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I Distilled a 397B Model Into a 4B One for $1.60. It Now Catches 28 of 33 Park Alerts That Should Stop Your Hike.

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novelty
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actionability
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community
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personal
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I Distilled a 397B Model Into a 4B One for $1.60. It Now Catches 28 of 33 Park Alerts That Should Stop Your Hike.
Summary

A Qwen3.5-4B LoRA trained on Tinker reads all 627 live National Park Service alerts, is graded against the rangers' own labels, and prints one go/no-go trail card a week. Then it stops talking.

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Soumyadeep Dey

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