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EP13: Convergence — Six Domains, 232,083 Events, Zero Findings
TLDR Episode 13 of PAPER TRAIL aligns six evidence domains — bank documents, wire transfers, FedEx shipments, flight logs, corporate filings, and institutional...
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11 investigations
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EP14: What Remains — 42% and the Pipeline That Waits
TLDR Episode 14, the series finale, confronts the 42% gap: the DOJ identified over 6 million potentially responsive pages and released approximately 3.5...
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EP02: The Pipeline — 1.18 Million Entities and the Missing Third
TLDR Episode 2 of PAPER TRAIL introduces the 16-script processing pipeline that converted 2.1 million raw government documents into structured, searchable data...
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EP03: Ghosts in the Machine — When Machines Hallucinate
TLDR Episode 3 of PAPER TRAIL confronts the pipeline's most dangerous failure mode: phantom entities generated by OCR hallucination. Of the top 25...
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EP10: 863,000 Emails — The Post-Conviction Network
TLDR Episode 10 of PAPER TRAIL covers the 863,000-email sub-corpus spanning Data Sets 9 and 11 — scanned printouts processed through Relativity litigation...
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EP12: The Method — 0.84 and the Line Between Computation and Evidence
TLDR Episode 12 of PAPER TRAIL explains how computational findings become evidence: the Daubert standard for legal admissibility, five quality gates the...
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Three Arcs, Fourteen Episodes: Building PAPER TRAIL
TLDR PAPER TRAIL is a 14-episode documentary series organized into three narrative arcs: Foundation (EP01-03), Evidence Domains (EP04-10), and Synthesis...
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Four Tiers of Verification: How Every Claim Is Graded
TLDR Every claim in PAPER TRAIL is assigned one of four evidence tiers: T1 (government primary source), T2 (corpus-derived computation), T3 (journalism), or T4...
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Distribution Roadmap: International First, Then Congress
TLDR The PAPER TRAIL distribution strategy sequences international law enforcement stakeholders before domestic congressional recipients to maximize...
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Seven Scalable Vector Graphics at 1920x1080: Visualizing the Pipeline
TLDR Seven production Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images — a type of image that stays sharp at any size — were created at 1920x1080 resolution with a...
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Markdown to PowerPoint: Version-Controlled Presentations
TLDR All PAPER TRAIL episodes are authored as numbered markdown files (one per slide), converted to PowerPoint via Python scripts, and tracked through version...