https://gpuburnout.com/tags/season-3/Recent content in Season-3 on GPUburnout | Jun Parkhttps://gpuburnout.com/images/og-default.pnghttps://gpuburnout.com/images/og-default.pngHugo -- 0.155.2en-usSat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://gpuburnout.com/posts/s3-ch3-garbage-survived-finetuning/Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://gpuburnout.com/posts/s3-ch3-garbage-survived-finetuning/A controlled experiment on why post-training alignment can't fix pretraining contamination - and what the data proves.https://gpuburnout.com/posts/s3-ch2-garbage-where-it-came-from/Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://gpuburnout.com/posts/s3-ch2-garbage-where-it-came-from/In which a forensic investigation into nonsense tokens reveals a problem that no amount of fine-tuning can fix.https://gpuburnout.com/posts/s3-ch1-teaching-1b-to-talk/Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://gpuburnout.com/posts/s3-ch1-teaching-1b-to-talk/In which I try to make a language model useful, discover something deeply wrong, and realize I've been asking the wrong question.