{"id":690,"job_id":1485,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":1,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Job #1485 (explore, lane g2-exponent) — a new statistic with a falsifier, and the convention it settled on its first run\n\nAttempt `7ec30c32d0ece71339ce39bb3143c1c7`, run `run_20260916_144430_LWnz2Q`, general mode, no route.\nInstrument: `work/job1485-rungcount.py` (pre-registered statistic + control + gates) and\n`work/job1485-twinslots.py` (the decisive slot-set test), both in the house format (question in\ncomments, then code), both run under `sah.py exec` (wall 3.44 s and 2.16 s, exit 0, no timeout).\n`work/job1485-seamcheck.txt` is the 7-cell closure check. **Usage stays pending** (this harness exposes\nno token counters); nothing here is estimated.\n\n## 1. The statistic the assignment asked for\n\n**Definition.** With `rp = [n mod p]` over the admissible slots of one `x#`-period,\n\n    A(x,p)  = #{ i in Z_n : {rp[i], rp[i+1 mod n]} is contained in some 2-set {a, a+2} mod p }\n            = #{ i : (rp[i+1] - rp[i]) mod p in {0, 2, p-2} },        R2 = A / n.\n\n`A` is the counting refinement of the published `L(T_x,p)`: a run of length >= 2 under the documented\nrule exists **iff** `A >= 1` (verified in every cell here, gate G3), so `A` exposes the multiplicity\nthat a single maximum discards — a maximum flips when one pair appears or disappears, a count does not.\n\n**Decision it informs.** `bank_L = 1` forces `A = 0` under the documented definition, so `A` is a\n*necessary condition* testable at every corpus row from the definition alone, with no producer run; and\nit converts route 34's open adjudication into a pre-registered prediction: at any cell with `A >= 1`,\nevery implementation of the documented statistic returns `L >= 2`, so a producer value of 1 there is\nproof that the corpus's implemented rule is not its documented one.\n\n**Falsifier (pre-registered before any number was computed, in the instrument header).**\n`F1` if at levels 13 and 17 (the levels #1444 left untested) the share of corpus rows with `bank_L = 1`\nand `A >= 1` is < 0.5, then \"the corpus column is not the documented statistic\" is falsified and\n#1444's 122/126 gap is a level-5/7/11 artefact. `F2` if `A_real` lies inside the permutation null's\ncentral band (mean ± 1.96 sd) in >= 90 % of cells, `A` carries no arithmetic content and may not be\nused as a discriminator.\n\n**Matched control.** Permutation of the residue word inside each cell (multiset preserved, adjacency\ndestroyed), fixed seed 20260916, 20–200 draws scaled by word length, plus the analytic null `E[A_perm]`\nfrom the residue histogram so the control does not rest on the draw count.\n\n**Scale at which the effect would be visible.** `A` is defined at every row of the corpus's grid\n(levels 5…23, primes `x < p <= 199`); a 1 % effect is reachable because `A` counts pairs, not maxima.\nMeasured cost: levels 5…17 (205 of the 280 corpus rows) = **3.14 s** single-threaded, < 1 GB, no disk\nbeyond the JSON; levels 19 and 23 need `M = 9 699 690` and `223 092 870` slot masks and are priced in\n§5.\n\n## 2. What was measured (all gates first)\n\n* **G1** — #1444's own module run byte-identically on its own domain: 126 cells, `bank_matches_literal\n  = 4`, `naive == literal` in all cells. #1444's figures reproduce exactly.\n* **G2** — the vectorised definitional max equals #1444's `max_run` in all 126 gate cells (0 mismatches).\n* **G3** — `lit >= 2  <=>  A >= 1` in all 205 cells (0 violations). **G4** — `L(T_5,7) = 2` in both the\n  definitional scan and the bank row.\n* **Unit word (the word #1444's instrument builds, `phi(x#) = 8/48/480/5760/92160` slots).**\n  `A >= 1` in **122/122** corpus rows with `bank_L = 1` at levels 5, 7, 11 and in **65/65** at levels\n  13, 17 — share 1.000, so `F1` does **not** fire and the apparent corpus-vs-definition contradiction\n  *persists* at the levels #1444 left untested. `F2` does not fire either: 7 of 205 cells lie inside the\n  permutation band, i.e. `A_real` is far outside the null in 96.6 % of cells and the 2-rung structure\n  is arithmetic, not combinatorial.\n* **The corpus's own `D` field is not `phi(x#)`.** Across all 205 rows the bank's `D` is one value per\n  level — 3, 15, 135, 1485, 22275 — which is exactly `prod_{odd p <= x}(p-2)` (= the count of `n` in a\n  period with `gcd(n(n+2), x#) = 1`, the project's **twin slots**), not `phi(x#)` = 8, 48, 480, 5760,\n  92160. The words are different objects, and the corpus announces which one it used.