PROBNAYA LAB
THE LABORATORY FIG. 0 — INSTRUMENT TURNED ON ITSELF
HARMONOGRAPH · TWO PENDULUMS · THE TRACE SETTLES, THEN BEGINS AGAIN

PROBNAYA is an independent computational laboratory.

PREMISE
CAPABILITY GROWS FASTER THAN THE INSTRUMENTS FOR WORKING WITH IT
METHOD
BUILD THE INSTRUMENT · RUN IT · KEEP WHAT SURVIVES
OPERATOR
ONE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR · COLLABORATORS DRAWN IN PER INVESTIGATION
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

Not every investigation needs a commercial purpose. Some only need to answer a question.