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Swin or Swim: Federated Fusion for Lung AI

A comparison-based reading of a hybrid CNN–SWIN Transformer lung X-ray model, where the useful lesson is not just accuracy but the trade-off between fusion, privacy, overfitting, and infrastructure cost.

February 20, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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The Audit of Autonomy: When AI Agents Need More Than Intelligence

A practical reading of Policy Cards and why autonomous AI agents need machine-readable governance before they can become reliable business infrastructure.

February 20, 2026 · 18 min · Zelina
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Who Was Where When? AI Tries to Remember History

HIPE-2026 turns person–place extraction from historical text into a test of temporal reasoning, evidential discipline, and deployable efficiency.

February 20, 2026 · 13 min · Zelina
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Causal Brews: Why Your Feature Engineering Needs a Graph Before a Grid Search

A mechanism-first reading of CAFE, a causally guided automated feature engineering framework that uses causal graphs as soft search priors rather than magical truth machines.

February 19, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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Certified to Speak: When AI Agents Need a Shared Dictionary

A mechanism-first reading of stimulus-meaning certification: how AI agents can test shared vocabulary before using it in consequential workflows.

February 19, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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From Causal Parrots to Causal Counsel: When LLMs Argue with Data

A mechanism-first reading of how LLMs can become auditable causal-prior generators when their claims are filtered by consensus, checked against data, and adjudicated by argumentation.

February 19, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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Small Models, Big Skills: When Agent Frameworks Meet Industrial Reality

A comparison-based reading of when Agent Skills make small language models useful in regulated industrial environments—and when they merely expose the model’s limits.

February 19, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina
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The Reliability Gap: Why Smarter AI Agents Still Fail When It Matters

A mechanism-first reading of why agent accuracy is not the same as production reliability, and how firms should evaluate consistency, robustness, predictability, and safety before deployment.

February 19, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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Thoughts in Motion: From Static Prompts to Self-Optimizing Reasoning Graphs

A mechanism-first reading of Framework of Thoughts, showing why reasoning performance depends on orchestration architecture as much as prompting cleverness.

February 19, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina
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When the Muse Has a GPU: Teaching a Machine to Write Poetry

A mechanism-first reading of a seven-month GPT-4 poetry workshop—and why the real business lesson is workflow design, not instant synthetic genius.

February 19, 2026 · 18 min · Zelina