Research log
What the laboratory did, week by week
A running record of research activity across the XGCS search programs: what ran, what started, what stopped, and what was discarded. It reports activity and makes no claim that any result is real, durable, or profitable.
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Aug 24, 2026 12,146 basin formed, field-direction-surf 2 programs began
Status: contemporaneous record, compiled 2026-08-27.
This note reports activity. It makes no claim that any result is real, durable, or profitable, and it reports no performance figure.
Activity
Days with recorded activity: 4, from 2026-08-24 to 2026-08-27.
Search program Recorded events Of which non-routine vrp-field-native8,328 6,940 field-direction1,644 1,603 broad-search1,598 1,521 field-direction-v2266 264 field-direction-surf215 208 crypto-indicator95 95 Programs that began this week
crypto-indicatorfield-direction-v2
Basin detector
Each line records that the detector changed state. It is a record of detection, not a claim that any basin is real or durable.
Date Program Event Detail 2026-08-27 field-direction-surfbasin formed new basin field-direction-surf:97fa755ebd formed (123 members, already fading) Published snapshots
hsl_20260826T221952Z_30f6d81ac86e, as of 2026-08-26T22:19:51Z. 8 programs, 374 archive niches occupied, 8,855 rejections recorded.Boundary
Recorded research activity is not live trading telemetry. Event volume and state changes do not establish predictive quality, return, or confidence. No positions, orders, forecasts, returns, formulas, genomes, or model weights are published.
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Aug 17, 2026 11,199
Status: reconstructed record, compiled 2026-08-27 from gym event logs. This laboratory began publishing weekly notes on 2026-08-26. Earlier weeks are reconstructed from the same event record the site publishes. They describe research activity only. Forward performance history does not reach back this far, so no performance figure appears in a reconstructed note.
This note reports activity. It makes no claim that any result is real, durable, or profitable, and it reports no performance figure.
Activity
Days with recorded activity: 7, from 2026-08-17 to 2026-08-23.
Search program Recorded events Of which non-routine vrp-field-native10,148 8,462 field-direction727 666 broad-search196 145 field-direction-surf128 125 Published snapshots
hsl_20260822T055140Z_deae7ef9a40f, as of 2026-08-22T05:51:40Z. 8 programs, 348 archive niches occupied, 7,320 rejections recorded.Boundary
Recorded research activity is not live trading telemetry. Event volume and state changes do not establish predictive quality, return, or confidence. No positions, orders, forecasts, returns, formulas, genomes, or model weights are published.
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Aug 10, 2026 239
Status: reconstructed record, compiled 2026-08-27 from gym event logs. This laboratory began publishing weekly notes on 2026-08-26. Earlier weeks are reconstructed from the same event record the site publishes. They describe research activity only. Forward performance history does not reach back this far, so no performance figure appears in a reconstructed note.
This note reports activity. It makes no claim that any result is real, durable, or profitable, and it reports no performance figure.
Activity
Days with recorded activity: 1, from 2026-08-16 to 2026-08-16.
Search program Recorded events Of which non-routine vrp-field-native191 161 field-direction21 21 field-direction-surf15 15 broad-search12 10 Boundary
Recorded research activity is not live trading telemetry. Event volume and state changes do not establish predictive quality, return, or confidence. No positions, orders, forecasts, returns, formulas, genomes, or model weights are published.
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Aug 3, 2026 9,374 1 program began
Status: reconstructed record, compiled 2026-08-27 from gym event logs. This laboratory began publishing weekly notes on 2026-08-26. Earlier weeks are reconstructed from the same event record the site publishes. They describe research activity only. Forward performance history does not reach back this far, so no performance figure appears in a reconstructed note.
This note reports activity. It makes no claim that any result is real, durable, or profitable, and it reports no performance figure.
Activity
Days with recorded activity: 5, from 2026-08-03 to 2026-08-09.
Search program Recorded events Of which non-routine vrp-field-native8,311 6,926 field-direction750 695 field-direction-surf184 182 broad-search125 102 market-field-wm4 4 Programs that began this week
market-field-wm
Boundary
Recorded research activity is not live trading telemetry. Event volume and state changes do not establish predictive quality, return, or confidence. No positions, orders, forecasts, returns, formulas, genomes, or model weights are published.
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Jul 27, 2026 6,898 A run was discarded rather than repairedUniverse switched and prior state archivedEnrolment halted on a failed positive control 5 programs began
Status: reconstructed record, compiled 2026-08-27 from gym event logs. This laboratory began publishing weekly notes on 2026-08-26. Earlier weeks are reconstructed from the same event record the site publishes. They describe research activity only. Forward performance history does not reach back this far, so no performance figure appears in a reconstructed note.
This note reports activity. It makes no claim that any result is real, durable, or profitable, and it reports no performance figure.
Activity
Days with recorded activity: 5, from 2026-07-29 to 2026-08-02.
Search program Recorded events Of which non-routine vrp-field-native5,246 4,372 field-direction694 529 broad-search649 454 crypto-broad240 26 field-direction-surf69 69 Programs that began this week
broad-searchcrypto-broadfield-directionfield-direction-surfvrp-field-native
Decisions
A run was discarded rather than repaired
2026-07-28. An enrolment gate was found to be comparing a mean against zero where it should have been comparing a t-statistic against 1.96. Roughly 12 percent of enrolments in that run were noise admitted by the fault. The run produced 5,712 survivors and the whole of it was invalidated and archived rather than patched, because there was no way to separate the candidates that passed on merit from the ones that passed on the fault. The archived run retains header-only ledgers, so the discarded candidates carry no forward evidence and nobody can now check whether they would have failed anyway. The bug was found by review, not by an automatic detector.
Universe switched and prior state archived
2026-07-29. Two migration archives and a switch of the equity universe. Prior gym state was preserved rather than overwritten.
Enrolment halted on a failed positive control
2026-07-29. A pipeline positive control did not fire. Enrolment was halted rather than continued, on the grounds that a broken control cannot be used to mint survivors.
Boundary
Recorded research activity is not live trading telemetry. Event volume and state changes do not establish predictive quality, return, or confidence. No positions, orders, forecasts, returns, formulas, genomes, or model weights are published.
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Jul 20, 2026 214 2 programs began
Status: reconstructed record, compiled 2026-08-27 from gym event logs. This laboratory began publishing weekly notes on 2026-08-26. Earlier weeks are reconstructed from the same event record the site publishes. They describe research activity only. Forward performance history does not reach back this far, so no performance figure appears in a reconstructed note.
This note reports activity. It makes no claim that any result is real, durable, or profitable, and it reports no performance figure.
Activity
Days with recorded activity: 2, from 2026-07-25 to 2026-07-26.
Search program Recorded events Of which non-routine run-sp500-20260725-partial156 156 run-cross-asset-18sym-2026072558 58 Programs that began this week
run-cross-asset-18sym-20260725run-sp500-20260725-partial
Boundary
Recorded research activity is not live trading telemetry. Event volume and state changes do not establish predictive quality, return, or confidence. No positions, orders, forecasts, returns, formulas, genomes, or model weights are published.
Recorded research activity is not live trading telemetry. Event volume and state changes do not establish predictive quality, return, or confidence. No positions, orders, forecasts, returns, formulas, genomes, or model weights are published here. Weeks that ended before this log began are marked reconstructed and carry their compilation date.