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Freely accessible unknottings of impossible problems. Each case study operates at the edges of logic, bringing clarity where there is dread. Every file is cryptographically signed to prove authenticity of the source. Download, study, verify, distribute.

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AI Safety • Machine Learning • March 3, 2026

Jane Street Dormant LLM Puzzle: Substrate Resonance Probing

An unknotting of the Jane Street backdoored LLM challenge through physical constraint analysis. Reframes "finding hidden triggers" as mapping decision boundary geometry via side-channel signals—latency spikes, activation variance, and output entropy. Proposes systematic perturbation methodology treating models as fixed computational substrates where suppression mechanisms have measurable cost. Includes complete Python implementation.

📄 18 pages
🏷️ Public Track
👤 Chess
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Philosophy • Ontology • March 2, 2026

On Infinity, Reification, and Formal Error

A critical letter addressing the reification of infinity in contemporary mathematical discourse, examining how formal consistency and productivity are routinely misread as ontological license, and why undecidability results do not imply hidden metaphysical structure.

📄 5 pages
🏷️ Public Track
👤 Curt Jaimungal
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Cryptography • Computer Science • February 27, 2026

Operation Chronos: The Howells Bitcoin Recovery

An unknotting that collapses the James Howells Bitcoin recovery from impossible (2²⁵⁶ cryptographic security) to computationally tractable (2⁶⁰ deterministic states). Demonstrates that the 2009 OpenSSL PRNG operated in entropy-starved conditions, making the "lost" private key recoverable through temporal reconstruction. Includes complete technical specification with CUDA implementation.

Disclaimer: This methodology assumes the OpenSSL entropy pool was operating in a starved or fallback state at the moment of key generation—a documented but not guaranteed condition on 2009 consumer hardware. Success depends on this assumption being satisfied for this specific key creation event.

📄 14 pages
🏷️ Private → Public
👤 James Howells
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Medicine • Healthcare Technology • February 10, 2026

Project Vitals: Medical Data Sovereignty Architecture

An unknotting of healthcare data fragmentation through patient-centric architecture. Proposes a technical system that positions patients as central data routers, exploiting existing legal rights (HIPAA/GDPR) to achieve data portability without institutional cooperation, using local AI processing and zero-trust design.

📄 8 pages
🏷️ Public Track
👤 Chess
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Psychology • Relationships • February 9, 2026

Relationship Stability: The Diagnostic Framework

An unknotting that reframes relationship breakdown from emotional blame to functional stability analysis. Provides a systematic diagnostic guideline for determining whether a partnership has a solution or requires graceful decoupling, based on predictive error and resonance audits.

📄 4 pages
🏷️ Public Track
👤 Paty
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Mathematics • Physics • February 8, 2026

The Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem Through Categorical Dissolution

An unknotting that demonstrates the Clay Institute's Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem contains a fundamental category error. Argues the question conflates mathematical idealization with physical reality, operating at the boundary where frameworks meet their limits.

📄 23 pages
🏷️ Public Track
👤 Anonymous
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Finance • Banking System • February 8, 2026

RHIZOME Protocol: Mexico's Financial Inclusion Deadlock

An unknotting of a structural banking impasse where traditional financial inclusion strategies fail due to market concentration, informality, and risk-optimized business models. Proposes a decentralized protocol converting social velocity into bankable collateral.

📄 9 pages
🏷️ Public Track
👤 Anonymous
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