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The Missing Format
Format reliability as an unrecorded pre-training variable, and the case for building what the corpora no longer contain.
Research · 2026
Glaring Fireball
Format Composition: a proposal to measure what pre-training pipelines discard.
Research · 2026
The Last Fingerprint: How Markdown Training Shapes LLM Prose
A genealogy for the em dash, and what suppression reveals about fine-tuning.
Research · 2026
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