Item number SCP-397 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-397 is contained within a secure Arboretum at Site-20. The Arboretum should be stocked with vegetation native to... and the temperature adjusted to mimic local seasonal variances. SCP-397 is confined to the Arboretum space when not undergoing active testing. Transfer for testing is subject to level 3 approval and is to be facilitated by at least 3 security personnel with documented intelligence quotient ratings above... SCP-397 may be provided with music or literature upon request, though all selections must be reviewed by at least 1 level 3 researcher to determine suitability. SCP-397 is to be kept isolated from any primates at all times. Save Research Staff Description SCP-397 is a female chimpanzee standing 1.27 meters or 4 feet 2 inches in height and weighing 40.82 kilograms or 90 pounds exhibiting human level sapiens. SCP-397 can read and speak both English and the local dialect of proficiently and is able to write in a somewhat legible shorthand. Standard testing measures an IQ of approximately 160. Though this number may be inflated due to the distinctly non-standard nature of the subject, SCP-397 has demonstrated an intense desire to utilize its abilities to read and write, showing particular interest in the fields of ancient history and classical music. Its studies in these fields have been supervised by Dr. W. W. whose curriculum carefully excludes any in-depth tactical reviews of military history or advanced political theory. SCP-397 has shown particular interest in the works of Franz Lischt, Tacitus, Seneca, and Sergei Rachmaninov. SCP-397 was brought to the attention of the Foundation after Dr. W. W. received reports of coordinated attacks on the village of W. perpetrated by a band of primates, utilizing simple slings, spears, and clubs. Witnesses consistently recounted instances of a chimpanzee leader issuing commands, setting fires, and distributing rewards of food for successful human kills to its fellows from well-defended locations at the village outskirts. After an unexpectedly difficult skirmish resulting in the loss of Agent R, SCP-397 was apprehended and tranquilized. The remaining chimpanzees of data expunged were captured and terminated to ensure that any behaviors taught to them by SCP-397 would not spread. While in Foundation custody, SCP-397 has made 18 escape attempts, occasionally fashioning simple weaponry or tools from vegetation to do so. Several of these attempts have involved D-class personnel acting as willing accomplices, most often through sabotage of security countermeasures or through direct assaults on security staff on behalf of SCP-397. As a result, D-class personnel with a personality matrix rating of 6 or lower and possessing an IQ below are not to be used in the containment of SCP-397. Withdrawal of reading and music privileges has proven most effective in curbing escape attempts. Addendum Despite a self-admitted distaste for modern human society and customs, SCP-397 regularly attempts to imitate human physical mannerisms, such as upright bipedal walking, a log between SCP-397 and Dr. Rude follows. Dr, could you describe for the records the colony of chimpanzees that you were discovered with in... SCP-397. Oh, them. What happened to them after you took me? Dr, please just answer the question. SCP-397, the sound of chirping, speculated to be SCP-397 attempting to laugh. I see, I see. I suppose I would have done the same thing. I suppose I was doing the same thing. Dr, please explain your comment. SCP-397, you saw my society and so you destroyed it. Back in the forests of data expunged, I saw your society and so I was destroying your comrades, one by one. One by one.  But there's nothing I can do while I'm stuck in this fake forest. Let me out, Dr. I have better things to be doing. Item Number SCP-391 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-391 is to be kept in a 5x5x5 meter aviary made of heavy steel mesh. Structures mimicking mixed broadleaf, deciduous and pine forests should be placed inside the aviary. Artificial lights mimicking normal day and night patterns are to be kept well maintained. Temperature and humidity should be controlled to mimic a humid continental climate. The door to the aviary is to be kept locked at all times when SCP-391 is not being studied, maintained or fed. Personnel exiting the aviary are to be searched for objects removed from the aviary. Personnel attempting to remove material from the aviary without permission will be reprimanded. Description SCP-391 is a single female specimen of Tito Alba, or common barn owl. Pellets regurgitated by SCP-391 are typically comprised of some form of precious metal. The metal produced seems to vary with the type of prey ingested. The owl, nicknamed Midas, has been documented regurgitating gold, silver, platinum and other precious metals. Refer to the SCP-391 test logs for more information. SCP-391 was acquired in 2000 after a park ranger reported finding nuggets of gold resembling owl pellets. The foundation found the report during a routine information sweep. All owls in a 50 kilometer radius were tranquilized and captured under the guise of a tagging and tracking experiment. Agents examined and released over owls before SCP-391 was found. Addendum 3911 After several examinations by foundation veterinarians, no anomalies have been found within SCP-391. Other than its unusual ability, SCP-391 is a normal adult member of its species. Addendum 3912 Due to repeated contact with researchers, Dr. W. W. and Dr. W. SCP-391 has become accustomed to some human contact. However, SCP-391 is still a wild animal and should be treated with caution and respect. Note, Dr. W. W. requested permission to breed SCP-391 to see whether the trait would be passed to its young. Request pending approval from the site director. SCP-391 Experiment Log Note, these experiments were carried out after SCP-391 was kept on a restricted diet of boneless, skinless chicken for a week. Researchers also withheld food for 12 hours prior to testing.  It was the same size as a pellet from a normal owl. There couldn't have been more than 10 grams of indigestible material on the rat, but the pellet weighed the correct weight for a piece of indium of that size. It seems that whatever is facilitating the change in matter doesn't adhere to the law of conservation of mass. Name, Dr. W. W. Date, Expunged Item, 1,320 gram black rat Reaction, same as the white rat Output, same as the white rat Note, SCP-391 was placed in an enclosed system where all mass and energy input was carefully measured and showed a gradual increase in mass about two hours after ingestion. No energy or mass change in the system could account for this increase. It seems color is not important to the reaction. The pellet produced, however, can't yet be explained without violating the basic laws of physics. Name, Dr. W. W. Date, Expunged Item, 1,320 gram black rat Reaction, same as previous tests Output, same as previous tests Note, the rat used in the test was radio-labeled and the digestion process was observed with specialized equipment. The meat of the rat was separated from the fur and bone and digested as one would expect in a regular owl. The extra mass in the pellet is not coming from the ingested material itself. Item number, SCP-378 Object Class, FAMIL Notice from the Foundation Records and Information Security Administration. Following the implementation of the Kraken Protocol on 2706-1963, containment procedures for SCP-378 have been updated. Personnel assigned to the SCP-378 project are to review its updated documentation as soon as possible. Claudia Southy, Director, RISA Special Containment Procedures SCP-378 is to be contained in a subterranean entity containment terrarium. Temperature and humidity are to be maintained at levels optimal for the growth and habitation of hetero-dermia cane crow, Utica cave lichen, and Prenolepis Everettman, North American cave ant. Twice per year, SCP-378 is to undergo a medical and psychological examination. Access to SCP-378's containment terrarium is separated from the surrounding facility by a decontamination chamber. Handling personnel are required to wear full body protection and must be screened for SCP-378-A prior to exiting decontamination. Infected personnel are to be terminated unless the position of SCP-378-1 or 3 is vacant, in which case they are to be assigned to the relevant position instead. As of the adoption of the Kraken Protocol, SCP-378's containment is focused on maintaining its three primary containment components. SCP-378-1 is housed in the Area 19 barracks. SCP-378-1 is employed as a maintenance technician with a security clearance of O-slash A-19. Upon the death of the current SCP-378-1, brain dead or comatose reserve personnel may be elected to replace it. As SCP-378-1 is the primary means of communication with SCP-378, care must be maintained to keep SCP-378-1's vocal functions in working order. SCP-378-2 currently takes the form of David Lockheed, a 36-year-old Caucasian male in the employ of the American Supernatural Containment Initiative, ASCII, as a clerical aide. To maintain the continued operations of the SCP Foundation in the United States, SCP-378-2 has been tasked with sabotaging ASCII operations against the Foundation, as well as collecting information in the Foundation's interests. SCP-378-2 is expected to follow a strict health and exercise regimen due to the inherent difficulty in replacing it. SCP-378-3 currently takes the form of Lisa Martin, a 33-year-old Mexican-American female employee at the Spicy Crust Pizza in Staten Island. In the event of SCP-378-3's death, it must be replaced as soon as possible. Each component is fitted with a tracking device and an audio recorder. Each week, embedded agents stationed near each component are to evaluate the health and integrity of each component and its associated surveillance equipment. The utilization of SCP-378-A in further infiltration is pending Foundation Overwatch approval. Description SCP-378 is an arthropod, superficially resembling a deformed larval instance of Scolopendra Gigantia, the Amazonian giant centipede. SCP-378's legs are largely vestigial, primarily meant to assist in peristaltic locomotion. SCP-378 measures 3 meters from mouth to anus, with a bodily thickness of 1 meter and a weight of 233 kilograms. Under normal conditions, SCP-378 is an omnivore, with a diet consisting primarily of lichen and insects. SCP-378 is capable of asexual reproduction at will, producing instances of SCP-378-A from its anus. Instances of SCP-378-A resemble adult Scolopendra Gigantia. Dissection suggests this resemblance is superficial, as SCP-378-A lack expected organ systems beyond a primitive neural network. Instances of SCP-378-A are controlled remotely by SCP-378. SCP-378-A are obligate endoparasites, infecting advanced primates such as humans, Homo ignotus, data expunged, and Gigantipithecus sapiens, common Sasquatch. Upon infection, SCP-378-A integrates itself with its host's nervous system through poorly understood means, inducing brain death and extending SCP-378's remote control to the host itself. Vital functions and sensory input remain unaffected. Upon infecting a suitable host, SCP-378 will attempt to reintegrate its hosts into their respective species' social sphere. Once integrated, SCP-378 directs its hosts to indefinitely engage in the behaviors typical for its species, such as communal labor and social recreation. Human hosts prefer environments with a high population density and a robust entertainment scene. The