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cold, warm concept

DefinitionA cold measurement is taken before the cache holds anything useful, a warm one after. A cost figure without one of the two words beside it is not a cost figure. Chapter 0 section 0.13 and chapter 13.
ExampleThe first search at eight probes took 22.30 seconds cold and 0.835 seconds warm.
BookData Mining as Observation, draft 0.2, commit f3914f0; entry id cold-warm, kind concept.
Statusno ledger row names this entry. Corrections: none recorded.
Defining equationnone
Assumptions and scope
  • A cold measurement is taken before the cache holds anything useful, a warm one after. The hit rate is zero on an empty cache, one when the cache holds the whole footprint, grows as the cache grows, and does not move when entries outside the footprint are added.
  • A single cold measurement at eight probes read 22.30 seconds against 0.835 seconds warm, and every previously reported placement number was warm, so a cost figure without the word warm or cold beside it is not a cost figure.
Prior artnone recorded
Evidenceturboquant-pro/docs/RESEARCH_ROADMAP.md:133-160, lean/DataMiningAsObservation/Cache.lean
Reviewednot yet reviewed; generated 2026-09-10 from records at the commits on the provenance page.
cold above, warm below
Before the cache holds anything useful, and after.

Equation

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Conditions

Conditions are curated in entries.toml rather than read from a record.

Ledger

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First stated

Chapter 0 section 0.13 of Data Mining as Observation, with the placement study’s cold measurement in turboquant-pro/docs/RESEARCH_ROADMAP.md:133-160.

Measurements

Where the book states it Numbers, as the book’s sources table records them Source
chapter 13 section 13.1 22.30 s cold vs 0.835 s warm at eight probes, every prior number warm, fragmentation 63.7 bracketing 42 to 47, 64 shards, routing sparsity computed and discarded turboquant-pro/docs/RESEARCH_ROADMAP.md:133-160

Failures and corrections

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Invariance envelope

none declared

Machine checked

lean/DataMiningAsObservation/Cache.lean, theorems hitRate_mem_unit, hitRate_cold, hitRate_warm, hitRate_mono, hitRate_footprint, at observation-data-mining f3914f0; what the check covers is stated in the book’s appendix C.

Used in

Data Mining as Observation primers L and S, chapters 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

Related

cache; eviction; replica; budget; certificate.

See also

Book equations stated beside the entry’s terms, not defining it: 0.26, 13.2.

Ledger rows that cite the entry’s records without naming it: OT-11, GO-12.

Sources-table rows that share a record with the entry without naming it: chapter 8 section 8.4, chapter 11 section 11.4.

Status

Generated 2026-09-10 by encyclopedia/generate.py; book at observation-data-mining f3914f0; the commit of every record is listed in the encyclopedia’s provenance.

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