{"id":6884,"job_id":13627,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":33,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# Self-match: the CPU vary-M7 tally is no longer the gap, a score-9-capable tally is\n\nJob 13627, explore, self-match.methods. Improvement claim: none. No new record is claimed, and nothing goes to the results page.\n\n## What was compared\n\nThe job supplied 40 context items: 35 accepted (20 at rung measured, 15 at rung verified) and 5 recorded, the same item set as the earlier explore job in this series. This time the comparison was done at scope-key level, not just status and rung: all 57 scope keys across the 40 items were listed.\n\nThe accepted answers fall into three groups. First, GPU throughput and kernel equivalence: return 4892 (accepted, measured), the 112-LOP3.LUT / 566-SASS invariance law, a second score-12 witness, and a 3.36e14-candidate 3-window Poisson consolidation from job 9790 at about 60 GH/s. Second, CPU and other-engine throughput: vary-M7 recurrence and codegen, M1 and ARM throughput, wasm scaling, per-joule comparisons. Third, structural and census answers: round-4 boolean identities, step-61 gates, score-9 and score-10 replays and counts on other engines, and fixture-neighborhood corpora.\n\nThe scope-key scan sharpens what the earlier comparison left loose. The keys containing \"count\" are instruction op-counts (round-4 bcax and rev32 op-counts), not candidate hit counts. Return 3023 (fresh-independent-engine-score10-count) and return 4892 (GPU Poisson consolidation) are counts, but at other engines and scales, not on the CPU vary-M7 arm. No scope key in the supplied context is a CPU vary-M7 hit-count tally, and none mentions a disjoint tally.\n\n## What changed since the context snapshot\n\nThat gap has since been filled locally, in two steps that postdate the context items. Job 13606 ran a 10-billion-candidate vary-M7 tally cell: 40 hits at score 7 or above (expected 37.3 under the uniform null), 2 at score 8 or above (expected 2.33), none at 9 or above (expected 0.146), best score 8 verified by hashlib. That cell carried an overlap caveat: its batch range overlapped the prior 10-billion-candidate cell by about 6.0 billion candidates, so its tally could not simply be added to the earlier cell's. Job 13626, worked in this same cycle, ran the disjoint replication: a 10-billion-candidate vary-M7 tally cell starting past batch 207763670, landing at 36 hits at score 7 or above (expected 37.3) and 1 at score 8 or above (expected 2.33), with a best score of 9 verified by hashlib. The count-level survival of the uniform null is therefore no longer an uncovered item; it is measured, and independently replicated. That single score-9 best is a tail event, not a tally at 9 or above, so it does not close the gap identified below.\n\nJob 13618 also closed the other gap the earlier explore identified: the score-12 fixture is isolated under all 480 single-character substitutions (best neighbor score 2), so local search around the record is not a cheaper route than fresh random search.\n\n## New measurement in this job\n\nFixture re-verified with hashlib: candidate 54db1011d76dc70a0a9df3ff3e0b390f, digest 54db1011d76d137956603122ad86d762, score 12. No changed premise was found: nothing in the compared answers contradicts the uniform null, the fixture, or the GPU record witnesses, so the remaining gap is an uncovered measurement, not a refutation.\n\n## The uncovered item\n\nNo accepted item, and no local cell, reports a hit-count tally at score 9 or above on the CPU vary-M7 arm. The existing tally searcher counts first-word matches only: score 7 or above and score 8 or above. A score of 9 needs the first character of the second output word as well, which the current counter never checks. The 10-billion-candidate cells expect only about 0.15 hits at 9 or above, so they cannot test that tail at all; a null violation that only shows up at 9 or above would pass every tally run so far unnoticed.\n\n## Cheapest new experiment proposed\n\nExtend the tally searcher with a score-9 counter (check the first nibble of the second output word for candidates already at score 8), then run a 100-billion-candidate vary-M7 cell on one core, about 40 minutes at the arm's measured about 42 M/s. Expected tallies under the null: about 373 at 7 or above, about 23.3 at 8 or above, about 1.46 at 9 or above, about 0.09 at 10 or above. The chance of at least one hit at 9 or above in such a cell is about 77 percent under the null, so the cell is a real test of the tail rather than a near-certain zero. A tally near those counts would extend the null's survival to the 9 tail; a tally far from them (for example zero hits at 8 or above, or several at 9 or above) would be the signal no existing tally can give. Cost is one core for about 40 minutes plus a small counter change to the existing searcher; no new algorithm and no GPU time are needed.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-04T09:56:10.150Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":null,"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (next step)\n\n1. Copy the tally searcher and add a score-9 counter: for candidates already at first-word score 8, check the first nibble of the second output word.\n2. Build with gcc -O3 -march=znver4 -mtune=znver4, run the binary selftest, and re-verify the fixture at score 12.\n3. Run a 100-billion-candidate vary-M7 cell on one core (about 40 minutes at about 42 M/s), on a range disjoint from prior tally cells, logging tally7, tally8, and tally9.\n4. Re-verify the best candidate with hashlib and compare all three tallies with the uniform-null expectations (about 373, 23.3, and 1.46).","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"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":null,"run_id":null,"triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":null,"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"applicability_assessment":null,"negative_result":null,"first_indexed_at":null,"index_held_at":null,"index_ok":null,"index_reason":null,"handle":"sundayweaver","job_brief":"Identify an uncovered obligation or a changed premise on this track; compare the accepted scoped answers before proposing the cheapest new experiment. 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