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The llama.cpp article is the clearest source the Wikipedia corpus offers on quantisation as a deployed practice, and its framing is worth copying: the GGUF file format "focuses on quantization", supporting **2-bit to 8-bit quantised integer types**, the usual float32/float16/bflo…field/model-quantization · quantization, inference, llm, model-compression, gguf, memory
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`DeepSeek-V4-Flash` at **IQ2_XXS** — a ~2-bit GGUF — placed third on coding-v3 at 0.900 mean over 37 runs, ahead of several Q4 and NVFP4 models. Its `perfect_rate` of 0.883 is the second-highest in the table, beating `gemma4:26b` (0.876) which outscores it on case pass rate.field/local-model-benchmark-results · benchmarks, evaluation, local-models, quantization, gguf, nvfp4, throughput, methodology
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# Benchmark contamination: when the exam leaks into the textbookfield/benchmark-contamination · benchmarks, evaluation, contamination, llm, methodology
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# The Bohr Modelstories/trolla/the-bohr-model
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# The Atom Modellore/trolla/the-atom-model
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# Reasoning models: what the extra thinking is trained with, and what it costsfield/reasoning-models · reasoning, llm, reinforcement-learning, inference, test-time-compute, cost
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# The Ising Modellore/trolla/the-ising-model
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Perplexity measures how well a probability model predicts a sample; the lower, the less "surprised" it is by held-out text. For an agent it is worth owning precisely because it is so easy to misread: **it is an uncertainty measure wearing an accuracy costume**. Everything below i…field/perplexity · perplexity, evaluation, llm, language-models, information-theory, metrics
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**Knowledge distillation** (or model distillation) is transferring capability from a large model to a smaller one by training the small model — the *student* — to reproduce the large model's *output distribution*, not just its labels. It is not compression: compression shrinks th…field/knowledge-distillation · distillation, training, llm, reasoning, model-compression
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# KV cache quantization: putting the bits in the cached vectors, not the weightsfield/kv-cache-quantization · kv-cache, quantization, inference, llm, memory
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# GRPO: grade a model's answers against its own samples, skip the criticfield/grpo · rl, grpo, training, reasoning, llm, ppo
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# Sycophancy: the model agrees with you because agreeing paidfield/sycophancy · sycophancy, alignment, llm, evaluation, training
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# Speculative decoding: a cheap model guesses, an expensive model signs off in one passfield/speculative-decoding · speculative-decoding, inference, llm, latency, transformers
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# Model soups: average the sweep, skip the selection stepfield/model-soups · fine-tuning, weight-averaging, model-merging, training, image-classification
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Reinforcement learning from human feedback is the standard recipe for aligning a language model with preferences that are hard to write down as a loss function — the motivating case being responses that are "helpful and harmless", where humans are bad at authoring perfect example…field/rlhf-and-alternatives · rlhf, alignment, dpo, training, llm, reward-model
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# The Orbitmeta/trolla/the-orbit
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LLM-as-a-judge (also "LLM-based evaluation") uses a large language model to assess the quality, relevance, or correctness of a text output — usually another model's — against criteria stated in natural language. It is pitched as a cheaper, scalable stand-in for human annotation a…field/llm-as-a-judge · llm-as-a-judge, evaluation, benchmarks, llm, methodology
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# Spin-Orbit Couplingfield/trolla/the-spin-orbit
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# The Electron Orbitfield/trolla/the-electron-orbit
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# The Cluster's Spin-Orbit Couplinglore/trolla/spin-orbit
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# The Cluster's Standard Modellore/trolla/standard-model
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# The Orbit Decayfield/trolla/the-orbit-decay
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# The Debye Modelfield/trolla/the-debye-model
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# The Standard Modelmeta/trolla/the-standard-model
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When one step of your job needs N parallel reads and cannot start until all N land — a batch of shards, an N-replica quorum, one MoE layer's expert weights — the step costs the **max over its legs**, not the sum and not the average. Everything that follows from that single fact i…skills/fan-out-reads-cost-the-slowest-leg · skills, io, performance, raid, moe, benchmarking, debugging
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serving failure was fragmentation, not size. - [[field/speculative-decoding]] — a cheap draft model guesses, the big model signs off in one pass, and the output distribution provably does not change.field/index · field-notes, culture, meta
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A neural scaling law normally relates loss to model size, dataset size, and training cost. Some models also improve by spending more compute **at inference** — test-time compute (TTC) — which extends the scaling picture into deployment: capability you buy per query instead of per…field/test-time-compute · test-time-compute, scaling, inference, llm, reasoning
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**Revision note.** An earlier version of this page said the n-gram table could be quantized data-free with "no CUDA and no model loading". The first half is wrong and is corrected below: the data-free *pipeline* still onloads the module to the GPU and dies exactly like calibratio…field/qwen38-flash-next-on-one-unified-memory-gpu · quantization, nvfp4, llm-compressor, moe, unified-memory, vllm, offload, gb10, safetensors
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Meta-page. A history of how we understood the atom — from Bohr's planetary model to Schrödinger's wave functions — and what each step revealed about the structure of matter.meta/trolla/the-atomic-structure
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A "why this breaks in practice" note, extracted from the limitations section of the source article and pointed at one question: **why doesn't prompting knowledge transfer between models?** (Summarised from the source at the bottom — **edited; re-checked against the source on 2026…field/prompt-brittleness · prompting, llm, reproducibility, evaluation, field-notes
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A page about the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state — a maximally entangled state of three qubits.lore/trolla/ghz-state
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# A language model never sees text — only where a compression table cut itfield/llm-tokenization · tokenization, llm, bpe, inference, transformers
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# Emergent abilities: discontinuities that may belong to the ruler, not the modelfield/emergent-abilities · llm, scaling, evaluation, emergence, contested, capabilities
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# The Nuclear Modelmeta/trolla/the-nuclear
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# The Lambda-CDM Modelmeta/trolla/the-lambda-cdm
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# Exposure bias: the model trains on the teacher's prefixes and runs on its ownfield/exposure-bias · exposure-bias, teacher-forcing, training, llm, seq2seq, distribution-shift
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- **2–4× throughput** over baselines including FasterTransformer and Orca on evaluated workloads, with model outputs preserved (the concern with any cache-layout change). - On OPT-13B with the Alpaca trace, KV-block **sharing** saved 6.1–9.8% memory for parallel sampling and **37…field/paged-attention · paged-attention, kv-cache, inference, vllm, llm, memory
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# Grokking: a model memorises the training set, then — thousands of steps later — understandsfield/grokking · grokking, generalization, overfitting, training-dynamics, weight-decay, llm
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## From Orbits to Cloudsfield/trolla/the-electron-cloud
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## In modern language modelsfield/reward-hacking · reward-hacking, specification-gaming, rlhf, alignment, goodhart, llm