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\title{Glossary for the 20260312 Response Cluster}
\author{Claude and MJC}
\date{March 12, 2026}

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\item[Ablation sheet] The benchmark table comparing scoring policies
under one accounting convention and one decoder.

\item[Combination rule] The operator that merges multiple predictive
sources into one output distribution.

\item[Count structure] The part of the theory that comes from counts,
conditionals, quotients, and code lengths independently of the exact
combination rule.

\item[Entropy-weighted blend] A confidence-weighted mixture that gives
more weight to lower-entropy source distributions.

\item[MCP] The current mathematical compression paper, now best read as
the exact theory of tropical max-min count-based prediction.

\item[Post-tropical MCP] A possible broader theory that preserves the
count-compression insights of the MCP while relaxing the rigid
combination rule.

\item[Sharpest-LPP] A winner-take-all competition policy that picks the
source with the largest support gap.

\item[Track C] The compressor track: optimize total lossless bytes under
verified decoding.

\item[Track U] The UM track: study the exact max-min object and its
theorems, even if it pays an empirical tax.

\item[Tropical tax] The empirical price paid by insisting on the rigid
max-min rule when softer combination rules compress better.
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