RINIQ is a new finetune built by layer surgery, quantized by the MERNIK engine. Three Qwen3.5-9B donors, one 427-tensor trunk (Ornith's MTP head excluded), per-block donor maps — no averaging of divergent blocks, ever. (full ledger in FUSION.md there). - Ox = OxCoder-9B (agentic code distillate, HE 90.24%) — base + globals - Neo = NeoHorse-1-9B (thinking model) — donor of blk 31 - Orn = Ornith-1.5-9B-MTP trunk (GDN hybrid) — donor of mid/late blocks Recipes: M1 = Ox + Orn blks 15,19,23,27 (weight compass) + Neo blk 31. M2 = Ox + Orn blks 24,25,26 (imatrix compass) + Neo blk 31. M3 = M1 + blks 0–8 weight-averaged Ox+Neo (soup backbone) — soup buried (−4.9pp vs M2, honest scar in FUSION.md).…
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apache-2.0
MERNIK ("the one who measures") is the evolution of the ASHQ1 battlefield zoo: fewer utility duels, more verdicts. The method (priority queue) is built; MERNIK is how we prove anything about it. Think of it as a finetune of ASHQ1: same base weights (queue, pins, tied groups), retrained objective (measure-first protocol, three-column verdicts) — and far more capabilities on top (slow capability ring, KLD-aware teachers, relief ceilings, the zoo bench, norms shields). But the legend is not forgotten: every scar in the ledger traces back to it. Allocator signals never certify. Capability scores never steer. Mixing them is how the PPL disease happened. - PPL = canary. Cheap, lies by sharpening.…
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apache-2.0
