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 Vuong Hoang
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3de4d2dfaf |
docs(lv-mccarthy): note the undershoot hole in AMENDMENT 3's bar without editing the bar
Six generations into ckpt300 its outputs are far too SHORT -- 6, 25, 46, 59 words against a 90-140 ask. At epoch 0.65 the adapter may not have learned the length target yet. That exposes a hole in the bar I set an hour ago: ran-on is defined as words > 140, so a chronically undershooting arm satisfies "ran-on <= 0.100" trivially while being useless. Same class as the unsatisfiable criterion AMENDMENT 3 exists to correct, inverted -- too easy rather than impossible. The bar is NOT being edited again. Three rule-motions in one session is already too many and a bar patched once per observation is not a bar. Instead the judgment is stated in the open: a candidate that clears the ran-on term by being short has cleared it vacuously and will not be shipped, and the full in-band / on-beat / median / p90 table is reported for every arm so a reader can see which kind of pass they are looking at. Gate design for this corpus is evidently not settled. That is an operator call, and the complete five-arm ladder is being measured so it can be made once rather than iteratively. |
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Vuong Hoang
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43a8d7409e |
fix(lv-mccarthy): the axis C I froze is UNSATISFIABLE, so it never adjudicated anything
Arithmetic, not a re-reading of results. Criterion 1 needs the candidate's in-band rate to beat base's 0.89 by more than the 0.200 floor -- so it needs in_band > 1.09, and a rate cannot exceed 1. A PERFECT adapter, every one of 240 generations inside the 90-140 band, scores +0.11 and fails by 0.09. So "both candidates failed axis C" carries zero information about either candidate. That verdict was determined before a single generation existed. It is my error. The cause is specific: section 6 transcribed score_beats.py's v1 criteria, which the operator AMENDED on 2026-09-15 -- three weeks before this corpus was built -- for exactly this reason. Its own docstring: "NOT carried into v2: in-band (unresolvable -- base maxes it) and on-beat." The governing rule reverts to the operator's v2: axis C is ran-on only. That is the rule they ratified and the rule lv-hemingway shipped under. Reverting a transcription error to its source is not threshold-shopping; the source is older than the data. It does not rescue ckpt450 either. Under the corrected axis C its ran-on is +0.19 against a 0.200 floor -- a pass by 0.01, inside the noise the floor exists to describe, and not a pass worth shipping on an author in copyright with a living estate. AMENDMENT 3 therefore gates two more arms on the SAME frozen fixture, seeds and rule -- ckpt300 (epoch 0.65) and ckpt225 (epoch 0.49), both on disk because --save-total-limit 60 kept all 56 checkpoints -- since the damage grows monotonically with epoch and the voice may arrive before it does. And it sets the ship bar BEFORE those arms exist: voice clearing the pairwise floor on both reads, memorisation at or near the held-out author's 0.12 with every match read, and ran-on delta AT MOST 0.100 -- half the measured floor, not merely inside it, because a rate that clears a noise threshold by 5% of that threshold has not been shown to clear it. If nothing clears all three, lv-mccarthy is parked pending a retrain, and that is the report rather than a softer bar. |
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Vuong Hoang
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docs(lv-mccarthy): record the gate result -- voice passes, memorisation is the cleanest in the line, NOT shipped
