VOL. 01 — KILL SWITCH
the one thing that moved the week
signal
benchmarks

LoRA-on-Agents beats baseline by +18.7% on task clusters after a 30-minute tune on a single 4090. We show the ablations, then the play: task-local adapters + replay pruning → cheaper wins.

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LAB HEAT
preprints, replications, receipts
research

Two token-free pretraining papers finally rhyme. We stitched the datasets, ran the runs, and translated the math to moves you can deploy by Friday.

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TOOL RACK
new drops, sharp trade-offs
tools

koala-db (WASM) ships a <1 MB vector store for browser agents. Cold-start in ms, predictable perf, honest limits.

where it fits →

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