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Distributed Systems The coordination, reliability, state, and runtime behavior of systems spread across machines or services.
Why It Matters Here Modern AI and finance systems are distributed systems before they are product surfaces.
Linked Artifacts Field Note / June 22, 2026
A research field note reframing cognitive load as the acceptance cost of code, with a worked Operator Load Budget audit for AI-generated patches and human review bandwidth.
Field Note / May 3, 2026
A field note on token economics, runtime systems, model architecture, and the stack changes behind public LLM API price compression.
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A decoding-time acceleration technique that drafts tokens with a smaller model and verifies them with a larger model.
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A family of sequence models that replace quadratic attention with selective state-space mechanisms.