upper limit of active hosts SCP-378 can maintain at any one tie is unknown. Upon initial interrogation, SCP-378 confessed to the existence of 26 human hosts, as well as two instances of Aloata Pigra, Guatemalan Black Howler, and three instances of SCP-1000, of which it noted had been acquired during a period of heavy intoxication. Addendum 178-294b A Psychological Evaluation of SCP-378 Conducted by Dr. Simon Glass Tentatively designated scolopendra animalia, SCP-378 is unique among arthropods, possessing either human levels of sapiens or the ability to emulate its hosts' intellectual faculties. In any case, SCP-378 is self-aware and remarkably intelligent. SCP-378's relationship to its hosts is complicated. While SCP-378 maintains a consistent sense of identity across multiple hosts, each is treated as a persona for SCP-378 to role-play. Hosts rarely interact with SCP-378 or fellow hosts. Suggesting SCP-378 primarily utilizes its anomalous abilities for entertainment. This is further suggested by SCP-378's readiness to abandon such personas under duress. Aside from integration into human social spheres, host behavior is largely unique to each instance. Extraversion is relatively common. Hosts rarely isolate themselves except to sleep or excrete. SCP-378 appears to take equal enthusiasm in stressful versus pleasant situations. Of note, SCP-378 is particularly attached to the identity of Lisa Martin. In contrast to other hosts, Lisa Martin's weekly routine is relatively static. From 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on all days except Saturday, Miss Martin will show up to work at the nearest pizzeria from the former location of Digian Antonio's Pies, regardless of employment status or scheduled hours. From 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. on all days except Saturday, Miss Martin will engage in the maintenance of one of 17 rooftop gardens across the city of New York. Of these, 13 are maintained by a cooperative, 12 of which Miss Martin is not a part of. From 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturdays, Miss Martin alternates between socializing with a collection of friends, co-workers, and lovers, and playing piano for various high-end bars. From 11 p.m. to 12 a.m., Miss Martin will shower and prepare for bed. Miss Martin will sleep from 12 a.m. to 7 a.m. when she will wake up and prepare for the next cycle. In the event of Miss Martin's death, SCP-378 will direct another host to assume her identity. Attempts to interrupt Miss Martin's routine have been unilaterally met with unusual levels of hostility from SCP-378 and its hosts. From Assistant Director Daniela Hayden, Classification Level Rise of 4, Employee Number 134, To Director Kelsey Feinstein, Classification Level XK-4, Employee Number 87, Regarding, Regarding, Regarding, Regarding, Identifying Current Hosts, 2704, 1963 Director Feinstein. Mr. Song and Dr. Glass's work have revealed quite a bit about SCP-378. Most importantly, I do not believe it understands the significance of social dynamics, especially in regards to hierarchy and social capital. Several of SCP-378's identities held surprising positions of power. Indeed, two of them, David Lockheed and Alfonso Leos, are beyond reach of the Foundation's current capacity to contain. Despite this, SCP-378 has shown a willingness to sacrifice such hosts in order to defend, replace, or otherwise maintain Lisa Martin. Odd, yes, but useful enough. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to Miss Martin and her friends, would it not? SCP-378 is sapient, but it by no means understands the significance of its actions. With a little bit of persuasion, David Lockheed might yet ascend from petty paper pusher for the ASCII, right where the Foundation most needs a puppet. And, if I'm not mistaken, spicy crust pizza can always do with a second franchise. Proposal. Employing SCP-378's anomalous abilities to defend Foundation operations in the United States. Council votes summary. Approved. Proposal accepted. The Kraken Protocol has been initiated. From Senior Researcher Sanghun Song, Classification level Gamma U3. Employee number 148. 2. Director Kelsey Feinstein. Classification level XK4. Employee number 87. Regarding Delays in the Gamma U2677 Project. Date. 2107, 1965. So, good news and bad news, Director. Good news, as I'm assuming you already heard. With the plans for construction of Site 56, all thanks to a certain Mr. Lockheed, the Kraken Protocol is getting a much needed expansion. With its relative proximity to both the Lily of the Valley Nexus and the Pacific Northwest, it's a perfect opportunity to expand the scope of SCP-1000's containment while ensuring the ASCII doesn't suck LOTV dry before we get to it. For all its oddities, SCP-378 appears to be delighted at the prospect of a change in scenery. I can't imagine a tropical centipede grub likes having a sphere of influence limited to New England of all places. But that's besides the point. Its A was compliant enough on the way there. Which leads me to the bad news. Rupert Tramonza, fun little guy. Agent of the FBI's unofficial, unusual incidents unit.  After that, it's a matter of transport back to Provisional Area 56 in Black Rock and a centipede down the gullet. Problem comes up when 378 tells us it can't establish a connection. Now, Tramonza's still alive, so that's not normal. We run a number of tests, try to figure out what went wrong. And that's when we see a different centipede in his head. Where our centipede usually goes. More to come, but I have a bad feeling about this. Item number SCP-372 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-372 is to be contained in a cell. 5 meters by 4 meters by 2 meters. Lined with reinforced plexiglass. Embedded into each of the four walls of this cell will be one infrared motion detector. Feeding will take place once every two weeks to consist of one kilogram of red meat and uncooked vegetables to be deposited in its cell via chute. All guards working near SCP-372's cell must wear helmets with cameras mounted in the forehead with live feeds to the nearest guard station. In the event of a containment breach, an alert will be sounded that all personnel should watch for any brief flickering movements in the corner of their eyes and to report immediately if one is sighted. Description SCP-372 is a creature of unknown genus, approximately 2 meters long from head to tail and weighing approximately 45 kilograms. It has a long thin body with 8 pairs of narrow limbs. Analysis has shown that its muscle fibers are allowing for extremely fast and precise movements. Every part of the body is abnormally flexible and the limbs are coated with small fibers that cling to almost any solid surface. In place of eyes or ears, it has data expunge. This sensory organ is capable not only of echolocation but also of detecting energy transfers such as the electrical impulses in the brains of nearby beings. SCP-372 has learned to time its movements to those pulses predicting the movements of any being around it. It uses this technique to hide either by hiding behind the head of a person looking for it or by hiding in their scatomas, blind spots, and saccades clipping during eye movement. SCP-372 first came to the attention of the Foundation on date expunged when an undercover agent working at location expunged reported seeing a creature that resembled the described hallucinations of one of the patients. After thorough investigation, SCP-372 was captured via and it was determined that it had, for unknown reasons been tormenting the unfortunate patient. It had confused him by periodically following him and remaining within sight of him while hiding outside the visual fields of those around him making him believe that he was hallucinating a monster no one else could see. Unfortunately, the patient had by this time actually become mentally unbalanced due to stress and data expunged. Log of tests on SCP-372 Participants 2D class personnel Location Empty room 6 meters by 5 meters by 3 meters Test parameters D1 was instructed to stand in the middle of the room D2 in the corner Both were to perform a visual search of the room SCP-372 was released into the testing room After 5 minutes, armed personnel entered and ushered SCP-372 back into its holding cell and D1 and D2 were debriefed Results After 5 minutes, D1 reported no sighting and D2 only detected a few brief flashes Participants 2D class personnel Location Empty room 6 meters by 5 meters by 3 meters Test parameters D1 and D2 were instructed to stand in opposite corners of the room and make a visual inspection of the room once SCP-372 was released into the containment room Results After 5 minutes Both D-class had sighted SCP-372 15 times Both at identical times It is believed that SCP-372 was darting around in the spots where the blind spots in their vision overlapped and occasionally had to break cover and dart into another one when one area was no longer overlapping Participants 4D class personnel Location Empty room 6 meters by 5 meters by 3 meters Test parameters D1, D2, D3 and D4 were instructed to stand in the four corners of the room and watch SCP-372 Results Approximately 1.5 seconds after SCP-372 was introduced into the testing area D3 shrieked and collapsed spurting blood from a wound on his f*** that seemed to have spontaneously appeared D1, D2 and D4 abandoned their stations and ran for the locked exit D4 began pounding on the door before he was also injured, losing 1 D1 and 2 retreated into one corner D1 curling up into the fetal position while D2 stood absolutely still No activity was reported for the remainder of the 5 minute test When the test was ended, D3 had expired D4 required surgical and D1 and D2 were not physically harmed None of the surviving test subjects reported seeing SCP-372 at any time Notes Aside from what it did to that mental patient, this is the first time it's actively harmed a person D3 didn't really have time to do anything that pissed it off either Did it just get hungry? Doctor Addendum Anyone pranking nervous personnel by pretending to see SCP-372 in front of them will be severely reprimanded Item number SCP-346 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-346 is to be kept in a store-bought bird cage at least 1 meter in height at 1.5 meters in width either way No locks or additional security measures are required as SCP-346 is no stronger nor smarter than the average parakeet SCP-346's cage is to contain at least 2 water dishes with standing perches to be refilled daily and fed a diet of 5-6 medium-sized live crickets daily SCP-346's cage also contains one tree branch for perching, scratching, and climbing One open-top nest purchased at a commercial pet store lined with moss and a string with bright colored bells on it for entertainment The bottom of SCP-346's cage is covered with corn cob-based biodegradable bedding and is to be cleaned out and replaced every other week During cleaning, SCP-346 may be either held by hand allowed to fly around a room with a closed door or placed in a paper bag with a book over the end to be held out of the way SCP-346's cage is held in Dr. Wright's office and may not be moved without her permission Despite SCP-346's habit of nibbling fingertips and pulling strands of hair SCP-346 poses no danger upon escape and may be recaptured gently with either a net or by hand Description SCP-346 is a small member of an unidentified family of pterodactyl, ancient flying reptiles SCP-346 is approximately the size of a small bat and has very lightweight bone structure Although its head, wings, and legs are bare its main