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Research Timeline

How the work has evolved, newest first. Discoveries sit next to failures because that is how the sequence actually happened.

  1. 2026-07-22Experiments

    Three memory systems, one contract

    Cortex vs SAM vs SAME on one deterministic stream: Cortex 99.3% accuracy at ~30 tokens/query and 100% restart persistence.

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  2. 2026-07Architectures

    HibbieFormer-HX blueprint

    Falsifiable program: helical core, dendritic mixer, fast memory, sleep, neuromodulation — with pre-registered go/no-go gates.

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  3. 2026-07Agents

    LabRats replace Hermes + OpenClaw

    Agent consolidation under the LabRats program; sub-agent router verified live across 4 providers.

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  4. 2026-07-24Models

    HELIX-200M post-training: DPO-100 selected

    Final bakeoff selects a DPO checkpoint (behavior 0.576); a later-benchmarked challenger remains unadjudicated. A further SFT round is now in progress.

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  5. 2026-07-17Discoveries

    'The plateau was the schedule, not the model'

    WSD decay recovers ~9 PPL at HELIX-200M (37.32 → 28.45) with zero architecture changes — base pretrain complete.

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  6. 2026-06-22Discoveries

    HELIX-120M in-sample validation scandal

    Headline val PPL 30.07 found to be measured against its own training data; corrected held-out figure is 39.83.

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  7. 2026-06-11Discoveries

    HELIX architecture bakeoff falsifies 'pulse' HSL

    Controlled 3-arm test: rotation 194.76 beats nopulse 278.13 and pulse 290.04 val PPL — founding hypothesis retired same day.

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  8. 2026-06Models

    SLM-10M published

    9.97M-param GQA transformer, 25B tokens, full scorecard on HuggingFace.

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  9. 2026-06Infrastructure

    Kernel hot-swap in production

    Mid-training swap: −57% memory, +40% throughput, 1e-7 gradient parity.

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  10. 2026-05Infrastructure

    v2_evolve kernels

    ssd_scan, chunk-parallel GLA (128K+ ctx), fused proj+SiLU+scan — with training VJPs.

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  11. 2026-04Experiments

    D-CSIL-2 benchmark trajectory

    Capability emergence measured across checkpoints; dialogue 40% → 80%.

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  12. 2026-03Experiments

    SynapNet V3 measured

    42.6M O(L) hybrid: PPL 66.03 on WikiText-2 at 2,773 tok/s.

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  13. 2026-03Architectures

    FieldTransformer v1

    Physics-inspired field layers; v1.2 converges, v1.3c killed, v1.4 BPE rebuild.

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  14. 2025-08Discoveries

    d512 recurrent core: PPL 10.2

    Best documented 2025 result — 958 → 10.2 between steps 500 and 5500.

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  15. 2025-08Models

    HibbieFormer TinyStories run

    215 plasticity cycles, 21,476 steps, PPL ~2.1–2.9; cycle-150 eval; patent package.

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  16. 2025-05Agents

    Five-model debate UI

    Qwen2/Llama3/Mistral/Gemma/DeepSeek turn-based debate with orchestrator and RAG.

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  17. 2025-03Infrastructure

    RV Leveler v2.5 working

    ESP32 BLE tilt system: live bubble-level display, graded audio feedback, deep-sleep power management — plus a live Xcode companion app.

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  18. 2025-01Agents

    CSI Agent Hive

    MQTT multi-agent system with per-pair trust scores on Raspberry Pi 5 nodes.

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