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<YEAR>_ARLIZ_<Volume_Title>_Volume_<N>__pre-release-2026-06-21-bcff3fe.pdf

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Arliz v1.0.0-beta-Volume_I

[1.0.0-beta-Volume_I] - 2026-06-15

This is a structural release, not a content release. No chapter prose has
been written for any volume yet -- every chapter in parts/part01/,
parts/part02/, and parts/part03/ currently exists only as a \chapter{}
title with a short, comma-separated outline of the topics it will eventually
cover. What this release delivers is the complete reorganization of Arliz from
a single six-part book into three independent, continuously-buildable volumes,
together with the build pipeline, templates, front matter, documentation, and
website needed to support that structure going forward. "Volume I" appears in
the version tag because its front matter (preface, introduction,
acknowledgments, cover) and build configuration are the most complete of the
three, and vol1.pdf is the first volume to have been built end-to-end as a
test of the new pipeline.

Changed -- Restructuring: six parts into three volumes

• Reworked the project from a single book organized into "Part 1" through
  "Part 6" into three standalone volumes, each compiling to its own PDF:
  • Volume I -- Zero to Bit (parts/part01/part01.tex, volumes/vol1.conf)
    -- representation and encoding, from a voltage difference to bits, numbers,
    characters, and serialization.
  • Volume II -- Silicon Horizon (parts/part02/part02.tex, volumes/vol2.conf)
    -- the hardware that executes arrays: logic gates, memory, ISAs, pipelines,
    SIMD, GPUs, and interconnects.
  • Volume III -- Array Odyssey (parts/part03/part03.tex, volumes/vol3.conf)
    -- arrays themselves: theory, memory layout, data structures, algorithms,
    parallel/distributed processing, and applications.
• Redistributed the planned content of the former "Part 4 -- Data Structures &
  Algorithms", "Part 5 -- Parallelism & Systems", and "Part 6 -- Synthesis &
  Frontiers" into Volumes I-III, at the points in the voltage-to-tensor
  narrative where each topic naturally belongs (documented as MERGE NOTES
  comments at the top of each partXX.tex):
  • NUMA architecture, SIMD/vector ISA chapters, GPU architecture/execution/
    memory/programming models, and TPU systolic arrays now sit in Volume II,
    immediately after the single-unit hardware topics they extend.
  • Stacks, queues, heaps, hash tables and probabilistic structures, strings and
    pattern matching, suffix structures, tries, graphs, range-query structures
    (segment tree, Fenwick tree, sparse table), dynamic programming, divide &
    conquer, greedy algorithms, backtracking, and streaming/amortized analysis
    now sit in Volume III as "structures and algorithms built on arrays".
  • Concurrency fundamentals, performance laws, threads/thread pools, OpenMP,
    synchronization primitives, lock-free structures, GPU array algorithms
    (sort/reduce/scan), and distributed array processing (MPI, MapReduce,
    Spark, PGAS, consensus) now sit in Volume III as a "parallel and
    distributed array processing" section.
  • Tensors and ML array operations, attention/transformers, linear algebra
    (BLAS/LAPACK), scientific computing and FFT, image/audio/video/signal
    processing, geospatial and bioinformatics arrays, quantum state vectors,
    array programming languages, and emerging array hardware/paradigms now sit
    in Volume III as the closing "arrays in science, machine learning, and
    beyond" section.
• Volume II's outline intentionally excludes the consumer-hardware
  repair/diagnostic chapters (motherboard repair, PSU diagnostics, mobile
  device teardown, soldering, etc.) that existed in the old Part 2 plan.
• Volume III's outline drops the memory/storage hardware-testing and
  diagnostic chapters (March algorithms for RAM testing, SMART attributes,
  etc.) that were appended to the end of the old Part 3 plan.
• Rewrote README.md to describe the three-volume structure, the
  dependency order between volumes, pointers to the new docs/ guides, and
  the dual-license model (CC BY-SA 4.0 for content, MIT for code/tooling).
• Rewrote the project website (docs/index.html, docs/style.css,
  docs/script.js): new hero section with the ARLIZ acronym breakdown
  (Arrays, Reasoning, Logic, Identity, Zero), a "One Journey, Three Volumes"
  section, live GitHub stats and a contributors grid pulled from the GitHub
  API, and a community/contribution section.

