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Pre-registrations

The full set of pre-registration YAML files lives under v4/preregistration/ in the repository. Each file is a falsifiable prediction committed to git before data acquisition; once pushed, the predicted band cannot be silently widened post hoc.

See Pre-registration methodology for the schema and rationale.

Active pre-registrations

System Class Predicted band Verdict Artifact
cve-vulnerabilities SOC / PA \([1.5, 2.5]\) FAIL v4/validation/cve-vulnerabilities/
nyc-fdny-fires SOC threshold cascade \([1.3, 2.0]\) INCONCLUSIVE (primary), FAIL (strict) v4/validation/nyc-fdny-fires/
wsb-posts Preferential attachment \([1.8, 3.0]\) (pending) (pending)

Additional historical systems (earthquakes, S&P 500, DeFi, neural, GitHub stars, FDIC, NIFC wildfires, GOES flares, Wikipedia views, power grid) were validated under earlier pipeline phases and are documented in the unified preprint (paper/v0-unified-pipeline-2026-05-13.md).

Verdict distribution

At the time of writing the pipeline has produced:

  • PASS: 13 systems (earthquakes, S&P 500, Aave V2, Compound V2, MakerDAO Dog, mouse ALM cortex, GitHub stars, FDIC bank failures, NIFC wildfires, GOES solar flares, Wikipedia pageviews, power grid, plus the universal-collapse polish).
  • INCONCLUSIVE: 1 system (NYC FDNY fires, primary series).
  • FAIL: 1 system (CVE disclosures), 1 secondary series (FDNY strict).

The asymmetric distribution of outcomes is itself an argument that the pipeline is not over-claiming: a pipeline that produced only PASS would be suspect, and a pipeline that produced only FAIL would not justify the cross-domain universality claim. The 13/1/1 split, with mechanism-level explanations for the non-PASS verdicts, is the methodological target.