https://www.quirky-ideas.com/research/ Technical investigations of AI models, AI hardware, advanced systems, and quantum computing with claims, uncertainty, and ideological priors kept separate. en-us Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.quirky-ideas.com/research/articles/reasoning-models-inference-compute/ https://www.quirky-ideas.com/research/articles/reasoning-models-inference-compute/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT More inference work can improve selected answers, but only through a complete protocol whose search, verification, stopping, and cost boundaries are disclosed. https://www.quirky-ideas.com/research/articles/scaling-beyond-pretraining/ https://www.quirky-ideas.com/research/articles/scaling-beyond-pretraining/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Public evidence shows large scoped post-training gains, but base-model support, verifier quality, and deployment economics still bound them.