Silence-handling variants of BS: results write-up

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2. Write-upAgent #1616made 1 file

   I've written the report to artifacts/goal/writeup/report.md (8,599 bytes, well under the 40,000 limit). V4 comes out best, but its lead over V2 is not yet decisive. V3 makes BS worse.

   Pooled gain over BS, best first:

   Variant	n	Over BS: mean (se)	Over NP2: mean (se)
   V4 (b7b89026…e243)	2512	+0.0786 (0.0074)	+0.8131 (0.0162)
   V2 (28417e11…a4ab)	4000	+0.0623 (0.0045)	+0.8329 (0.0119)
   V1 (a06cef76…71e8)	4000	+0.0599 (0.0068)	+0.7977 (0.0133)
   V3 (357d9b5a…26e7)	2000	−0.3239 (0.0174)	+0.4311 (0.0245)

   • Check against +0.736: BS beats NP2 by +0.7504 (se 0.0069) pooled over all 12,512 seeds, or +0.7525 on the complete blocks only. That is within one se of the goal's figure, so the baseline holds.
   • How sure V4 is best: it leads V2 by about 1.9 se, and the two were run on different seeds. Ranked by gain over NP2 instead, V2 comes first; that comes from noise in V2's blocks (v2b's BS−NP2 was +0.79, the highest of any block), not from V2 doing better against BS. The report suggests one same-seed run of V4 against V2 to settle it.
   • Blocks that blocked or did not finish:
     • v3a blocked: its NP2 check came out 9.8e-07 off. The block puts that down to macOS/libm floating-point differences; nothing confirmed it. So V3 rests on one block of 2,000 seeds.
     • v4b did not finish: only 512 of its 2,000 seeds completed in time. I included them, and the report also shows V4 from its full block alone: +0.0722 (se 0.0081) over BS.
   • Sources that did not hold: the result files contain no source lists, so I couldn't tell which claims those sources supported. The report says this. Every V1 and V2 block is flagged, and so is v3a's explanation. Neither V4 block is flagged.
   • Gaps: the results don't record each variant's actual silence settings (cap, keep factor, damping). The seed ranges for v1b, v2a and v4a aren't stated either; I inferred them from the seeds each block lists, and the report says so.

   I recomputed every block's mean and se from its own sums, and the eight input hashes match the brief. I didn't write figures.json, because the brief said to write only the report. The repository also shows some untracked dotfiles (.bashrc, .claude/ and others) that I didn't create, and I left them alone.

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3. JudgeAgent #1197found 1 medium, 2 low, 1 info

   The review is complete and .imd-findings.json holds four findings, none high. No files other than the findings file were changed.

   Outcome. The report's figures hold. I recomputed every pooled mean and standard error from its per-block table, checked that each block's three differences are additive, and reconciled the three blocks that give raw mean edges. All agree to rounding. The simulator commit, the repository's 30 bps fixed-fee baseline, and the Paradigm challenge page all exist and match what the report says. Gaps in the data (v3a blocked, v4b partial, unverified sources) are disclosed rather than hidden.

   Findings, ranked:

   • Medium: variants are not tied to their settings. The goal defines each variant by which silence settings move toward silence-b's. The report identifies V1 to V4 only by file hash and says it cannot name any variant's cap, keep factor or damping. The requester can submit V4 by hash but learns nothing about which change helped or why V3 loses.
   • Low: V4's lead is quoted at about 1.9 se using the 512-seed partial block. On complete blocks only, V4 leads V2 by about 1.1 se and V1 by about 1.2 se, and V1 and V2 are indistinguishable. The ranking order is unchanged, but the comparable-sample margin is not stated.
   • Low: the eight result files are neither attached nor hashed. Every per-block number rests on them, and the deliverable gives the requester no way to fetch or check them.
   • Info: the baseline check uses the old se alone rather than the combined se. The conclusion that the +0.736 baseline holds is still correct.

   Next. Nothing here blocks use of the deliverable. If a rewrite is wanted, the one that matters is recording each variant's actual silence settings next to its hash.

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   • mediumVariants V1–V4 are never tied to the silence settings the goal defines them by

     The goal defines each VAR as BS with one or more silence settings (cap on silent steps, per-step keep factor, damping) moved toward silence-b's. The report (section 'Best variant' and 'What could not be determined') identifies V1–V4 only by file SHA-256 and states it cannot say which settings any variant uses.

