i.
Preregister everything, including the disappointing.
Protocols, priors and stop-rules are filed before data is collected. Negative results are first-class citizens of this almanac.
Runaric: a research almanac · vol. ii
Three listening posts at the threshold
of what can be known.
Life · Seizure · Prediction.
Runaric is a small research lab studying three phenomena that all speak in the same faint voice: synthetic life grown inside two-dimensional worlds and ported into the real, temporal-lobe epilepsy read from cortical drift before it becomes a seizure, and the uneasy craft of divination treated as an instrument.
FoundedMMXXIV · Andorra
PostureResearch · not product
Correspondencesignal@runaric.com
Three research axes.
One listening instrument.
§01 · Research axis→ Enter
Life
Synthetic life in two dimensions, evolved, archived, then ported into bodies that breathe.
Apparatuspetri · generations · seeded noise
Exportembodied policies → real-world trials
§02 · Research axis→ Enter
Epilepsy
Reading the prelude to a temporal-lobe seizure from a drifting cortex, and answering before it answers itself.
Apparatusdry-electrode cap · 32 channels
Horizonmedian 72 seconds pre-ictal
§03 · Research axis→ Enter
Prediction
A symbolic draw protocol, true randomness, and cortical drift combined as a formal instrument for measuring how an observer's prior shifts. Treated with rigour rather than reverence.
Instrumentsoperator-RNG · symbolic deck · ganzfeld
Stancefalsifiable · preregistered
We believe the most interesting measurements
are the ones that almost aren’t there.
ii.
Measure twice, with instruments that disagree.
Every claim is cross-read with a second apparatus whose assumptions are different. If both see the same ghost, we investigate. If only one does, we investigate that, too.
iii.
Refuse the seduction of the clean result.
A finding with no outliers, no noise, and no ambiguity is almost certainly a finding about our own pipeline. We keep the unruly data in view.
iv.
Treat ritual as a hypothesis, not an insult.
Symbolic draws, ganzfeld and other observer-facing rituals are studied as historical instruments for coaxing signal out of the observer, not out of the world. We run them because dismissing them without measurement is itself a kind of faith.
Currently one person.
Founder · principal investigator
Eduardo[Lázaro]
Lives with temporal-lobe epilepsy. Started Runaric from a question he could not stop asking: whether the aura some of us learn to notice can be read, reliably, from outside the person who has it. Carries all three axes for now; leads Epilepsy from the inside.
Open invitation
Runaric is open to collaborators from clinical neurology, artificial life / reinforcement learning, statistics and preregistration, and researchers who have lived with the kind of thing we are studying. Write in rather than wait to be asked.
write to signal@runaric.com →Scopethree axes
Team sizeone
Epilepsypilot wearer 01
Predictionfirst cohort · 2026-Q3
Recent dispatches from the field.
№ 003 · 2026 · 03 · 28Conway's Game of Life: the simplest universe that learns to compute.Life →№ 002 · 2026 · 02 · 14Hughlings Jackson and the dreamy state of temporal-lobe seizures.Epilepsy →№ 001 · 2026 · 01 · 09Tetlock's Good Judgment Project: how forecasting becomes measurable.Prediction →№ 000 · 2025 · 11 · 02A preface: why this almanac is publishing at all.Runaric →