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# Tick 5 — 2026-05-22 03:45 UTC
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**Thread:** R12 (RF weather mapping — structural drift from passive ambient WiFi)
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**Verdict:** Negative-ish result with a clearly-actionable revision path. **Honest progress.**
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## What shipped
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- `examples/research-sota/r12_rf_weather_eigenshift.py` — pure-NumPy demo that tests "can SVD-eigenvalue drift detect a synthetic structural perturbation?"
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- `examples/research-sota/r12_rf_weather_results.json` — full numbers.
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- `docs/research/sota-2026-05-22/R12-rf-weather-mapping.md` — research note covering: 10-year vision, first-experiment method, **negative result**, why it failed, three concrete revisions for next attempts (PABS / per-subcarrier residuals / multi-day baseline), what still holds, vertical applications.
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## Headline numbers
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| | Cosine distance from baseline |
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| Control (no perturbation) | 0.00035 |
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| With 15% attenuation on 3 top-saliency subcarriers | 0.00024 |
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| Signal / natural-drift ratio | **0.69×** |
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The synthetic perturbation produced a *smaller* spectral distance than natural temporal drift from operator movement. The top-K SVD-spectrum distance approach is too coarse.
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## Why this is still useful
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1. **Saves anyone going down this path** the time of trying naive SVD-distance — the data tells us it's the wrong primitive.
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2. **Identifies the right primitives:** principal angles between subspaces (PABS), per-subcarrier residual analysis, multi-day baselines.
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3. **Cross-validates R5:** task-specific saliency (count) ≠ task-specific saliency (structure detection). Same model, same data — different relevant features. Publishable distinction.
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4. **Confirms R12 is CSI-only:** RSSI is the trace of the CSI covariance matrix; if top-10 SVD can't see this perturbation, RSSI definitely can't. Bounds R8's commercial-enablement story to counting only.
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## What's queued for later ticks
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- Implement PABS-based change detection.
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- Per-subcarrier residual time-series analysis.
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- Acquire (or simulate) multi-day data with a known structural change.
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## Coordination note
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This tick wrote NOTHING to `PROGRESS.md` to avoid races with the horizon-tracker agent (which is on the `feat/ruview-mcp-m*` track and editing PROGRESS.md concurrently). The `ticks/tick-N.md` convention used here means each cron-driven tick is fully self-contained — the final 08:00 ET summary script will consolidate them.
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