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"date": "2026-04-02",
"name": "28 Experiments in 5 Days — What Works, What Fails, and Why Small-Scale Tests Lie",
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"notes": "Research report. 28 controlled experiments across architecture, training, quantization, and eval-time techniques. 14 dead techniques documented with specific numbers. Key finding: small-scale tests can be 180 degrees wrong (SSM: -18% local to +2.7% at scale). Self-funded on Mac Mini M4 + single H100 RunPod (~$12 GPU spend)."
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