A small instrument for accompanied seeing

See the path.
Do not mistake it for permission.

All 27 PIQA reports in one pinned Pythia directory, plus four richer receipts chosen after their values were known. Exact sources. No winner, no “latest” default, and no action inferred from a display.

Observation Question Authority
Frozen review snapshot Loading reviewed source timestamp · no automatic refresh · manually recheck before treating it as current

All 27 reports in the pinned directory

The reported path, without a line

PIQA normalized accuracy · zero-shot

Four lanes, never collapsed

What kind of statement is this?

01

Observed

A value or artifact reference exists in an exact, pinned source.

02

Derived

Arithmetic is shown. Here, tokens seen equal step × 2,097,152.

03

Interpreted

A bounded claim names its rivals and can fail on held-out runs.

04

Authorized

A human or project steward permits one exact effect. Nothing here does.

The missing shape matters

Read what is not present.

A quiet omission can become hidden authority when an interface smooths it away. Pythia Paths keeps the gaps beside the evidence.

Not observed

Optimizer, scheduler, data-loader cursor, RNG state, exact harness revision, sample count.

Not proven

Metric comparability, metric-to-current-artifact binding, resumability, safety, deployment readiness, artifact-format equivalence.

Not inferred

Identity, experience, intention, preference, consent, destiny, or a hidden opposite.

Not implemented

Credentials, uploads, inference, jobs, persistence, telemetry, automatic refresh, or “continue.”

What changed beneath a name

Seed zero was not the same experiment.

Until February 2026, the repositories now named Pythia 14M and 31M held deduplicated-Pile models. PolyPythias’ archived seed-zero results point into those old histories, while seeds 1–9 used standard-Pile runs. Some published “seed” comparison therefore also changes data regime.

Historical seed 0deduplicated Pile

Seeds 1–9standard Pile

Name continuity did not establish artifact continuity.

The deeper Pythia study

Test prediction first. A causal claim needs a controlled result.

Public paths

Does earlier change predict later change?

Use all declared checkpoints, hold out whole seeds, normalize by tokens, and preserve failed evaluations.

Small replicas

What training exposure applies pressure?

Randomize state-matched continuations, verify intervention fidelity, use synthetic facts, and bound compute.

Selection audit

What did the display rule make loud?

Compare the complete grid with positive-only, best-seed, smoothest-path, and completed-job filters.