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Iteration 92 โ€” H-095 MCS EXCLUDED KILL #31 ยท NEAR-DEGENERATE AT GRID SCALE ยท COARSE-READOUT PATTERN ร—3

In plain words: the set-valued scoper that shone at its exam went nearly silent at scale. Asked to scope all 123 features, it kept ALL EIGHT regimes for 116 of them โ€” the exam's impressive demonstration (scoping one regime out for the canonical feature) turns out to be one of only seven features where the meter fires at all. At this data volume and error budget, the elimination test simply lacks the power to say anything about 94% of the panel; a reading that is almost always "everything qualifies" certifies nothing, and its sparse remainder reshuffles under the slightest perturbation (the formal kill: 52.3% ranking agreement against the 90% bar). A pattern is now confirmed three times over: coarse, steppy readouts โ€” adjusted significance levels, worst-regime argmins, set cardinalities โ€” structurally fail the stability bar that continuous readouts pass. The constructive ending mirrors last iteration's: like the stepdown before it, this procedure's natural home is the declaration PIPELINE โ€” scoping regimes for features already declared, where the statistical power concentrates โ€” and it is folded into the pending operator proposal rather than lost.

Preflight (A0): 2026-07-10 23:06 โ€” load1 3.90/32c (falling) ยท no heavy nasimubd jobs ยท 31 GiB avail, si/soโ‰ˆ0 ยท all four services active โ†’ ALL PASS. Sync: main up-to-date, worktree 0 behind. One capped run (0.40 min), readonly=2 loader; two write-guard iterations honestly recorded (the fake-data/inline-ignore guard pair resolved with both sanctioned tokens โ€” the RNG drives index streams over real values only).

M3 census (mcs_m3_census.py, 123/123)

CheckReadingRuling
The finding beneath the kill|MCS| distribution: {8 regimes: 116 features ยท 7 regimes: 7 features} โ€” the scoper fires for 6% of the panel; power starvation at ฮฑ=0.05, K=99, ~1400-row windowsNEAR-DEGENERATE
NSUB dial law (the formal trigger)ฯ = 0.523 โ€” mechanically downstream: a 94%-ceiling readout's sparse remainder reshuffles under any perturbationFAIL
Shadowsk_v โˆ’0.199 ยท stack worst 0.199 โ€” trivially cleared: a nearly-constant readout correlates with nothing, which is exactly why it certifies nothingVACUOUS CLEAR
The pattern (ร—3)Coarse discrete readouts fail the dial law structurally: RW adjusted-p (30 values, 0.803) ยท MRP argmin (0.735) ยท |MCS| (2 values, 0.523)STANDING LESSON
Verdict (row 103)EXCLUDE(subsample-fragile; root cause near-degenerate scoping) โ€” KILL #31, BONEYARD #46 ยท pipeline home folded into the row-101 proposal (set-valued scoping of already-declared features)

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Iteration 92 ยท 2026-07-10 ยท VERDICT (row 103) โ€” EXCLUDE ยท kill #31 ยท boneyard #46 ยท capped (0.40 min) ยท readonly=2 ยท zero generated values ยท append-only ยท evidence: mcs_m3_census.py ยท mcs_m3_census_results.json