The best 1,000: overview and method
1,000 items, sorted by evidence tier. Everything produced today was
harvested — 1,822 verified claims, 525 computed scalars, and the proofs — then ranked
by kind of evidence before anything else. Tier A: 10 proofs.
Tier B: 300 computed results. Tier C: 690 verified
claims. A proof outranks a measurement because it cannot be wrong about its assumptions; a computed
result outranks a claim because it has a number at a specific parameter value.
1. How the sorting works
Tier dominates, then magnitude. This is a deliberate choice: the programme's own history shows that the
generated claims are the cheapest output and the proofs are the most durable. Sorting by "interesting" would
have put the dramatic numbers first and the theorems last, which is exactly the error the studies kept
finding.
2. What is in each tier
| Tier | Kind | Count | Why it ranks here |
|---|
| A | proofs and impossibility results | 10 |
cannot be wrong about their assumptions; reusable across fields |
| B | computed results with a number | 300 |
a number at a stated parameter value; reproducible from the code |
| C | verified claims | 690 |
arithmetic that held; individually thin, collectively a reference |
3. The four things that actually survived today
- Identifiability is counting, not precision. Five independent studies converged on it —
gravity, closure dating, mass balance, damping, derived columns. When K < N, no measurement quality helps.
- The number is a convention. 5-sigma is 49% or 100% detection depending on a threshold
convention; a tail index is 0.32 or 0.78 depending on the estimator; a mylonite age is 15.2 or 21.3 Myr
depending on where a geometry constant sits.
- Contrast beats repetition. A second weighting 0.3 eV away is 13.5x better than one
0.02 eV away; ten similar measurements are worse than two that differ.
- The mundane error is the fatal one. Broken symmetry and photon noise are benign;
histogram binning and a soft detection roll-off do the damage.
4. What this sorting does not do
- It does not judge importance — only evidence type and magnitude.
- Many Tier-C claims are textbook relations; their value is the specific number, not the law.
- No literature search was performed at any point.
Incoprea Research · the best 1,000 · 3 November 2026.
Sorted from every result produced today. Computation only.