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Issue
No. 001
July
2026
★ NEW ARTICLE: CAN SMALLER MODELS THINK BIGGER? ★ CURRENT OBSESSION: INFERENCE-TIME COMPUTE ★ READING: ATTENTION IS ALL YOU NEED ★ TRAINING TINY TRANSFORMERS ON 12GB VRAM ★ GIRLS WHO READ PAPERS ARE HOT
★ Cover Story ★
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Can Smaller Models
Think Bigger?

The future of AI may belong not only to the largest laboratories, but also to researchers who learn how to achieve more intelligence with less compute.

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♥ Latest Research Gossip ♥

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Attention Is All You Need

Self-attention, positional encoding and multi-head attention explained without making the original paper feel lifeless.

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Gold and silver artificial intelligence chip

Training With Limited Compute

Mixed precision, gradient accumulation, checkpointing and realistic experiments for a 12GB consumer GPU.

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When More Data Stops Helping

Dataset quality, duplication, contamination and why larger datasets do not automatically produce better intelligence.

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Test-Time Compute Is the New Black

Why allowing a model to spend more compute during inference may change the meaning of scaling.

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✦ Ayda's Tiny AI Lab ✦

Experiment No. 001: Can better data and training decisions improve a small language model more than simply adding parameters?

model = TinyTransformer( vocab_size=vocab_size, context_length=256, embedding_dim=384, num_layers=6, num_heads=6 )
28M Parameters 6 Layers 12GB VRAM

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