Serkan Altuntaş

Software Architect in Istanbul, with a computational biology background. Learning LLMs in public.

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Starting Open Model Research Harness

Jul 4, 2026 · note · A public 12-month project to build an eval-first research-engineering harness for open LLMs.

Local model memory: bits, dense, MoE

Jul 2, 2026 · note · A short note for reading local model memory requirements without confusing active MoE parameters with loaded weights.

GCTX passes its first data-readiness gate

Jun 28, 2026 · note · GCTX now has enough reviewed DEV and locked REPORT data to start the first 60M-100M proof language-model run.

Starting GCTX: a small model for Git diffs

Jun 21, 2026 · note · A starting note for GCTX, a from-scratch small language model project for reading Git diffs and writing Conventional Commit messages.

chess-zero: the platform's done, the intelligence isn't

Jun 16, 2026 · note · A month in, chess-zero has a complete, verified chess platform and no learned intelligence yet — the hand-written ML pipeline is what comes next.

A Research-Use Preview of the Gene-Disease Evidence Index

Jun 14, 2026 · note · A short note announcing the public preview of the Gene-Disease Evidence Index.

Featured Projects
AI Usage Standard (AIUS) Alpha

AI Usage Standard (AIUS): a deterministic disclosure system for published artifacts, with six dimensions and validated frontmatter.

Fresh 54% Next: Phase 2 — npm package (@serkanaltuntas/ai-usage-badge)
Open Model Research Harness Concept

A 12-month public research-engineering project for reproducible open-model evals, post-training, agents, safety, monitorability, and systems efficiency.

Fresh 0% Next: July 2026: Foundation + Eval Harness
Gene-Disease Evidence Index Building

A research-use, versioned index of source-attributed gene-disease evidence with a twelve-disease 120-association public preview aggregate.

Fresh 91% Next: Complete final public access evidence, existing-resource comparison, source freshness/freeze checks, and DOI/no-DOI archive decision
About

Fifteen years of software, with a computational biology and bioinformatics background. Currently learning LLMs in public — distillation, fine-tuning, RAG, training internals.

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