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Notes & progress logs

Mostly compression experiments, security tooling, and things I broke on purpose.

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years: 2
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latest/Oct 24, 2026/DevelopmentA 4B model, my RAG system, and what actually workedTwo weeks chasing a small model as good as GLM 5 on my own work. Memory inside the model failed; teaching a 4B to use my RAG tools got it within 2 points of the cloud model it runs on.6 min read3 interactivellmsmall-modelsragdistillationread post

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Oct 08, 2026Building a mind that doesn't wait for a promptA brain-inspired AI that learns from scratch, never stops running, sleeps when it's tired, and daydreams its way to routes it never took.7 min read
Aug 28, 2026Augur: Predictor rebuild1 min read
Aug 13, 2026Mythic RMM Dev-Log 001Creating my own RMM. 1 min read
Jun 20, 2026augur: beating xz by predicting, not packingA from-scratch compressor that understands your data — and what it taught me.5 min read
Jun 19, 2026Evil-DB 1 Year AnniversaryHappy birthday to Evil-DB!1 min read
Jun 11, 2026vaportrail v0.3.0Your agents leave trails. vaportrail reads them.2 min read
Apr 28, 2026Phase 1 Results — Baseline AnchorFirst end-to-end run: 14.7M-param vanilla transformer, 50k steps, byte-level CE on enwik8, scored against the gzip floor.3 min read
Apr 28, 2026Post-LLM Architecture: A Compression-Native Thought Experiment3 min read
Apr 18, 2026I beat FFV1 by 41% on real video — with zero external compression deps4 min read
Apr 05, 2026Evil-DB Database UpdateFast as hell!3 min read

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