Differentiate · Analyze
Differentiate verb → Assay / signal bits
The Differentiate verb realized as Assay — KSG mutual information answers "how many bits does this lens add?", enforcing a redundancy contract (≥0.05 bits, ≤0.6 correlation). It earns or rejects each lens.
You add a new lens to a panel, but it sees almost exactly what an existing lens already saw. How many NEW bits does Assay credit it with?
Close to zero. Assay (the Differentiate verb) measures the NEW information a lens adds with KSG mutual information. A redundant lens adds ~0.0 bits and is rejected; a diverse one adds real bits and earns its place. The contract is explicit — ≥0.05 bits and ≤0.6 correlation — so a panel is earned, not guessed.
Source: calyxdocs/11 (Assay)
You add a new lens to a panel, but it sees almost exactly what an existing lens already saw. How many NEW bits does Assay credit it with?
Close to zero. Assay (the Differentiate verb) measures the NEW information a lens adds with KSG mutual information. A redundant lens adds ~0.0 bits and is rejected; a diverse one adds real bits and earns its place. The contract is explicit — ≥0.05 bits and ≤0.6 correlation — so a panel is earned, not guessed.
A new lens has to earn its place
The Differentiate verb is realized as Assay. Its question is sharp: when you add a lens to a panel, does it show you anything the lenses you already have can’t? A new pair of glasses earns its spot only if it reveals something genuinely new.
Bits, measured — not guessed
Assay answers with mutual information (a KSG estimator): literally, how many bits this lens adds over the rest. That turns “is this lens useful?” from an opinion into a measurement. It enforces a redundancy contract:
- a lens must add ≥ 0.05 bits of new signal, and
- must be ≤ 0.6 correlated with what’s already there,
or it is rejected. This is the Count graph put to work, and it is itself a grounded decision — the panel is justified by measurement, not by hope. Assay’s bit-accounting also gates the higher verbs: the Oracle’s honesty rule (panel bits ≥ anchor entropy) is the same idea pushed to “only speak when you have the signal to.”
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Related
- Compose verb → Lodestar / grounding kernel
- Count verb → Loom / associations
- Lens
- Measure verb → Registry / lenses
- No-flatten doctrine
Sources
- calyxdocs/11 (Assay)
- PRD 07_ASSAY