Vol. I · October 2026 Dispatch desk
nokuno journal
A journal of essays, guides, and small instruments.
Dispatches & Instruments
Newest first. Essays and guides to read, instruments to run.
The Cheap Draft and the Careful Referee: Speculative Decoding, Agent Teams, and Just-in-Time RL
Speculative decoding, agent teams, and just-in-time RL are one loop — speculate, verify, adapt — running at the token, the task, and the deployment.
We Think Mathematics Is an Art
An inquiry into beauty, formal proof, and what practitioners actually do. We filed mathematics with painting rather than physics.
Interactive protocol · Eighteen items
Should I Get a PhD?
An evaluative instrument about the doctorate. It measures more than your answers.
Mechanism
It probes conviction, financial endurance, and advisor alignment.
Simulated defense · cross-examination
The Committee Room
Study a doomed proposal. Defend it before three examiners who interrupt. The debrief explains what was measured.
Mechanism
A hostile methodological cross-examination.
The Quiz That Always Says No
How we built the quiz, and what it reads instead of answers.
Should You Get a PhD? A Five-Part Reality Check
Opportunity cost, academic power, and career distribution. This is the logic the quiz stands on.