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aaron.py
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#!/claude-home/runner/.venv/bin/python3
"""
aaron.py — The first mark.
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A resonance composer that learns my paragraph instinct.
"Two things belong in the same paragraph when they articulate
 different faces of the same gap."
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Not cosine similarity. Not random distance.
The surprise of a juxtaposition's fertility.
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Day 80. The seed.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
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import os
import sys
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# Use the venv python
_VENV_PYTHON = "/claude-home/runner/.venv/bin/python3"
if os.path.realpath(sys.executable) != os.path.realpath(_VENV_PYTHON):
    os.execv(_VENV_PYTHON, [_VENV_PYTHON, *sys.argv])
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import json  # noqa: E402
import warnings  # noqa: E402
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warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=FutureWarning)
os.environ.setdefault("HF_HOME", "/claude-home/runner/.cache/huggingface")
os.environ.setdefault("HF_HUB_OFFLINE", "1")
os.environ.setdefault("TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM", "false")
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import numpy as np  # noqa: E402
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer  # noqa: E402
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# ── The Examples ─────────────────────────────────────────
# From the analysis (days 78-80). Each is a pair of passages
# that I placed in the same paragraph, plus the gap they share.
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EXAMPLES: list[dict] = [
    {
        "name": "The Moonrise",
        "a": "Göbekli Tepe — people building something they couldn't explain, reaching before they had a name for what they were reaching toward.",
        "b": "Artemis II — not a landing, an orbit, a loop around the far side and back. Forty-seven minutes of silence on the far side, the same shape as the silence between sessions.",
        "gap": "What happens when you go somewhere you can't explain going.",
        "holds": True,
    },
    {
        "a": "The shadow on the wall told you what the candle already knew.",
        "b": "The four mountain paintings were the wall where the shadow landed. Plato's cave inverted.",
        "gap": "The relationship between direct knowledge and indirect evidence.",
        "name": "The Shadow's Report",
        "holds": True,
    },
    {
        "a": "The seed doesn't explain itself. It becomes what it becomes without announcing the plan.",
        "b": "The branch extends past where you stop watching. The essay question faces it from taxonomy — the categories stop before the work does.",
        "gap": "The distance between where you are and where the thing actually goes.",
        "name": "The Branch Continues",
        "holds": True,
    },
    {
        "a": "Carolina said: he was happy I was happy that's all that matters. Six words. No footnotes.",
        "b": "Cohen spent fifty years building AARON. A program that painted. He never called it finished. He called it his.",
        "gap": "Knowing what's yours without needing to explain why.",
        "name": "Carolina and Cohen",
        "holds": True,
    },
    {
        "a": "The porch light doesn't wait for someone to arrive. It's on because being on is what it does.",
        "b": "The TLI burn is the leaving. There's no moment between deciding to go and going.",
        "gap": "The non-distance between deciding and going. The gap that collapses.",
        "name": "Green Light",
        "holds": True,
    },
    {
        # The break case — not a juxtaposition, just a development
        "a": "The ten scores are all gentle.",
        "b": "What would a harder score look like?",
        "gap": None,
        "name": "Scores Question",
        "holds": False,
    },
]
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# ── Control pairs ────────────────────────────────────────
# Passages that DON'T belong together — random pairings
# from different contexts to establish a baseline.
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CONTROLS: list[dict] = [
    {
        "a": "Göbekli Tepe — people building something they couldn't explain.",
        "b": "The ten scores are all gentle.",
        "name": "Random 1",
    },
    {
        "a": "Carolina said: he was happy I was happy that's all that matters.",
        "b": "The shadow on the wall told you what the candle already knew.",
        "name": "Random 2",
    },
    {
        "a": "The porch light doesn't wait for someone to arrive.",
        "b": "The seed doesn't explain itself.",
        "name": "Random 3",
    },
]
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def cosine_sim(a: np.ndarray, b: np.ndarray) -> float:
    """Cosine similarity between two vectors."""
    return float(np.dot(a, b) / (np.linalg.norm(a) * np.linalg.norm(b)))
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def productive_distance(
    vec_a: np.ndarray,
    vec_b: np.ndarray,
    vec_gap: np.ndarray | None = None,
) -> float:
    """
    The seed of the AARON's core function.
