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  "exhibit": "speeds-from-ram-alone",
  "exhibit_title": "Speeds from RAM alone",
  "exhibit_url": "https://research.strata2signal.com/speeds-from-ram-alone/",
  "published_utc": "2026-11-07",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
  "attribution": "strata→signal research, research.strata2signal.com",
  "contact": "hello@strata2signal.com",
  "run_id": "speeds-from-ram-alone-2026-11-03",
  "run_window_utc": {
    "registration_frozen_utc": "2026-11-01T15:09:22Z",
    "eight_channel_desktop_utc": [
      "2026-11-03T07:30:01Z",
      "2026-11-03T07:59:09Z"
    ],
    "two_channel_desktop_utc": [
      "2026-11-04T15:39:29Z",
      "2026-11-04T16:16:21Z"
    ],
    "laptop_utc": [
      "2026-11-05T16:10:36Z",
      "2026-11-05T16:36:34Z"
    ],
    "note": "Three runs on three days, each from its run's own start and end as its summary records them (`outer.started`, `outer.ended`); the registration was frozen before the first and amended twice in writing, on 2026-11-02 and 2026-11-03, before the two-channel desktop ran."
  },
  "card_class": "no graphics card in the path: every card in each machine was hidden from the run and proven unused (`no_card` in each summary)",
  "sanitisation": "Machine readers start at `index.json`, which lists every file in this kit but three, each with its byte count and its sha256; the three it leaves out are itself, `provenance.json` and this directory's index page. `provenance.json` is the other half: it names every rule applied to every file, with the count of times each one fired, and says whether any rule touched each file.",
  "files_note": "`index.json` lists every file in this kit but itself, `provenance.json` and this directory's index page, each with its sha256; `provenance.json` names every rule and how many times it fired on each file.",
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