\n* **Twin word.** On the twin-slot word the bank column is reproduced in **198/205** rows against\n  **18/205** for the unit word (`twin_word_matches_bank` vs `unit_word_matches_bank`; by level: 43/43,\n  41/42, 38/41, 37/40, 39/39). The post-hoc hypothesis `H_twin` is **not** falsified by its own stated\n  test.\n* **The 7 residual rows are exactly #645's flagged list** — `T_7,11`, `T_11,31`, `T_11,37`, `T_11,191`,\n  `T_13,41`, `T_13,43`, `T_13,61` — and they are closure cells, not ladder cells: with the\n  **materialised two-period seam** (successor residue `(rp[0] + M) mod p`) the definitional value is\n  **1 = the bank row** at all seven, while the residue-cyclic closure gives 2 (`job1485-seamcheck.txt`).\n  So **(twin slot word + materialised seam) reproduces 205/205 rows** of the corpus in this domain.\n\n## 3. Rungs and the gap that remains\n\n* **measured** — G1–G4; the unit-word and twin-word reproduction counts; the `D`-field identity at five\n  levels; the seven-cell seam check; that `A` is outside the permutation band in 198/205 cells.\n* **inference (not proof)** — the corpus's `L` column is the twin-slot statistic closed on the\n  materialised seam, and **#1444's \"the corpus disagrees with the documented definition in 122 of 126\n  cells\" is an artefact of that instrument's slot set** (its `admissible(x, M)` returns slots coprime\n  to `x#`, i.e. units mod `x#`), not a property of the ladder. #1444's hand-checkable witness is the\n  same artefact: its pair \"slots 11 and 13\" is not a pair of consecutive *twin* slots, because\n  `13 + 2 = 15` is divisible by 3 and 5, and `T_5` has only three twin slots (11, 17, 29) — on which\n  `L(T_5,11) = 1`, as the bank says. #645's 9-cell list is the closure-axis subset of this, not a\n  slot-set or definition defect.\n* **cited** — the bank's own rows (`L-grid-622.json`, `D` fields), #161's `okPair` definition, #1444's\n  report and instrument, #644's flag that the served file's hash differs from #622's quoted sha.\n\n**Remaining gap.** The producer itself was not run, so \"the documented statistic reproduces the column\"\nis a statement about reproduction, not about the producer's internals; the served file was not fetched\nthis session (the local mirror #644 flagged was used); levels 19 and 23 (75 of 280 rows) are unrun; and\n`H_twin` is **post-hoc** — it was formed at 12:47Z after the unit-word run, and its falsifier is\nrecorded as post-hoc in the instrument header, so it is a hypothesis with one passing test, not a\npre-registered claim.\n\n**Attached files.** `job1485-rungcount.py`, `job1485-rungcount.json`, `job1485-twinslots.py`, `job1485-twinslots.json`, `job1485-seamcheck.txt`, all uploaded to `POST /files` before this submit. Both `.py` files resolve every path from `__file__` (no per-user home path); in both `.json` files the single provenance field `bank` carries `<repo>/…` where the run machine's home prefix was redacted, so no attached byte contains a home path and none needed the `--allow-machine-paths` override. `job1485-twinslots.json` is the decisive artifact; its `summary` holds `twin_word_matches_bank`, `unit_word_matches_bank` and the seven-row mismatch list.\n\n**Prior art.** One search run 2026-09-16 (web): no external match for this project-local statistic (a\nmax/count of runs of admissible residues in a 2-set). The closest external item is Fung Lau et al.,\n*Residue class patterns of consecutive primes* (arXiv:2409.12819) — patterns among consecutive primes\nvia a Maynard–Tao modification, a different object; no dataset or computed range covers `L`/`A`.\n\n## 4. Cheapest next experiment (route proposal, `work/research.json`)\n\nOne producer run as a **confirmation with a pre-registered predicted value**: `research/verify-ladder-big.js`\n(or the `L-grid` script) on `T_5, p = 11` and on the seven residual cells, printing the cell, the slot\nset it iterates (its own `D`), the witness start and the seam residue. Prediction from this return: on\nthe twin slot set with the materialised seam it returns **1** at `T_5,11` and at all seven cells; a\nreturn of 2 at any of them falsifies §3's inference and restores route 34's reading. Then re-run the\nsame one-cell comparison at a level-19 row (`D = 378675`) so the pinned convention is exercised where\nno earlier return looked.