Live: examen-journal.vercel.app
The examen is a centuries-old daily practice of review — recollect, discern, resolve. This app rebuilds it as a decision instrument.
You record a decision, your gut read, and seven measurements of the situation. The NERVA kernel weighs them, applies the brakes, and returns one of five verdicts: Commit · Hold · Wait · Consult · Toxic. Later, when the check-in date arrives, you score what actually happened. The point is not the verdict — it is the record.
The written decision is a label; the kernel never reads your words. It reads the sliders:
| Axis | Question it asks |
|---|---|
| Evidence (E) | Which way do the facts lean? |
| Provenance (P) | How verified are those facts — hearsay to firsthand? |
| Uncertainty (H) | How legible is the situation? |
| Interference (Φ) | How emotionally charged are you right now? |
| Stakes (S) | How much does this matter? |
| Blast radius (B) | How many others bear the cost? |
| Time pressure (T) | How fast is the window closing? |
The kernel multiplies, it does not average — one weak measurement caps the whole reading. Strong evidence from an unverified source stays weak. It is a brake, not an oracle. The "held down by" line in the instrument names whichever measurement is doing the holding.
Four structural rules can override the base verdict: One-Way Brake (irreversible + insufficient confidence → Consult), Desolation (never make a change while the inner weather is bad — Ignatian in origin), Blast Consult (others bear the cost → they get a voice), and Urgency Escalation (when waiting is itself a decision).
Runs the NERVA mixed-state kernel: effective evidence E·P, coherence
C = (1−H)(1−γΦ), mixed-state radius r = C·|E·P|, von Neumann
entropy from the Bloch eigenvalues. Raw telemetry (r mixed, S_vN) is
displayed untouched.
v11.1 is a consumer calibration of NERVA v11 — the reference math
is unchanged in nerva-v10.
Delta: decision-confidence readout softened to rMixed^0.72;
commitBase 0.55 → 0.42, commitSlope 0.25 → 0.20; the Desolation
rule acts on Φ directly (it was unreachable under the strict curve).
These constants are provisional pending scored outcomes — the
app's own falsification loop (fifty scored outcomes) is the
calibration instrument. Every logged entry carries its
kernelVersion so records stay honest across revisions.
One file. index.html — vanilla JS, no framework, no build step, no
dependencies beyond Google Fonts.
Privacy is structural, not promised: entries live only in the
browser's localStorage on the device (examen_v1). No server, no
account, no analytics on entries. Nothing leaves the device — which
also means clearing site data deletes the journal, and devices do
not sync.
examen_capture.html and examen_console.html are the original
capture/console pair, kept for continuity; /console routes to the
console.
Private beta ahead of an App Store build (Capacitor wrap: native storage, check-in notifications, export). A Starpoint LLC project.