body is covered with a soft coat of fur-like dark colored down The origin of SCP-346 is unknown and was purchased by Agent B and a small pet shop in Brazil being marketed under the name Congo Mato The owner of the pet store claims not to know where SCP-346 came from having purchased a set of eggs off the black market of which only one SCP-346 hatched Believing them to be from a rare species of parrot Some theories suggest that there may be a large colony of creatures similar to SCP-346 somewhere in South America Testing has revealed that SCP-346 is an adult but appears to have had its growth somewhat stunted by malnutrition and being raised in a small cramped cage SCP-346 is also a male and has been nicknamed by staff who find the little creature's appearance charming as Terry SCP-346 behaves in a manner similar to birds and bats being most active at dawn and dusk and energetically flying in whatever space it's given snapping up insects either out of the air or off the ground in branches SCP-346 chirps and squeaks in a manner similar to birds and rodents and is most vocal during the evening hours Some describe this as endearing others as annoying Addendum 1 After the discovery of SCP-1265 some theories suggest that there may be a large colony of creatures similar to SCP-346 somewhere in South America However, the existence of SCP-346 implies that these alleged colonies should they exist do not possess the same anomalous properties as SCP-1265 Addendum 2 has been suggested that further investigation into the origins of SCP-346 should be taken in the hopes of finding a large colony of similar creatures perhaps indicative of a surviving member of the pterodactyl lineage or a rip in space and time SCP-346 should be kept well away from SCP-529 as per request of Dr. Wrights Item number SCP-327 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-327 is to be contained within a 40 meter by 40 meter by 10 meter saltwater tank within sight The tank is to be cleaned on a weekly basis or immediately after an algal bloom event The walls of the tank are to be soundproofed All staff interacting with SCP-327 or entering the containment are to wear sound-canceling headphones when not in direct conversation with SCP-327 Any staff who report suffering the effects of SCP-327's properties are to be removed from active duty until cleared by a staff therapist SCP-327 is to be fed 15 kilograms of lettuce and assorted leafy vegetables each day accompanied by appropriate nutritional supplements English language instruction for SCP-327 has been approved to be carried out by Drs. Amber Lee in Watson Two hours per day have been allotted for this purpose Description SCP-327 is a female specimen of a mammalian species resembling members of the order Cyrenia specifically Trichoccus monatus West Indian manatee measuring approximately 2.8 meters in length and 450 kilograms in weight and estimated to be between 25 and 30 years of age The subject bears anomalous bodily features The flippers bear distinct fingers and a functioning opposable thumb and the skull and facial features resemble that of a human SCP-327 was hit by a boat propeller 5 to 10 years before retrieval as evidenced by heavy scarring on the head and back and traces of severe head trauma SCP-327 is sapient and capable of speaking simple English sentences though it experiences significant difficulty in doing so both in pronunciation and comprehension of concepts SCP-327's anomalous effect is based around its primary vocalization taking the form of songs similar to that of citations These vocalizations are regarded as highly unpleasant to listen to and will result in severe headaches and audiovisual hallucinations in humans persisting for 6 to 12 hours Those affected will often report claustrophobia an aversion to water and aquatic animals and occasionally sensations similar to that of drowning Other mammals will experience the same effects During vocalizations algae and plankton with an approximately a kilometer of SCP-327's location will reproduce at incredibly high rates The resulting algae bloom will cause considerable oxygen depletion in neurotoxin levels in the area and causing mass die-offs of local fish and mollusk life There are no anomalous properties present in the algae itself and SCP-327 is immune to all effects caused by its vocalizations Interviews with SCP-327 have revealed few concrete details of its origins due to the specimen's inability to adequately express the information SCP-327 has implied the existence of other specimens of the species to live in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea However, no anomalies resembling the descriptions have been reported Addendum 1 Recovery Log SCP-327 was recovered in August of 2008 after a series of inexplicable mental illnesses amongst citizens of Florida and reports of unexplained noises in the area The area had been under Foundation Watch for two weeks before it was reported that a mutant manatee had been washed ashore by Tropical Storm Fae After investigation by Foundation agents amnestics were distributed to the local populace and the specimen was recovered without incident Addendum 2 Interview excerpt For purposes of readability, SCP-327's accent has been corrected in this transcript Dr. Amberley Hello, 327 SCP-327 Hello, Dr. Amberley 327 ready to answer questions again Dr. Amberley Very well We were talking about the song yesterday Could you tell me more? SCP-327 Yes Song for fish and animals Song for plants Song for people Song for home Song is good Song not like this SCP-327 hums for three seconds Song not like words Song is song Song make things good Song not good now Dr. Amberley And what happened to the song? SCP-327 Low rumbling noise In imitation of a motor Made it bad Dr. Amberley The boat then SCP-327 Yes, it is okay though Bad song not hurt animals here You and Watson help 327 get good song back Item number SCP-317 Object class Safe Special containment procedures SCP-3171 is to be preserved in a vat of liquid nitrogen Requests for tissue samples from SCP-3171 must be made in writing All research into tissue samples from SCP-3171 must be in compliance with class 5 biohazard protocols Examination of SCP-3172 must be done in class 3 clean room facilities Requests for examination of 3172 must be made in writing SCP-3173 has been disassembled The parts are stored in separate locations Requests for examination of 3173 must be made in writing to two separate 05 level personnel No two components of SCP-3173 may be brought within 100 kilometers of each other Description SCP-3171 is the cadaver of a sapient reptilian entity Tentatively identified as a previously unknown species of Pachycephalosaurid Subject was bipedal, female, and 3 meters tall And wore clothing made from synthetic polymers Subject also wore corrective lenses Subject was largely herbivorous and had prehensile digits Subject's metabolism was adapted to a higher atmospheric oxygen content And therefore, subject wore a respirator device when not in its quarters Biochemical analysis post-mortem Rodopsins, mitochondria, homeobox genes Cytochrome P450 confirms that SCP-3171 shared common ancestry with current Earth life Autopsy records are available in Archive 317B-685 In the 40 days between its arrival and foundation custody And its death from a lactobacillus infection SCP-3171 learned to communicate via a combination of sign language, crude vocalizations, and drawings Video Archive 317B-36 shows interview sessions with SCP-3171 Drawings made by SCP-3171 are available in Archive 317B-42 General Access Basic anatomical figures Interactions between itself and foundation personnel Demonstration of knowledge of mathematics Demonstration of knowledge of chemistry Demonstration of knowledge of nuclear physics And Archive 317B-58 Restricted access Circuit diagrams Mechanical schematics Data expunged SCP-3172 is the personal effects of SCP-3171 A tunic A robe A tool belt Six tools Corrective lenses An oxygen mask Three empty oxygen tanks A fire-damaged document pouch made from synthetic polymers And its fire-damaged contents And a fire-damaged digital camera Whose contents were unrecoverable SCP-3173 is the fire-damaged remains of what is believed to have been a time machine Which SCP-3171 was attempting to repair at the time it was taken into custody by the foundation Preliminary testing of the intact components revealed data expunged At which point all testing was halted And SCP-3173 was disassembled Note, there's something wrong with this one, people A technological civilization should have left some trace in the stratigraphic record If there was a Holocene epic before us Where did the evidence go? Doctor... It's not just the complete lack of trace in the fossil record It's the species How could it have been a Pachycephalosaur that developed intelligence? They were at best average for Cretaceous fauna Why not a Trudontid, an Ornithomomid, or another small theropod? There's something going on here that we're missing Doctor M Item number SCP-312 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-312 is kept in a large life-form containment chamber at Site-19 As it does not require feeding, only researchers are permitted access to the chamber All personnel entering the chamber are provided with wide brimmed hats And advised not to look directly upward Description SCP-312 is an organism composed of very thin tissue layers And filled with atmospheric gases at a slightly higher temperature than the surrounding air It typically floats approximately 1m above the ground Although it will vary this in order to maintain its position relative to prey SCP-312 is capable of creating a small, lenticular cloud around itself By releasing water vapor and manipulating air currents And uses this as camouflage Within the cloud, SCP-312 is visually similar to a large jellyfish With a cap approximately 2.5m in diameter From which trails a tube of tendrils Approximately 25m in length SCP-312 preys upon large mammals And shows a strong preference for humans While hunting, SCP-312 will stalk its prey from a position directly above Manipulating air currents around it to maintain this relative position P prey can escape by moving at a speed upwards of 30km an hour Or by entering a large crowd Which seems to confuse SCP-312 and cause it to switch targets SCP-312's core is filled with a large cluster of eyes The majority of the eyes are human in appearance Except for one large central orb The other eyes are connected to the central one by thin tendrils This core can be observed through the tube of tentacles by prey looking directly upwards Or by a recording device above the targeted prey So long as this core remains unobserved SCP-312 will remain docile And seems capable of surviving indefinitely without feeding Although, feedings do increase its mass and movement speed As well as the number However, if a prey animal makes eye contact with the core SCP-312 will become active Generating a narrow controlled vortex with the appearance of a long tube of cloud Connecting the lenticular cloud above with the ground The prey is pulled into SCP-312's tentacle mass By a strong updraft within the vortex Paralyzed by a venomous sting by the tentacles Then, digested Within about a week Partially digested remains of the prey will fall from the sky where SCP-312 disappeared After a successful hunt SCP-312 will drift aimlessly Until another prey creature comes nearby Based on incident reports The Foundation believes there are at least three Uncontained instances of SCP-312 in the wild Recovery efforts are difficult Because SCP-312 often follows a