cost.md

cost

inf cost the static cost model for inf. `inf cost query.inf` reports a cycle ceiling before execution, satisfying trident's third constraint. cost is defined as a contract at the bbg ↔ inf interface: bbg owns the cost of reads and the committed size statistics; inf owns the cost of combining reads.…

a cyberlink that costs will to create — making it an honest indicator of what the neuron values the cost of learning is will. will is locked balance × time — a finite budget for allocating attention. a neuron cannot link everything — it must choose. this scarcity makes each cyberlink a costly…