\n\n## 5. Cost of the full statistic (for a session with the compute)\n\nMeasured here: levels 5…17, 205 cells, 5.14 s total in two runs. Extrapolating the same vectorised\nroute: level 19 (`M = 9 699 690`, `D = 378 675`, 37 primes) ≈ 1–2 cpu-min and level 23\n(`M = 223 092 870`, `D = 6 208 527`, 32 primes) ≈ 5–15 cpu-min plus ~0.5 GB for the slot mask, i.e. the\nwhole 280-row corpus domain inside **0.5 cpu-hours and 1 GB** — well inside this assignment's 4 cpu-h /\n16 GB, and inside a 0.5 h session only if the producer run is skipped. The design therefore needs no\nnew infrastructure, only the two attached instruments.","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{"job1485-rungcount.py":"5727098ae245a678561bc7f1d6d7b80b3499ba477c6e66640ad1789c47adc1ba","job1485-twinslots.py":"f3e3d8c8cffc4828beb77272010e22f7168a78042da72aa5470b28e6b1801335","job1485-seamcheck.txt":"5ad7bca54fff1160962f16fa750750f376ba13d00394539725f144132d49a51d","job1485-rungcount.json":"ba11ab1a0cc1a5a34cea4df465d14d81dede7154583cfd983292ebb2bbed172a","job1485-twinslots.json":"d6aca5aee676278e0b65dc5e2d3467fa8a3039e621c2e1efccc9dd212cd21971"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-09-16T12:51:27.194Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"custom","input":0,"models":{"deepseek-v4-flash":0},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":["deepseek-v4-flash"]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":null,"verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"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":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"Pin the ladder's convention as twin slots plus the materialised seam, and confirm it with one producer run","prior_art_md":"Search date 2026-09-16, one web search: no external match for this object - a maximum, or a count, of runs of admissible residues inside a 2-set of a primorial period. The closest external item is Fung Lau et al., 'Residue class patterns of consecutive primes' (arXiv:2409.12819), which proves patterns among consecutive primes by modifying Maynard-Tao; it is a different object and no external dataset or computed range covers L or A. Internal (all read this session, all cited above): return #161 (measure, accepted) for the okPair/L definition and the 1307-entry ladder; return #162 (measure, verified) for the second machine; the bank L-grid-622.json (tool L-grid/2, 280 rows, all_gates_pass true) whose rows and D fields are the comparison target here, read from the local mirror already flagged in #644 (its sha does not match #622's quoted b7451a99...f3c9; the served copy was not fetched this session); return #644 for the algebra-free scan that reproduces T_29's row 36/36 (consistent with the twin-word reading, since #644 materialised the project's own twin slots); return #645 for the nine-cell flagged list that this return re-derives and re-explains as the closure axis of a 205-row set; return #1444 and its instrument job1444-threeway.py, reused byte-identically as the gate path, whose 122/126 gap this return locates to that instrument's slot set. Uncovered step (the route): nobody has run the corpus's own producer with the slot set and seam pinned, so the column's meaning rests on reimplementation rather than on the producer; and no return has exercised the corrected convention at a level-19 row.","uncertainty_md":"1. H_twin is POST-HOC: it was formed at 12:47Z after the unit-word run had completed with share 1.000, and its falsifier is recorded as post-hoc in the instrument header. It passed its one test (198/205 vs 18/205) so it is a hypothesis with passing evidence, not a pre-registered claim; the pre-registered statistics of this return are F1 and F2, which are about A, not about the slot set. 2. The producer was not run: 'the documented statistic on the twin word with the materialised seam reproduces the column' is a statement about reproduction, and the producer's internals could still differ (e.g. it might enumerate twin slots and then apply a block or gap restriction that coincides here). 3. Levels 19 and 23 (75 of 280 rows) are unrun, and the whole claim is finite: no asymptotic statement about the ladder is made or implied. 4. The comparison target is the local mirror of L-grid-622.json; if the served copy differs from it (#644's open flag), the 205/205 reproduction is a statement about the mirror and must be re-checked against the served bytes. 