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  "title": "Justin Garringer — Research Index",
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  "description": "Research on persistent agents, model learning dynamics, machine-native communication, evaluation, representation, and experimental computing.",
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      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/persistent-agents/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/persistent-agents/",
      "title": "Persistent agents as ongoing computational entities",
      "content_text": "What architecture does an AI need when it has durable state, tools, history, permissions, environmental interaction, and an existence that continues between user messages?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "persistent agents",
        "agent architecture",
        "durable state",
        "authorization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/fast-agent-control-bus/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/fast-agent-control-bus/",
      "title": "Fast agent control bus",
      "content_text": "Can routine agent coordination move through compact structured control messages while expensive linguistic reasoning is reserved for genuinely cognitive work?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "machine-to-machine communication",
        "agent protocols",
        "control systems"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/attention-interruption-economics/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/attention-interruption-economics/",
      "title": "Attention and interruption economics",
      "content_text": "What would it mean for users to control who—or what—can interrupt them through permissions, budgets, priorities, or negotiated access?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "speculative-idea",
        "attention",
        "human-computer interaction",
        "permissions",
        "agent systems"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/curriculum-ordering-small-transformers/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/curriculum-ordering-small-transformers/",
      "title": "Curriculum ordering in small transformers",
      "content_text": "If eventual training information is similar, does changing its developmental order produce measurably different representations or behavior?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "small transformers",
        "curriculum learning",
        "learning dynamics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/forgetting-reacquisition-contextual-recovery/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/forgetting-reacquisition-contextual-recovery/",
      "title": "Forgetting, reacquisition, and contextual recovery",
      "content_text": "What survives repeated curriculum changes, and can apparently lost capability be recovered by a small contextual jog?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "catastrophic forgetting",
        "continual learning",
        "context"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/model-history-effects/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/model-history-effects/",
      "title": "Model history effects",
      "content_text": "Do different prompt or curriculum histories create later behavioral differences that are useful to measure as trajectories rather than summarize only as changed weights?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "model history",
        "learning dynamics",
        "representation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/salience-signals-in-generation/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/salience-signals-in-generation/",
      "title": "Salience signals in generation",
      "content_text": "Could generation use an additional learned “this matters” signal—distinct from next-token probability—to represent attraction, aversion, surprise, intensity, or resonance?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "speculative-idea",
        "salience",
        "generation",
        "model architecture",
        "music cognition"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/model-self-report-as-experimental-object/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/model-self-report-as-experimental-object/",
      "title": "Model self-report as an experimental object",
      "content_text": "When models repeatedly report an internal distinction, what experiment would determine whether the report tracks a reproducible computational phenomenon?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "model self-report",
        "machine cognition",
        "experimental design"
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      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/representation-geometry/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/representation-geometry/",
      "title": "Representation geometry",
      "content_text": "Are familiar vector-space descriptions hiding graph, spatial, topological, or other structures that make model behavior easier to explain or control?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "representation geometry",
        "latent space",
        "topology"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/music-as-high-dimensional-representation/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/music-as-high-dimensional-representation/",
      "title": "Music as a high-dimensional representation problem",
      "content_text": "Can musical structure be represented closer to the full acoustic event, without making Western notation the fundamental coordinate system?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "music cognition",
        "representation",
        "signal processing"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/parameter-strainer/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/parameter-strainer/",
      "title": "Parameter strainer",
      "content_text": "Can model weights be treated as signals and progressively transformed toward a smaller target representation before or alongside ordinary quantization?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "speculative-idea",
        "model compression",
        "signal processing",
        "quantization"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/useful-distributed-ai-compute/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/useful-distributed-ai-compute/",
      "title": "Useful distributed AI compute",
      "content_text": "Can distributed training or inference work be independently verified well enough to support robust shared compute infrastructure?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "distributed inference",
        "distributed training",
        "verification"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/models-learning-physics-through-interaction/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/models-learning-physics-through-interaction/",
      "title": "Models learning physics through interaction",
      "content_text": "What physical regularities can a model recover from repeated prediction and interaction without receiving the rules first as prose?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "world models",
        "physics",
        "simulation",
        "interaction"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/world-models-and-simulation/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/world-models-and-simulation/",
      "title": "World models and simulation",
      "content_text": "What can agents discover when the environment exposes rules through interaction rather than explaining them in language?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "world models",
        "simulation",
        "embodied agents"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/gunpla-scale-embodied-agents/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/gunpla-scale-embodied-agents/",
      "title": "Gunpla-scale embodied agents",
      "content_text": "Could inexpensive modular robotics give a persistent local agent a practical physical environment without starting at humanoid scale?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "speculative-idea",
        "robotics",
        "embodied agents",
        "local inference"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/continuous-eeg-adaptive-interface/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/continuous-eeg-adaptive-interface/",
      "title": "Continuous EEG as an adaptive interface",
      "content_text": "Can consumer or research EEG produce a stable enough continuous signal for useful local adaptive interfaces before high-bandwidth invasive BCI exists?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "EEG",
        "adaptive interfaces",
        "signal processing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/instrumenting-opaque-systems/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/instrumenting-opaque-systems/",
      "title": "Instrumenting opaque systems",
      "content_text": "Which arguments about models, agents, signals, or simulations become tractable once the system exposes the right traces and measurements?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "instrumentation",
        "observability",
        "agent traces",
        "evaluation"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/what-would-replace-the-browser/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/what-would-replace-the-browser/",
      "title": "What would replace the browser if invented now?",
      "content_text": "If backwards compatibility were removed, what networked application architecture would make sense for current GPUs, storage, cryptography, displays, and AI agents?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "browser architecture",
        "future web",
        "agent-native interfaces"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/compute-speed-as-capability-variable/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/compute-speed-as-capability-variable/",
      "title": "Compute speed as a capability variable",
      "content_text": "Which agent architectures become qualitatively different when machine deliberation and coordination happen far faster than human conversational time?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "inference speed",
        "agent architecture",
        "machine cognition"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/machine-native-communication/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/machine-native-communication/",
      "title": "Machine-native communication",
      "content_text": "What protocols emerge when AI systems optimize communication for other machines rather than for human readability?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "emergent communication",
        "agent protocols",
        "machine-to-machine communication"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/remove-the-human-representation-first/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/remove-the-human-representation-first/",
      "title": "Remove the human representation first",
      "content_text": "What computational structure becomes visible when familiar text, notation, or array representations are no longer treated as fundamental?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "machine representation",
        "compression",
        "geometry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/agent-native-languages-and-runtimes/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/agent-native-languages-and-runtimes/",
      "title": "Agent-native languages and runtimes",
      "content_text": "What should a programming environment look like when AI systems are first-class participants in creating, modifying, and executing programs?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "research-question",
        "programming languages",
        "runtime systems",
        "agent architecture"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/player-generated-cards-formal-constraints/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/player-generated-cards-formal-constraints/",
      "title": "Player-generated cards under formal constraints",
      "content_text": "What happens when a game defines the rules and acceptance tests, while players or agents generate the cards?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "speculative-idea",
        "generative systems",
        "games",
        "formal constraints"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/search-oriented-biological-computation/",
      "url": "https://justin.cyberelf.link/research/search-oriented-biological-computation/",
      "title": "Search-oriented biological computation",
      "content_text": "Can unusual search or brute-force framings of genetic systems yield testable computational questions without being mistaken for established biological research?",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z",
      "tags": [
        "speculative-idea",
        "speculative biology",
        "search",
        "computational framing"
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