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Running LLMs larger than memory on a consumer Mac — falsification-driven research: margin-gated deferred refinement, out-of-core verification on Apple Silicon. TR-01 published.

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  1. expH: full run results + analysis — SSD ceiling ~13.1 GB/s iostat-validated
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    Cold random reads 67 MB/s (4KiB QD1) to 13.8 GB/s (1MiB QD8, at ceiling);
<5% degradation under saturated Metal matmul; cache-contaminated cells
flagged invalid; hypothesis confirmed. Storage is not the binding
constraint at >=256KiB QD>=4 access patterns.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
    Simon-Pierre Boucher committed 7 h ago (Aug 12, 2026) · 1 file changed +13 −4
  2. expH: SSD feasibility benchmark implementation + hypothesis
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    Measures internal NVMe read throughput: block sizes 4KB-4MB, random vs
sequential, F_NOCACHE vs warm page cache, 1/4/8 threads, and key cells
under concurrent MLX Metal matmul load. Embeds hardware manifest.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
    Simon-Pierre Boucher committed 7 h ago (Aug 12, 2026) · 1 file changed +26 −7
  3. Bootstrap: charter-compliant skeleton, header enforcement, hardware manifest, experiment scaffolds
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    - Repository layout per CLAUDE.md §3
- tools/check_headers.py enforcing §0.1 (58 files pass)
- tools/new_experiment.py scaffolding with seven-field hypothesis block (§10)
- benchmarks/hardware_manifest.py: macOS-native fingerprint (M5 Max / 48GB verified)
- Eight micro-experiment scaffolds (§9, exp A–H)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
    Simon-Pierre Boucher committed 7 h ago (Aug 12, 2026) · 1 file changed +33