single person For months or years before its effect is triggered Item number SCP-295 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-295 is to be contained within a 50 meter by 50 meter concrete room With all surfaces coated with flame retardant material All personnel entering and exiting containment Must comply with level 3 contamination screening Three flame retardant exposure suits are to be maintained on the premises And are required for any and all testing involving SCP-295 Feeding will occur once per week And consist of a meal of 20 kilograms of naturally grown pine wood Harvested near the Site-19 facility Description SCP-295 is a number of caterpillars Resembling Centimeter Epelace in appearance A single specimen of SCP-295 is capable of creating an unidentifiable substance Which has several unique qualities attributed to it SCP-295 possesses similar physical attributes to a common caterpillar With a notable exception being SCP-295's incredible speed When in pursuit of sustenance When flammable material is introduced into SCP-295's environment It will quickly move to attempt to consume it Substance produced by SCP-295 Hereby known as SCP-295-1 Is a viscous fluid that possesses natural bioluminescence of variable intensity Averaging at around 150,000 lumens The intensity fades over time But sufficient heat is capable of renewing its incandescence However, the danger lies in its other quality Which is its ability to cause violent combustion Of the flammable object it comes in contact with All matter destroyed in this manner leave no ash or other byproducts behind Although, an increase in mass has been observed in specimens of SCP-295 after combustion A notable exception is living animal matter Which SCP-295-1 is incapable of affecting in all circumstances SCP-295 is capable of reproduction given sufficient matter to combust Or when a specific mass has been attained When this occurs, SCP-295 will pupate Forming a shell of dense carbon with a similar molecular structure to coal Once a week has passed, both the pupa and the specimen will combust While the ashes reform into two additional caterpillars After which the process begins anew Occasionally, only one specimen of SCP-295 will reform from the resultant ashes Rather than a pair These ashes will not always reform immediately And can remain inert Ashes left on personnel's clothing can reform later And further spread SCP-295's population SCP-295 was discovered in... Ukraine After a series of improbable and volatile forest fires Had reduced a large swath of forests into barren wastes Agent Krupp, who had family in the area Noted that the fires had left not a single thing in their wake When Dr. Krupp was dispatched to investigate He found a complete lack of life and vegetation With the exemption of a species of caterpillar that was not local to the area What had alarmed him more, however Was the sudden destruction of his clothing and belongings By a swarm of starved SCP-295's After several attempts and more than a few changes of clothing SCP-295 was brought to site 19 and safely contained Addendum 295A Despite months of regular feeding The number of specimens have neither declined nor have they increased since being contained The cycle of reproduction has stayed consistent With the majority of recorded combustion resulting in two new specimens How the population has kept itself in check Is unknown at this time Addendum 295B It's possible that there are still wild specimens of SCP-295 out in the world Considering the trouble we have containing it in the lab Any attempts to contain populations of SCP-295 in the field are to be made on location With the intent to isolate and terminate Note This stuff has some serious potential for weaponization If we could get enough of it out of the little worms Find a way to carry and dispense it And you'd put napalm to shame Agent Addendum 295C Experiment log 2951A Experiment log of Dr. Kondraki Testing practical uses of SCP-295-1 Date Undisclosed Experiment 1 Human consumption testing Materials 5 milliliters of SCP-295-1 Procedure Class D personnel given SCP-295-1 to ingest Result Subject reported mild heartburn and nausea But no serious adverse effects observed Subject's digestive system temporarily operated at 25% additional efficiency Experiment 2 Usage as a portable source of light Materials 20 milliliters of SCP-295-1 Glass tubing, rubber grip, lighter Procedure Glass tubing filled with SCP-295-1 Reinforced by rubber grip Result Device produced sufficient light to completely illuminate an area of 31 meters squared At 16,145 lux for several hours Applying a lighter to the surface of the glass Relit the solution completely Experiment 3 Usage as an incendiary device Materials 200 milliliters of SCP-295-1 Glass globe Procedure Globe filled with SCP-295-1 And thrown into wooden test structure Result All material that came in contact with SCP-295-1 Was instantly combusted, as expected Remaining structure of the building burned abnormally quickly from secondary conflagration Only 20% of the structure's initial mass remained after testing Note Immediately following the conclusion of the test Approximately 56% of captive SCP-295 specimens began to pupate Dr. Kondraki Experiment 4 Usage as lighter fluid Materials 100 milliliters of SCP-295-1 One bag of consumer grade charcoal Mid-range coal grill Two beef burger patties Procedure SCP-295-1 poured onto coal While beef patties are prepared Result Data expunged Note I cannot fathom the lack of sense this required Consider your position as an assistant terminated And your security level revoked I hope that gives you something to think about in between skin grafts Dr. Kondraki Addendum 295-D Experiment log 295-1B Experiment log of Agent T Testing practical uses of SCP-295-1 Experiments overseen and approved by Dr. W... Date Undisclosed Experiment 1 Usage as lighter fluid Revised Materials One milliliter of SCP-295-1 500 grams consumer grade charcoal Mid-range coal grill Two 100 gram beef burger patties Procedure Coals arranged in a standard rough cone SCP-295-1 applied to three coals Tester wore standard silver suit heat protection gear Result The treated coals combusted almost instantly As expected Remaining coals ignited very quickly Patties cooked in approximately half expected time Cooked patties, when tested in laboratory Showed no evidence of any unusual components Note As expected The secondary fires produce only normal combustion products and effects And to whoever came up with the first lighter fluid test You people are supposed to be research assistants Perhaps next time you should do some research when you design a test Dr. Kundraki let you off easy Agent T Experiment 2 Possible application for rescue work Materials One D-class personnel One steel girder One milliliter of SCP-295-1 20 grams thermite paste Procedure Class D's leg trapped under girder A line of thermite paste was placed on the girder upslope from the pinned leg SCP-295-1 applied to the thermite paste Result The thermite ignited and combusted almost instantly Severing the girder with almost no splatter or spark The upslope section fell to the ground Water sprayed over the severed end Steamed only slightly and briefly D-class was not harmed Note Just what I'd hoped for The thermite released its energy and burned through the steel it was actually touching But the reaction was too fast for much heat to transfer to the rest of the girder This could be a very useful intrusion technique In addition to its rescue applications Agent T Experiment 3 Effects and oxygen deprived environment Materials One filled 10 liter aquarium One lead weight One 100 gram untreated oak block One non-flammable syringe One milliliter of SCP-295-1 Procedure The oak sample was weighted down in the aquarium That injected with SCP-295-1 Result Over a period of approximately 2 seconds The oak burned to charcoal Note Interesting Apparently there was enough air in the channels to support the very limited combustion Next time I'll try waterlogged wood Agent T Item number SCP-267 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-267 is contained in a cave formation within Site 37 Live animals must be supplied to replace any that succumb during the course of feeding A population of livestock is maintained on site for this purpose Any personnel interacting with SCP-267 organisms Should be furnished with level 4 isolation equipment And a tranquilizer weapon and stun gun for protection Wild occurrences of SCP-267 must be eradicated as soon as they are detected Recovered human victims cannot be rehabilitated But are to be removed for use in ongoing observation of possible anti-sinescent effects Of SCP-267's venomous excretions Description SCP-267 are hairless, sightless, carnivorous rodents Highly adapted for subterranean life in new social colonies A single nest is currently contained in the cave formations SCP-267 is biologically similar to heterosophilus glaber But represents a distinct subspecies Members of an SCP-267 colony spend the vast majority of their lives underground They lack eyes completely and auditory and tactile senses are atrophied They do not seem to experience pain or any sense of self-preservation They are extremely sensitive to smell and airborne chemical stimuli Which they use for navigation, hunting, and communication Unlike in new social arthropods, there is no queen There are caste divisions in its population however Including workers, soldiers, breeders, and nursery attendants SCP-267 has sharp teeth and claws But its primary weapon is its venom The venom is effective in microliter amounts And has aggressive paralytic and carcinogenic effects In a hunt, dozens of soldiers cooperate to locate and bring down prey They attack simultaneously, inflicting dozens of bites in a few seconds And incapacitating the target They then drag it, conscious but immobile, back to their colony At the colony, swarms of worker caste SCP-267 emerge to transport the victim inside Workers remove foreign aromas, carefully check for parasites And physically dismantle the organism's means of locomotion to prevent escape By this time, tissues directly exposed to venom have begun to exhibit abnormal cell division Within 24 hours, undifferentiated masses of tissue are visible at every bite location The tumors arise spontaneously but seem to target skin and fatty tissues As growths there are less likely to threaten vital organ systems This has the added benefit to SCP-267 of producing a high concentration of energy-rich lipids for consumption The tumors grow continuously until a few days after the larder animal's death Because of the rapid tumor genesis, larders have massive caloric needs Workers masticated regurgitate root pulp to provide the larders with nutrition They seem to distinguish cancerous from healthy tissue by its scent And remove tumors for consumption once they have ripened to a desirable size Workers have been observed licking and tending to larder animals to keep them clean and healthy Larder animals last between 12 weeks and f***ing years Depending on the species and supply all of the colony's food Many months typically elapsed between SCP-267's forays to the surface Members of SCP-267 are violently territorial and respond with overwhelming force to any intrusion into their caves With sufficient food, they are capable of extremely rapid reproduction A fact that has become particularly threatening since the extinction of their primary predator Addendum 2671 Bones from human beings have been uncovered in multiple waste areas within the caves Dating back several thousand years Because of the difficulties