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Paper of the Week

Every week, we hand-pick the papers that matter and review them in depth — each issue ships with a reproducible experiment.

Paper of the Week #1 — A 150M-Parameter Upset, and the Week of the Harness
Issue #1Aug 26, 2026

Paper of the Week #1 — A 150M-Parameter Upset, and the Week of the Harness

Four papers that mattered this week: BDH-CQ, a 150M model that reasons in latent space (main pick); StateM, buying 9 points for $38 of harness; EnvHarness, turning environments into training assets; and Apodex 1.1's AgentOS direction. One thread: the gains came from the harness, not the weights.

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