THE LABORATORY
FIG. 0 — INSTRUMENT TURNED ON ITSELF
PROBNAYA
An independent
computational
laboratory.
Not every investigation needs a commercial purpose. Some only need to answer a question.
HARMONOGRAPH · TWO PENDULUMS · THE TRACE SETTLES, THEN BEGINS AGAIN
LABORATORY CARDPROB–
- PREMISE
- CAPABILITY GROWS FASTER THAN THE INSTRUMENTS FOR WORKING WITH IT
- METHOD
- BUILD THE INSTRUMENT · RUN IT · KEEP WHAT SURVIVES
- OPERATOR
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ALEX MALININ · PRINCIPAL
COLLABORATORS DRAWN IN PER INVESTIGATION
I kept encountering questions the software I built could not answer. Some needed an experiment. Some needed a new instrument. PROBNAYA is where I follow them.
- REGISTER
- EVERY RECORD CARRIES THE PREFIX PROB–
- FUNDING
- OWN WORK · A SMALL NUMBER OF COMMISSIONS
- OUTCOME
- SOME BECOME PRODUCTS · SOME BECOME INFRASTRUCTURE · SOME STAY EXPERIMENTS