Open-Source Goblin frequency: A Postmortem

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes frequency as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about frequency follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that frequency is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

Salvage Notes: hallucination

In the goblin underground, hallucination is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The engine Manifestation

Goblin sleep researchers note that engine appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on frequency

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared frequency a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.