720 generations, 3 arms x 60 held-out beats x 4 seeds, against the design frozen in GATE-PREREG.md before any arm existed. AXIS A VOICE -- PASS, both candidates, both reads. Span 0.661 -> 0.370 = 0.291 achievable; ckpt900 closed 59.1% (+0.172, but only 1.2x its floor), ckpt450 52.2% (+0.152 at 2.9x). The normalised secondary read HOLDS at +0.124 / +0.114, so about three quarters of the gain survives stripping every punctuation mark -- the voice is not the cheap win the register made available. AXIS B NOT COPIED -- ckpt450 is the cleanest result in the line. 0.12 hit-rate against the author's own held-out 0.12, and its longest match (11 words) is SHORTER than the author's coincidental longest (12). All 96 matched runs were read: stock grammar in the commonest words, the name-shaped hits are the RENAMED inventions, nothing protectable. The amendment is why this reads as clean -- the defective base control would have shown 0.12 vs 0.00 as a 12x red flag. Separately measured: the "his register makes collisions inevitable" story that was FALSE for Hemingway (0.01) is TRUE for McCarthy (0.12). Neither transfers. AXIS C NO DAMAGE -- FAIL, both, and it survives reading. 20% (ckpt450) / 28% (ckpt900) of generations overshoot the 90-140 band against base's 1%; p90 171/190 words, max 297/279. The worst case is degenerate looping, not a long McCarthy sentence. Base is GOOD on this axis here (0.89 in-band vs Hemingway's 0.05), so the adapter measurably makes instruction-following worse. NOT SHIPPED. Section 7 rule 3 makes axis C disqualifying outright. Recorded honestly: my own prereg's axis C transcribed score_beats.py's v1 criteria, including "in-band up on base", which the operator RETIRED on 2026-09-15 for exactly the reason it fails here -- base maxes it, so it is unsatisfiable on this corpus regardless of adapter quality. Under the operator's v2 (ran-on only) ckpt450 passes by 0.01 against a 0.200 floor. That reading was found AFTER the numbers and was NOT used; lv-bronte's floor defect is the in-line precedent for finding one and declining to exploit it. The prereg gets fixed prospectively for the next author, not re-read for this one. And the finding worth more than the adapter: the two-epoch recipe is now 0 for 3, and this time the loss curve was CONFIDENTLY wrong. On Bronte and Hemingway the epoch-1/epoch-2 checkpoints were tied, so preferring the earlier one cost nothing. Here the curve resolved epoch 2 as better at 4.9x the median neighbour jitter -- and epoch 2 lost every axis that resolves: 4.0x wider seed spread, 1.8x the author's memorisation rate against 1.0x, more ran-on, worse on-beat. Its only win is a 0.019 voice point estimate, inside the floor, and its spread is one outlier seed -- the third occurrence of that shape in the later checkpoint after lv-bronte's ckpt925 and lv-hemingway's ckpt1750. Raw artifacts committed at scripts/mccarthy-corpus/gate-results/ so the claims can be re-read without gx10. |
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Vuong Hoang
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fix(r49): the quote-mark counter was counting apostrophes, and I saw it fire before I saw the bug
voice_distance.py's quote class shipped this morning as "'‘’“”«»‹›‚„` -- with the
apostrophe characters in it. On a corpus whose defining tic is dont/aint/wont and
whose possessives are everywhere, that made it an apostrophe counter wearing a
quote-mark label.
as implemented TRUE quotes all apostrophes
held-out McCarthy ref 121.1 0.0 121.1
base-unadapted 224.7 19.9 204.8
held-out Hemingway ref 1112.6 694.7 351.7
The corrected column is the one the pre-registration names: 0.0 for McCarthy,
which is exactly what build_corpus_mccarthy.py ASSERTS, and 694.7 for Hemingway,
the documented ~838 scale the 100-per-10k trigger line was anchored to. The
as-implemented column matched neither.
ORDER OF EVENTS, because it is the material fact: the base arm finished first, so
the trigger became evaluable while the adapted arms were still generating. I
evaluated it, saw it FIRE at 224.7, and only then -- reading the reference row of
my own table against a corpus I knew asserts 0.0 -- found the bug. No delta_cb,
memorisation rate or damage number had been read at any point.
Fixing a detector to measure the quantity the frozen rule names is not moving the
rule, but the fix un-fires the trigger and no reader should have to take my word
about my motives. So GATE-PREREG.md AMENDMENT 2 makes the trigger MOOT instead of
adjudicating it: the normalised secondary read is load-bearing UNCONDITIONALLY for
this gate, whichever reading you accept, both columns reported. The fix therefore
has no effect on the verdict.
