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researchRalph.md

https://github.com/bigsnarfdude/researchRalph

  Summary of Validated Findings
  ┌───────────────────────┬─────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┐
  │      Experiment       │     Result      │               Learning               │
  ├───────────────────────┼─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ jan19_loop            │ 0.83 in 4 iters │ Architecture solved (binary+log+ELU) │
  ├───────────────────────┼─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ jan19_baseline        │ 100 experiments │ 23.5x less efficient than Ralph      │
  ├───────────────────────┼─────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ jan20_random_baseline │ 0.51 vs 0.83    │ Semantic features essential (+0.33)  │
  └───────────────────────┴─────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘
  Proposed Feature Discovery Ralph Loop

  Goal: Beat 0.83 AUROC by finding better features (target: 0.90)

  Key insight: Layer 40 is most predictive (0.78 alone) but only 3/8 features come from it.

  Prioritized Experiments

  1. Ablation study (free - uses cache)
    - Drop each feature, rank by importance
    - Identify weakest for replacement
  2. L40 expansion (~1hr extraction)
    - Add more L40 features
    - Expected: 0.84-0.86
  3. Semantic cluster search (~2hr)
    - Find features for awareness/reasoning/action phases
    - Expected: 0.85-0.88
  4. Correlation expansion (~1hr)
    - Find features that co-activate with F12574
    - Efficient search without semantic analysis

  Files Created

  researchRalph/
  ├── README.md                    # Framework overview
  ├── hypothesis.json              # Current state
  ├── progress.txt                 # All learnings
  └── FEATURE_DISCOVERY_PROPOSAL.md # Concrete next steps

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researchRalph for model organisms to create new benchmarks. jan22 experiments

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