All four 500k runs died about 10 minutes in when the container was
reclaimed. No SIGTERM fired, so no .dom was written and 0 of 12 runs
completed. My plan committed results per finished run, which protected
nothing because no run reached its commit point. The bad assumption was
reading "reclaimed after inactivity" as CPU inactivity; it is conversation
inactivity, and background compute does not hold the box open.
Progress reached before the loss (from the tracked logs): harbor 24,960
evals / 40 fails, maple 14,880 / 79, health-centre 25,920 / 33,
programme-house 138,800 / 2.
The underlying gap is not environmental: a search's only output lands at
the very end or on SIGTERM, so ANY abrupt loss -- reclaimed container, OOM,
power cut -- takes the whole run with it. On a 3M-eval search that is 2.4
days of compute with no recoverable artefact.
- driver.search gains checkpoint=/checkpoint_every=: the current best is
handed to a callback at most every N evals. Rate-limited by evals, not
improvements, which come in bursts early. A failing checkpoint is logged
and swallowed -- losing a checkpoint is bad, losing the search because a
checkpoint failed is worse.
- homemaker-evolve --checkpoint-every N writes <out>.dom.checkpoint via
mkstemp + os.replace, so a crash can never catch it half-written. It is
deliberately NOT the output path: a checkpoint is a leaf-sharing run's
internal best, dishonest under the canonical scorer until the finish
stage unfolds it (homemaker-py-3l6), and must not be mistaken for the
finished article.
- Verified the written checkpoint re-loads as a valid .dom.
Default off, so behaviour is unchanged without the flag.
Lint at parity (46); tests 372 passed (3 new), same 2 pre-existing failures.
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The four seed-0 runs are live; their progress logs are the improvement
history DESIGN.md cites for a long run (cf. evolve-3M*.log). Tracking them
now so nothing is stranded if the container is reclaimed mid-run -- the
runner rewrites them on each completion anyway.
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Ruling: corridors need daylight. Only rooms not occupied from day to day --
a cupboard, a store, a plant room -- do without it.
That overturns the classification 38.8 and 38.9 rested on. Those sections
exempted internal circulation, covered courtyards, WCs, laundries and
reception on my inference rather than any ruling. None are exempt: a
corridor is occupied all day every day, a waiting room likewise, a laundry
is a room people spend time in, a sterilisation room is a workplace.
Re-measured with the classification READ FROM THE CORPUS (a space is exempt
exactly when its own patterns.config declares crinkliness: none) instead of
inferred: 24 of 271 crinkliness fails (9%) were not defects -- not 136
(50%), not 61%. Overstated by about six times.
- uncrinkliness_circulation stays at [5/6, 1.1/3]. 38.10 called its
equality with the habitable target the purest case of an untuned value;
it is not a bug, it is the correct answer reached by default, since
corridors want daylight on the same terms as rooms.
- corpus declarations narrowed 18 -> 14. usage: utility was too coarse and
swept in Laundry Rooms and a Sterilisation Room. What remains is
storage, plant/mechanical, utilities closets and a records room.
- audit_crinkliness_truth.py rebuilt to read the classification from the
configs rather than infer it from usage:, so it cannot drift from the
ruling again.
- 38.8/38.9's inflated figures flagged in place, with 38.11 carrying the
correction.
What survives, none of it dependent on the classification: the 38.6
critique of the three modes; usage_daylight being mis-keyed; the 38.8 A/B
yardstick being wrong; and the per-space crinkliness mechanism itself.
ssz's opening measurement was right but its reading was wrong -- under this
ruling a buried leaf usually IS a defect, so scoring it zero is largely
correct. The narrowed remnant is that the score is FLAT rather than low, so
two equally-buried layouts cannot be ranked. Filed as homemaker-py-9gj; it
is a search-mechanics problem, not a calibration one.
Lint at parity (46); tests 369 passed, 2 pre-existing failures (ut5's stale
baseline and 1ue), both failing identically before this change.
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Owner's ruling, and it corrects the design not just the classification: the
daylight requirement is already defined in the crinkliness. The gaussian's
compact side IS "too little exposed wall per unit floor"; its exposed side
is envelope cost. 38.9's proposed daylight: axis was redundant, and keying
it off usage: was worse than redundant.
What was actually missing: crinkliness is the only leaf quality factor with
no per-space target. size, width and proportion are all declared by the
space; crinkliness was one global number for every room in every building.
crinkliness: none -> no minimum-exposure requirement, may be buried
crinkliness: [t, s] -> this space's own target
key absent -> the global uncrinkliness target, as today
`none` clips the factor on the compact side, it does not switch it off:
over-exposure is still penalised, because a crinkly leaf costs envelope
whatever it holds. A store may be buried; a store may not be a starfish.
The mechanism is backward compatible -- an absent key resolves to the
global target, so shipping it changes no score. Behaviour changes only
where a config declares something, which keeps the objective change
visible per programme in config rather than hidden in a default.
