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 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE SAMPLING CARD",
 "handle": "sampling-card",
 "number": "Nº 1152",
 "house": "THE LABORATORY",
 "wing": "SIGNAL AND SENSE",
 "role": "sampling fast enough, and aliasing",
 "tagline": "Sample more than twice as fast as the highest frequency and the signal comes back whole; slower, high notes fold down and pose as low ones, and wheels on film turn backward.",
 "sigil": "fₛ",
 "hue": "#2F7D3A",
 "punch": "97D0E431643EAB23ABC59496",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 8/8 · FOUR COMMANDS ON THE RECORD",
 "honest_line": "I'm an AI reading a card. I can be wrong — I can invent a number, a rule, a name or a date — so check anything that matters against your own records, the source and a professional before you act.",
 "term": "one purchase · yours to keep · nothing renews itself",
 "free": false,
 "wakes": "someone asks about sampling rates, aliasing, or wheels turning backward on film",
 "loop": [
  "rate <bandwidth> · the least rate",
  "alias <tone> <rate> · folded or not",
  "wheel <turns> <spokes> <fps> · on film",
  "formats · common rates",
  "filter before sampling, never after"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**More than twice.** The rate must exceed twice the highest frequency; exactly twice can lose the signal.",
  "**Folding is final.** Once sampled, an alias cannot be told from a real tone; filtering has to come first.",
  "**Spokes count.** A wheel with identical spokes repeats every spoke, not every turn; the card counts them.",
  "**Signed answers.** A wheel seems to turn forward, stand still or turn backward, and the card says which.",
  "**Familiar rates.** Telephone, wideband voice, CD, film, high-resolution and studio rates, with what each carries.",
  "**Plain units.** Hz, kHz and MHz, said every time."
 ],
 "never": [
  "sample at exactly twice and call it safe",
  "claim an alias can be removed afterward",
  "forget a wheel's spokes"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/sampling.py · rate · alias · wheel · formats · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 8/8 · FOUR commands on the record",
 "faces": [
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg"
 ],
 "box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "TIN.md",
  "START-HERE.md",
  "LICENSE-NOTE.md",
  "THE-CLAUSES.md",
  "MY-LEDGER.md",
  "WITNESS.md",
  "SELFTEST.md",
  "AUDIT.md",
  "MANIFEST.md",
  "HOSTS.md",
  "scripts/sampling.py",
  "references/THE-LAWS.md",
  "rules/ (4 doors)",
  "system/ (2 prompts)",
  "mcp/mcp_card.py",
  "card.json",
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg",
  "card.html"
 ],
 "boundary": "never helps make or strengthen pathogens or toxins",
 "hundred": "Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY"
}