.",
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      "creator": "Scott Clark",
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        "title": "The architecture of the Talaria research harness",
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      "caption": "The Talaria architecture. The five-stage Research Loop runs on top of the System of Record; below, the rigor skills augment that process and can extend the record, the inspection skills give you a view into the record at various levels, and the maintenance skills ensure the record is always clean. Capture is cheap, every claim-hardening write passes a gate that checks it against the record's rules, so every hardened claim stays traceable and inspectable, and the adversarial panel rides the gates as claims harden; a failed stage kicks back to a previous part of the loop. The record compounds over time as the process unfolds.",
      "alt": "The Talaria architecture. The five-stage Research Loop runs on top of the System of Record; below, the rigor skills augment that process and can extend the record, the inspection skills give you a view into the record at various levels, and the maintenance skills ensure the record is always clean. Capture is cheap, every claim-hardening write passes a gate that checks it against the record's rules, so every hardened claim stays traceable and inspectable, and the adversarial panel rides the gates as claims harden; a failed stage kicks back to a previous part of the loop. The record compounds over time as the process unfolds.",
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      "copyright": "© 2026 Distributional, Inc.",
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      "creator": "Scott Clark",
      "date": "2026-08-28"
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      "id": "fig-sor",
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      "post": {
        "slug": "the-talaria-architecture",
        "title": "The architecture of the Talaria research harness",
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      "caption": "The System of Record, in detail: what each node type is and where it lives, over the append-only journal and its rules file. The record itself is local; below the line is your personal cloud: an external git remote, an Obsidian backup, and a durable artifact store, all optional, all private (the record keeps the pins as pointers).",
      "alt": "The System of Record, in detail: what each node type is and where it lives, over the append-only journal and its rules file. The record itself is local; below the line is your personal cloud: an external git remote, an Obsidian backup, and a durable artifact store, all optional, all private (the record keeps the pins as pointers).",
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      "copyright": "© 2026 Distributional, Inc.",
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      "creator": "Scott Clark",
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        "slug": "the-talaria-architecture",
        "title": "The architecture of the Talaria research harness",
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      "caption": "One hypothesis walked through the Research Loop from start to finish.",
      "alt": "One hypothesis walked through the Research Loop from start to finish.",
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      "copyright": "© 2026 Distributional, Inc.",
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      "creator": "Scott Clark",
      "date": "2026-08-28"
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      "id": "fig-property-line",
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      "post": {
        "slug": "the-talaria-architecture",
        "title": "The architecture of the Talaria research harness",
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      "kind": "svg",
      "caption": "Who owns what. The field harness is public and Talaria maintains it; your instance is private and yours; the published literature is the commons. Nothing is jointly owned, and every crossing is drawn: upgrades flow to you, /feedback is a report you choose to send back to Talaria, and your methods come back to the harness only by being published publicly, at which point we pull them in like anything else in the literature.",
      "alt": "Who owns what. The field harness is public and Talaria maintains it; your instance is private and yours; the published literature is the commons. Nothing is jointly owned, and every crossing is drawn: upgrades flow to you, /feedback is a report you choose to send back to Talaria, and your methods come back to the harness only by being published publicly, at which point we pull them in like anything else in the literature.",
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      "copyright": "© 2026 Distributional, Inc.",
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      "creator": "Scott Clark",
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        "title": "Surfing the Frontier Wave that rests between The Bitter Lesson and No Free Lunch",
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      "caption": "Scale is a rising wave: each generation submerges more of what specialists built, but the wave advances less and performance falls as validated evidence thins.",
      "alt": "Scale is a rising wave: each generation submerges more of what specialists built, but the wave advances less and performance falls as validated evidence thins.",
      "image": "https://talariasci.com/images/blog/no-free-lunch-bitter-lesson/fig1-wave.png",
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      "copyright": "© 2026 Distributional, Inc.",
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      "creator": "Scott Clark",
      "date": "2026-07-24"
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      "id": "fig-wave-animated",
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        "slug": "no-free-lunch-bitter-lesson",
        "title": "Surfing the Frontier Wave that rests between The Bitter Lesson and No Free Lunch",
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      "caption": "The tide coming in: each model generation raises the water, t1 to t2 to t3.",
      "alt": "The tide coming in: each model generation raises the water, t1 to t2 to t3.",
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      "creator": "Scott Clark",
      "date": "2026-07-24"
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        "slug": "no-free-lunch-bitter-lesson",
        "title": "Surfing the Frontier Wave that rests between The Bitter Lesson and No Free Lunch",
        "url": "https://talariasci.com/blog/no-free-lunch-bitter-lesson"
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      "kind": "svg",
      "caption": "A harness does more than pick: where the engine and the specialist approach from different directions, the ensemble can exceed the best of its parts.",
      "alt": "A harness does more than pick: where the engine and the specialist approach from different directions, the ensemble can exceed the best of its parts.",
      "image": "https://talariasci.com/images/blog/no-free-lunch-bitter-lesson/fig2-ensemble.png",
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      "copyright": "© 2026 Distributional, Inc.",
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      "creator": "Scott Clark",
      "date": "2026-07-24"
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      "url": "https://talariasci.com/blog/the-system-of-record#fig-system-of-record",
      "post": {
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        "title": "A system of record for computational science",
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      "caption": "The system of record: references above, the hypothesis-results-findings triad below, concepts overshadowing all of it. Every result answers a hypothesis and findings carry their evidence with them.",
      "alt": "The system of record: references above, the hypothesis-results-findings triad below, concepts overshadowing all of it. Every result answers a hypothesis and findings carry their evidence with them.",
      "image": "https://talariasci.com/images/blog/the-system-of-record/fig2-system-of-record.png",
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