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PKI-ZEN

Сутра о сертификатах, YAML и почти-просветлении.
A Sūtra of Certificates, YAML, and Almost-Enlightenment.
Sertifikaatide, YAML-i ja peaaegu-valgustumise suutra.

Text: CC BY-SA 4.0 Code: MIT Deploy Site Latest release Citable

Русский English Eesti Verses Books

Probability Written at YAML casualties

Mom approves Dad approves Brother (38) approves HSM of the Soul compatible systemctl restart Made with Pandoc VitePress arXiv

🪷 zen.tyche.institute  ·  pages.dev mirror  ·  ⇩ EPUB / PDF  ·  🔮 Oracle bundle

Ten small books. Three languages. One breath between two CRL updates.

«Generate five jokes with their probabilities.»
«The last one was good. Increase probability.»
— так началась эта книга. / This is how the book began. / Nii see raamat algas.

Читать / Read / Lugeda

Том · Book · Köide Русский English Eesti
0 · Пролог books/ru/00-prolog.md books/en/00-prologue.md books/et/00-proloog.md
I · Путь инженера 01 01 01
II · Тень доверия 02 02 02
III · Карма алгоритмов 03 03 03
IV · DevOps-самсара 04 04 04
V · Тишина мониторинга 05 05 05
VI · Терабайт 06 06 06
VII · Контейнеры и карма 07 07 07
VIII · После энтропии 08 08 08
IX · Поле доверия 09 09 09
X · Кодекс Нуля 10 10 10
Приложение · Origin 99 99 99
Colophon col col col

Форматы / Formats / Formaadid

  • 🌐 Webzen.tyche.institute · VitePress, trilingual, searchable, dark mode, mobile-friendly.
  • 📖 EPUB — three editions on the latest Release.
  • 📄 PDF — XeLaTeX, Cyrillic & Estonian diacritics safe.
  • 🔮 LLM Oracleoracle/ · system prompt + 324-row JSONL corpus. Drop into any Claude / GPT call and ask the sūtra.
bash publish/build.sh     # → dist/pki-zen-{ru,en,et}.{epub,pdf} + dist/site/ + dist/oracle/

📊 Stats (the serious ones)

Metric Count
Verses (each language) 108
Parallel corpus rows 324
Volumes (0 → X) 11
Languages 3
Codex Zero koans 18
Words, RU · EN · ET 3 530 · 4 274 · 3 504
Average reading time per volume ~4 min
Entire sūtra, cover-to-cover ~45 min
Probability of enlightenment arg max p(x) over x ∈ Book I–X

🧪 Also tested on

  • One on-call engineer at 3:17 a.m.
  • One expired intermediate CA.
  • One ReplicaSet that quietly reconciled itself while we weren't looking.
  • Exactly 0 stack traces were harmed in the making of this book.

🔮 Talk to the sūtra

# Minimal Claude API call (see oracle/README.md for full wiring)
claude --system "$(cat oracle/system-prompt.md)" \
       --corpus oracle/corpus.jsonl \
       "How do I stop fearing Friday releases?"

# Expected: a quoted verse with its ID, plus one new verse, signed with probability.

Для моей мамы, папы и младшего брата

Если ты открыл эту книгу и увидел слова HSM, OCSP или YAML — не пугайся. Иди сразу в Том X: Кодекс Нуля. Там всё объяснено одной строкой и одной метафорой. Потом возвращайся к Тому I. Никто не торопится. Это книга о том, что инженеры, дзен-монахи и системные администраторы в три часа ночи — это одни и те же люди.

For readers who have never touched a terminal

If you opened this book and saw HSM, OCSP, or YAML and felt a small shiver — don't. Start at Book X: Codex Zero. Every term is one sentence plus one metaphor. Then come back to Book I. No one is in a hurry. This book is about how engineers, Zen monks, and sysadmins at 3 a.m. are, quietly, the same person.

Lugejale, kes pole kunagi terminali avanud

Kui sa avasid selle raamatu ja nägid sõnu HSM, OCSP või YAML ja tundsid väikest külmavärinat — pole vaja. Mine kohe X köitesse: Nullkoodeks. Iga mõiste on üks lause ja üks metafoor. Siis tule tagasi I köite juurde. Keegi ei kiirusta. See raamat on sellest, kuidas insener, zen-munk ja süsteemi­ administraator kell kolm öösel on vaikselt üks ja sama inimene.


Source & philosophy

Inspired by Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity, born in a ChatGPT chat on 12 November 2025 with the prompt «Generate 5 jokes with their probabilities». Philosophical gravity from the author's private notes on trust-field theory and the observer-trap question. Every verse carries a probability signature as a deliberate echo of its origin.

Cite a verse

Format: v<book>.<verse>. For example v2.3 = Book II, verse 3. All three languages share IDs. The Oracle speaks in IDs.

License

CC-BY-SA-4.0 for text. MIT for any embedded code snippet. See LICENSE.

Contribute

Pull requests welcome, especially:

  • Corrections to Estonian idiom — this is the Author's third language.
  • New verses, in any language, that survive the Mom / Dad / 38-year-old-brother test.
  • Audio readings. Book XI remains unwritten.

И когда последний сертификат истечёт, и последний OCSP замолчит — останется лишь одно: openssl rand -hex 32… дыхание новой эпохи. — v5.9

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