Where the Weight Lives
3k 10k 100k 1M 3k–5k floored → 0 weight w(x) inference compute (tokens, log)
Importance halves every 2× compute (÷2 per doubling), so it crowds the cheap end — but for this system the 3k–5k block is floored to 0, so that weight is wasted.
The Expertise Rectangles
100 50 0 5k 10k 20k 100k floored block 3k–5k, scores 0 shaded area = expertise = 10.8% bar width = weight (importance) · sums to 1
Each measured budget is a rectangle: width = its weight, height = its score. The shaded staircase is the expertise score. The floored block (3k–5k, ≈40% of the weight) sits at zero height, so it adds nothing.