Notes

The knowledge base

Technical notes and lessons, kept where the work lives so each stays one document. This page is the index, with what each note is for.

GitHubfrom GLM-5.3-Flash on one GPU

Every bug met on the way to running GLM-5.3-Flash correctly on one GPU, on one page, including the silent one.

rlalphalabs.comfrom RL Alpha Labs

Backtest traps that fooled the lab or nearly did: what happened, and how each one is checked for now.

GitHubfrom GLM-5.3-Flash on one GPU

What made decoding faster, what did not, and how each change was measured.

rlalphalabs.comfrom RL Alpha Labs

The full friction of trading Indian equities: statutory charges, depository fees, spreads and the tax wedge.

rlalphalabs.comfrom RL Alpha Labs

How the lab's AI agents are run: each rule, and the mistake behind it.

GitHubfrom Keras on an Android phone

One KerasHub image classifier taken to an Android phone with one export call, not a rewrite.

GitHubfrom Keras on an Android phone

A test proves something only if it could have failed; how to check an on-device model against Python.

GitHubfrom Keras on an Android phone

Each conversion trap with the public issue or pull request behind it.

porchlamp.orgfrom Porchlamp

How a stranger's pull request is followed, scored and turned into a ranking.

servedeck.rlalphalabs.comfrom Servedeck

Switching and starting models, what a restart costs, and recovery from failed boots, leaked shared memory and GPU faults.

rlalphalabs.comfrom RL Alpha Labs

Research problems the lab has not solved, written for collaborators.