I have applied O3 pro on unpublished abandoned research of mine that was never published and lives in an intersection that is as entirely novel as it's uninteresting.

O3 pro (but not O3) was successfully able to apply reasoning and math to this domain in interesting ways, much like an expert researcher in these areas would.

Again, the field and the problem is with 100% certainty OOD of the data.

However, the techniques and reasoning methods are of course learned from data. But that's the point, right?