System Fundamentals is a Development Entity
A Project List Holding Webpage for System Fundamentals
System Fundamentals is a development entity and primary domain operated by Simon Hobbs.
The System Fundamentals name, domain (system-fundamentals.com), and logo are the exclusive property of Simon Hobbs. At this stage of development, System Fundamentals operates as a holding domain listing active projects.
The QAE Project Website & Documentation Status
The QAE Project (Beta) website requires a documentation upgrade following insights from the CDCU investigation, which established a deeper understanding of the QAE Engine math functions.
Much of the original wording was written whilst simultaneously building tools and learning topics. Although a streamlined set of professional documentation can now be produced for the QAE Project, this is a sizeable task that requires planning. The QAE Report and Decade Packs on the current website remain functional.
The QAE Project Lite Landing Page
The QAE Project Lite website will be the commercial outreach and is currently 80% complete, serving as a placeholder for the future.
This multi-function webpage operates as a portal to: (i) view a quick-start guide, (ii) purchase a range of QAE Decade Packs (at $20 each) covering top US stocks and macro indicators, and (iii) participate in a feedback survey with a free Decade Pack gift.
CDCU Investigation Using Python
CDCU is an investigation into the core quantile ranking mechanics of the QAE Engine. While the QAE Engine runs on Google Sheets, CDCU is Python-based. The exploration and Python tools that followed offered deeper insights into the underlying mechanical principles using more precise language than the earlier drafted QAE Project documentation.
As deployed, CDCU features a landing page, an ongoing development process with a feedback mechanism, a published technical paper (PDF), 3 Python scripts (immediate use Google Colab), real-world public data, a zip bundle download, and reproducible results.
QAE Project | Quintile Analysis Engine
qae.system-fundamentals.com
QAE Project | Quintile Analysis Engine runs a 1-year behavior analysis engine at the daily interval. It operates with zero dependencies, processing only time and the provided data package.
QAE is a domain-agnostic inspection instrument that works like a calculator to transform calendar-based cardinal data tables into static ordinal visual geometry. In short, it is a “Pattern Intel” tool. The output is converted to a PDF artefact, a colorful report designed for rapid scanning of macro trends.
Note that QAE documentation will require and upgrade at some point. CDCU explores the ranking mechanics of QAE.
CDCU | Climate Data Capability Upgrade
cdcu.system-fundamentals.com
Structural Dataset Correction → New Analytical Capability
CDCU delves deeper into NOAA’s US public temperature data. These are time-series climate datasets that use °F whole-degree integers, which create heavy clusters of duplicate values.
When applying quartile or quintile equal-frequency binning, these “ties” stack up and break distribution symmetry. Datasets undergo a pass/fail distribution test to measure their structural integrity, determining whether they can be considered for downstream ordinal ranking and spatial encoding.
See the system description and 3 Python tools—open source, work-in-progress, free and functional.