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Lab notebook.
Observations from the lab, written when something worth recording happens.
- 2026 · 04 · 07 The day Thalamus woke up A 45M-parameter dense transformer goes from 12% to 95% internal activation in one step, then slowly decays. Same temporal profile as a noradrenergic burst in a mammal.
- 2026 · 04 · 07 The day Thalamus learned to stay silent After 200 RL steps, the model structures its outputs into three zones: exact answer, short attempt, or silence. Behavior compatible with an operational definition of metacognition.