The workshop vocabulary: a short definition and a practical note for each term.
A definition
Seed
A short value that makes a random or generated operation repeatable.
What it is
A short value that makes a random or generated operation repeatable.
In practice
Keep the seed with the reading. It is the difference between 'the oracle said' and 'this draw, at this seed, said'.
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- Oracle A system that returns a reading from a question, a seed and a set of symbols.
- Field record The dated note of what was done, what was expected and what happened.
- Glitch A fault, error or unexpected output read as a signal.
- Ledger An append-only record of constructs, feedings, readings and closings.
- Banishing A deliberate close: a boundary, a clearing, a return to ordinary attention.
- Technomancy Magic made with technical systems: a working that uses a machine, a network or a program as its medium or its instrument.
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