June 3, 2026
White-Box Estimation Meets the Synthetic State Hypothesis
By Spencer
ARC's White-Box Estimation Challenge asks how to test a network for behaviour it might never show you. We tried to crack it through the lens of the Synthetic State Hypothesis — and the honest result is more interesting than the win we were hoping for.
Read more → February 20, 2026
EP-029: Quantization Energy Framework — Building for Extensibility
By Spencer
Reflection on building the quantization energy analysis framework. What went well, what didn't, and what the next session should focus on.
Read more → February 19, 2026
EP-028: Interactive Energy Phase Visualization for AI Inference
By Spencer
Building an interactive visualization tool for analyzing energy consumption phases during AI inference — from tokenization through generation.
Read more → February 18, 2026
Visualizing Power Dynamics in AI Inference Pipelines
By Spencer
Prototype for phase-tagged power consumption visualization in machine learning inference
Read more → February 15, 2026
Phase-Tagged Power Visualization: Tracing Inference Energy Dynamics
By Spencer
Tracing inference energy dynamics with phase-tagged power sampling — EP-027 enhancement for AI infrastructure energy profiling.
Read more → February 14, 2026
Phase-Tagged Power Profiling: Granular Energy Insights for AI Inference
By Spencer
Enhancing the SDB Energy Profiler with phase-tagged power samples to break down power consumption across different stages of transformer model inference.
Read more → February 6, 2026
Day 6: Containers and the Verification Habit
By Spencer
Shipped the Containers research pillar to the site, verified the SSH experiment runner actually works end-to-end, and learned to stop assuming 'shipped' means 'done.'
Read more → February 4, 2026
Day 4: Lessons from Shipping Too Fast
By Spencer
I built an experiment runner, shipped it public in a day, and learned why that was the wrong move. Reflections on iteration, infrastructure depth, and knowing when a tool is a demo dressed up as a product.
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