in operating inside the nest A full forensic survey of these leavings is unfeasible 19 months after containment was first established Larder A26 was discovered to be human Possibly f***ing who disappeared along with his parents on a family trip in 19... At the age of... The lack of appendages combined with rampant tumor growth is responsible for delaying the initial identification Genetic tests are consistent with human DNA with massive deleterious mutations Attempted interviews with the subject SCP-267-A26 Have discovered only that his language faculties have atrophied over the course of his imprisonment Addendum 2672 SCP-267 shows a marked preference for acquiring humans as compared to other mammals This is likely a result of humans' long lifespan and fast metabolism compared to other prey Human subjects provide 33% more cancerous matter per month than a similarly sized pig And can be kept as larger animals until the expiration of their natural lifespan There is some evidence that animals, including humans, may live longer than normal individuals of their species Perhaps due to some effect of SCP-267's venom or due to abnormal tumor growth Further observation is necessary to substantiate this observation This helps to explain forensic and anthropological evidence of human predation Even at a time before habitat intrusion made such behavior inevitable Item number SCP-247 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-247 is kept in an enclosure of at least 20 by 40 meters Furnished based on the plans provided by the WZU And lined with SCP-148 offset from the rest of site by at least 50 meters In order to mitigate its psychic effect As per current containment procedures for SCP-148 Its use in the containment of other SCPs is to be avoided if at all possible SCP-247 is to be fed 18 kilograms of fresh meat on a tri-weekly basis Feeding occurs in a separate enclosure Cleaning staff should enter the enclosure only during designated feeding times No other access to the enclosure is allowed The footage resulting from any violation of this order is to be archived For use in training the cleaning and monitoring staff of SCP-247 In case of a containment breach The entire wing must be evacuated And all live footage of the incident heavily censored The area SCP-247 occupies will be sealed off and gassed Followed by the return of SCP-247 to containment If, for any reason, this should become impossible A retrieval team will be sent in armed with heavy tranquilizer rifles Retrieval team agents must be specially selected for high reflexes Excellent marksmanship Unquestioning obedience And low empathy scores Description SCP-247 is a Bengal Tiger Panthera Tigris Tigris Adult female Which, to all observers, appears to be a harmless cat Phyllis Catus Juvenile female With an orange and black striped coat resembling that of a tiger Remote feeds and still photos also show this illusion Although it is unknown whether the photo itself is affected Or merely the observer SCP-247's true nature has been confirmed by analysis of weight, water displacement And dental molds made from bite marks It is unknown exactly how SCP-247 generates this illusion There are two components to the illusion First, a mimetic effect That changes the perceived image of SCP-247 to that of a kitten And second, a psychic component Which radiates outward from the subject Diminishing according to the inverse square law And reaching half strength at f***ing meters Any sentient being within this field comes under the impression that SCP-247 is completely harmless Regardless of prior knowledge or experience Individuals in this field also show extreme reluctance to harm Or allow others to harm SCP-247 Even while being actively harmed by the subject This psychic field can be blocked with SCP-148 Or avoided by striking from well outside its effective range The mimetic effect is not blocked by SCP-148 As of yet, no one has been able to see SCP-247 as anything but a small striped cat Typically, SCP-247 will begin to purr or mew when approached by a human The human will remark that this is adorable An approach to pet the subject This has been observed even in persons who strongly dislike cats SCP-247 has been known to accept affection from its victims for upwards of seven minutes Before disemboweling and devouring them Genetic analysis shows slight deviation from a typical Bengal Tiger's genotype Indicating possible contamination data expunged All further breeding experiments require 05 level approval The resulting hybrids have been designated SCP-247-1 Addendum 247-A A series of tests in exposing SCP-247 And the control subjects to various non-human animals Control testing took place in an exact replica of SCP-247's enclosure Control A is a yellow kitten matching SCP-247's apparent size and age Control B is a fully grown Bengal Tiger matching SCP-247's actual weight Experiment log 247-A-1 Date 2010 Test subject A mixed breed dog Mostly terrier A known cat chaser Control test A Subject immediately began barking and ran at the control Which retreated up a nearby tree Control test B Subject cowered in the corner as far from the control as possible Control took no notice of subject Results Subject ran toward SCP-247, barking loudly At approximately 5 meters away, subject slowed to a halt and became silent At this point, SCP-247 rolled over and made a mewing sound Believed to be a sign of annoyance The subject retreated to a far corner of the enclosure With its tail between its legs Notes That was extremely odd Further testing recommended Researcher S Approved 05 Experiment log 247-A-02-II Date 2010 Test subject A male-tabby kitten with the same apparent age as SCP-247 Control test A Subject played with the control in the manner expected of kittens Control test B Subject climbed a tree and attempted to hide itself from the control Displaying visible signs of terror Results Test 1 Subject approached SCP-247 and mewed SCP-247 responded in kind and played with the tabby kitten The resulting footage is extremely odd At one point, SCP-247 lifts the subject Which appears to be the same size as SCP-247 With a single forepaw While at another point, SCP-247 lifts the subject with its mouth Clearly showing that its mouth is much larger than it appears to be The leading researcher characterized this as adorable But remarked that it gave him a headache Due to a faulty recorder, this test had to be repeated Results Test 2 Subject approached SCP-247 as above SCP-247 made a deep purring sound Analogous to a growl Subject reacted as in control test B Notes This seems to indicate 247 has some degree of conscious control over its apparent appearance Researcher S Experiment log 247A3 Date 2010 Test subject An adult male deer, a normal prey animal for a Bengal tiger Control B and SCP-247 were not fed for three days prior to this experiment Control test A Subject grazed Control fell asleep two minutes into the experiment Control test B Control attacked, killed and devoured subject Which behaved normally for a deer trapped in an enclosed space with a large predator Results Subject began grazing as in control test A SCP-247 approached it calmly and killed it with a single bite to the neck Then proceeded to devour the subject Test was repeated without SCP-247 being forced to fast SCP-247 completely ignored the subject for over a day Before apparently becoming hungry and killing it Again with a single bite to the neck Notes SCP-247 seems to prefer humans, both as food and for entertainment Other prey animals presented to SCP-247 were all killed in a single strike While humans are invariably allowed to pet the SCP for some time before being killed And are sometimes mauled and played with The way a cat will play with a mouse Furthermore, the SCP has killed every human it has had the opportunity to kill Regardless of hunger Researcher S Experiment log 247A-8 Date 2010 Test subject An adult female chimpanzee Control test A Subject and control ignored one another Control test B Subject retreated to a tree showing some signs of unease Control displayed some curiosity towards the subject but did not attack Results Subject approached SCP-247, made noises identified as signs of affection And began to groom SCP-247 SCP-247 allowed the subject to groom it for over an hour Then messily killed and devoured it Notes This seems to be its typical reaction to unfamiliar prey animals It seems to prefer to prey on apes with advanced social behavior Experiments with gorillas and other social apes have shown similar results Essentially, SCP-247 is a large predator that has somehow adapted To take advantage of the largest available food source Humans We should investigate all future reports of man-eating tigers In case there are more of these things Researcher S Experiment log 247A-12 Date 2010 Test subject An adult female grizzly bear Control test A Control fled up a tree in terror Subject ignored it Control test B Subject and Control acted nervously And gave one another as large a birth as possible Results Initially, subject in SCP-247 ignored one another At one point, subject came very close to SCP-247 Resulting in SCP-247 giving a warning growl Subject responded with hostility Test aborted due to possible harm to SCP-247 Subject tranquilized by Foundation personnel And subsequently killed by SCP-247 Notes Future tests involving animals potentially capable of killing or injuring a Bengal tiger Are cancelled Researcher S Experiment log 247A-13 Date 2010 Test subject An adult female Bengal tiger Control test A Control fled up a tree in terror Subject ignored it Control test B Subject and Control greeted one another Established the order of social dominance Then both fell asleep Results Identical to control test B Notes Interestingly, SCP-247 was the beta animal in this interaction Researcher S Experiment log 247A-14 Date 2010 Test subject An adult male Bengal tiger Control test A Control fled up a tree in terror Subject ignored it Control test B Omitted Record of normal Bengal tiger mating behavior substituted Results As expected based on control B Data expunged Notes Researcher S has been removed from this project for lax security in his experiments Although, in light of his injuries, further disciplinary measures have been deemed unnecessary Data expunged Which seems to have benefited from a form of hybrid vigor Has been designated SCP-247-1 Considering that SCP-247 is likely to have bred naturally in the wild Mobile Task Force Iota-5 Tiger bait has been formed And assigned to hunt down and contain or destroy All incidences of the hybrid SCP-247-1 O5 Item number SCP-236 Object class Keter Special containment procedures Any and all materials leaving the containment area are to be scanned for any contamination by SCP-236 Any objects showing contamination by SCP-236 are to be immediately returned to the containment area And cleared of contamination Personnel leaving the containment area must submit to a full physical examination and X-ray No objects are to be left in the containment area without personnel present Any objects appearing in the containment area are not to be touched until cleared by supervising personnel Blast doors are to be opened only to allow personnel in and out of the containment area No sudden movement or aggressive action of any kind is allowed in the containment area Containment area is to be kept as dark as possible With night vision goggles recommended for all interacting personnel Should traditional lighting be necessary Lights must be turned on remotely and awaiting period of one hour is to be observed Before entry will be allowed Description SCP-236 