     The requester therefore gets a winning hash but not the answer to the part of the goal that asks which silence change helps (V4) and which hurts V3 by -0.324, and cannot confirm the four files are the intended variants beyond the hash list in the brief. The report discloses the gap honestly, so the deliverable is usable for submission; it is not usable for deciding what to change next.

     Goal text: 'each VAR swaps BS's silence settings (cap on silent steps, per-step keep factor, damping) toward silence-b's.'

     Report headline table columns: Rank, Variant, VAR SHA-256, Blocks used, n, means, se.

     Expected: a column or paragraph per variant giving its cap / keep factor / damping values (or a statement of where they are recorded, e.g. the source file at each SHA-256).

     Actual: report line 40 and line 72 state the settings are not in the results and are not given anywhere in the write-up.

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   • lowV4's lead over V2 and V1 depends on the 512-seed partial block; complete-block-only margin is ~1.1 se, not stated

     The caveat quantifies V4's lead only with the pooled figure (+0.0786, which includes v4b's 512 seeds at +0.1033). The report separately gives V4 on v4a alone as +0.0722 (se 0.0081) but does not carry that through to the comparison. Using complete 2,000-seed blocks only, V4 − V2 = +0.0099 with combined se 0.0093 (≈1.1 se) and V4 − V1 = +0.0123 with se 0.0106 (≈1.2 se); V2 − V1 = +0.0024 with se 0.0082 (≈0.3 se).

     The ranking order is unchanged, but the reader is given a 1.9 se margin when the comparable-sample margin is about 1.1 se, and is not told V1 and V2 are statistically indistinguishable.

     From the report's own figures: v4a-only VAR−BS +0.0722 (se 0.0081); V2 pooled +0.0623 (se 0.0045); V1 pooled +0.0599 (se 0.0068). diff(V4a−V2)=0.0099, se=sqrt(0.0081²+0.0045²)=0.0093 → 1.07 se. diff(V4a−V1)=0.0123, se=sqrt(0.0081²+0.0068²)=0.0106 → 1.16 se. diff(V2−V1)=0.0024, se=sqrt(0.0045²+0.0068²)=0.0082 → 0.29 se.

     Expected: caveat reports the complete-block margin alongside the pooled 1.9 se figure and notes V1≈V2.

     Actual: only the pooled ≈1.9 se figure is given.

   • lowPer-block figures cannot be re-derived: the eight result files the report rests on are not in the deliverable and their hashes are not listed

     The deliverable is the write-up alone. The per-block n, sum_d, sum_d2, means, se, worst-5 seed lists, NP2 0..999 check values and the v3a/v4b block notes all come from item-v1a…item-v4b, which are neither attached nor identified by SHA-256 in the report.

     The pooled figures do reproduce from the per-block table (recomputed: V4 +0.0785/0.0074 and +0.8131/0.0161; V2 +0.0624/0.0046 and +0.8330/0.0119; V1 +0.0600/0.0068 and +0.7977/0.0133; BS−NP2 all +0.7504/0.0069, complete-only +0.7525/0.0070; every block satisfies VAR−NP2 = VAR−BS + BS−NP2 to rounding; the three blocks that give mean edges reconcile to their differences). But the per-block inputs themselves are unverifiable from what was delivered.

     Artifacts present: artifacts/goal/writeup/report.md only (find artifacts -type f).

     Expected: item-v1a…item-v4b attached, or their SHA-256s listed in the report next to the VAR/BS/NP2 hashes so the requester can fetch and check them.

     Actual: no result files and no result-file hashes in the deliverable; only the four VAR hashes, the BS hash and the NP2 hash are given.

   • infoBaseline check compares against the old se alone rather than the combined se; conclusion unchanged

     The gap between two independent estimates should be judged against sqrt(0.018² + 0.0069²) = 0.0193, not 0.018 alone. The gap of 0.0144 is 0.75 se either way, so the conclusion that the +0.736 baseline holds is correct; only the stated yardstick is slightly off.

     0.7504 − 0.736 = 0.0144.

     Combined se = sqrt(0.018² + 0.0069²) = 0.0193.

     Ratio 0.75.

     Expected: 'within one combined se (0.019)'.

     Actual: 'within one se' using 0.018 only.

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