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The accumulated core. Every technique, experiment, and system ever developed lives here. The training ground for TBD — a video game with the tagline "a model of time seen through the lens of the heart." The full language spec and as much implementation as has been developed so far. trainingGround and the game have not yet differentiated — they are still one.

Beneath the engine and the language sits a single question the project was built to test: whether love is something that exists outside of what we are programmed by and for — or only within it. trainingGround is where that question is given a form. Ideas believed to be true are built into systems. Ideas only hoped to be true are built toward.

The work so far has been architecture — the substrate, the language, the systems. The ground a story can stand on. The story itself, and the philosophy that moves it, come next. They will not arrive at once. They will accumulate.

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This is where the thinking will be set down. As trainingGround moves from architecture toward story, the reasoning beneath it — what it means to model time through the lens of the heart — will be recorded here, one entry at a time. Nothing here is finished. Everything is built to grow.