Viveka Mohan Das · Research

What I investigate

Research

Four working papers and one archival series, in progress.

Total Cost per Successful Goal (TCSG)

preprint — not yet peer reviewed

A dual-axis reporting framework for AI-assisted work: an environmental axis (ECSG) and a human-burden axis (HCSG), both normalised per successfully verified goal rather than per output. Includes a feasibility pilot of the measurement harness and a denominator-governance protocol for auditability.

Gap: Measurement → TCSG

The Two-Clock Model

not yet peer reviewed — 50-entity panel

Structural presence S(t) vs. AI perception P(t) — an original framework, partly finished, active research.

Gap: Measurement → Insight

Trust Transfer

not yet peer reviewed

How credibility moves through networks, brands and machines. Illustrated manuscript, chapters 0–14, substantial draft (not public).

Gap: Automation → Trust

Provenance, Reconstruction, and the Limits of Analogy

preprint — open

A protocol for cross-temporal comparison of technical practice, demonstrated on a worked reconstruction of the Mānava Śulba Sūtra's value 25/8. This paper sets out the protocol; The Rope and the Algorithm is where it's applied at length. Identical text on SSRN and Zenodo.

Gap: Automation → Trust

Archival Content

preprint — open

Foundations of Natural Language Processing, 2015-2018: A 20-Part Archival Series — 20 NLP research surveys written 2015-2018 during independent consulting practice, released 2026. Not previously published.

Phonology and morphology through methods, meaning and machine understanding

← Previous / 03 Work Next / 05 Capability →