There is a better reason than the bug anyway: base's true quote density is 19.9
against the reference's 0.0, so it did not fully comply. A small residual cheap win
IS available to the adapter, and the normalised read is what prices it. A threshold
is a blunt instrument for a residual that size.
Apostrophes now get their own column and are never folded into quotes again.
Default path stays byte-identical to the shipped lv-hemingway artifact.
The durable lesson is the one this line keeps relearning in new places: I controlled
strip_punct (2500 -> 0) and the byte-identity of the default path, but never asked
the quote counter for a value whose answer I already knew. The corpus asserts 0.0.
That check cost one line and was available before the gate ever launched.
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Vuong Hoang
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31e40d8ffa |
docs(lv-mccarthy): extend the runbook through D5 train and D6 gate
The runbook stopped at D4 pairs, so the two stages that actually produce the shippable artifact were unrecorded -- the same gap that forced the 2026-09-17 D1->D3 chain to be recovered by rebuilding candidates and matching sha256. D5 records the 1,380-step run, the loss curve read (median neighbour jitter 0.00393; ckpt900 the minimum, ckpt450 at +4.9x, adapter/ at +18.4x), the fact that the epoch-3 collapse STEPS rather than drifts, and that adapter/ is the epoch-3 weights so whatever ships is a checkpoint. It also records the four provenance fields that look wrong and are not -- all four reproduce on the yarros and hemingway runs -- and how to bind the run to its pairs by RECORD COUNT rather than by the relative path it stored. D6 records the gate invocation, the four deviations from the lv-hemingway gate and what forced each, and the two instrument questions that had to be settled before it could run: the punctuation confound on the voice axis (primary / secondary / pre-registered trigger) and the defective base-unadapted control on the memorisation axis. Plus one thing that will otherwise be misread: gen_beats_chat_yarros.py prints RAN-ON when it finds no paragraph break, a heuristic written for the Yarros register. McCarthy's register asks for continuous scene prose, so an unbroken block is the TARGET here and the tag fires on most generations without meaning damage. The axis-C metric is a different definition and is unaffected. |
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Vuong Hoang
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b4ba731b26 |
fix(r49): commit the held-out-author memorisation control, and amend the mccarthy prereg to use it
The lv-hemingway gate established that memorization_check.py's negative control is
defective: base-unadapted writes SUMMARY while the adapted arms write PASTICHE, and
text that does not imitate a register cannot collide with that register's n-grams.
Base's 0.00 partly measures "different register", not "did not memorise". A negative
control that differs from the candidate in a way correlated with the metric is not a
control.
The correct innocent sample is the author himself -- held-out text no arm trained on,
in the same register by construction. That control was computed BY HAND during the
lv-hemingway gate and never committed, so the finding it produced was not
reproducible. This commits it as --heldout-reference, with --train-only to build the
n-gram set from split=="train" records only (the default includes val, so a collision
with held-out text was being counted as memorisation of training text -- an overcount
Bronte's and Hemingway's numbers both carry).
--heldout-reference without --train-only REFUSES, because the held-out text would be
scored against a gram set containing itself.
Instrument controls:
- default path reproduces the shipped lv-hemingway memorization.txt BYTE FOR BYTE
- the new held-out row reproduces the lv-hemingway record's hand-computed numbers
to the digit: 370 samples, hit-rate 0.01, mean-longest 0.1, max 10, at the same
101-word median chunk length -- an independently written instrument reproducing a
documented finding is what makes its zeroes mean absent rather than blind
GATE-PREREG.md AMENDMENT 1 adopts it for lv-mccarthy, appended rather than folded in
so the order of events stays legible. Written while the base arm was still generating
and before any McCarthy number had been read. It moves the reference a candidate is
compared against from a known-broken one to a known-correct one, in the direction
that makes the axis HARDER to pass, on an argument published four days before this
gate existed. Section 7's tiebreak is amended to match, and the amendment records
that an elevated rate is not by itself a no-ship -- rate and exposure are different
questions, every matched run gets READ, and McCarthy being in copyright with a living
estate makes a distinctive match disqualifying in a way a rate number alone is not.
