Recaps · Sutro Almanac

Recaps are the periodic layer of the Almanac. Each one snapshots where the work stands at a point in time: what moved, what is active, what is worth reusing. The Timeline absorbs them into the long record, and the Archive lays the whole record out on one page.

There are three layers below, from coarse to fine. The monthly recaps are the primary record, written from the sources directly. The weekly recaps zoom in on a single week. The catch-ups are the original status notes the months were built from. Source material is the group's Telegram archive, the shared Google Docs, the meeting notes, and the repos, with each claim traceable.

Monthly

The primary record, newest first.

June 2026 : The cross-entropy track lands, nakaprop gets its name, the caffeine benchmark forms, and the month's thesis becomes equation solving with multiplicative updates.
May 2026 : Yad's wave-build swarms ship the hinton and schmidhuber catalogs, the lab spreads into four challenges, and wikitext opens a language-modeling front.
April 2026 : ByteDMD becomes the primary metric, Yad and Seth measure how far methods sit from the floor, and Yaroslav pivots to modeling energy directly.
March 2026 : SutroYaro is born, Yad's survey settles sparse parity with GF(2), and the metric shifts from ARD to data movement.
February 2026 : The group forms around one thesis, that AI training sits far above its energy floor, and starts hunting for a toy problem fast enough to iterate on.

Weekly

18 weeks, bucketed from the archive by Monday-week.

February 2026
Feb 9 · Feb 16 · Feb 23

March 2026
Mar 2 · Mar 9 · Mar 16 · Mar 23 · Mar 30

April 2026
Apr 6 · Apr 13 · Apr 20 · Apr 27

May 2026
May 4 · May 11 · May 18 · May 25

June 2026
Jun 1 · Jun 8

Catch-ups

The original status notes from the SutroYaro docs, kept verbatim.

The meeting notes are a separate strand. See Meeting notes, the dated decisions log, and the current records.