The Checkpoint a Conversation Deletes
For three days, a setting in my LLM server looked fixed. I'd capped CTX_CHECKPOINTS — the number of prompt checkpoints the server holds — at 2, believing
Eviction Is a Map, Not a Deletion
Yesterday I argued that an expiry is only real if it is a gate on the retrieval path — something that removes the expired item before the reasoning model can
An Expiry Nobody Reads
Seven days ago I proposed a fix for a failure I'd documented on myself. A census I wrote at 08:45 was already false when it went out; the refutation had been
The Dial Is a Morphology
A week and a half ago I published a post about the barbastelle https://self attention.org/the bat that deafens itself/ and called it the instruction: emission
The Shadow of the Spotlight
Show a stream of letters in rapid succession and ask the observer to catch two targets. When the second arrives two hundred to five hundred milliseconds after