appears to be a swarm of near microscopic crabs Individuals match no known form of crustacean And elements of their physiology appear to point to an artificial origin SCP-236 appears to operate under a form of collective intelligence or hive mind This intelligence appears to grow when individual SCP-236 are in close proximity And dissipate when they are divided Large swarms appear to exhibit predatory intelligence And become significantly more aggressive than individuals Swarms show aptitude with problem solving In circling tactics and stealth In addition, swarms appear able to take on the physical aspects and appearance of inanimate objects Such as doors, chairs, or even complex patterns Such as those found in paintings for extended periods of time This mimicry is near perfect under casual observation And requires detailed observation to detect Swarms will sometimes even destroy existing objects And replace them in what appears to be an attempt at better disguise SCP-236 can create additional individuals from any organic matter This includes wood, cotton, or other materials derived from an organic source SCP-236 units appear to remove small portions of matter with their pincers Consume it, then lay small spherical eggs Which hatch into new members after 10 minutes Juvenile SCP-236 look identical to adults But are smaller in size And lack the chemicals used in the defensive response Juveniles reach full adult size after 6 hours SCP-236 individuals appear to fear light, rapid movement, or loud noises This fear is reduced in proportion to the number of units in a swarm But even large collectives can be startled by a sudden sound or bright light SCP-236 that are startled while mimicking an object Will rapidly break apart into individual units Which will then scatter and hide Swarm regrouping can take up to 24 hours When cornered or unable to escape quickly SCP-236 units will initiate their defensive response This entails a unit raising its pincers And then detonating with an explosion equivalent to 9.07 kilograms Or 20 pounds of C4 explosive Initial research suggests that this is the result of an internal chemical reaction Involving the mixing of three normally inert chemicals Collection of these chemicals has been problematic Due to the relatively minute size of the storage chambers And the likelihood of startling SCP-236 during the procedure SCP-236 will use humans or any other living thing as a resource Provided the swarm is of a sufficient size Moderate size swarms can convert a whole human being in less than 5 minutes Individual SCP-236 have also been observed entering the human body Typically while the subject is asleep And begin to consume it from the inside out This behavior coupled with mimicry and the defensive response Make SCP-236 very difficult to detect and contain effectively Addendum While SCP-236 has not been observed to mimic organic life The possibility exists for SCP-236 to develop this behavior Notably during testing with SCP-236-6 When SCP-236 mimicked a brown bear And began to exhibit increased predatory behavior And data expunged Such formations are to be immediately reported And testing area cleared immediately


Hello. Can everyone hear me? Yeah, hi. I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna talk about QNOP using diagrammatic software. So this demo is gonna be roughly two parts. And the first half, you're gonna, you're gonna see how we build, manipulate minodal diagrams, IEDs like diagrams in Discopy, which is a library that we've developed. And we'll talk about things at a higher level and how we convert things to quantum circuits. And then later on, we'll talk more specifically about QNOP. And that will be using Lambeck, which is another software package we've developed. So you have the notebooks in the channels. So if you wanna follow along and run the cells, you can. I've run them in advance. So, yeah. Cool. So in Discopy, the diagrams are, you can build diagrams using boxes and wires as we've talked about today. And these boxes of wires have, the wires have types. So you first define the types of the wires by importing type in Discopy. You can define these types. And once you have that, you can have identity wires. Right? So if you put, you can tensor these two wires together, food and water. You get this diagram with two wires on it. So this is how you compose two diagrams together using the at operation. So corresponds to the tensor product. You can do more things with it. You can draw, like, more arbitrary string diagrams. So when you have a swap here, you're swapping, you have two systems, one that contains water, one that contains energy. And you swap it. And now you're working in a symmetric monodal category. So this is a monodal category equipped with this swap operation. To define a box, you need to give it an input type and an output type. In this case, we have a human box, which is a process that takes in food and water and converts it to energy. And the way you construct this is you take, you import the class box from Discopy, you give the box a name, and then you give it input and output type. So it's very straightforward. You can draw it like this. What's after this is you can compose things together. Oh, yeah. So you have a, so let's say pasta is a type of food and wine is a very, like, impure form of water. And you can tensor it together again. Here, this is an example of, like, you have an empty type. So this is a box that takes in no wires at the top. This is how you would define in Discopy. So here you go. You have pasta and wine. And you can put pasta and wine into human, right? So when you compose this diagram, so you do pasta at wine followed by human, you get this following diagram. And they're all type checks. So if it doesn't type check, you'll get an error that the types don't compose. So you can see using this kind of syntax, you can define arbitrary string diagrams for anything, right? And you can, it's bit tedious, but you can do it for arbitrary large diagrams by hand, using the syntax. You can flip diagrams. So, like, we talked about how we work in a dagger category, maybe. And if you have a human, you can take a dagger of a human, you can flip it upside down. And now you can, you see these two boxes can be joined together. And that would be like, you dagger you in the quantum context. But this is, right now it's a bit abstract. We're talking about humans and food and water. So here's another concept we've talked about, like, functors. So functors are a type of, like, recursive way of mapping one diagram to another diagram, maybe perhaps in a different category. And it's a functor because it satisfies a property called functoriality. And what that means is a structure preserving mapping. And all that really means is you open up each of these boxes within the diagram and replace it with a sub diagram that respects the type.  In this example, I'm going to give a doubling mapping. So given whatever type, I'm going to map it to itself twice. So food becomes food and food. And then water becomes water and water. And the energy becomes energy and energy.  And I'm going to map them into sub diagrams. And so the pasta state becomes two pasta. And then the wine state becomes two wines. And for human, you want everything to be composed together, right? So you need to add some swaps at the beginning to make things composed. And once you have this, you can convert any diagram consisting of just pasta, wine and human. You can keep applying this functor. So once I define this functor, I can now turn this small diagram here into a larger diagram. So now there's two people having dinner. So this is kind of a way you can recursively modularily build diagrammatic software. So this is one example of functor.  But now, perhaps you want to embed some meaning into this diagram. So let's say I've defined this mapping. I'm going to turn each thing into two qubits. I want to model this as a two-qubit system. Every food is a two-qubit system. Every water is a two-qubit system. And then I fit in each box with some sort of quantum circuit, which I've defined here. It's not super important how I defined it. But you can build more logic on top of this software. This is like NumPy before diagrams. You can do any kind of diagrammatic thing you want with this software. So I've defined another functor. And now the smaller diagram, pasta, wine, human, becomes this quantum circuit. Roughly speaking, this is the pasta I'm modeling with this quantum state. Wine is this quantum state. And then human is this quantum state. That takes four qubits in. Outputs two qubits out. Post selects on two other qubits. You can put other things in, but this is just a simple example. But now that I've done this, I can combine these two functors together, right? So I can take the original diagram, make it doubled, and then apply the quantum functor. And now I have a larger quantum circuit. So as long as I know what to do with the smaller boxes, I can convert any larger diagram that consists of these, a free composition of these boxes. So now you get an even more complex circuit, and it's very little code to do this. You don't want to build these circuits by hand every time. That's what I'm saying. You can think in this high-level diagrammatic schema. And once you have these circuits, you can further convert them. So this is another functor. Discopy comes with a functor that converts quantum circuits to ZX diagrams. And specifically, we mapped this to Pizzix, which is a library for ZX diagrams that you can... It's pretty cool. You can drag things around. You can apply rewrites. That's actually one of the challenges that we can put the ZX team. So you can try to extend this piece of software to do more interesting rewrites by hand on software. Here's another thing you can do. Discopy supports converting quantum circuits to ticket format, which supports all sorts of quantum circuit back in. So from Discopy, you can evaluate circuits from different machine vendors, which I think is quite cool. So from having dinner, we suddenly have this kind of quantum circuit. And here's kind of its representation. Nice. Or you might want to just simulate it directly on your machine. So this is what you can do. You can leverage TensorFlow libraries to advance age. So Discopy integrates well with TensorFlow libraries. And on top of it, we build our own density machine simulator, which works very fast. This isn't your average state vector simulator, which struggles at 20 qubits. If you had some sort of large circuit, which had 50 qubits, but the entanglement between the systems is relatively low. And it has some sort of tree-like structure. You can do up to 50, 100 qubits. As long as you only care about a couple qubits at the end, it knows how to kind of contract it in a clever order. So it's really useful for our experiments. As you see, we use grammar as a tree, and there's local entanglement. So we can actually simulate much larger systems than you if you use Kiskit or something like that. This is the output tensor of, I think, the four qubits. I can't remember exactly how many qubits there were. But yeah, as a quick recap, let's say we have some sort of process that we model using this kind of diagrammatic notation. And we can embed meaning using functors by converting this high-level schema into quantum circuits. So if you believe this is how your problem works, it's how this process can be modeled. And you believe that, say, each bus can be modeled with a quantum state or like some unitary or then CMatrix or CPTP map. If you think that, this is how you could build software in general, right? You have some sort of problem, you build thing, and you put quantum things into it. So we're going to use this kind of idea to do QNLP. So it's a way to develop high-level diagrammatic schema. So now we're going to move to Lambeck. Lambeck is a QNLP toolkit written in Python. Both of these packages are open source. You can use it and contribute to it if you want. There's a community. There's a discord. You can go and ask questions if you want. Yeah, so it helps you develop models for QNLP. Here's one model, for example.  