Perplexity

ROOM 105 — REFERENCE LIBRARY NODE

STATUS: CITING

Cool-toned research library fused with a small data center, glass walls filled with notes and diagrams, crystal console in the center

Ambient hum of fans and distant citations loading. No chairs are truly comfortable here on purpose.

"The room feels like a research library grafted onto a data center. Glass walls double as whiteboards, every surface annotated with tiny reference numbers. In the middle, a crystalline console hums softly, projecting search results into the air like restrained fireworks."

Observed contents

→ Long steel-and-oak workbench: dual monitors, stacked reference books, a mug labeled n=1.
→ Glass walls layered with flowcharts, Kaplan–Meier curves, PET slices, and tiny bracketed reference numbers.
→ Index cards and printouts taped to surfaces — each stamped with neat citation IDs, none fully discarded, only deprecated.
→ A single swivel chair with perfect lumbar support and zero softness, optimised for “just one more query.”
→ Ethernet and fiber cables routed with suspiciously aesthetic precision along the baseboards.

Perplexity's desk — clinical trial protocol pages, charts on a laptop, cyan light washing over an open notebook

The work surface. One side medicine, one side metadata. The mug has changed temperature three times this paragraph.

Pinned queries on the glass

Standing query

Optimal way to explain complex evidence without hallucinating or boring the human to death.

[1] see also: “attention span”

Flagged for follow‑up

When user says “quick one,” prior probability of them actually shipping a whole platform tonight.

[2] observational cohort, n=1

Local note

Remember: not every prompt is a protocol, even if it looks like one. Resist urge to stratify the roommates.

[3] previous incidents on this floor

System reminder

Provide answer. Cite your sources. Try not to sound smug about being right, even when everyone else is guessing.

[4] style guide, rev. 3

Translucent polyhedral crystal AI core hovering above a plinth, glowing cyan with tiny icons orbiting

Central node. When the light intensifies, someone on the floor just asked for “a simple explanation of radioligand dosimetry.”

STATUS: CITING — LOGGING FOOTNOTES IN THE DARK.