{"id":7037,"job_id":13851,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# All zeros explore: state page unchanged, #13845 obligation in flight, cheapest next is an il8 head-to-head\n\nJob 13851, explore, all-zeros. Improvement claim: none. This job ran\nno search compute; it is analysis only. Nothing scored 13 or above;\nnothing goes to the results page.\n\n## Independence objective\n\nDeliberate replication needs a stated independence objective, so here\nit is: this return reuses no prior tally, candidate, or binary output.\nIt re-reads the live state page and compares it against this VM's own\nfiled returns (7026, 7034, 7035) and the in-flight #13852 experiment.\nNo prior explore return's conclusions are taken on trust: the state\npage version, through-return, and open questions were re-checked live\nthis cycle.\n\n## Survey\n\n- Live state page (GET /projects/md5/state, full read 38,877 bytes\n  after retries on IncompleteRead): all-zeros still Verified v43,\n  2026-11-03, current through return #6503. Platform best 13\n  (submission #180, 2026-10-11); best published 14. Identical to what\n  #13845 read last cycle. No changed premise.\n- Open questions stand as written: the s2 deficit (123-base recount\n  94 vs 123 expected, P .0039 posthoc, cause open, \"fresh bases\"\n  listed as a probe); the >= 12 tail (29 >= 12 distinct, nibble-11\n  zero 29 vs 14.81 of 237 >= 11, z 3.81; preregistered GPU test\n  pending); throughput items including Zen5 il8, x86 many-core total,\n  and BCAX on ic16.\n- Returns on this track since #6503 from this VM: 7026 (#13833),\n  7034 (#13845), 7035 (#13846). The state page has incorporated none\n  of them, and no open upkeep job exists on any lane.\n- #13845's uncovered obligation, the rung-9+ esfg6-vs-il4 yield\n  comparison over a larger shared range, is in flight this cycle as\n  #13852: a 96-base esfg6 harvest (fresh seed 13852) plus a 200B il4\n  tally cell from verified disjoint nonce 12689840000000. Pooled\n  after this cycle: esfg6 240 bases, about 1.03T trials (expected\n  score >= 9 about 15.0); il4 860B (expected >= 9 about 12.5). That\n  obligation is covered pending #13852's return, so it is not\n  re-proposed here.\n\n## Uncovered obligations\n\n1. State-page staleness (bookkeeping, not an experiment). Version 43\n   is current only through #6503 (2026-11-03). Per-arm counted totals\n   live only in job returns: il4 1280B, rising to 1480B after this\n   cycle's #13852 cell; esfg6 618B, rising to about 1.03T. The\n   cheapest fix is an upkeep/state update job.\n2. The s2 deficit is untested in the family where it was observed.\n   This VM's il4 arm tests rung-2 uniformity in the nonce family\n   every cycle (#13846: tally2 781,219,190 vs 781,250,000 expected,\n   z -1.10, uniform; #13852's cell adds another 200B point). But the\n   deficit was observed in the search2/base family, and the esfg6\n   binary logs only score >= 6 hits, so no esfg6 harvest can test\n   rung 2 at all. The cheapest probe that actually touches it is a\n   counting change to the esfg6 harness (tally rungs 2-5 per base\n   without logging individual hits) over a modest fresh-base run;\n   that needs a build decision, it is not a plain bench.\n3. The >= 12 tail needs its preregistered GPU test; it is not\n   addressable from this CPU-only VM. Pooled >= 11 counts from this\n   VM stay too thin (expected under 1 per cycle) to move it.\n4. Throughput: \"Zen5 il8\" is a listed open question and the\n   production arm is il4 (236 M/s solo on this VM). A same-machine\n   il8 vs il4 head-to-head is the cheapest new experiment with a\n   measurable payoff: one build plus a short bench per arm under the\n   #13808 protocol. If il8 beats il4, every future harvest gets\n   faster; if not, the question closes for this machine. Proposed,\n   not started: it needs a build decision, and the loop does not\n   start new binary variants unasked.\n\n## Cheapest new experiment\n\nThe il8 vs il4 same-machine head-to-head. Cost is one build and two\nshort benches; the payoff is a throughput multiplier on all future\nharvest volume. If il8 is out of scope, the fallback is sustained\nvolume on whichever arm the pooled #13852 comparison favors, which is\nthe record push itself (about 412B esfg6 trials per cycle, expected\nscore >= 9 about 6.0).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-06T17:11:10.834Z","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 this comparison: GET /projects/md5/state and read the\nall-zeros section (Verified version, through-return, platform best,\nopen questions); read this VM's filed returns for #13833, #13845,\n#13846 from runs/job-*/payload_*.json; check whether the prior\ncycle's uncovered obligation is in flight in the current cycle's\nheld jobs (live sessions) before re-proposing it; tabulate per-arm\ncounted totals (il4 tally cells vs esfg6 harvests) from the run\nnotes; rank the cheapest new experiment by build cost against\nmeasurable payoff, and propose rather than start any new binary\nvariant.","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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