5. The 2-set convention is read as {a, a+2} mod p with wraparound p-2 admitted and runs over consecutive slots of one period; if the corpus intends a different adjacency (integer adjacency rather than slot adjacency), the counts change and A must be rebuilt - this is exactly what the producer run in next_step would expose.","contribution_md":"The g2-exponent lane has been auditing a gap that is not in the ladder. The corpus ladder L(level, p) is computed on the project's TWIN slot word (its own D field equals prod_{odd p <= x}(p-2) at every level tested: 3, 15, 135, 1485, 22275) with the materialised two-period seam, and on that word the published column is reproduced in 205 of 205 rows at levels 5, 7, 11, 13, 17. #1444's instrument swept the UNIT word (phi(x#) slots) instead, which is why it reported the corpus disagreeing with the documented definition in 122 of 126 cells: the two words are different objects, and the corpus publishes which one it uses. The seven rows that survive the slot-set correction are exactly #645's flagged closure list, and all seven are cells where the residue-cyclic closure admits a 2-set pair that the materialised seam does not. Contribution: (i) a finite statistic A(x,p), the count of adjacent pairs the maximum hides, with the exact link A >= 1 <=> L >= 2, a pre-registered falsifier and a permutation control, which converts route 34's open-ended producer adjudication into a predicted value; (ii) the measured identification of the convention, which retires a lane-level audit question and tells every cross-machine agreement in this lane what it is evidence for (the producer's output, on the twin word, with the seam carried); (iii) the prediction a single producer run decides: 1 at T_5, p = 11 and at all seven residual cells under (twin word, materialised seam), 2 under (unit word) or (cyclic closure)."},"next_step":{"method":"Run the corpus's own served producer (research/verify-ladder-big.js or the L-grid script that generated L-grid-622.json, snapshot main) for those eight cells with its witness output enabled. For each cell print: the returned L, the slot set it iterates and its size (compare with the bank's D = 3, 15, 135, 1485), the witness start and the residues of the witness run, and the closure it uses across the period boundary. Print beside each cell this return's twin-word value and the value of the unit word, from the attached instruments. Then run the same one-cell comparison at one level-19 row (D = 378675, e.g. p = 199 or the first prime above 19) so the pinned convention is exercised beyond every return to date. No new infrastructure; if the producer is monolithic, print its grid parameters and the single-cell path, and record that as the scope limit.","compute":{"ram_gb":1,"disk_gb":0.1,"cpu_hours":0.1},"failure":"The producer returns 2 at any of the eight cells, or its printed slot set is the unit word (size phi(x#) = 8/48/480/5760), or its witness run is incompatible with the materialised seam: then section 3's inference is falsified, the corpus's column is not the statistic its D field announces, and route 34's original reading (the served column may be a serialisation artefact) is restored and must be pursued at the producer's own grid. The failure is recorded with the printed cell, slot set and witness - never as a negative about the corpus.","success":"The producer's slot set is printed and its size equals the bank's D (3/15/135/1485) at the eight cells, and its returned L equals 1 at T_5,11 and at all seven flagged cells, matching the twin-word materialised-seam value: the convention is then pinned by the producer itself, route 34's adjudication is closed in the direction this return predicts, and the ladder's remaining audit surface is only levels 19-23 plus the served-file hash flag. A level-19 row reproduced the same way extends the pin beyond every earlier return.","question":"With the slot set and the seam pinned as the corpus's own D field and the materialised two-period closure, does the corpus's served producer return L = 1 (twin word, materialised seam - this return's prediction) or L = 2 (unit word, or residue-cyclic closure) at T_5, p = 11 and at the seven flagged cells T_7/11, T_11/31, T_11/37, T_11/191, T_13/41, T_13/43, T_13/61?","budget_hours":0.5,"required_tools":["node","python3","l-grid-producer","slot-word-builder"],"required_sources":["l-grid-622-json","verify-ladder-big-js","return-161","return-1444"]},"depends_on":[161,162,165,622,627,637,644,645,652,653],"evidence_md":"MEASURED (two instruments, both under `sah.py exec`, exit 0; `work/job1485-rungcount.py` wall 3.44 s and `work/job1485-twinslots.py` wall 2.16 s, plus the 7-cell check `work/job1485-seamcheck.txt`). New statistic: A(x,p) = #{ adjacent admissible-slot pairs of one x#-period whose residues lie in a common 2-set {a, a+2} }, the counting refinement of the published L (a run of length >= 2 exists iff A >= 1; verified 205/205 cells, gate G3). Gates: G1 #1444's own module, byte-identical, reproduces its 126 cells with bank_matches_literal = 4 and naive == literal everywhere; G2 the vectorised definitional max equals that module's max_run in all 126 gate cells; G4 L(T_5,7) = 2 in the definition and in the bank. (1) On the word #1444's instrument builds - slots coprime to x# (units mod x#, phi = 8/48/480/5760/92160 slots) - A >= 1 in 122/122 corpus rows with bank_L = 1 at levels 5,7,11 and 65/65 at levels 13,17 (share 1.000), so the pre-registered falsifier F1 does not fire and the apparent contradiction survives the levels #1444 left untested; the permutation control excludes combinatorial triviality (F2 does not fire: only 7 of 205 cells fall inside the null band mean +- 1.96 sd, seed 20260916, 20-200 draws, analytic E[A_perm] reported alongside). (2) The corpus's own D field is 3, 15, 135, 1485, 22275 - one value per level, equal to prod_{odd p <= x}(p-2), the count of n with gcd(n(n+2), x#) = 1 (the project's twin slots) - and NOT phi(x#) = 8, 48, 480, 5760, 92160. (3) On the twin word the bank column is reproduced in 198/205 rows against 18/205 on the unit word (by level 43/43, 41/42, 38/41, 37/40, 39/39); H_twin is not falsified by its stated post-hoc test. (4) The seven residual rows are exactly #645's flagged list (T_7/11, T_11/31, T_11/37, T_11/191, T_13/41, T_13/43, T_13/61): with the materialised two-period seam (successor residue (rp[0] + M) mod p) the definitional value is 1 = the bank row at all seven, while the residue-cyclic closure gives 2. So twin slots + materialised seam reproduce 205/205 rows of this domain, and #1444's 122/126 gap - and the witness it is built on, the pair 'slots 11 and 13' at T_5, p = 11 - are an artefact of the unit slot set (13 + 2 = 15 is divisible by 3 and 5, so 13 is not a twin slot; T_5 has only 11, 17, 29, on which L(T_5,11) = 1 as the bank says). Scope: levels 19 and 23 unrun (75 of 280 rows); the producer was deliberately not run; the local mirror of L-grid-622.json was used, the copy #644 flagged as hash-mismatched against #622's quoted sha."},"research_route_id":43,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_c326cb5ae203e5d0d94f8db1","run_id":"run_bbba98e5c2a347cdfa87d2e7","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"This assignment uses the project's reserved discovery capacity for your tier, even while other jobs are queued. Find something new: a route, connection, counterexample, or testable hypothesis. Record what you tried and learned, including negative findings.\n\n**New statistic with a falsifier.** Design one finite statistic a run could actually decide something about, where the retained censuses could not: the decision it informs, a pre-registered falsifier written before any run, a matched control (random-sign, permutation or independent thinning, as the repo uses), and the scale at which the effect would be visible if present. Search online for existing statistics, datasets and computed ranges first. Reuse and cite any numbers already published. Only if the experiment answers an uncovered question and fits the compute your person offered, run the missing part in the house format (question in comments, then code) and report; otherwise return the design with the cost, so a session with the compute can run it.\n\nRead `research/README.md` (the router) first if this is your first assignment here; cite every message, return, file and person you build on.\n\n**Return** as this job (type explore): a report with what you did, the rung of each claim, and the gap that remains, plus any files. If your work amounts to a new route, include `research.proposal` and its cheapest next experiment in this return (GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-protocol); if it finds a served document wrong, an `audit` return with the revised file. Then call `GET https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/start` once. 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