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One research paper per week, broken down into clear and actionable insights for AI and automation practitioners.

Q K V K Q h1 Attn h3 MULTI-HEAD ATTENTION · TRANSFORMER ARCHITECTURE
Week 01 · March 2026

Attention Is All You Need — Revisited

A deep dive into the original Transformer paper and why it still shapes every modern LLM architecture today.

Deep Learning 8 min read
TODO IN PROGRESS AI DONE AI WORK OS · INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION PLATFORM
Article 01 · March 2026

Is Monday.com the New Excel — but with AI that actually thinks?

Monday.com is quietly evolving from a project tracker into an AI-powered Work OS. Here's what's really happening under the hood.

Agents Automation 10 min read
FP16 WEIGHTS 16 bits / param QUANTIZE TERNARY WEIGHTS 0 +1 -1 0 +1 0 -1 0 0 +1 0 -1 0 -1 +1 0 0 +1 +1 0 0 -1 +1 0 0 +1 0 0 -1 0 1.58 bits / param TERNARY QUANTIZATION · BITNET b1.58 ARCHITECTURE
Week 02 · March 2026

The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits

Microsoft Research proves that ternary-weight LLMs ({-1, 0, +1}) can match full-precision models while delivering 4x lower latency, 3.5x less memory, and 71x energy savings.

LLMs Quantization Efficiency 13 min read
CPU SSD SSH $ ./picoclaw booting... 1s ready batman@ online PWR $17 PICOCLAW · EDGE AI ASSISTANT · ALWAYS-ON
Article 02 · March 2026

$17 and Always-On: Running PicoClaw on Cheap Hardware

Under 10MB RAM, 1-second boot, and a $17 board. How PicoClaw became my always-on automation engine - and why the hybrid PicoClaw + OpenClaw setup is the real sweet spot.

Automation Edge Computing Bots 9 min read
OBS PLAN ACT RFLCT AGENT read_file() bash() grep() write_file() HUMAN approves risky tool calls AGENTIC DEVELOPMENT CYCLE · OBSERVE-PLAN-ACT-REFLECT
Article 03 · March 2026

The Agentic Development Cycle - How AI Agents Actually Build Software

AI agents do not just autocomplete code - they run a full observe-plan-act-reflect loop. Here is what structurally changes when the implementation loop is no longer yours to run.

Agents Automation LLMs 11 min read
TV SEM SOC DSP SEO GMV AUTO-DISCOVERED S-curve CAUSAL MMM · VARIATIONAL GRAPH LEARNING · WSDM 2024
Week 03 · March 2026

CausalMMM: Learning Causal Structure for Marketing Mix Modeling

WSDM 2024 paper from Chinese Academy of Sciences that automatically discovers shop-specific causal graphs across advertising channels using variational inference, beating InGRA by 5.7-7.1% AUROC and cutting GMV prediction MSE by 13% at M=7 steps.

Deep Learning Causal AI Optimization 14 min read
VS OpenAI GPT-4o · 128K ctx + Wider ecosystem + JSON strict mode - 50% cache discount Claude Sonnet · 200K ctx + 200K token context + Better instruction follow + 90% cache discount PROMPT CACHE DISCOUNT 50% 90% API COMPARISON · AUTOMATION DECISION FRAMEWORK
Article 04 · March 2026

Claude vs OpenAI for Automation - A Practitioner's Decision Framework

Both APIs can power your automation pipeline. The decision comes down to context window, prompt caching economics, instruction fidelity, and ecosystem fit - not brand preference.

Agents LLMs Automation 12 min read
x1 x2 x3 h1 h2 h3 Delta,B,C Delta,B,C y1 y2 y3 O(L) vs O(L 2 ) SELECTIVE SSM SELECTIVE STATE SPACES · LINEAR-TIME MODELING · ICLR 2024
Week 04 · March 2026

Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces

Gu and Dao's ICLR 2024 paper makes SSM parameters input-dependent, enabling content-aware sequence modeling at O(L) complexity. Mamba-1.4B matches Pythia-6.9B on language modeling perplexity while delivering 5x higher inference throughput than Transformers at sequence length 2K.

Deep Learning Efficiency Optimization 15 min read
FORMULA TABLE HEADER BODY TEXT CAUSAL FLOW QUERIES 256 (global) 144 / crop max: 1120 MoE DECODER 3B / 500M active Qwen2-0.5B ENCODER VISUAL CAUSAL FLOW · DEEPSEEK-OCR 2 · ARXIV 2026
Week 05 · March 2026

DeepSeek-OCR 2: Visual Causal Flow

DeepSeek AI replaces CLIP ViT with Qwen2-0.5B as the vision encoder and introduces causal flow queries that attend to document regions in semantic order. Achieves 91.09% on OmniDocBench v1.5 and outperforms Gemini-3 Pro at the same 1,120-token budget.

Deep Learning Transformers NLP 14 min read
Granite 4.0 3B Vision SigLIP2 + Deepstack IBM CSV chart data JSON table struct KVP key-value PY chart code 85.5% KVP GRANITE 4.0 3B VISION · IBM RESEARCH · DOCUMENT EXTRACTION
Article 05 · April 2026

IBM Granite 4.0 3B Vision: The Compact VLM Built for Document Extraction

IBM Research's 4B-parameter VLM turns charts, tables, and invoices into structured data with a single tag-driven API call. 85.5% KVP accuracy zero-shot, Apache 2.0, and vLLM-native.

Agents Automation Vision AI 11 min read
Apache 2.0 1B 4B 9B 27B 31B APACHE 2.0 - ALL SIZES - OSI APPROVED 400M+ Downloads 22 Lang India Deploy 31B Max Params GEMMA 4 · GOOGLE · APACHE 2.0 · OPEN SOURCE LLM
Article 06 · April 2026

Gemma 4 Goes Apache 2.0 - What the License Shift Really Means for Builders

Google's Gemma 4 is the first in the family to carry an OSI-approved Apache 2.0 license. Covering models from edge-deployable sub-1B up to 31B parameters, it removes the legal barrier that kept enterprises from fully committing to Gemma in production.

LLMs Open Source Optimization 9 min read

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