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Replicate the volcanism contrast out of sample: it does not hold - #404

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#403 ended with "raise n before slicing again". This is that, done the same day and before anything cited the sweep's number.

What was claimed

On the three known regions, the frequency 0.5 arm halved the #84 residual rate: 41 of 1248 against 21 of 1359, z = +2.9. #403 and #84 comment #138 read that as "the residual moves with the field".

What replication says

Eight fresh 256x256 regions, disjoint from all 23 Vulcanus cliff regions captured before and all more than 1000 tiles from the origin, at the same two arms. Each region was checked on the engine for cliff pixels in both arms before capture (the table is in capture.ts). Sixteen runs, 2 seconds each.

arm in sample (3 regions) rate out of sample (8 regions) rate
default 41 of 1248 3.29% 124 of 4545 2.73%
frequency 0.5 21 of 1359 1.55% 138 of 4064 3.40%
z +2.9 -1.80

The default arm is the better one out of sample and the gap is inside noise. The claim is withdrawn. Volcanism is not a lever the residual responds to, and it cannot decide the elevation-side or placement-side question it was captured for. The sweep's rows stay frozen as counts; the comment on them now records the refutation instead of the finding.

What survived

The spread between regions at one setting. In the frequency 0.5 arm, [-2200,-1500] carries 74 of the arm's 138 errors: 24 wrong and 47 surplus of 795 comparable cells, 9.3%. [1800,3400] in the same arm has 1 of 200. Forty-seven surplus cells, ones the port places and the game does not, is the ore rule's signature from the earlier #84 work rather than the connection pass's. The new test freezes that region so the lead cannot drift.

Also here

  • The runner takes a mode argument, sweep or oos, and keeps the oracle's error so a failed run reports its cause rather than a missing dump. That is CodeRabbit's one finding on Sweep Vulcanus cliffs over the volcanism control: the residual moves with the field #403, taken here.
  • The sweep fixture was regenerated as a determinism check. The data is byte-identical; only its _comment moved because the text is now composed per mode. Its provenance line says so.
  • No engine source changed and engine.wasm is byte-identical.

Full record: the last two sections of docs/noise/vulcanus-cliffs-NOTES.md.

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  • Documentation

    • Updated the volcanism analysis with evidence-limited conclusions: out-of-sample results show no significant contrast and stronger default-arm performance.
    • Documented substantial regional error concentration, including one region contributing most observed errors.
  • Tests

    • Added out-of-sample comparisons across eight fresh regions.
  • Chores

    • Added reproducible capture support for out-of-sample analysis and refreshed related provenance and fixtures.

#403 read the frequency 0.5 arm as halving the #84 residual on the
three known regions - 41 of 1248 against 21 of 1359, z = +2.9 - and
ended with "raise n before slicing again". This is that, done the same
day: eight fresh 256x256 regions, disjoint from all 23 Vulcanus cliff
regions captured before and all more than 1000 tiles from the origin,
at the default and the frequency 0.5 arm. Each was checked on the
engine for cliffs in BOTH arms before capture. 16 runs, 2 seconds each.

Out of sample the default arm is the better one and the gap is inside
noise: default 124 of 4545 = 2.73%, frequency 0.5 138 of 4064 = 3.40%,
z = -1.80. So "the residual moves with the field" was a small-n reading
and is withdrawn. Volcanism is not a lever the residual responds to,
and it cannot decide the elevation-side / placement-side question it
was captured to decide. The sweep's rows stay frozen as counts; the
comment that read them as a finding now says what replaced it.

What survived is the spread between REGIONS at one setting. In the
frequency 0.5 arm, [-2200,-1500] carries 74 of the arm's 138 errors -
24 wrong and 47 surplus of 795 cells, 9.3% - while [1800,3400] has 1
of 200. 47 surplus is the ore rule's signature, not the connection
pass's. That concentration is a lead the diffuse in-sample numbers
never offered, and it is frozen in the new test.

