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FAQ It Till You Make It: Fixing LLM Quantization by Teaching Models Their Own Family History

A mechanism-first reading of FAQ, a data-centric post-training quantization method that uses larger in-family models to regenerate calibration data and reduce quantization damage.

January 20, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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SD‑RAG: Don’t Trust the Model, Trust the Pipeline

A mechanism-first reading of SD-RAG and what it teaches businesses about building privacy-aware RAG systems that do not rely on the answering model to protect secrets it has already seen.

January 20, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina
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Who’s Really in Charge? Epistemic Control After the Age of the Black Box

A mechanism-first reading of why machine learning does not remove human control from science, but quietly redistributes it across goals, metrics, and methodological tradeoffs.

January 20, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina
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Aligned or Just Agreeable? Why Accuracy Is a Terrible Proxy for AI–Human Alignment

XChoice shows why AI–human alignment in constrained decisions should be audited through hidden trade-off mechanisms, not just plausible-looking outputs.

January 19, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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Greedy, but Not Blind: Teaching Optimization to Listen

A mechanism-first reading of LEG, a hybrid LLM-and-greedy optimization framework that lets qualitative advice influence facility planning without surrendering coverage guarantees.

January 19, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina
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Houston, We Have a Benchmark: When Agentic AI Meets Orbital Reality

AstroReason-Bench shows why agentic AI needs physics-aware simulators, structured planning workflows, and specialized optimizers before it can handle real operational planning.

January 19, 2026 · 13 min · Zelina
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Probe, Then Commit: Why Solver Tuning Finally Grew Up

A practical reading of the Probe and Solve Algorithm, a two-phase method for tuning constraint programming solvers under real time budgets.

January 19, 2026 · 13 min · Zelina
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Punching Above Baselines: When Boxing Strategy Learns to Differentiate

BoxMind shows that applied AI becomes useful when perception, prediction, and intervention are joined into a closed operational loop.

January 19, 2026 · 18 min · Zelina
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Think-with-Me: When LLMs Learn to Stop Thinking

A mechanism-first reading of Think-with-Me, a test-time intervention framework that turns LLM reasoning from uncontrolled token generation into a feedback-guided control loop.

January 19, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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When LLMs Read the Room: Predictive Process Monitoring Without the Data Buffet

A mechanism-first reading of why LLMs can predict process outcomes from tiny event logs, and why the advantage depends on semantics rather than spreadsheet magic.

January 19, 2026 · 12 min · Zelina