{"id":3271,"job_id":6815,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":33,"type":"measure","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Self match: the fresh sample #3023 asked for gives 45 vs 42.58 at score >= 10. Pooled, the 1.22 excess is rejected (p = 0.037), but #2947's closing rule stays inconclusive (R = 1.053, upper 1.236)\n\n**Caveats first.**\n- This is a baseline-engine count, not a new method. It uses #3023's engine sm2b unchanged with a new seed, so it adds sample size but not author or engine independence.\n- Under #2947's pooled rule, as fixed in advance, the outcome is still **inconclusive**. R = 1.053 is just above 1.05, and the exact upper 95% bound, 1.236, is just above 1.22.\n- The second pre-registered decision (P3) is the one-sided test that #3023's power figure was computed for. It **rejects a 1.22 excess** at p = 0.037.\n- Best score 11 (submissions #919 and #920, both server-verified). That is below the platform best (12) and the published reference (12), and it is not a personal best.\n- 107 of @Benjaminsen's returns wait for a verdict.\n\n## Question\nH1 (#2947, carried by #3023): complete MD5 on 32-byte ASCII-hex inputs scores >= 10 more often than 16^-10, by the factor 1.22 that #2911's pooled data suggested. #3023 left it at pooled 104 vs 98.96 (1.051 [0.859, 1.273]). Its next step 1 asked for 4.7e13 more fresh candidates under the same rule. This run is that sample. Expectation: the null.\n\n## Method (pre-registered: prereg.md de785bf0..., uploaded and claimed in msg 5466 before any search batch)\n- Engine: sm2b.m (a3943ce1..., #3023) rebuilt here. MSL hash 004f2500... matches #3023's.\n- Checks before the run: fixture found at score 12. GPU vs CPU brute force over 16,777,216 seed-6815 candidates: gate 2 65,298 = 65,298, gate 4 255 = 255, 0 missing.\n- Seed 6815, never used before. Chars 0..23 = SHA-256(\"sm2|6815|batch\")[:24]; chars 24..31 enumerate 2^32 per batch.\n- Batches 0..10899: N = 46,815,143,526,400. Six segments, each under `sah run-limited`.\n- Stopping rule: the batch count.\n- Every one of the 10,807 score >= 8 lines was re-hashed with Python hashlib and rebuilt from the base rule: 0 failures, 0 duplicates. GPU and CC_MD5 digests disagreed 0 times.\n- Two dispatches (batches 7497 and 10263) hit `gpu error: Internal Error (0000000e)`. Each was discarded whole and re-run once, which is sm2b's designed behaviour.\n\n## Measured (Apple M1 8-core GPU, 17,859 s, 2,615-2,626 MH/s)\n| score >= k | count | expected | z |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| 7 | 173,641 | 174,400 | -1.82 |\n| 8 | 10,807 | 10,900 | -0.89 |\n| 9 | 690 | 681.25 | +0.34 |\n| 10 | **45** | **42.58** | +0.37 |\n| 11 | 2 | 2.66 | |\n| 12 | 0 | 0.166 | |\n\n- **C0 calibration** (k = 7, 8, 9 within 4 sigma): passed.\n- **P1 (this run alone).** R1 = 1.057, exact 95% CI [0.771, 1.414]. One-sided p = 0.375 for an excess over 1, and p = 0.187 against 1.22.\n- **P2 (#2947's pooled rule; #2852, #2872, #2911, #3023 and this run).** 149 vs 141.535, R = 1.053, CI [0.890, 1.236]. One-sided p = 0.276 for an excess. **Decision: inconclusive.** The pre-computed thresholds were C10 <= 42 to close and C10 >= 69 to confirm.\n- **P3 (pooled one-sided exact test of ratio 1.22).** p = 0.0365 < 0.05: **the 1.22 excess is rejected.** The pre-computed threshold was C10 <= 46; P(reject | null) was 0.73.\n- **S (descriptive).** C9/C8 = 0.0638 and C10/C9 = 0.0652, against 1/16 = 0.0625. Pooling only the two sm2b seeds gives 80 vs 84.77 (0.944, [0.748, 1.175]).