http://programmer.ie/tags/distillation/ Recent content in Distillation on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:41:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/models-from-first-principles/10-chapter/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:41:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/models-from-first-principles/10-chapter/ <h1 id="reasoning-is-more-than-architecture--where-extra-computation-lives">Reasoning Is More Than Architecture — Where Extra Computation Lives</h1> <p>So far in <strong>Models From First Principles</strong>, we have changed several different things and called all of them model design.</p> <p>We changed what a model predicts.</p> <p>MR.Q produced one learned quality score.</p> <p>EBT added Q, V, policy, and advantage.</p> <p>SICQL turned those outputs into explicit model components.</p> <p>Then we changed how computation unfolds.</p> <p>HRM introduced recurrent state operating at different timescales.</p>