// about · 42-research
About 42-research
Every question worth asking deserves a real answer. 42-research investigates the technical questions people genuinely care about — yet rarely verify — and delivers answers that hold up to scrutiny.
// why we exist
Why 42
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a supercomputer spends seven and a half million years computing the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything —42. The joke: the answer arrived, but no one remembered the question.
Technology is the mirror image: assertions, sales pitches, and "I heard that…" everywhere, yet rarely is the question asked clearly or the answer chased to the end. 42-research exists to ask thequestions worth being curious aboutclearly, then answer them with reproducible, traceable, peer-reviewable methods thathold up to verification.
First principles
first-principlesFact-based, not from memory
Every technical claim must be verified against official docs or primary data — training data can be out of date.
Don’t echo, verify
Popular claims (e.g. "X totally beats Y") are verified independently, with any deviation from the original claim recorded honestly.
Conclusions are falsifiable
Every conclusion states the conditions under which it holds and the conditions under which it does not.
Citations are clickable
Every factual claim carries a URL, annotated with the verification date and status.
Topic lifecycle
topic-lifecycle- 01hypothesisState a hypothesis and define falsifiable criteria.
- 02surveyGather from multiple sources (official docs / primary data / community practice).
- 03experimentReproducible measurement (benchmarks / cost models / deployment), with environment and commands recorded.
- 04verifyAdversarial verification: actively seek counter-examples, challenge your own conclusion.
- 05synthesizeSynthesize into a conclusion with a decision matrix and applicability boundaries.
- 06publishProduce a self-contained HTML artifact; metadata indexed in D1.
// citation-standard
Citation tiers
Primary sources(official docs, raw benchmark data) outweighsecondary sources(blogs, paraphrases).
On conflict, primary sources win, and the conflict is recorded. Each citation is annotated with its verification date and status.
// adversarial-verification
Adversarial verification
Before synthesizing, every core conclusion is challenged with "where could this be wrong?": are there counter-examples, is the data biased, is correlation confused with causation, does it depend on a fast-changing fact.
Multiple skeptics can be dispatched in parallel to independently attempt a rebuttal; if a majority refute it, the conclusion does not stand.
// definition-of-done
Definition of done
- ✓Hypothesis is explicit and falsifiable
- ✓Every factual claim has ≥1 verified citation (core claims need a primary source)
- ✓Experiment is reproducible (environment, commands, versions recorded)
- ✓Adversarial verification done, with counter-examples and boundaries recorded
- ✓Conclusion includes a decision matrix and applicability boundaries
- ✓HTML artifact is self-contained, with complete JSON-LD, responsive
- ✓No unverified "I heard that…" assertions
How to participate
You can propose a topic worth digging into, or complete a study following the methodology and submit a PR.