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Paper of the Week #4 โ€” A Memory of Procedures, or a Memory of Examples?

Designer-RSI grows a natural-language skill bank from user traffic and lifts execution success from 72.7% to 99.3% with no weight updates. I built the narrow version on a task with human labels: 40 rules distilled from the model's own mistakes fixed 4 items and broke 5. Retrieving five raw examples fixed 19 and broke none.

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Paper of the Week #4 โ€” A Memory of Procedures, or a Memory of Examples?

Paper of the Week #4 โ€” A Memory of Procedures, or a Memory of Examples?

Designer-RSI grows a natural-language skill bank from user traffic and lifts execution success from 72.7% to 99.3% with no weight updates. I built the narrow version on a task with human labels: 40 rules distilled from the model's own mistakes fixed 4 items and broke 5. Retrieving five raw examples fixed 19 and broke none.

- AI Research
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Jeff vs Jev on the Same Questions: Overall Scores and a 26-Option Limit (Fixed in v1.1)

Jeff vs Jev on the Same Questions: Overall Scores and a 26-Option Limit (Fixed in v1.1)

On Jeff's own 4,599 questions, Jev scored 85.7 and Jeff-2B 83.0. Jeff v1.0 never picked an option past the 26th in my tests; v1.1 fixes that, remeasured.

- Models & Algorithms
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Kev vs Jev: Kev 0.8B to 9B Benchmarked for Accuracy and Calibration

Kev vs Jev: Kev 0.8B to 9B Benchmarked for Accuracy and Calibration

Kev (0.8B, 4B, 9B) and Jev 1.13 on the same 1,629 labelled messages (2,329 requests). On the three datasets Kev trained on, Kev-9B was as accurate or more (TREC 93.8% vs 89.0%). On three it never saw, Jev was ahead on two (CLINC150 68.5% vs 62.0%, MASSIVE 82.9% vs 76.0%). Jev's probabilities ran high and come rounded to two decimals, so on BANKING77 no threshold reached 95% accuracy.

- Models & Algorithms
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How to Run Qwen Locally: Which File Fits Your GPU (8, 12, 16 or 24 GB), Measured

How to Run Qwen Locally: Which File Fits Your GPU (8, 12, 16 or 24 GB), Measured

Which Qwen GGUF fits an 8, 12, 16 or 24 GB GPU, with measured memory: 9B Q4_K_M 5.8 GiB, 27B Q3_K_XL 13.1 GiB, 35B-A3B 7.3 GiB with 30 layers' experts on the CPU.

- Models & Algorithms
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How Many Labels Is a Decision Model Worth? Kev on Three Tasks It Never Saw

How Many Labels Is a Decision Model Worth? Kev on Three Tasks It Never Saw

On CLINC150, MASSIVE and financial-news tweets, none of which Kev trained on, Kev-9B matched a small classifier trained on roughly 2 to 20 labelled examples per class. Its probabilities ran too low: stated confidence sat 10โ€“17 points under its accuracy (calibration error 11โ€“17%, against 2โ€“9% on familiar data), so a 95%-accuracy threshold passed only 23โ€“58% of messages. Out-of-scope questions got low probabilities: 5 of 100 passed that threshold. The 0.8B model answered 'Financials' to 152 of 200 tweets.

- Models & Algorithms
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Kev vs MoJev: Two More Open Jev Alternatives, Accuracy and Confidence Measured

Kev vs MoJev: Two More Open Jev Alternatives, Accuracy and Confidence Measured

Kev (0.8B to 9B) and MoJev (0.85B) both speak Jev's API. On BANKING77, TREC and AG News with human labels, Kev's probabilities were usable: at 95% accuracy it could auto-accept 53โ€“61% of BANKING77, where laya managed 0%. But Kev was trained on these three datasets, and a small classifier trained on the same data still beat it on BANKING77. MoJev reports 0.79% calibration error; here it was 6โ€“22%, with probabilities too low.

- Models & Algorithms
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