Also in this change: the runner grew a mode argument (`sweep` / `oos`)
and keeps the oracle's error so a failed run reports its cause rather
than a missing dump (CodeRabbit's one finding on #403). The sweep
fixture was regenerated to prove determinism - byte-identical data,
only its _comment moved - and its provenance says so. No engine source
changed; engine.wasm is byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds configurable sweep and out-of-sample capture modes, records an eight-region volcanism comparison, updates fixture provenance, and revises the conclusion to state that the data does not support volcanism as a residual lever.

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Volcanism validation

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Configurable capture modes
scripts/probes/vulcanus-cliff-volcanism/capture.ts
The capture script supports sweep and oos modes. It preserves oracle and dump-read errors, rejects inherited capture names, and derives output metadata from the selected configuration.
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test/fixtures/oracle-vulcanus-cliff-volcanism-sweep.seed123456.json, test/fixtures/PROVENANCE.json
Fixture metadata and provenance record the updated regeneration command and the eight-region out-of-sample capture.
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docs/noise/vulcanus-cliffs-NOTES.md, crates/fmw-noise/src/fixtures.rs
The notes and fixture conclusion use evidence-limited wording, document regional error concentration, and remove the unsupported significance claim.

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- Line 4740: Replace the categorical volcanism conclusion in the surrounding
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…y lookup

z = -1.80 out of sample bounds a volcanism effect below what three regions
could show; it does not rule one out. The notes, the Rust comment and the
runner's doc now say "does not support", not "is not a lever". And the
capture lookup accepts only own properties, so `constructor` or `toString`
is rejected as an unknown capture rather than failing on `.arms`.

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…ult field (#405)

* The concentrated region is the ore rule, under-removing at a non-default field

#404's replication left one lead: [-2200,-1500] at frequency 0.5 carries
24 wrong and 47 surplus of 795 comparable cells. Surplus is a cell the
port places and the game does not, and the only cliff-removing mechanism
in this port's model is the ore rule. So: the same region, the same
slider, with all four Vulcanus resource controls OFF on both sides - the
lever oracle-vulcanus-cliff-ore-direction pulls. Two runs, 2 seconds
each; the ON arm reproduces the oos capture cell for cell.

  resources ON,  port with ore     768 / 24 / 47 / 3   74 errors
  resources ON,  port without ore  767 / 27 / 84 / 1  112 errors
  resources OFF, port with ore     848 / 11 / 19 / 1   31 errors

Sets, not counts, attribute it: the game's ore rule removed 65 cliffs
in this region and the port's removed 39, and 28 of the port's 47
surplus cells are cells the game's ore rule removed. Switching the ore
off on both sides takes the region from 74 errors to 31, and wrong from
24 to 11 - the destroy cascade, missed wherever the destroy is missed.

The ore regions read vulcanus_mountains_resource_favorability and
vulcanus_ashlands_resource_favorability (planet-vulcanus-map-gen.lua
768-814 at 2.1.17), which sit on the biome and elevation chain, so the
game's ore IS expected to move with volcanism. What this shows is the
port's ore field, or its removal roll, diverging from the game's at a
field no ore fixture was captured at. Which of the two is the next
capture: the game's ore ENTITIES in this region at frequency 0.5,
against the port's ore field directly.

The runner grew an `ore` mode that merges a resources-off override with
the volcanism one and reads all four resource controls back off the
surface, refusing an arm whose read-back disagrees. Test:
the_concentrated_residual_against_the_ore_lever, which intersects the
cell sets rather than counting. No engine source changed; engine.wasm
is byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EadT1PyhSjDbjJwvLfo3zr

* Name the cell map: clippy's type_complexity on the new helper

The local gate reported rc=101 on this and I opened the PR before reading
the line. Lesson re-learned, same day it was written down elsewhere in
this repo: grep the gate for its own failure markers, not for the phases
that passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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