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Contact
The person behind Microcosm, and the routes for questions, corrections, and critique.
Who built this
I'm Will Cook, an economics undergraduate at the University of Bristol. I built this entirely on my own with AI. AI was not the main tool; it was the only tool. The University of Bristol has no affiliation with this work and had no involvement in it.
The public repository is not the whole system. The full version includes live tools, non-public data, and capabilities I did not think it appropriate to put online all at once. Microcosm is the smaller standalone slice: source files, component records, evidence classes, stable source addresses, and scope limits. The evidence page records which lane each component took, so the gap between what the public slice shows and what the private root contains is written down rather than implied.
This is a review candidate, not a finished product. It is published so it can be inspected and corrected. If you find mistakes, bad assumptions, or anything unclear, I would genuinely like to know.
Because I built this alone, the system grew its own private vocabulary along the way. For release I have tried to translate that language into plainer public terms. If an odd word has survived the cleanup, that is leftover translation work, not a term of art; please point it out.
I taught myself everything here, and I have worked without collaborators throughout. If you have the background to evaluate work like this properly, at a frontier lab or elsewhere, I would value a serious look, and I am happy to walk through the wider system through a controlled review route. I have had to work most of this out from first principles, and that is a slow way to find one's own mistakes.