serkan.aiNotes on LLMs, software architecture, and computational biology.https://serkan.ai/en-usSat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTStarting Open Model Research Harnesshttps://serkan.ai/journal/starting-open-model-research-harness/https://serkan.ai/journal/starting-open-model-research-harness/A public 12-month project to build an eval-first research-engineering harness for open LLMs.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT2026-07-04T00:00:00.000ZLocal model memory: bits, dense, MoEhttps://serkan.ai/journal/local-model-memory-bits-dense-moe/https://serkan.ai/journal/local-model-memory-bits-dense-moe/A short note for reading local model memory requirements without confusing active MoE parameters with loaded weights.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT2026-07-02T00:00:00.000ZGCTX passes its first data-readiness gatehttps://serkan.ai/journal/gctx-first-data-readiness-gate/https://serkan.ai/journal/gctx-first-data-readiness-gate/GCTX now has enough reviewed DEV and locked REPORT data to start the first 60M-100M proof language-model run.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT2026-06-28T00:00:00.000ZStarting GCTX: a small model for Git diffshttps://serkan.ai/journal/starting-gctx-small-model-git-diffs/https://serkan.ai/journal/starting-gctx-small-model-git-diffs/A starting note for GCTX, a from-scratch small language model project for reading Git diffs and writing Conventional Commit messages.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT2026-06-21T00:00:00.000Zchess-zero: the platform's done, the intelligence isn'thttps://serkan.ai/journal/chess-zero-platform-done/https://serkan.ai/journal/chess-zero-platform-done/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.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT2026-06-21T00:00:00.000ZA Research-Use Preview of the Gene-Disease Evidence Indexhttps://serkan.ai/journal/gene-disease-evidence-preview/https://serkan.ai/journal/gene-disease-evidence-preview/A short note announcing the public preview of the Gene-Disease Evidence Index.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT2026-06-28T00:00:00.000ZNexus and the Shape of Informationhttps://serkan.ai/journal/reading-nexus-in-translation/https://serkan.ai/journal/reading-nexus-in-translation/A note on Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus and how information networks shape trust, power, and AI.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT2026-06-07T00:00:00.000ZStarting chess-zerohttps://serkan.ai/journal/starting-chess-zero/https://serkan.ai/journal/starting-chess-zero/Starting a hand-built chess engine and AlphaZero-style RL pipeline as a learning project for the ML side.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT2026-06-21T00:00:00.000Z