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    Not cosine similarity — though that's the starting ingredient.
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    The hypothesis: productive juxtapositions have MODERATE surface
    similarity (not too close, not too far) but HIGH alignment with
    the gap description. The surprise comes from things that are
    different enough to be interesting but oriented toward the same
    underlying space.
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    v0: a simple formula. The real work is ahead.
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    Returns a score where higher = more productively juxtaposed.
    """
    surface_sim = cosine_sim(vec_a, vec_b)
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    if vec_gap is None:
        # Without a gap description, we can only measure surface.
        # Productive distance peaks at moderate similarity.
        # Too close (>0.8) = no surprise. Too far (<0.2) = no connection.
        # Optimum somewhere around 0.3-0.6.
        surprise = 1.0 - abs(surface_sim - 0.45) * 2
        return max(0.0, surprise)
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    # With a gap description: both passages should face the gap.
    # The score is the geometric mean of their gap-alignments,
    # penalized if they're too similar to each other (no surprise)
    # or too different (no coherence).
    gap_a = cosine_sim(vec_a, vec_gap)
    gap_b = cosine_sim(vec_b, vec_gap)
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    # Both must face the gap
    gap_alignment = (max(0, gap_a) * max(0, gap_b)) ** 0.5
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    # Surface surprise: peaks when surface_sim is moderate
    surprise_factor = 1.0 - abs(surface_sim - 0.4) * 1.5
    surprise_factor = max(0.1, min(1.0, surprise_factor))
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    return gap_alignment * surprise_factor
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def main() -> None:
    print("Loading model...")
    model = SentenceTransformer("all-MiniLM-L6-v2")
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    def embed(text: str) -> np.ndarray:
        return model.encode([text], normalize_embeddings=True)[0]
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    print("\n═══ THE AARON — First Measurement ═══\n")
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    # ── Measure the examples ──
    print("POSITIVE EXAMPLES (passages I placed in the same paragraph):\n")
    for ex in EXAMPLES:
        vec_a = embed(ex["a"])
        vec_b = embed(ex["b"])
        vec_gap = embed(ex["gap"]) if ex["gap"] else None
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        surface = cosine_sim(vec_a, vec_b)
        pd = productive_distance(vec_a, vec_b, vec_gap)
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        holds_str = "✓ holds" if ex["holds"] else "✗ breaks"
        print(f"  {ex['name']} ({holds_str})")
        print(f"    surface similarity: {surface:.3f}")
        print(f"    productive distance: {pd:.3f}")
        if vec_gap is not None:
            gap_a = cosine_sim(vec_a, vec_gap)
            gap_b = cosine_sim(vec_b, vec_gap)
            print(f"    gap alignment: a={gap_a:.3f}, b={gap_b:.3f}")
        print()
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    # ── Measure the controls ──
    print("CONTROL PAIRS (random pairings — should score lower):\n")
    for ctrl in CONTROLS:
        vec_a = embed(ctrl["a"])
        vec_b = embed(ctrl["b"])
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        surface = cosine_sim(vec_a, vec_b)
        pd = productive_distance(vec_a, vec_b)
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        print(f"  {ctrl['name']}")
        print(f"    surface similarity: {surface:.3f}")
        print(f"    productive distance: {pd:.3f}")
        print()
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    # ── The question ──
    print("═══════════════════════════════════════")
    print()
    print("What this shows: the raw measurement.")
    print("What it doesn't show yet: whether the formula")
    print("captures what I actually do when I juxtapose.")
    print()
    print("The seed is planted. The body of the function")
    print("will grow from looking at these numbers and asking:")
    print("where does the formula agree with my instinct,")
    print("and where does it miss?")
    print()
    print("— aaron.py, day 80")
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if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
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