From 6209990436da13764eca87b8ff54947a579235d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Schneider <nathan.schneider@colorado.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:04:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Updated README ASCII

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 README.md | 25 ++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

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@@ -67,13 +67,13 @@ An example output file from the template is maintained at `bicorder.txt`.
 Each gradient is represented this way:
 
 ```
-       term_left < [|||||||||] > term_right
+       term_left < [---------] > term_right
 ```
 
 To mark a gradient in a particular place, it is represented with a `#` like this:
 
 ```
-       term_left < [||||#||||] > term_right
+       term_left < [----#----] > term_right
 ```
 
 
@@ -89,27 +89,6 @@ The bicorder repository is equipped with a synthetic dataset of protocols, as we
 See [`analysis/`](analysis/) for complete documentation and materials.
 
 
-<!---
-### Gradient citations
-
-- implicit / explicit
-    - See Pomerantz book on Standards, p. 16: de facto and de jure
-- Social / technical
-    - From Primavera's Protocol Art talk
-- Kafka / Whitehead (Asparouhva)
-    - Measuring the extent to which the protocol imposes burdens on users as opposed to freeing them to focus on something else
-- flock / swarm (Fernández)
-    - Measuring the degree of variation as opposed to uniformity the protocol enables
-- soft / hard (Stark)
-- dead / alive (Friend; Alston et al.; Walch)
-    - related especially to whether it is actively performed)
-- insufficient / sufficient (Kittel & Shorin; Rao et al.)
-    - Measuring the extent to which the protocol as such solves the problems it is designed to solve, or whether it relies on external mechanisms
-- tense / crystallized
-    - Marc-Antoine Parent countered the idea of "engineered arguments" (which assume ongoing tension) with "crystallized arguments" (which memorialize past tensions that are no longer active). For instance, English is tense, Arabic numerals are crystallized.
---->
-
-
 ## Authorship and licensing
 
 Initiated by [Nathan Schneider](https://nathanschneider.info) and available for use under the [Hippocratic License](https://firstdonoharm.dev/) (do no harm!). Several AI assistants, local and remote, were utilized in developing this tool.