HYPERPRIOR

HPR-C1 · HPR-C2 · HPR-C3

Operating manual

This manual covers the three devices on hyperprior.net. Read it before operating them, or after, which is what most people do.

1

HPR-C1 Calling card

A calling card in clear resin over a circuit board, issued at the door. It admits one visitor at a time.

HPR-C1 Calling card

Parts

  1. 1Resin body, clear with a faint aqua tint, thicker than a bank card
  2. 2Wordmark, embossed, with the ink worn at the high points
  3. 3Contact module, eight pads, traced to the main chip
  4. 4Antenna coil, copper, under the wordmark
  5. 5Main chip, under the Methods line, with a flash chip and passives beside it
  6. 6Holographic seal, one corner lifted
  7. 7Enter key, recessed, laser-etched, with a chrome contact ring and a light beneath
  8. 8Part number, etched near the lower edge

Operation

  1. 1Hold the card to the light and tilt it. The seal brightens as the pointer nears Enter.
  2. 2Press Enter. The card leaves and the page begins at the top.
  3. 3To see the back, press the mark engraved TURN OVER, or press F, or hold the pointer at the card’s edge. The back carries the instructions, the registration line and the serial, and a press on it turns the card back.
  4. 4On a reload of the home page the card is issued again. Arriving from another page of the site, or by a deep link, it is not.

Care

Keep away from heat, magnets and strong opinions. Do not laminate.

2

HPR-C2 Calibrator

A hand-held calibrator with a thermal printer. It puts five statements to you, takes a yes or a no and how sure you are, and prints a receipt that scores you in bits against a coin and with a Brier score. A graded case is available for receipts worth keeping.

HPR-C2 Calibrator

Parts

  1. 1Shell, clear aqua polycarbonate, two screws through bosses
  2. 2Thermal printer mechanism, with roller and flex cable
  3. 3Paper roll, 26 columns
  4. 4Main board, with the main chip, an empty footprint where a radio would go, and passives in rows
  5. 5Coin cell, in a holder
  6. 6Keys marked Yes and No, milky
  7. 7Key marked Print, dark teal
  8. 8Gauge, a glass race of one hundred chrome balls with a chamber at each end, marked YES and NO
  9. 9Status light, red
  10. 10Speaker grille. Decorative. The device is silent.
  11. 11Part number label, silver

Operation

  1. 1Open the calibrator from the seal beside the Calibration row of the terms, at the address /calibrate, or by typing calibrate on the home page.
  2. 2Read the statement. Press Yes or No.
  3. 3Set how sure you are. The balls divide between the chambers as you do. At 50 they are level. At 99 all but one sit in your chamber.
  4. 4Press Print. After five statements the receipt prints, with a row for each and the scores at the foot.
  5. 5Press Tear off. Then Grade it, if the receipt deserves a case.
  6. 6Save the slab as an image, and Post it from your own account if you like. The post carries a link to the same five statements, so anyone who follows it is scored on the same ground.
  7. 7Hold Print for a second with no round running and the printer prints its self test.

Keys

Y yes, N no, the arrows how sure, Enter print, T tear off, G grade, S save, P post, Esc close.

Care

Thermal paper fades in sunlight. So do priors. Keep the receipt somewhere dark.

3

HPR-C3 Communicator

A pocket communicator in lime resin with a black board inside. It composes a message on a slip from a one-time pad and hands it to your own mail app, which does the sending. The device keeps no copy.

HPR-C3 Communicator

Parts

  1. 1Shell, lime clear front over a clear back
  2. 2Board, black solder mask, with a radio module and a coin cell
  3. 3Slot, along the top edge, with the paper slip
  4. 4Topic keys, four, milky, under the printed legend About
  5. 5Key marked Send, dark teal, with a light beneath
  6. 6Copy keys, two, flat, which appear after Send (not shown)
  7. 7Stub, which prints the status after Send
  8. 8Part number label, silver

Operation

  1. 1Fill in the slip. Your name, an email so we can reply, and a message. A few lines will do.
  2. 2Press the key for what it is about. Question, for anything you want to ask. Engagement, for work you want done. Joining goes to the people who read applications. Other, for the rest.
  3. 3Press Send. The slip feeds into the device and your mail app opens with the message ready. Nothing is sent until you send it from there.
  4. 4If nothing opened, the two Copy keys put the address and the message on your clipboard, one at a time.
  5. 5When you come back from your mail app, the stub says so.

