North star / Where edge comes from
Edge is discovered, not designed
A person proposes what to measure. The data decides what predicts.
Nothing in the work encodes someone's theory of what a good setup looks like. People propose measurements from many directions, and the data decides which ones predict and which combinations matter.
For any design choice we ask who decides what matters here. If the answer is the researcher, the choice is wrong.
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