<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>ShunyaBar Labs — Field Notes</title><description>Writing on arithmetic geometry, constraint intelligence, and proof-aware optimization.</description><link>https://sethuiyer.github.io/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>The Product Is the Surface. The Research Goes Deeper.</title><link>https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/enter-the-research-program/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/enter-the-research-program/</guid><description>Navokoj is one operational expression of a larger research program. 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scheduling workflow turns staffing data, policies, and preferences into a time-bounded operational decision.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Engineering case studies</category><category>scheduling</category><category>product</category><category>customer-outcomes</category></item><item><title>From NitroSAT Research to the Navokoj Runtime</title><link>https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/from-nitrosat-to-navokoj/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/from-nitrosat-to-navokoj/</guid><description>Why ShunyaBar Labs keeps an open research release while building a commercial constraint runtime around it.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Product explainers</category><category>open-source</category><category>product</category><category>company</category></item><item><title>Navokoj Pricing: Plans, Workloads, and Compute</title><link>https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/navokoj-pricing-explained/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/navokoj-pricing-explained/</guid><description>How Navokoj combines monthly workload entitlements with explicit CPU and GPU compute settlement.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Product explainers</category><category>billing</category><category>product</category><category>api</category></item><item><title>What Happens When the Deadline Arrives?</title><link>https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/what-happens-when-a-solve-times-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/what-happens-when-a-solve-times-out/</guid><description>Navokoj is designed for deadline-bounded decisions: here is what an application receives when a solve cannot finish perfectly.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Product explainers</category><category>product</category><category>anytime</category><category>api</category></item><item><title>Why Customers Switch to Navokoj</title><link>https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/why-customers-switch-to-navokoj/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/why-customers-switch-to-navokoj/</guid><description>A practical constraint runtime for decisions that are expensive, slow, opaque, or difficult to integrate.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Product explainers</category><category>product</category><category>customer-outcomes</category></item><item><title>Multiplicative Archaeology: Recovering Interaction History from Digital Atoms</title><link>https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/multiplicative-archaeology/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/multiplicative-archaeology/</guid><description>A framework for treating numbers as structured histories, connecting digit 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Control Plane for Agentic Systems</title><link>https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/agent-control-plane/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/agent-control-plane/</guid><description>Turn probabilistic agent behavior into reliable, enterprise-grade action with Navokoj&apos;s constraint-governed execution layer. Computing that never fails closed.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Product explainers</category><category>agents</category><category>policy</category><category>product</category></item><item><title>Introducing NitroSAT: A High-Performance, Physics-Informed MaxSAT Solver Now Available via Navokoj API</title><link>https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/nitrosat-release/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/nitrosat-release/</guid><description>ShunyaBar Labs is proud to announce the public release of NitroSAT — a next-generation MaxSAT approximator that achieves exceptional satisfaction rates on massive, real-world constraint problems while maintaining linear scaling in the number of clauses.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Product explainers</category><category>open-source</category><category>engineering</category><category>product</category></item><item><title>The Road to Enterprise (Legacy Report)</title><link>https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/navokoj-road-to-enterprise/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/navokoj-road-to-enterprise/</guid><description>The physics behind Navokoj, the barriers already crossed, and the engineering path from public beta to enterprise readiness.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Product explainers</category><category>Navokoj</category><category>Enterprise</category><category>Roadmap</category></item><item><title>Empirical Evaluation of Navokoj Constraint Solver API</title><link>https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/shipped-api-verification/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/shipped-api-verification/</guid><description>Production verification of anytime constraint solving with partial satisfaction semantics. 47 test cases, scaling analysis, and failure mode characterization.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Experimental reports</category><category>engineering</category><category>api</category><category>verification</category></item><item><title>Navokoj: Computing That Never Fails Closed</title><link>https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/the-future-of-sure-thing-computing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sethuiyer.github.io/docs/blog/the-future-of-sure-thing-computing/</guid><description>Traditional solvers make promises they can&apos;t keep. When perfection is impossible, they return &apos;UNSAT&apos; and your system halts. Navokoj returns the best possible outcome, every time. 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