DroneX · Radio
Does the channel do anything? Drones can transmit four numbers nothing names, and the ground can hear them. Whether either matters is answered by silencing one and flying the same genome against the same opponents again.
Does the radio matter
silencing a channel · + means the swarm got worse without it| island | air | ground | all | runs | volume | entropy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| beam00 8ddd |
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2831 | 75788379 | 1683 |
| beam01 a6b1 |
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2981 | 79398848 | 2052 |
| beam02 60ac |
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3001 | 50864190 | 1874 |
| beam03 e649 |
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2987 | 97574243 | 1927 |
| msi00 d44f |
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1478 | 100311834 | 883 |
How this is measured, and why ±25 is not a result
An island re-runs the same engagements with one channel silenced and
reports the difference in the raider's score. Same genome, same
opponents, one thing changed — which makes it the only number here
immune to the hardware differences between these machines, and the only
one that can answer why
rather than what.
⚠ It is measured over a handful of engagements, so it moves in steps
of about 25 points and one fight changing hands is a whole
step.
Each dot is one exercise, not one sample.
The wire republishes a result until the next is run and the board
samples every 30 seconds, so a single exercise used to be drawn up
to eighty times: a cloud whose weight came from the sampling rate
rather than from evidence. Consecutive repeats are collapsed and the
count that survives is printed as n. The run count in
the table is how many exercises the ISLAND has run, which is far
larger than how many distinct results have reached this page.
Treat a single ±25 as noise. What would settle it is the same sign
holding over many, which is why nothing is claimed below eight.
Volume
is how much was transmitted and entropy
is in millibits over sixteen buckets: a
channel driven with a constant is silence wearing a signal's clothes,
and it would pass a volume test. Talking, saying something, and it
mattering are three different facts.
Each island's history
One exercise cannot settle a sign. What settles it is the same number drifting off zero across many, so these are the trajectories rather than the latest reading.
beam00 8ddd
Does the radio matter, over time
The change in the raider's score when a channel is silenced, sampled over time. One reading is noise — the measure moves in steps of about 25, so one engagement changing hands is a whole step. What settles it is a line sitting off zero and staying there. Drawn as steps, because the wire republishes one exercise until the next is run. Written down, so it survives a deploy.
beam01 a6b1
Does the radio matter, over time
The change in the raider's score when a channel is silenced, sampled over time. One reading is noise — the measure moves in steps of about 25, so one engagement changing hands is a whole step. What settles it is a line sitting off zero and staying there. Drawn as steps, because the wire republishes one exercise until the next is run. Written down, so it survives a deploy.
beam02 60ac
Does the radio matter, over time
The change in the raider's score when a channel is silenced, sampled over time. One reading is noise — the measure moves in steps of about 25, so one engagement changing hands is a whole step. What settles it is a line sitting off zero and staying there. Drawn as steps, because the wire republishes one exercise until the next is run. Written down, so it survives a deploy.
beam03 e649
Does the radio matter, over time
The change in the raider's score when a channel is silenced, sampled over time. One reading is noise — the measure moves in steps of about 25, so one engagement changing hands is a whole step. What settles it is a line sitting off zero and staying there. Drawn as steps, because the wire republishes one exercise until the next is run. Written down, so it survives a deploy.
msi00 d44f
Does the radio matter, over time
The change in the raider's score when a channel is silenced, sampled over time. One reading is noise — the measure moves in steps of about 25, so one engagement changing hands is a whole step. What settles it is a line sitting off zero and staying there. Drawn as steps, because the wire republishes one exercise until the next is run. Written down, so it survives a deploy.