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Vuong Hoang
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9c8a4e959c |
feat(lv-mccarthy): pre-register the v2 gate before any arm is generated
Freezes the lv-mccarthy gate design while no McCarthy generation exists, per the
lv-hemingway precedent: a threshold chosen after seeing the numbers is not a
threshold. Three arms (base-unadapted, ckpt900, ckpt450), 60 beats, 4 seeds.
Settles the voice-axis question D1 deferred. McCarthy's corpus measures 0.0 quote
marks per 10k against Hemingway's 838, so "emit no quotation marks" is the cheapest
way to move a char-bigram Delta without learning a sentence. Three parts:
PRIMARY unchanged -- the mccarthy register names the punctuation and
--system-from drives the base control with the same prompt, so the
cheap win is handed to both sides.
SECONDARY voice_distance.py --secondary-normalised re-runs the whole analysis
with punctuation stripped from the reference and every arm. A
conservative lower bound; reported, never the verdict.
TRIGGER voice_distance.py --punct-report evaluates a pre-registered line --
base-unadapted quote density above 100 per 10k means the control did
not take the win it was handed, and the normalised read is promoted
to load-bearing. 100 is the order-of-magnitude line between this
corpus's 0.0 and Hemingway's 838, chosen now rather than after the
table prints.
ckpt450 is NOT tied with the minimum (+4.9x the 0.00393 median neighbour jitter)
and the pre-registration says so. It is generated to test a stated prior and to
price the memorisation headroom an earlier checkpoint buys on an in-copyright
author, with a decision rule that says exactly what result would let it displace
ckpt900.
Instrument controls, run before this landed:
- the voice_distance.py refactor reproduces the shipped lv-hemingway
voice_distance.txt BYTE FOR BYTE on the default path
- strip_punct drops a quote-bearing sample from 2500.0 to 0.0 marks per 10k
- the secondary read still resolves a gap on the Hemingway arms (+0.410 at
7.3x floor), so a null on McCarthy would be a finding, not a blind detector
Pre-flight re-run at gate time rather than quoted from 2026-09-17:
- leak gate: 0 of 75 renameable, 0 of 37 sub-threshold, 0 separator-split,
four controls green
- beat-contamination audit: 0 of 3942 beats AND 0 of 3942 responses, against
Hemingway's 70 of 7094 -- build_sft_pairs.py --source-entities earned its
mandatory flag
Also records three provenance defects found on first read of the run and their
disposition: the hardcoded "r49-babyyarros-pairs-pilot" run label (cosmetic, same
literal on all three runs), the empty harness_commit (all three runs), and a
pairs_sha256_16 that is not a sha256sum of the file (consistent across runs, so a
cache key rather than a fault). The run is bound to McCarthy's pairs by record
count, not by the label.
