4 papers
Evidence Records for Public-Record Changes: Definitional Class Membership as the Certifiable Citation Unit
Amadeus Brandes
Public records change in ways that matter for later interpretation, yet citing a change precisely is difficult--most consequentially, separating what the change demonstrably is fro…
The Substitution Escrow Threshold: When "Compatible With" Becomes Safe Enough to Buy
Amadeus Brandes
Enterprise infrastructure buyers routinely evaluate compatibility claims--"S3-compatible," "PostgreSQL-compatible," "OpenAI compatible"--as proxies for future substitution options.…
The Custody Envelope Threshold: Authority-Scaled Admission of External Artifacts in Institutional Infrastructure
Amadeus Brandes
Modern infrastructure depends on externally maintained artifacts such as package-registry dependencies, CI/CD actions, container images, Terraform providers and modules, developer…
The Preservation Tradeoff: A Thermodynamic Bound in the Diminishing-Returns Regime
Amadeus Brandes
Thermodynamic systems that preserve information against thermal fluctuations face a tradeoff distinct from transmission (Shannon) or erasure (Landauer). We formalize the preservati…