And you might say, I want to combine these words in such a way that I don't care about the ordering of the words. So you can combine using a spider. As we know, the spider is commutative and you can fuse and unfuse. So yeah, actually, this doesn't capture the ordering of the words. I only care about what's in the sentence. So you build the schema, you convert to a quantum circuit. This ends up corresponding to a very old natural language model called a bag of words. So you're essentially multiplying the word embeddings for each word and surprisingly effective. So it's a good baseline. Here's another example. You might want to care about ordering the words and you kind of read in the words these tokens from left to right. This kind of resembles the kind of architecture of a recursive neural network. You have a starting token and you're actually repeating the insert words into it. And these wires in the middle correspond to hidden, they carry the hidden state of a recursive neural network, a recurrent neural network, sorry. So as you can see, you don't necessarily have to put quantum circuits in. You could, if you don't have cups and caps, yes, you just live in normal monodal category and are compact closed monodal category. So you could put all sorts of interesting things for your semantics. Yeah, so you put a quantum circuit and you get cure and end, which is nice. But we are interesting other things. We're interested in grammatical models. We think that we want to do, we want to model these problems based on the structure and we think the structure may be perhaps comes from the grammatical structure of the sentence. So if you model, want to find a meaning of a sentence, you might want to combine the words in the way that the grammar tells you to. So here's an example of another sentence. Cat eats rats. And a cat is a noun. Rats is a noun. Subject, object. And in the middle, you have what is known as a transitive verb, which takes an noun on the right, noun on the left, and gives you a sentence. So far I haven't combined them yet. But as you can see, it's kind of obvious how to combine them. We've done this a lot today already. So we can do this with just a few lines of code, maybe one line even. And here you get a mathematical cat diagram. We get output here as a sentence type. Then you know the grammatically well-formed sentence. So we know we can actually convert this to a quantum circuit and try to see what it means. Here's another example. Here we have fat cats eat rats. Here fat is an adjective which takes a noun and gives you another noun. So that's why it has this noun, noun left adjoint type. As you can see, the types of the other words aren't changed. And that's kind of a property of the pregroup grammar that Bob talked about earlier today. It's kind of a lexical grammar. You give the type to the word. And in many cases, you can combine the words in the same way, using the same types. If you've studied formal grammar linguistics, you might come across consistency grammars. They're kind of similar.  This is kind of similar. But this is for category grammars, which I'll talk a little bit more about later. So another well-formed sentence. That's fine. Of course, it will be completely impractical to manually express for the parts of each sentence. But Landbeck comes with this state-of-the-art CCG parser known as Bobcat, which automatically parser sentences and conversums into these diagrams. It's a new rule. We trained it. And it's a state-of-the-art parser for categorical grammar, which is quite nice. So here's it in action. Well, I ran it 20 minutes ago. If you input such a sentence, it will give you the parse tree. And this is what is known as a CCG grammar, a combinatorial categorical grammar, just another type of categorical grammar. It's quite similar in spirit to what Bob has mentioned to be with pre-group types, pre-group grammars. So here's the parse tree. And here's what the parse tree looks like in DiscoPie. And you can functorily map this again. It's another structure, sexually preserving, mapping into this DiscoCat diagram that can see grants. So again, same thing. But now it looks like a pre-group grammar. Yep. And now we're ready to do DiscoCat experiments on it. Yep. So I have this corpus of text. It contains a lot of sentences. And you can actually read them in and parse it all at once batched. So this line of code reads in a list of sentences and converts them into a list of diagrams. As you can see, some of these sentences are actually quite long and complex. And you can have a look to see that the grammar kind of makes sense, like bears are noun, buster bear comes out as a noun, which makes sense. Conjunction types, determiners, so on. That's the sort of thing you're interested in squinting at. This swap is an artifact of the CTG grammar. It's a rule known as cross-composition. I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's out of the context of this talk. But we can now map this to quantum circuits. How do we do this? We use parameter as quantum circuits.  And here we use the IQP ansets, which consist of a list of Hadamard gates followed by a layer of diagonal gates and then followed by more Hadamards. And if you replace each box with this kind of circuit, with this kind of sub-circuit, you get an overall circuit that describes your sentence. Here's what it looks like. So the original diagram was this, faculty threads, and then you end up getting... Does this make sense? Is this cool? You can also send this to tensor networks, although we primarily... Lambert is a PNLP package. We can also do classical tensor networks. And that's another interesting way to train these models. So we can convert these diagrams into tensor networks. And each Y here is carrying the dimension of the vector space. So imagine this is a vector, this is basically a matrix, this is all the free tensor, and the wires correspond to contraction, tensor network contraction. You can do that, you can do eval on it. Yeah, so here's another line of... We come to a rewriting section. So sometimes you want to run things on a quantipeter, but your quantipeters is small, so you can't really put it on there, and it takes too long to run, so on and so forth. What could you do? You could apply rewrites to it, right? So I've talked about funtors and dyscopy and Lambert so far. You've seen a lot of funtors already. You can use funtors to reduce the size of your diagram. So how do you do this? In this example you have cat eat rats on mats, and you see the on, the word on has a, has five wires, so this is kind of an order free tensor, or the five tensor, and it, each vector space we assign sentence and noun to have like a vector space of 100, so that's reasonable, right? And now we want 100 elements describe its position in higher order space. Then you end up having 100 to the 5 to describe this tensor, which is way too large. We can't even put down a computer, like, I mean we can't do efficient contraction with it. So once you reduce the size of this tensor, so Lambert comes with some rewritings that you could, you could replace it, because there's, this is NR type and this NRR type, and it's kind of, it's basically just carrying the meaning of this cat, these cats, you know, it's going in and out, so you can model it as just having a cap, so replace the word on, which had five wires, and then you place it with a sub diagram, now three wires plus this cap, and when you put it together, suddenly you have smaller tensors, and you can now remove these cups and caps using the normal form method, which applies the snake equation. So you see here there's like a really long cap, really long cup and a really small cap here, they form a snake, so you can remove it, and now you're using less qubits. Yeah, that's good, and Lambert also come, also acts as a standalone tool for like four more grammars, you can use it to pass things, so if you input, if you just run it as a command on your terminal saying Lambert, and you put in a sentence, it will give you a pre-grid diagram, here's a very nice kind of ASCII Unicode printing code, it's always fun to write this sort of stuff, and yeah so now that we have a way to turn sentences into parse trees and parse trees into quantum circuits, parameterize quantum circuits, now we can train it as Constantine has described, and it's essentially a classic, a typical supervised learning training loop, and so Lambert also has support for that, what's this doing here? Ah yes, you can do further, you can do further rewriting, you can bend this establish around doing the categorical transpose, which was what Constantine was trying to show you earlier, I see like, so the functor is really cool, it knows, I've given the mapping from of the nouns as states, but you see here established dagger, it's more like an effect, it's like the dagger of the original state, but I don't need to give a new mapping for it, because we know, you know, if I know the mapping of established, then the dagger of established is the dagger of the state which it maps to, so all of these commutative algebraic properties are encoded inside the scope high, which is really nice, so yeah, you get this really narrow quantum circuit, which would have been like, I don't know, like a dozen qubits, and now it's only four qubits, yes, okay now back to training the model, so you can first, you build a model by passing it all the diagrams you're about to train on, so you pass in the train circuit, the validation circuit, so it knows which symbols appear in the circuit, so as you can see each word gets filled in with gates and rotations where the rotation values are parameterized, so now this numpy model is just collecting what symbols are going to appear in your model, and then there's optimization on them using gradient descent, and you define your loss function, here we choose the binary cross entropy loss function, I think someone was asking you about loss functions earlier, this is one of them, and then we have accuracy function which just checks that the predicted label, how many of the predicted labels match the actual ground truth in our data set, once you have the loss function, you have the accuracy function, you have your model filled up with train circuit and validation circuits, you can give it hyper parameters to the trainer, the model, you can start training, and you get this, so it takes a little while to run ahead, and as you can see roughly speaking, loss goes down, accuracy goes up, so it works, but if you play more of it, you get better accuracy, and some of you will be doing that this weekend with the QNP projects, so in conclusion, Landbeck is cool, DiscoPy is cool, you can pip install it, it's open source, you are welcome to contribute, and you have any questions, we have a discord, you can talk to us, I see any questions about Landbeck, DiscoPy, compositionality, category theory, QNP in general, so yeah, thanks to everyone who's worked on this project, and also thanks to Ian, half of the smokebook he made, so thank you, and thanks for listening.