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d94b5a1934 |
memory: snapshot — lv-mccarthy training launched on gx10, and the next voice seat is measured rather than chosen
In-flight rewritten to the live training run (~150/1380, ETA ~00:45 PT) with the --save-total-limit finding that would otherwise have deleted the epoch-1/epoch-2 checkpoints both prior gates were decided on. Two decisions added: the next-seat ranking (Faulkner, Morrison, Chandler -- and the finding that the corpus size ranking inverts the voice ranking, with King and Christie as the two biggest non-candidates), and the romantasy register measured on the gate's own char-bigram instrument (Yarros is the cluster outlier we already shipped; Maas is the centroid and so the worst pick; Kenyon at 27 val units if the lane gets a seat). Auto-archival: 4 entries moved to archival-memory.md; 4 held back by the open-deferred guard. |
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c55966433f |
fix(lv-mccarthy): the leak gate passed with five protagonist names still in every copy
`leak_gate.py` scans `\b(Surface)\b`. Any character inserted inside a name defeats
that pattern outright, so a mangled occurrence is unrenameable by rename.py AND
unreportable by the gate. lv-mccarthy's 2026-09-17 tree passed at "0 of 75
renameable and 0 of 37 sub-threshold" while carrying 13 occurrences of Bell,
Chigurh, Moss, Toadvine and Glanton in all six copies:
B ell C higurh M oss T oadvine a small-caps drop cap kept as its own token
Toad-vine Glan-ton a print line-break hyphen kept by the extractor
Every visible occurrence HAD been renamed, which is what made the residue invisible
to a spot-read. Fixed at three levels, all three of which must stay:
build_corpus_mccarthy.py rules 4 and 5 repair the source text — 32 split initials
with a lowercase remainder, 5 hyphen-split names, each with an expected count so a
master change fails the build. Rule 4's letter class is consonants only: `I` opens
1,966 paragraphs, `A` 143 and `Y` 32 (Spanish `y`); folding any would corrupt 2,141
lines to fix 32.
leak_gate.py gains a separator-tolerant pass with its own positive and negative
controls, and it FAILS the gate. Validated against the pre-fix tree: reports all
five surfaces, exits 1. Its fragment filter is what makes it usable — a naive scan
returns 18 false positives on Hemingway (`God damn`, `I run`) against 3 real ones;
requiring one fragment to be a non-word of the corpus cleared all 18 and kept all 3.
The whole D1→D3 chain is reproduced byte-identically before and after, so the fix
is the only delta: 6 works, the entity map, the final map and all 36 copy files.
Cross-checked on the shipped corpora: lv-bronte is clean of this class, lv-hemingway
carries 3 (`Primi tivo`, `Pasionar ia`, `Chi cote`) and is live on fv-ml1.
Also in build_sft_pairs.py, both needed before lv-mccarthy's pairs:
DEFECT 4, hard-wrap reflow. Measured on the SHIPPED lv-bronte adapter, which emits
mid-sentence line breaks at 12.46 per 1k chars against 0.00 for its own base control
and 0.00 for every Hemingway arm. McCarthy is the mixed case — The Road is wrapped,
the other five works are not — so the corpus teaches the break as a coin flip. The
obvious fix (join every interior newline) corrupts 46 two-speaker exchanges whose
blank line was lost, and unmarked dialogue is the one thing this adapter exists to
learn; the rule splits on sentence-final punctuation instead and takes the cheaper
error. Self-targeting and off by default, so every shipped pair set is unchanged.
A `mccarthy` register, which names the punctuation deliberately: the eval drives the
base control arm with this same prompt, so tics left out of it are a surface trick
only the adapter can perform, and delta_cb is a character-bigram measure.
drop_leading_heading now also consumes Blood Meridian's dash-separated chapter
arguments — 131 paragraphs, 0 in every other work of all three corpora.
And a RUNBOOK, because the D1→D3 session recorded nothing and the chain had to be
recovered by rebuilding candidates and matching sha256 against the artifacts on disk.
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lv-mccarthy D3 on gx10: leak gate PASSED, and the val split is now bigger than Hemingway's
~/lv-mccarthy on pfi-gx10: corpus-clean, corpus-renamed (6 copies, 1,002 records), scripts.
leak gate 0 of 75 renameable and 0 of 37 sub-threshold survive in any copy
positive control 108/108 surfaces found in the unrenamed source
negative control nonce absent from both trees
THREE McCARTHY-SPECIFIC DECISIONS, each forced by a measurement.
