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Model Record
Aurora Proelia: Small Models as a Serious Systems Constraint
A compact model program for testing deliberate reasoning, instruction following, and deployment tradeoffs on accessible hardware.
Case Studies
Working record
Experiments, model lineages, and product decisions with the caveats kept attached. North shows the work instead of polishing away uncertainty.
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A research workspace shaped around findings, evidence, uncertainty, and next actions.
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An early workflow target for producing mid-sized research output while keeping inference spend legible.
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Why North separates internal targets from independent benchmarks and keeps caveats attached to every claim.
Read Methods note 0.3 ↗Targets are not benchmarks. Internal results are not independent validation.
Model quality, retrieval accuracy, latency, and cost change with prompts, graders, data, infrastructure, source availability, and the subject being researched.