RESEARCH / INSIDE THE EXPERIMENTS
Built. Tested.
Understood.
Inside the systems we build: the questions, the architecture and what the experiments actually taught us. Including the ideas that did not survive testing.
6 lab notes
01Lab Note · 6 min
Architecture of a local ACI: what we learned running an autonomous cognitive system on four GPUs at home
For five weeks in 2026, an autonomous cognitive system with persistent memory, gated self-improvement and a five-model deliberation council ran continuously on a home-lab server. The architecture, the numbers, and the…
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Validation first: twelve hypotheses, zero survivors
We built a validation-first trading harness, tested 12 classic systematic strategies across FX, gold and crypto, and rejected every one with statistical evidence. Here is the method, the numbers, and what failure taught…
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Hydra: composing specialized models instead of scaling one
Our systems aren't one model doing everything. A high-capacity core coordinates models dedicated to specific roles — orchestration, audio, vision — over an internal nervous system we call Tesseract. What we built, and…
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Embedded AI in a real operation: designing an assistant that acts, but only with permission
Atlas PM puts an AI operator inside a field-service platform — reading operational data, flagging what needs attention, and taking actions only a human confirms. What we built, and the honest limit of confirm-by-prompt.
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When the win rate lies: killing a prediction-market strategy with our own gate
An 80% win rate that meant nothing. We built a prediction-market research system, pre-registered a validation gate, and watched the gate catch our own false positive before a dollar of judgment rode on it. A rigorously…
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Making a publisher unable to lie: what changed after it recorded a post it never sent
Our social distribution engine once wrote a post to the database as published, with a fabricated platform ID, when no account was connected. The fix was not a patch — it was an explicit publish mode, the removal of the…
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