Added -- Build system and tooling

• New shared LaTeX template main.tex, instantiated once per volume via
  token substitution (@PDF_TITLE@, @PDF_TITLE_FRONT@, @PDF_COVER_TITLE@,
  @PDF_SUBJECT@, @PDF_KEYWORDS@, @FRONTMATTER_DIR@, @MAIN_FRONTMATTER@,
  @PARTS@, @BACKMATTER@).
• New per-volume configuration files volumes/vol1.conf, volumes/vol2.conf,
  and volumes/vol3.conf, each describing that volume's PDF metadata, front
  matter directory, list of \part{}/\input{} files, back matter files,
  volume number/title, and cover image.
• New generation/build/clean scripts under scripts/volumes/:
  • generate.sh <volN> -- produces <YEAR>_ARLIZ_<Title>_<N>.tex from
    main.tex + the volume's .conf file, for manual compilation (e.g. in
    TeXstudio).
  • build.sh <volN|all> -- generates and compiles a volume (or all volumes)
    with latexmk (pdflatex + biber, multiple passes), producing
    build/<YEAR>_ARLIZ_<Title>_<N>.pdf.
  • clean.sh -- removes all generated top-level volume .tex files and
    build/.
• New top-level Makefile with targets: vol1, vol2, vol3, volumes,
  generate-vol1/generate-vol2/generate-vol3, clean-vol1/clean-vol2/
  clean-vol3, clean-vols, sync, build, watch, part, chapter,
  cover, test, version, and help.
• First end-to-end build of Volume I (vol1.pdf) produced as a test of the
  new modular pipeline.
• Regenerated the per-volume .tex and .pdf outputs for all three volumes
  against the finalized volumes/*.conf files and directory layout.

Added -- Front matter and shared content

• New per-volume front matter for Volume I under frontmatter/vol1/:
  cover.tex, preface.tex, Introduction.tex, and acknowledgments.tex.
• New shared front matter: frontmatter/title.tex (title page),
  frontmatter/copyright.tex (copyright notice and dual-license terms,
  preferred citation, and contact information), and frontmatter/about_author.tex
  (a new "About the Author" chapter, including the author photo).
• New shared back matter content (glossary placeholder, bibliography section,
  and a closing "Reflections at the End" / author's notes section).
• Added the wrapfig package to the graphics configuration
  (.pxis/components/graphics.tex and configs/graphics.tex) to support the
  author-photo layout used in "About the Author".
• Added and customized the hyperref setup
  (.pxis/components/hyperref.tex) with PDF metadata (title, author, subject,
  keywords) and link styling, wired up via \PDFTitle, \PDFAuthor, and
  related macros in main.tex.

Added -- Documentation

• New docs/ARCHITECTURE.md explaining the repository layout, the
  template-plus-per-volume-config pattern, the volume config variables, and
  how the three volumes are produced from one shared source tree.
• New docs/VOLUMES.md describing what each volume covers, the one-directional
  dependency order between volumes (I -> II -> III), and where new chapters
  should be added.
• New docs/WORKFLOWS.md with concrete day-to-day commands for building,
  generating, and cleaning each volume, plus a troubleshooting section.
• New docs/CONTRIBUTING.md covering local setup, issue reporting (using the
  templates below), the pull-request process, branching strategy, semantic
  commit-message conventions, source-documentation rules, LaTeX coding
  standards, and editorial guidelines.
• New docs/CHANGELOG.md (this file).
• New GitHub issue templates under .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/: bug_report.yml,
  feature_request.yml, documentation_update.yml, discussion_ideas.yml,
  and general_inquiry.yml, adapted to Arliz's volume/part terminology and the
  two-digit book/parts/partNN/ referencing convention.
• New .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml pointing contributors to the README
  and docs/CONTRIBUTING.md instead of generic placeholder links.
• New .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md with a structured checklist covering
  LaTeX content changes, macros, figures/tables, structural changes, and build
  verification steps (xelatex/biber passes).

Added -- Repository hygiene

• New .gitignore covering LaTeX build byproducts (*.aux, *.log, *.out,
  *.toc, *.bbl, *.bcf, *.blg, *.synctex.gz, *.fdb_latexmk, *.fls,
  index/glossary artifacts, etc.), the build/ and .backups directories, and
  generated top-level volume files (/vol*.tex, *_ARLIZ_*.tex).
• New .gitattributes marking *.tex files as not linguist-detectable.

Removed

• Removed "Part 4", "Part 5", and "Part 6" as independent top-level parts of
  the book. No planned content was deleted outright -- it was relocated into
  Volumes I-III and re-outlined as described above.

Fixed

• Fixed make watch not correctly invoking the watch-mode build script.

Notes -- naming history

• Volume I went through the working title "BIT GENESIS" during early
  restructuring before being finalized as "Zero to Bit".
• Volume II was finalized as "Silicon Horizon" in the same naming pass.
• Volume III's title, "Array Odyssey", was set as part of the initial
  three-volume split and has not changed since.

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Contributors

• @m-mdy-m
• @im-hanieh