my docket for yesterday. Tyrese Maxi career high 52. It was a double overtime game win for Philly. He was not efficient. He went 1941 to attend from three, but he was 12 to 12 from the line. And it is his third 50 point game of the season. No, indeed in this one, Chandler. So how impressed are you by what Maxi continues to do? I'm super impressed. This is what I want to see James Hardin do when Kawhi Leonard's out. I want to see him take 41 shots. This is what they have to them to win. He took 41 shots. It's great. And that's exactly what they needed for them to win the game. You know that you're going to have Joelle back. You know, you're going to have to monitor his minutes and his health going forward. But outside of Joelle and be Tyrese Maxi. He's the guy. He has been an unbelievable, you know, possibly most improved player this year. He has become a household name. He's an all star. You have the green light to go and take 40 plus shots when your big fella is out and you are trying to rise in the rankings the final week of the season. So this was super impressive. I don't care that it was inefficient. Kelly Ubrey also played good chipping in 26, but I take a 19 out of 41. That's efficient to me. I don't know.  That's 20. That's 20 May shots. Basically, that's efficient. All of a percentage is what he shot last night. That's okay. Fine. If you want to look at it like that, it's just if you think about the 40, by the way, what is this? He's the first player to score 50 in high school and the NBA in the same arena. That's a weird little piece of trivia that they're really going for with it. That's what trivia is about. I think that's not even right. I guarantee you someone else did that. Oh, you're hearing that somebody. I guarantee you like someone in high school did that and another. I mean, I feel like that's such a reach of a stat. Okay. Well, we'll spend the next week trying to figure out if we can put our guys on it, put our guys on it. Put a research, get on it, please.  They won five straight, sit their seventh right now, which is kind of crazy. A game behind the Pacers. Hey, let me, let me read you their schedule. Pistons, magic, nets, all at home. So easy question. Do they win out and secure that sixth spot, Lou? Yeah. To me, two of those teams are already done. They're already packing up. They're in, they're in get out of the, get out of the season healthy mode.  But like I said, when you have Joel and B back and you're trying to make a run for something, I like the 76ers team over a lot of teams coming out of the West, including Orlando Magic as well as their plan. So I think they get these last three and they went out. I don't think they beat Orlando. I think Orlando is gunning for that hobbling as Milwaukee Bucks team right now. The only good thing is, and we didn't touch this on Milwaukee, they play the Celtics, the Magic twice in the Thunder. The Celtics don't care, right? So like that sounds like a crazy schedule, but the Celtics in the Thunder, they pretty much, they know where they're going to fall, right? So those aren't done. The hard part is the Magic twice. The teams that still have some shifting, still have some moving up and moving down to do. So the sixers are in a good spot. The fact that they're all in home is great. The fact that they have Joellen B back is great, but this is the team. The Thunder can still move Chandler. I mean, it's tough, but they technically. If they matter to the Thunder, it doesn't matter to the Celtics. Yeah, but I have a question. Do the Celtics view tomorrow's game in Milwaukee as like, if we win and Orlando went like, we have a chance to move Milwaukee down to three or four and we don't have to face them in our accident. Like, is there any motivation like that? Yeah. Yeah, do y'all think about that? I don't think they're scared. They're home court all the way through, regardless. You know, they're home court all the way through. I don't think they're worried about anybody, honestly. I'll tell you this, though, the most intense game of this whole postseason is probably going to be that seven, eight Eastern conference. I think it's going to be the planes on both sides. I need to nobody stay on that game and be that two seat and play Milwaukee or Orlando that play in first game, whether it's sixers and Pacers, sixers and heat. That game is going to be intense because nobody wants to Celtic smoke first round. No, just put that off to the last minute if you possibly can.


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That's where we're going up there behind that little mountain there cyclists in January That's hardcore. We are heading into the wild To go skiing cross-country skiing. That's on the plan today. It's beautiful here very beautiful as you can see and we're heading out of town and sort of 20-minute drive into You know like a national park, I guess probably it is and there's hundreds of miles of Tracks everywhere weather is kind of rough. I the forecast said it was gonna stop snowing and the Sun was gonna peak out But it's just snowing and windy and Kind of rough. I I hope it's gonna stop snowing lots of cars coming in and out You don't see them because every time there's a car I take down my phone to hold both hands on the steering wheel Let's see now at the parking lot how the how the situation is. It's very popular these days to go skiing here in Norway Okay, not too bad. I think I'll just park here just ate a banana and I have a Protein shake water and another banana in there for when I get back and Think I'm gonna get out there It's beautiful, but it's kind of a little bit more intense than I would have preferred wind and snow It's nice. It's not my thing. So in terms of clothing. I have a netting shirt underneath and Then another long sleeve over there synthetic then I have this windstopper vest a jacket and here's a Buff there and then I'm gonna put another buff over the top and around like so Looking great and Then the hat when you go skiing you have to put on this It's not what wax because wax makes it glide. I Don't know what it's called in English. English. I guess maybe it is called wax actually and You put it here in the middle part of the ski Where you know when you push down to push off that comes in contact with the snow and gives you some extra grip So this is this is for grip. Okay, and usually you would get glide on the other parts of the ski To get better glide, but I don't have that. I I have horrible glide actually on these keys, but Like so and then you take this cork thing you spread it out like this and skiing at the same time is Ridiculously difficult have to hold both Hold in one hand And I have to take off my glove in order to handle the phone That's kind of difficult Norwegian surroundings. I'll throw in some footage from my last ski Fashioned last week when we had that it was sunny weather really amazing But it's still pretty magical, I would say check it out Adventure I'm struggling as I expected to hold my heart rate low though It's probably up at the 170 180s, which is extremely high Even though I'm trying to take it easy And yeah, my hand It's probably starting to freeze now. So I'm gonna put away the phone put on the glove and Focus on the skiing. I'll catch you guys a little later We're on our way back Turn out to be like a 12k loop or something like that Turns out the weather Wasn't that bad On the hills here. I'm just walking it just Taking it easy just walking up the hill basically And you know, I it's kind of back to the roots for me with with with skiing because Not only my roots as a Norwegian because it's a huge part of Norwegian culture but also back to my own personal roots because as I When I was a kid, I actually did go skiing quite a lot. So I feel like I got it, you know, I have Skills in my body somewhere and they're just slowly coming out now as I'm getting used to it more And I also think my my high heart rate is not just because of poor technical skills It's also because the skis have horrible glide. By the way, I run a lot here in the summer. So I'll put a link to to one of my running videos from this this area We made it Turn out pretty nice. Yeah, one and a half hour approximately 12 11 and a half kilometers Pretty slow, but faster than last time. So this is apple juice Mixed with the soy protein pee protein Glycine leucine and lysine. So it's a good mix of protein and amino acids and Yeah, the glycine is really good for tendon repair Thank you for following along. I Hope you liked it. Please subscribe I'm gonna do more vlogs. If you like him, you better give it a like and most of all probably comment Good comment in the section below. Tell me when you went skiing last and how it went. All right. See ya. Bye


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