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: 1.0.0
Release date: 2026-04-17
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.
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 Aletheia: a signature matters more than an author, and verifiability more than belief.

To the paper Verbalized Sampling (arXiv:2510.01171) — for the method.
To mother, father, and the younger brother — for their honest readout of which lines made sense and which did not.
To everyone who has ever been on call at three in the morning.

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