- A distilled 685-billion-parameter model has been shrunk to a 7-billion-parameter version that scores 49.1 vs 49.9 on GPQA, showing that aggressive distillation can retain near-state-of-the-art reasoning while dramatically cutting size.  
- The distilled model’s “trick” is an internal self-verification loop that makes it “insanely verbose”; a sample run on the classic “brothers problem” was shared at https://0x0.st/8HE1.txt and a second log at https://0x0.st/8HEG.txt.  
- Discussion questioned why CNC and machine-tool computational capacity has stagnated while every other domain scales, and floated the idea of representing CAD models as tool-path sweeps rather than static geometry.  
- Memory footprint of triangulated STL meshes grows far faster than NURBS for curved surfaces; the debate considered whether transmitting source code or parametric definitions is a viable alternative to shipping huge triangle files.  
- A one-page transformer implementation was sought; candidates included CalvinXKY’s 200-line Python gist (https://github.com/CalvinXKY/transformer_one_page) and an even shorter notebook at https://github.com/bdunagan/bdunaganGPT.  
- A CAD concept was proposed where parts are described by manufacturing operations rather than final geometry, but progress stalled because no comprehensive taxonomy of such operations exists; prior work in Campbell’s lab aimed to catalog them.  
- The Wikipedia Library was highlighted as a free institutional gateway to paywalled journals for anyone with a 6-month-old, 500-edit Wikipedia account (https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/).