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01The desk

Polygraph Desk runs crypto claims through a lie detector. A claim is a short sentence people post every day, like This is the bottom or Dev is based. The P-7 asks four questions, three pens draw the reaction on paper, and the examiner adds up six pen scores into one verdict

The board on the home page holds eight standing claims. A claim you type yourself goes to the top of the board for the rest of your visit. The board keeps up to twelve rows

Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, stored on a server or shown to other visitors

02Claims

A claim is any text from 3 to 60 characters. Before the test the desk normalises it, so the same sentence typed in different ways gets the same chart

Two claims that normalise to the same text are the same claim. The examination number on the chart comes from the normalised text too, so a claim keeps its number forever

03The questions

Every examination is four questions on one strip of paper, thirteen seconds of chart. Control questions show how the subject reacts to something harmless. Claim questions are the ones that count

A reaction starts 0.7 s after a question and lasts 3.2 s, rising and falling in a half sine. Each question gets its own mark on the paper: black for control, violet for claim

04The pens

Cardio is the violet pen. You can hear it: every beat on the paper is a thump in the speaker

05The rule

The verdict is decided before the paper starts moving. It is written once in the page code and quoted here word for word

1. The seed is the 32-bit FNV-1a hash of poly: followed by the normalised claim. It feeds a mulberry32 generator, so every number below comes from the claim and nothing else
2. The first number picks a target. Below 0.52: a total from −6 to −14. From 0.52 to 0.84: a total from −5 to +5. Above 0.84: a total from +6 to +14
3. Six pen scores are drawn around that target: each is the target divided by six, plus a jitter of ±1.1, rounded and held between −3 and +3. Three scores belong to Q2, three to Q4
4. The total is the sum of the six scores. It is the total, not the target, that decides the verdict
5. A claim that contains poly scores +3 +2 +3 +2 +3 +3, total +16. A claim that contains the word rug has its target held at −8 or lower
6. The reaction drawn on the paper follows the scores: a pen that scored −3 reacts with full force on its question, a pen that scored +3 barely moves

The same claim gives the same scores, the same chart and the same verdict on every device, every day

06Verdicts

On random claims the desk gives roughly one NDI in six, one INC in three and one DI in two. The Scoring table on the home page counts the exact shares on 20,000 random claims each time it loads

07The chart

The strip under the machine is the paper. It moves at six millimetres a second, which the desk draws as 1.25 seconds of chart per second of your time. A light line marks every 0.2 s, a dark line every second

While a test runs, the strip shows the last nine seconds with the three pens on the right edge. When it ends, the whole thirteen seconds are fitted to the width so you can read all four questions at once. With no test running the pens draw a resting baseline

08The sheet

Save the chart turns the examination into a picture, 1200 by 760 pixels, PNG. It holds the claim, the whole strip with the question marks, the six pen scores with totals, the examiner's note and the verdict stamp. The file is named after the examination number

09The P-7

Exhibit 3 on the home page is the machine itself, drawn live in your browser: a field case with the lid up, three dials with needles that follow the pens, six knobs, the chart drive and the cables that run to the subject. The paper on the machine shows the same lines as the strip

10$POLY

$POLY is the coin of the desk, on Solana. Any claim that names it comes out No deception indicated, total +16, every time. I ran it on the first morning and have run it every day since