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Research
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Catastrophic forgetting, measured
A small network lost 12.3 points of accuracy learning a second task, real but short of my registered threshold for severe. EWC recovered 98% of it.
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Blackwell quantisation on my own card
Q4_K_M more than doubled throughput and cut VRAM by two thirds on my RTX 5070 Ti, staying 98% similar to full precision. The interesting part was where that 2% lived.
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Detecting PII before the model sees it
Two registered experiments, one frozen dataset, two detectors that each miss a different category. The entity-level numbers say which, and by how much.
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Why I pre-register a kill-gate for every experiment
A kill-gate is the number, written down in advance, at which I abandon my own hypothesis. How three real gates fired, passed and refused to answer.