( experiments & failures — mostly failures )
logbook ▮
Maxim 1.0
Autopsy of a 240M-parameter experiment. MoE → LLaMA → GPT, trained on coding Q/A — then the vision attempt hit the compute wall. What died: the model. What it taught: compute is a budget before it is an architecture, and POWAHHHH is not optional.
Maxim 2.0
The ongoing experiment behind the product: evaluating models and providers through OpenRouter, currently routing to Kimi K3, while the stack stays mine. Borrowed compute is the bridge — the lab notes decide when to stop renting the brain.
Noendhorizon
Postmortem. 50+ players on Pterodactyl in the Beijing era, now deprecated. What running it taught: DDoS lessons absorbed live, backup religion acquired the hard way, and community management as an unpaid on-call shift.
// more entries pending — the lab notebook is never closed