Compute and Timeline
Status: PAUSED, not complete and not abandoned.
- Public-corpus hydration began: 2026-08-11T22:48:50+00:00
- First verified research package: 2026-08-12T04:50:16+00:00
- Pause boundary (last completed package before the operator paused the campaign): 2026-08-12T17:00:21+00:00
- Hydration-to-pause elapsed time: 18 h 11 min 31 s
- Verified-package generation span: 12 h 10 min 05 s
- Verified research packages: 49
- Distinct selected papers covered: 34 of 48
- Selected papers remaining at pause: 14
- Persistent verified-result records present at pause: 3,077
- Aggregate release-gate issues after normalizing one valid nonstandard status schema: 0
Rough token cost
The current campaign is estimated at approximately 3-8 million model tokens. Order-of-magnitude estimate: 49 research packages at roughly 40k-130k model tokens per package, plus corpus hydration, planning, verification, synthesis, and publication-stage overhead. No billing-grade aggregate token counter was recorded. This range excludes the separate prior recursive-self-improvement campaign.
Hardware counterfactual
This was laptop-bound work. A faster laptop—especially more CPU throughput, faster storage, more memory headroom, and greater safe parallelism—would have permitted more research/verification cycles in the same wall time. That is a throughput counterfactual, not a claim that hardware alone guarantees stronger theorems.
Prior recursive-self-improvement cycle
This campaign was deliberately run after a separate, operator-reported recursive-self-improvement cycle lasting roughly 29 hours. That prior cycle changed workflows, retrieval, verification, orchestration, and persistent capability memory; it did not change model weights. The underlying operator evidence is not part of this research package.