Owner's classification: everything a person occupies wants a window, WCs
and reception/waiting/foyer included; only stores, plant, records and
laundry do not. migrate_crinkliness_key.py declared crinkliness: none on 18
corpus spaces. Crinkliness fails 271 -> 243, of which not-defects 136 (50%)
-> 108 (44%); the 28 that went are exactly the utility fails.
usage_daylight and needs_daylight are removed as mis-keyed, and
DAYLIGHT_USAGES with them -- a vocabulary value should exist only where the
engine treats it differently. The historical crinkliness_mode modes stay,
default off, so 38.6/38.8 remain reproducible.
uncrinkliness_circulation is now settable to none like any space, but its
default is left unchanged pending a ruling: corridors were not among the
groups ruled on and are 63% of the remaining phantom fails.
Lint at parity (46); tests 364 passed, same 7 pre-existing fixture failures.
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Closes the second namespace sharing a first character with programme codes: the
usage prefixes b/t/l/k, under which a room silently inherited another room's
connectivity rules from its spelling.
usage is a plain, MANDATORY attribute of the space definition -- not a lookup
table. An interim design proposed a top-level usage_classes: table binding
author-coined names to behaviour; withdrawn, because an indirect name->behaviour
mapping living apart from the thing it describes is exactly the shape of the
prefix rule §39 exists to remove, it would be the only such table in a schema
where every other space property is a plain attribute, and the need it served
was already met -- "building specific" is about what a room is CALLED, and
name: is already free text.
Rule that settles it: a usage value exists iff the engine treats it differently
somewhere. Config selects among behaviours; it cannot invent them.
- programme.USAGES (living/kitchen/bedroom/toilet/utility/none) plus the
behaviour groupings PRIVATE_USAGES / PRIVATE_STRIPS / TOILET_STRIPS /
SOCIABLE_USAGES. Missing or unknown usage is a load error naming the code,
from BOTH parse paths.
- Code-level, never leaf-level: usage_of(leaf.type) is looked up fresh, so a
retype changes the class automatically. 51 sites assign leaf.type, and
share/share_type plus the r5a resurrection are the precedent for why
leaf-level attributes rot.
- graph.has_circulation takes the usage map and trims on declared class;
fitness.access and the public-access check likewise. fitness._t0 is DELETED --
no first-character type test remains anywhere in the codebase.
- utility is distinct from bedroom (same access requirements today) because it
is a different use and gives derive_interchange_classes an axis to relax on.
- A toilet now keeps its edge to a terminal room -- the Brand adjacency, which
the old b-before-t loop ordering severed.
- All 107 corpus entries migrated by experiments/migrate_usage_key.py, comments
and layout preserved.
MEASURED -- the connectivity model was ~4x too permissive. `none` is not
neutral: nothing is trimmed, so the graph may route THROUGH the room, and 34 of
52 codes had no class (Dental Surgery, Records Room, Utilities Closet all served
as corridors). Edges trimmed, prefix-inferred vs declared, 3 seeds each:
harbor-house 18 (9%) -> 79 (39%) inaccessible fails 0 -> 4
health-centre 12 (8%) -> 59 (40%) inaccessible fails 2 -> 3
maple-court 53 (17%) -> 123 (39%) inaccessible fails 1 -> 5
Re-baseline (seed 1, 20k, harbor): 58 fails (15h/43s) -> 61 (16h/45s), now
reporting 1-inaccessible-usable-space x2 plus level 0 and level 1 not connected.
The count rose because the objective got honest -- those failures were always
true of the layout and the old model could not see them. Every harbor number
before this was measured against a graph crediting routes through store
cupboards.
Sharpens §38.2: the objective pays x60-85 to delete circulation, and until now
the deleted corridors were not missed because storage stood in for them. With
that substitution gone, homemaker-py-2v1 is the remaining half -- and now
measurable, because the fails it should prevent actually fire.
350 passed (+5 new), same 7 pre-existing fixture failures, lint unchanged.
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Size each constructive-seed cut from leaf TARGET areas (division=[f,f] gives
left area-fraction f) and pick each cut's rotation for child squareness — both
derived from target dims, topology/type assignment untouched. Area-only
regressed (slivers); rotation choice is what makes it pay.
End-to-end (20000 evals, 3 seeds, staged): harbor 85.3->74.0 (-13%, best 69),
maple-court 151.7->136.0 (-10%, best 126). PROP=0 reproduces the §11.7/§12.1
baselines exactly. programme-house regresses at fixed budget (deeper local
optimum walls off the undivide restructuring path) but a budget sweep shows
it's convergence speed, not a worse asymptote (PROP=1 reaches 1 fail at 150k).
Default-on (seed_proportion_aware=True, env PROP=1).
cq1: n_storeys now honours storey_minimum, not just level: keys — programme-house
(storey_minimum:2, all rooms level:0) was seeded one storey short and fell
through to plain search. New programme.storey_minimum()/n_storeys_for();
driver.search passes min_storeys to the seeder; search_staged routes on the max.
No-op for harbor/maple; programme-house single-stage 8.0->5.0.
New maple-court best (126) saved as generated.dom. 204 tests pass.
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