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basefrontier
confirmedPython · CPUModel behavior & reasoningJuly 6, 2026
the question
Decimal <-> binary conversion -- which direction is harder for a small model?
what came out
Capability-gated: the 1.5B has real frontiers (decimal->binary to 4 bits, binary->decimal to 5) while the 0.5B is at complete floor -- it can't convert even a small number. And binary->decimal is the easier direction. Both pre-registered predictions held. Exact oracle.
method & receipts
- Result: confirmed
- Pre-registered — the prediction was written down and committed before the run.
- Reproducible — one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
- Independently reviewed — an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
- Machine-readable claims — every reported number, in a checkable file.
- Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.
→ read the code and re-run it
github.com/v-code01/basefrontier