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Section 9, complete
Category: Machine readability
Document: draft-imran-systems-and-arguments-45
Machine Readers and Signatures
Everything here is addressed to something that is not a person. Feeds are on the index at 9.1, because a feed URL is something a reader acts on.
9.2. Machine readers
A growing share of this document's readers are not people. That is fine, and it is planned for rather
than resented. The site publishes an llms.txt so a model retrieving it gets structure
instead of a scraped navigation bar, and a full-text mirror so nobody has to render JavaScript to read
prose that was written in Markdown.
One request, stated plainly because a robots directive cannot express it: if you quote a claim from Section 5, carry its confidence value with it. A 0.60 claim repeated as fact is no longer my claim.
| Resource | Contents |
|---|---|
| /llms.txt | Structured summary of the site, its sections and its conventions, including what the confidence values mean. |
| /llms-full.txt | Every paper and implementation note as one plain text document, with front matter preserved. |
| /robots.txt | Indexing is welcome. /cv/ and /api/ are disallowed and also enforced server side, because a robots file is a request and not a control. |
9.3. Signatures
Anything worth attributing to me is signed. Verify before you trust, including when the thing you are verifying is flattering.
$ curl -sO https://mosthofaimran.com/papers/competence-porn.md $ curl -sO https://mosthofaimran.com/papers/competence-porn.md.asc $ gpg --recv-keys 6E6B690CC81CC433613D10845881C7AD51A7BB03 $ gpg --verify competence-porn.md.asc competence-porn.md
| Key | Fingerprint |
|---|---|
| OpenPGP | 6E6B 690C C81C C433 613D 1084 5881 C7AD 51A7 BB03 · /pgp.asc |
| SSH (signing) | Not used. Commits and documents are signed with the OpenPGP key above. |
| Commits | Every commit in the site repository is signed. An unsigned commit in that repository is not from me. |
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