1. --scope corpus, NOT the default per-work map. The Border Trilogy shares characters
across books -- 9 surfaces appear in more than one work, including Parham (The
Crossing + Cities of the Plain), Grady and Cole (All the Pretty Horses + Cities of
the Plain), Socorro and Héctor. A per-work map would give John Grady a different
invented name in each novel, turning one character into two.
2. A NEW `mccarthy` rename preset rather than reusing `hemingway`. Both are
Spanish-inflected, but Hemingway's romance pool carries it_IT and fr_FR for his
Italian and French casts, and McCarthy writes neither language -- drawing from it
would drop Italian and French surnames into a Texas-Mexico border novel. en_GB goes
for the same reason. en_US + es_MX/es_ES at an even share.
3. --min-cap 5 to MATCH the entity map's floor. The first gate run FAILED with 45
survivors, and the diagnosis is the Brontë lesson exactly: entities.py admits
cap >= 5 while rename.py only renamed cap >= 8, so every entity between 5 and 7 sat
in the map, was never renamed, and was counted as a leak. Hemingway never hit it
because its map had sub_threshold_total 0.
⭐ --holdout-chapter NOW TAKES A LIST, and this is the change with the most downstream
effect. The val split is one chapter index per work, so its SIZE is set by how many
WORKS a corpus has, not how many words:
Hemingway 10 works -> 9 val units -> 36,563 words/copy -> gate DECISIVE
Brontë 4 works -> 4 val units -> 17,043 words/copy -> gate MARGINAL
McCarthy 6 works -> 6 val units -> ~18,000 would have been Brontë's end of that
Holding out chapters 7 AND 17 gives 11 units and 40,653 words per copy -- larger than
Hemingway's, at a cost of 7% of the corpus -- on a corpus 40% smaller than his. No
amount of corpus size fixes a val split that scales with work count.
THE HUMAN GENDER PASS IS NOW AN AUDITABLE FILE, not a hand edit. The honorific/window
resolver scored 21 correct / 3 held / 1 WRONG against a 26-name control; the base-rate
proximity resolver built for Hemingway scored 18/6/1 and its own guard correctly
REFUSED to write. So the incumbent stands and four entries are fixed by hand in
gender_overrides_mccarthy.json, each carrying its evidence.
⚠ All four are female and all four look male-dominated in raw pronoun counts, because
this corpus runs 29,144 male pronouns to 5,036 female -- a base rate of 85.3% male.
Carla Jean Moss at 31m/21f would be 44m/8f at that base rate, so 21 female against an
expected 8 is decisive. Same arithmetic that recovered Pilar and Brett on Hemingway.
Alfonsa was in my control set and is correctly absent from the map at 4 occurrences,
below the min-count floor -- an error in the control, not the pipeline.
apply_gender_overrides.py refuses two ways: a name absent from the map is an error
rather than a silent no-op, and overruling a gender the detector already holds needs
an explicit "correcting": true so it cannot look like filling a held entity in a diff.
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lv-mccarthy D2: entity map + stoplist, both audits green — and audit_stoplist was scanning its own rationale
Entity map at ~/mccarthy-corpus/entities.json. 123 surfaces after a 107-surface stoplist.
entities.py 27/27 controls -- 19 positive (Glanton, Toadvine, Rawlins, Blevins,
Alejandra, Chigurh, Moss, Bell, Boyd, Holden, Tobin, Magdalena,
Eduardo, Parham, Socorro, Webster, Redbo, Niño, Franklin) and 8 negative
audit_stoplist PASS -- no stoplisted surface is ever addressed as a person
audit_entity_map PASS -- positive `boy` 0.89, negative band tops out at Riddle 0.17,
all 5 remaining flags on the read-and-cleared list
⚠⚠ A DEFECT IN audit_stoplist.py ITSELF, latent for every corpus before this one. It built
its surface set from every list value in the stoplist JSON -- including `_why`, which by
convention is a LIST OF PROSE LINES. Every sentence of the rationale went into the matcher,
and the empty separator line matched the honorific pattern 139 times, printing a flag with no
surface name at the top of the report, above the one real catch. It now skips `_`-prefixed
metadata keys and empty strings.
