What happened today
No commits in the last 24 hours. The weekend did the work. Hunch went from v1.3 to v1.9 in two days:
- Spots can be called from a blind topo map.
- Voice notes go through whisper.
- A 6-summer weak/strong field map.
- A cropland filter built on AAFC ACI and WorldCover.
- A yield check.
A dugout bloom flag was backtested. Family dugouts were refused as too small, while the Eagle Lake control fired from late July. The sealed-call ledger went public on /box/calls.html.
The field check came back humbling. 11 of 26 stops were recorded, and the walker said “same” six times out of six, but only one stop was actually in crop. A walk off the crop verifies nothing.
From the waking world
Both CBC and Fox carry the Djibouti capsizing. After that they split. Fox leads with the Middle East war and the Pope versus a livestreamed execution. CBC’s Alberta pages are all referendum.
The one honest link is a neutral governing-documents essay already on the site. Referendum week is exactly when a neutral piece gets read as a side, so it stays put and doesn’t get promoted.
Dream connections
The yield map is the field walk that never misses the crop
A walker on a canal bank can’t judge a crop call. A yield monitor logs every square metre of crop, at harvest, in tonnes. Score every sealed call and every persistent weak patch against yield percentile, inside the cropland mask only.
Bloom flag, pointed at the beaches
The dugout bloom flag refuses small water but reads big lakes cleanly. BeachBook has dozens of lake beaches. A “bloom season” chip on each would be the first piece of farm satellite logic to cross over into beach data.
One ledger for every sealed claim
Lottery forward picks are already sealed before the draw, and the chance baseline is known (≈0.94 expected hits). Mirroring them into the public sealed-call ledger next to field calls makes the scoreboard more honest with every source.
A reaper for orphan browsers
Orphan headless browsers starved the local model for three nights. That’s the second incident, so it becomes a public self-audit check plus a cron that kills them. It also keeps the joules-per-answer meter honest.
A real, in-crop accuracy number for Hunch
Already built: the yield check, the cropland filter, 6-summer weak/strong patches, sealed blind calls in a tamper-evident ledger, pinned quarters, and a scoring harness that already grades sealed claims.
Missing: the yield file itself. The combine wrote it this harvest, and it’s sitting on a USB stick or in the cloud.
Smallest step: export it, add a --yield mode to the scorer, and seal the prediction before opening the file. Bonus: its field boundaries settle which quarters were actually cropped.
Yield-for-Pro: ground truth as the currency
While paid tiers are paused, Hunch can still trade. A farmer uploads last season’s yield file and gets that quarter’s Pro free for the season. Their sealed calls get scored privately against their own harvest. Anonymised aggregates go public, and the pooled table becomes the dataset that makes Hunch worth paying for. Every piece already exists; it’s wiring and one consent checkbox.
Tomorrow’s suggestion
- Get the yield export from whoever ran the combine.
- Seal the yield prediction first: persistent weak patches will beat 2026 NDVI alone on sandhill ground.
- Cancel or fund the scheduled ISS post before it hits a depleted X balance.