C.17:9.5 - Scientific and policy proposals

Scientific proposal. ScalingRelation-S4 has Novelty 0.61 from the declared calibrated [0,1] similarity construction relative to the admitted literature corpus. The Novelty Method compares one text embedding that describes the proposal with embeddings produced by the same encoder for every corpus paper; the result names that projection and states that notation and experimental detail may be lost. Its Surprise is 4.1 bits per token under PriorModel-2, using the same versioned tokenizer and abstract-text sample unit for the proposal and model basis; the per-token normalization handles text length but does not support a claim about equations or full papers. The corpus, neighbour report, model calibration, and derivation evidence support those coordinates, but independent replication is missing. Report the proposal as a preliminary bounded result and seek replication before a reliance claim.

Policy proposal. In a municipal permit-triage pilot, Policy-P8 reduces median processing time by 12% against the prior-procedure baseline and passes the declared legal-form test. Subgroup error evidence required by the equity must-criterion is missing, so ConstraintFit and eligibility are not established. Keep the proposal out of an approval-facing comparison until the subgroup test is complete; the time result remains usable for its narrower operational question.