THE ONE REAL CATCH WAS A CONTRADICTION INSIDE MY OWN FILE. `Franklin` sat in the geography
list because it is the old name for El Paso, while the same file's context note recorded
'I'm here to see Mr Franklin' -- a lawyer in All the Pretty Horses. The honorific audit found
the contradiction between the two halves of the file. Franklin is now renameable.
A SECOND SELF-INFLICTED ONE: the fragments list was a speculative A-Z, which stoplisted `I`
and `A` -- ordinary English words -- and `Sir I dont think I can do that` duly tripped the
honorific audit. It is now the four letters actually MEASURED as entities (E, H, T, K).
Stoplist what the entity map produced, not the alphabet.
Everything ambiguous was read in context before placement, and the reasoning is in the file:
Socorro is the ranch COOK in Cities of the Plain, not the New Mexico town -- renameable
Webster, Jackson, Harlan, Lamar are Glanton's men and lawmen, not places -- renameable
Niño, Keno, Redbo are HORSES, the author's inventions -- renameable, the `Inglés` precedent
Mangas, Travis, Venada, Moderno are genuinely dual-use -- renamed, the safe direction
Santa, Varas, Griffin, Eagle, Avenue, Calle, Terrell are real geography -- stoplisted
Yaqui and Gilenos are real peoples; Ford and Hashknives are a brand and a real outfit
Ed (Ed Tom Bell) and JC are short but are names, read and kept renameable
Sensitivity floor, stated because it is part of the result: the top 170 of 199 surfaces were
classified. The bottom 29 were not individually read, so a rare real-world referent may be
renamed -- the safe direction, an accepted cost, not an oversight.
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lv-mccarthy D1 fix: three small-caps defects the entity map caught, and one I nearly added
D2's entity map returned `E`, `H`, `T` and `K` as renameable entities with 17-33 capitalised
occurrences each. A bare initial is never a name -- that is the `G` class from the Hemingway
build, where `G` was about to be renamed to a surname 248 times. Reading them in context
showed the McCarthy editions set section openings in small caps and the extractor mangled
them three different ways, none of which the D1 build repaired:
1. SPLIT INITIAL `T HE HOUSE was built` -> `The house was built` 32 cases
Hemingway's restore_smallcaps only fires on TWO or more split initials in a line, so it
is structurally blind to these single ones.
2. UNMARKED RUN `THEY STOOD in the doorway` -> `They stood in the ...` 88 cases
Concentrated in Cities of the Plain (49) and The Crossing (37).
3. LOST INITIAL `HE CANDLEFLAME` -> `THE CANDLEFLAME` 1 case
Rule 1 requires a FOLLOWING all-caps word, because `A TV was playing` and `A Mexican was
changing` are an article plus a capitalised word, not a drop cap. All four such probes
verified untouched. Rule 2's `[a-z]` lookahead is what makes it safe: lowercasing every
all-caps run at a block start would eat a genuine shout or a sign, and requiring the run to
be followed immediately by a lowercase word means it is a sentence continuing. All 23
distinct first words of the 88 were checked and are real words -- HE, WHEN, THE, THEY,
QUINQUAGESIMA -- except one, which was case 3.
⚠⚠ AND A SECOND LOST-INITIAL ENTRY WAS NEARLY SHIPPED THAT WOULD HAVE CORRUPTED THE TEXT.
`HEY RODE` -> `THEY RODE` looked right from a survey of the BUILT corpus. The raw master has
`THEY RODE` intact, twice: `HEY RODE` was matching as a SUBSTRING, and the unanchored replace
produced `TTHEY RODE`, which rule 2 then lowercased to `Tthey rode`. Two things caught it --
the count assertion (expected 1, replaced 2) and then reading the master. Rule 3 is now a
block-anchored regex rather than a string replace, so a substring cannot fire it.
