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We need to correct episode 17: per-player attribution is now possible, but not how we expected. The machine vision approach everyone predicted would work failed completely—while an entirely different method succeeded. This episode explores a fundamental lesson about research: sometimes the locked door you've been trying to pick has an open door standing right beside it. 00:00 - Opening correction and episode context 03:15 - The unexpected capability (42 questions per set) 05:45 - Why this warrants a full episode: the lock and the open door 08:30 - Testing methodology and frozen thresholds 12:00 - How they measured the expected route's failure 15:30 - Implications and what comes next --- Sources & further reading: • game-senser-fable — docs/podcast/LEARNING-CONTEXT.md §16 "The wall that fell to forty-two questions", written 2026-09-05 by the Fable session from inside the work, commit 8ce4003 (the three declared thresholds and their verdicts, the measured teammate-separability gap, the retraction, the serve control, the alternation rule and its pre-use check, the 42 blind marks against the official box score, the flagged mark, the side and height signals, the direction change, and the self-flagged missing floor) • game-senser-fable — docs/podcast/HANDOFF-2026-09-05.md (the correction owed to episode 17 on per-player attribution, and the standing format requirements these notes follow) • game-senser-fable — docs/touch-arc/identity/EXP-45-PLAYER-IDENTITY-DECLARATION.md (three thresholds and a control, committed before any identity result existed) • game-senser-fable — docs/touch-arc/identity/EXP-45-PLAYER-IDENTITY-RESULT.md (the verdicts, the measured cause and its contrast case, the method as frozen with every difference from the declaration stated, the two addenda covering the 42 marks and the side hypothesis, the honest-limits list including the name-alias hazard, the queued next steps, and a closing table of every number with its denominator) • game-senser-fable — src/exp45identity.py, src/exp45servechain.py, src/exp45oncourt.py and src/exp45court.py (the detection, court, on-court, team-assignment, serve-chain and identity stages as frozen) • game-senser-fable — src/exp45gradeaudit.py (the grader, which reports asked and inferred contacts separately so the alternation rule cannot quietly carry an accuracy number) • game-senser-fable — data/exp45-identity-kernel/ and src/runexp45kaggle.py (the single rented-GPU pass, $0 API) • game-senser — eval/audits/exp45-player-519630.json, exp45-player-543648.json and exp45-player-543615.json (the three blind marking queues; 42 of 181 items are marked) This podcast episode was fully generated by AI — research, script, voices, and production. Built with Claude, Piper TTS, and automated pipeline tooling.