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| - about | |
| # David Aylward | |
| AI tinkerer in South Africa. I take language models apart on two 8GB gaming GPUs to | |
| see what's inside, then put smaller ones back together. Everything I break and | |
| everything I learn ships public: weights, measurements, mistakes and all. | |
| ## Current projects | |
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| | **[Qwen3.8-Whittle-16B](https://huggingface.co/logic65/Qwen3.8-Whittle-16B)** | A 27B whittled to 16.8B with a logit lens and a pricing table, healed with one A100 evening. 36/39 on the field battery at 20 tok/s on consumer GPUs. Research preview, v2. | | |
| | **[The un-repaired cut](https://huggingface.co/logic65/Qwen3.8-p44w75-16.8B-unrepaired)** | The raw surgery artifact: full measurement history, every pricing run, every script. The damage profile is the science. | | |
| ## How this works | |
| No lab, no cluster. Measurements run on a Ryzen 2700X with an RTX 4060 and an | |
| RTX 3050. Training runs on rented A100 hours. Every experiment publishes its wins, | |
| its bugs, and its dead ends on the model cards themselves. | |
| ## Support the tinkering | |
| **[☕ ko-fi.com/davida81328](https://ko-fi.com/davida81328)** | |
| Every donation becomes A100 hours, and every A100 hour ends up as a public model | |
| or a public measurement. | |