X-Labs
Everything published here.
Newest first. The type of each piece is stated on it, because a type name is a claim like any other.
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Published
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What a legal rule said on a given date, in Bosnia and Herzegovina
A proposal, and the survey of official sources that argues against most of it. Bosnian drafting rules require two separate dates on every act; outside Brčko a consolidated current text is not an official act; and the practical question people ask is answered not by a number but by naming which documents and which facts are still missing.
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Twenty questions you expect it to get wrong
The first evaluation round for the legal engine, and the rules it will be judged by. We are not asking whether people like it. We are asking people who read law for a living to send the questions they expect it to fail, and we will publish how many of them it failed and in which of five ways.
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How research here is done, and how it is allowed to fail
The working rules behind every X-Labs article: primary sources with retrieval dates, blocked sources recorded as blocked, and a negative result published as a result.
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A first working version of the legal engine
X-Protocols already refuses to turn "we do not hold that" into "no". We built a separate engine that applies the same refusal to Bosnian law, and asked it how much annual leave a worker gets. It answers with the floor the statute fixes, the three documents that decide the rest, and the facts nobody supplied.
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May Bosnian legal text be republished?
Official texts of Bosnian legislation carry no copyright, so the text of a law may be republished. The constraint that remains is the database maker's right, which protects somebody's collection even when every document in it is free - and that is what decides how a corpus here has to be built.
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What X-Labs is, and what it is not
X-Labs is where work that is not part of the product gets written down in public, with its sources and its uncertainty intact.
What the types mean.
- Methodology — how a piece of work was actually done.
- Research proposal — something that has not been built.
- Research note — a short observation.
- Project update — where a project stands now.
- Study — an experiment that was run, with its design stated in advance. Nothing here is this yet.