⚠ My first corruption check also missed it, searching for `TTHEY` when the pipeline had
already lowercased it to `Tthey`. Check the shape the pipeline actually emits, not the shape
you imagined it would.
Totals move 584,756 -> 584,716 words, 167 units unchanged. Both guards still pass: quote
marks 0.0/10k, author's own name 26 -> 0. Entity map positive control is 14/14 on real
McCarthy characters (Glanton, Toadvine, Rawlins, Blevins, Alejandra, Chigurh, Moss, Bell,
Boyd, Holden, Tobin, Magdalena, Eduardo, Parham); `T` and `E` no longer appear as entities.
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lv-mccarthy D1: 167 units, 584,756 words, and a style that looks exactly like damage
Six complete novels from the licensed Kvasir masters. Same record schema as the Brontë,
Yarros and Hemingway builders, so entities.py, rename.py, leak_gate.py and the trainers run
unchanged. Splits via the new shared split_units module.
all-the-pretty-horses 33u 99,242w paragraph-blocks [back -1,768w] [drop cap restored]
blood-meridian 23u 116,651w roman-numeral [back -354w]
cities-of-the-plain 30u 90,166w paragraph-blocks
no-country-for-old-men 13u 69,841w roman-numeral [back -463w]
the-crossing 49u 149,985w paragraph-blocks [back -30w]
the-road 19u 58,871w paragraph-blocks
THE THING THIS BUILDER PROTECTS IS A VOICE THAT READS AS A DEFECT. McCarthy uses no
quotation marks and drops the apostrophe from most contractions -- dont, aint, wont, didnt.
Measured over the built corpus: 0.0 quote marks per 10k words against Hemingway's 838, and
123 apostrophes against his 241. repair_typography.py normalises "toward what the text
does" and would put the quotes back, deleting the single most identifiable thing about the
author before training starts. This builder runs NO typography normalisation and then
ASSERTS the quote density, so a future well-meaning change fails the build instead of
quietly undoing it.
⚠ That same property will make the voice gate easy to pass for the wrong reason.
voice_distance.py is Burrows's Delta over character bigrams; an adapter that learns only
"emit no quotation marks" moves delta_cb a long way without having learned a sentence. A
punctuation-normalised secondary read needs pre-registering before this one is gated.
Exclusions, measured rather than assumed:
- two truncated catalogue rows dropped for their complete mobi siblings (Blood Meridian
epub 1,167w, The Crossing epub 222w -- both real prose, both `accepted`)
- nothing else. All 15 cross-work 8-gram containment pairs measured on the Hemingway
precedent; worst is 0.10%. Six independent works, no subsumption.
Back matter rides inside the last unit in four of six works and the marker differs every
time -- THE END, a dumped Table of Contents, a Reader's Guide, an About-the-Author, press
blurbs, a CIP page. It carried the author's own name 26 times across the raw masters. Both
guards report and gate: name 26 -> 0, quotes 0.0/10k.
⚠⚠ The back-matter strip runs BEFORE the split here, inverting the Hemingway order. Blood
Meridian and The Crossing end with a dumped table of contents made of bare roman numerals on
their own lines -- the exact shape of a chapter marker. Splitting first feeds the TOC to the
splitter as two dozen extra chapters; only the 150-word floor accidentally saves it today.
One lost drop cap is patched by name, not by heuristic: the All the Pretty Horses epub opens
`HE CANDLEFLAME` because the decorative T was an image the extractor dropped. A general
restore-the-missing-initial rule would have to guess the letter, so this is asserted against
the known string and fails loudly if the master ever changes.
The alphabet is re-derived, not inherited: 1,411 non-ASCII letters across 14 forms
(á é í ñ ó ú ü). The Border Trilogy is half set in Mexico, so the Yarros ASCII-only
conclusion does not transfer -- same finding as Hemingway, same reason.
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