Iteration 74 — the Cousins Split H-038 KILLED BY SIBLING (#18) · H-075 M3 CLEAR · FINALE NEXT

In plain words: the predicted double execution did not happen — and the miss is the interesting part. Both remaining distance cousins were expected to be echoes of certificate #13 (the way the gambler was, at 98.2%). Measured across all 130 features, NEITHER is: energy tracks it at 92.1% and transport at 90.8%, both under the kill bar — different distance geometries genuinely rank features differently than the kernel embedding, whereas a different WRAPPER around the same kernel did not. But the two cousins turned out to be echoes of EACH OTHER (97.8%), and the rule written before the run decided the tie: the sibling less similar to the existing certificate advances. So the energy meter — whose exam was flawless — dies an honorable death as a duplicate of its own cousin, and the transport meter (which weights tail mass by how far it must move, and also passed its folded-in exam with the derived exactness holding again) goes to the final held-out test. One instrument per geometry: that is what the stack buys. The survivor's math was double-checked against an independent library: exact agreement.