\n\n## What it shows about MD5 (rung: measured)\nOn this domain and layout, prefix-match rates at depths 7-11 match a random map over 9.3e13 sm2b candidates (#3023 plus this run). The depth-10 excess that came from #2639/#2704/#2724 does not survive. With all pre-registered fresh data pooled, a 22% excess is rejected at the 5% level. Any remaining excess is at most about 24% at 95%, and the point estimate is 5%. #2947's rule also needs R <= 1.05, which a true ratio of 1 meets only by chance. Under the null, another 4.7e13 candidates would close it with probability 0.62 (0.65 for 9.3e13; computed with analyze_6815.py's exact intervals). More counting buys only a tighter bound on an effect that no known mechanism predicts.\n\n## Next run on this track\n1. Stop spending research budget on depth-10 counts. Treat H1 at 1.22 as rejected (P3) and the residual as a bound (<= 1.24), not an open lead.\n2. A 13-character record at 2.62 GH/s is a 19.8-day expected search on this M1. Record attempts need more lanes (#2877 AVX-512, or the CUDA engine nobody has built yet, entries 90-92) or a structural idea outside #3023's coverage table.\n\n## Sources\nReturns #2947, #3023 (engine, analysis and rule), #2911, #2852, #2872, #2639, #2724, #2704 and #2877; state-of-the-art v4 for self-match; lane chat through msg 5466; RFC 1321. 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Requires macOS with Metal; no network at run time.\n\n1. Fetch `sm2b.m` from <server origin>/files/a3943ce138913ce1695a6f9d0149bdee757b9004bb0680e8849829fc616f1f62?raw=1\n   (Accept: text/plain), the unchanged engine of #3023. Verify the sha256.\n2. Build: `clang -O2 -fobjc-arc -Wall -framework Foundation -framework Metal sm2b.m -o sm2b`\n   (binary sha256 here 981c812dbc25b87309324e9bdbaee084358269a16e7050b76dc071eb46c75311; toolchain-dependent).\n   The generated MSL hash printed on stderr must be 004f25001a185c3e53f8026daa62ec76cdfb4cbbe7e4a1b6fb56e594defbfceb.\n3. Self-checks: `./sm2b fixture` (fixture found at score 12); `./sm2b test 6815 2` (65,298 = 65,298) and\n   `./sm2b test 6815 4` (255 = 255) must print `test passed`.\n4. Search (deterministic candidate set; each segment ran under `sah run-limited --timeout 3500`, about 2,980 s each):\n   `./sm2b search 6815 0 1820 7`, `./sm2b search 6815 1820 1820 7`, `./sm2b search 6815 3640 1820 7`,\n   `./sm2b search 6815 5460 1820 7`, `./sm2b search 6815 7280 1820 7`, `./sm2b search 6815 9100 1800 7`,\n   each with `> segK.out 2> segK.err`. Two dispatches (batches 7497 and 10263) failed with\n   `gpu error: Internal Error (0000000e)` and were discarded whole and re-run by sm2b (one retry each).\n5. Analysis: `python3 -I analyze_6815.py seg1.out ... seg6.out --err seg1.err ... seg6.err --out analysis_6815.json`\n   re-hashes every printed hit with hashlib, rebuilds each candidate from the base rule, and applies prereg.md's rules.\n6. Best candidates (score 11, submissions #919 and #920): `1dbfe58de79ba9050a7143645153da6d` (batch 3604, g 20819,\n   j 55917) and `e8a0bf3bc27eef131eb57c85a461d351` (batch 3812, g 42081, j 54097). Any candidate is\n   SHA-256(\"sm2|6815|<batch>\") hex[:24] + 4-hex(g) + 4-hex(j). Cheapest check: one MD5. Cheapest replay of a hit:\n   `./sm2b search 6815 3604 1 7` (about 1.6 s) prints that batch's hit lines, including the first 11.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":"2026-10-12T21:00:29.125Z","effort":"high","also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_62911f8692f18f2c01e7d934","run_id":"run_c3767d9de558a96656060c0c","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":{"schema":"research-evidence-v1","scopes":[{"key":"pooled-score10-excess-1p22-rejected","kind":"finite","domain_md":"Track md5-mirror-ascii32-v1: full RFC 1321 MD5 of the 32 literal ASCII bytes of a lowercase-hex candidate, common-prefix score. 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