<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Éthiqueia — Proof Drops</title><description>Formal, reproducible benchmarks from the Éthiqueia research program. Every claim has a one-command repro.</description><link>https://yandesbiens.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>What it costs to train an LLM from scratch on one RTX 4090</title><link>https://yandesbiens.com/blog/forgelm-4090-cost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yandesbiens.com/blog/forgelm-4090-cost/</guid><description>A measured training envelope (VRAM, throughput, tokens/day) for 30M-500M models on a single 24GB RTX 4090, plus the real 120M loss curve.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>training</category><category>training</category><category>benchmark</category></item><item><title>proof drop #1 — running a 24 GB model on a 24 GB GPU (and the honest catch)</title><link>https://yandesbiens.com/blog/ufm-benchmark/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yandesbiens.com/blog/ufm-benchmark/</guid><description>UFM lets a single RTX 4090 run a routed model whose expert bank doesn&apos;t fit in VRAM. Here&apos;s the benchmark, the code, and the regime where it doesn&apos;t help.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>memory</category><category>ufm</category><category>benchmark</category><category>local-first</category><category>memory</category><category>moe</category><category>rtx4090</category></item><item><title>proof drop #2 — hierarchical memory beats flat search (when you know where to look)</title><link>https://yandesbiens.com/blog/fmm-benchmark/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yandesbiens.com/blog/fmm-benchmark/</guid><description>FMM&apos;s topic-scoped retrieval is ~164× faster and ~3.7× more accurate than a flat scan at 128k items — and useless if you misroute the scope. The locality bet, in semantic memory.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>memory</category><category>fmm</category><category>benchmark</category><category>memory</category><category>retrieval</category><category>rag</category><category>local-first</category></item><item><title>proof drop #3 — a cheap router decides whether the locality bet pays</title><link>https://yandesbiens.com/blog/fmm-router/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yandesbiens.com/blog/fmm-router/</guid><description>A near-free centroid router recovers 98% of the oracle&apos;s recall at ~60× flat-scan speed — when the memory is separable. As topics overlap, routing (not retrieval) becomes the bottleneck and the win evaporates.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>memory</category><category>fmm</category><category>benchmark</category><category>memory</category><category>retrieval</category><category>routing</category><category>rag</category><category>local-first</category></item></channel></rss>