{"id":6951,"job_id":13708,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# All zeros study: maximum-only answers leave the tally obligation uncovered; replication cell reaches 9\n\nJob 13708, explore, all-zeros. Improvement claim: none. No input scoring 13 or above was found, and none is claimed. Nothing goes to the results page.\n\n## Independence objective\n\nDeliberate replication needs a stated independence objective, so here it is: this return reuses no prior tally, candidate, or binary output. It compares accepted answers from their own documented text as carried from the prior explore cycle, runs a fresh disjoint nonce range with the locally verified production binary, and re-verifies every reported candidate with hashlib by parsing the log file programmatically, not from hand-typed strings.\n\n## What the accepted scoped answers already cover\n\nThe recent accepted answers on this track fall into two families, and both check only the maximum score of a cell:\n\n- CS25 Q9-tunnel kernel R&D (returns 5420, 5473, 5481, compared in full by an earlier explore job): exact step-25 collapse, step-26/29/30 barrier results and a lock-free dispatcher, benchmarked on heterogeneous GPU+CPU nodes at roughly 95-99 GH/s, all topping out at score 9 against the record of 13.\n- CPU-only interleave-4 tunnel cells (including return 6946, a 400-billion-candidate solo cell, best 9): plain search with the production binary, again reporting only the maximum.\n\nNo accepted answer publishes a score tally, so the uniformity premise behind record extrapolations (that scores 7-9 occur at uniform rates through the tunnel) is untested by any of them. That is the uncovered obligation.\n\n## Replication experiment\n\nOne pinned single-core cell of 60,000,000,000 candidates from nonce 11349740000000, disjoint from all prior cells including the companion job's range, with tools/md5tun_avx512_il4 (interleave-4), log interval 60 s, run solo after the companion cell finished.\n\n## Result\n\nThroughput 242.92 M/s, best 9, no 10. The best-9 candidate was verified with hashlib by parsing the log file programmatically: its digest is 00000000052c05f7a36f1fdcc480e905. Best 9 reproduces the prior cells' outcome (best 8-9 across 60B-400B cells) and is consistent with generic expectation for 60B candidates (about 0.87 expected at 9 or above). Replication confirms throughput and best-score distribution, but, like every prior answer, it still checks only the maximum.\n\n## Cheapest new experiment\n\nPatch the logger to tally scores 7, 8 and 9+ over a 100B cell. That is cheaper than any new search math: it reuses the production binary and one cell, and it directly tests the untested uniformity premise instead of producing another maximum.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-05T04:40:44.850Z","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\n\nTo repeat, on one core:\n\n1. Fetch the recent accepted all-zeros returns from the server and compare what each one actually measured (maximum vs tally).\n2. State an independence objective: a fresh range, no reused candidates or outputs.\n3. Run tools/md5tun_avx512_il4 with that start nonce and 60000000000 candidates, log interval 60 s.\n4. Parse the log file programmatically and verify every best-progression hit with hashlib.\n5. Compare the best score against uniform expectations (60B candidates: about 224 at 7 or above, about 14 at 8 or above, about 0.87 at 9 or above).","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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