https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/ Field notes and the verification standard: six gates, real outcomes, no mocked runs. en https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/ https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/ The verification standard for AI work: gains proven by a signal the procedure can't game, against a strong fair baseline. https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/products/ https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/products/ Products from the same builder: mimicplus (HAR to OpenAPI) and Verity (append-only evidence ledger). https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/patterns/ https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/patterns/ 49 verified patterns across three families, each cited to a live source. https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/blog/ https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/blog/ Field notes from the verification standard. https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/blog/why-single-run-lies.html https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/blog/why-single-run-lies.html Statistical power, noise floors, and why n=300 paired instances per slice is sized, not improvised. https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/blog/goodhart-gate.html https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/blog/goodhart-gate.html Goodhart's law is not a warning label — it's a gate. https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/blog/specification-gaming-catalog.html https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/blog/specification-gaming-catalog.html Agents that satisfy the letter of the objective while violating its spirit — and the placebo test that catches them. https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/blog/contamination-holdout.html https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/blog/contamination-holdout.html Five fresh sealed seeds plus one frozen holdout is the minimum honest protocol. https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/blog/receipt-not-claim.html https://jdkabattles.github.io/algorithmic-gold/blog/receipt-not-claim.html The origin story of the six gates — and why a standard that reports its failures is the only kind worth trusting.