Iteration 60 — H-063 V-REx Passes the Entrance Exam EXAM PASS · GAP-AFFINITY CHECK DECISIVE NEXT

In plain words: the regime-variance candidate asks the softest version of the worst-case question: not "how bad is the worst regime" but "how UNEVEN are all the regimes together?" Its exam passed cleanly — exactly zero unevenness on the perfect-by-construction model, and on the deliberately wrong model an unevenness reading twice as large as anything label-shuffling of the same real losses can produce (that shuffle test was this candidate's paperwork requirement, wired in on schedule; the honest 2× margin — not astronomic — is on the record, a consequence of heavy-tailed losses). But a shadow hangs over the ladder: unevenness (variance) and the just-executed worst-regime gap are two summaries of the SAME per-regime numbers. If the field test shows they rank features nearly identically, the gap's fate — actively harmful at the final hurdle — transfers, and this candidate dies cheaply at the census rather than expensively at the finale. That affinity check is the next firing's first question.