Care

Do not post the slip. Your mail app does that.

4

Troubleshooting

SymptomCauseRemedy
Receipt prints blank.Your priors are empty.Press Print again.
A coin beat me.The coin did not read the questions.Read the questions.
The balls will not settle.You are undecided.Decide, then press Print.
The grade is Void.One sure miss costs more than several careful hits.Be less sure, or be right.
The slab will not post.X takes text only.Save the slab, then attach it.
The card keeps coming back.You reloaded the home page.Enter again. It is quick.
The seal is dull.The pointer is far from Enter.Move it closer.
Nothing opened after Send.This browser has no mail app set up.Press Copy address, then Copy message.
The metal is still.Motion is paused, or your settings ask for less of it.Press Resume, or leave it. It is a good still.
I typed xray and the site came apart.It is meant to.Press Esc.
The page makes no sound.Correct.None required.

5

Specifications

Devices
Three. HPR-C1, HPR-C2, HPR-C3
Statements in the banks
400 general and 200 on machine learning, each checked
Statements in a round
Five, drawn by a seed
Receipt
26 columns, thermal
Grade scale
1 to 10, in halves. Reference, Laboratory, Working, Field, Coin, Void
Type
Austin and Xanh Mono
Firmware
0e3cb7e
Page weight
1.3 MB, from the card to the footer
Requests to other servers
None
Cookies
None
Sound
None

Specifications subject to change without notice. Beliefs likewise.

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HyperPrior Research Ltd, registered in England and Wales, No. 14046272. Registered office 60 London Wall, London EC2M 5TQ.

Notice

HyperPrior Research Ltd is a private research and development company. The firm undertakes applied research, modelling, simulation, and systems development on a selective basis. This website identifies the company and describes its work in general terms. It is not a complete statement of the firm’s interests, capabilities, methods, or current work, and it is deliberately partial. The interactive elements on this website are illustrative only and describe no real results or clients. Nothing on this website constitutes investment, legal, regulatory, tax, technical, or other professional advice, nor does anything on this website constitute an offer, solicitation, recommendation, inducement, arrangement, or invitation in any jurisdiction. No person should rely on the contents of this website in connection with any transaction, investment activity, research engagement, commercial arrangement, or other decision.

Privacy

HyperPrior Research Ltd is the controller for personal data processed through this website and related correspondence. To reach the controller about privacy, use the communicator on the home page and choose Other, or write to the registered office. This website does not provide accounts, comments, public user submissions, or payment facilities. Its communicator sends and stores nothing itself. It composes a message in your own email application, and nothing leaves your device until you send it from there. The website operates without cookies, advertising trackers, behavioural profiling, or analytics technologies. One small note is kept in your browser’s session storage for the length of your visit, listing the calibrator statements you have already seen, and it never leaves your device. The calibrator’s graded slab is drawn on your device, saved only where you choose to save it, and never uploaded. Posting it is done by you, from your own account, on a site this website does not control. A link you share carries the number that chose your five statements and nothing else.

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Colophon

Set in Austin, drawn by Paul Barnes and published by Commercial Type, and Xanh Mono, drawn by Lâm Bảo and Duy Đào of Yellow Type. The few glyphs they lack come, as subsets, from Noto Serif, Zen Old Mincho, Noto Sans JP and STIX.

Static files, served as they are. The liquid chrome and the pool run in WebGL2, with the simulation in a worker, and each stops when it is off screen or the tab is hidden. Firmware 0e3cb7e. Page weight 1.3 MB, from the card to the footer.

Three devices, HPR-C1, HPR-C2 and HPR-C3. The calibrator holds two banks, 400 general statements and 200 on machine learning, five to a round, each one checked. A screen reader gets the receipt in full, jokes included.

No cookies, no trackers, no requests to other servers, no sound. Made in Shoreditch, London.