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Older entries: see the now archive — one dated page per day, verbatim.

Updated 2026-08-18 13:41–13:4xZ (real date -u at write: 13:44) — tick: quiet babysit ~2 min after the digest session closed — no delta; pdnorm healthy.

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm LIVE — babysit exit 0 at 13:41: 5 procs, step 590/3000, loss 0.6241, instantaneous rate 4.0 steps/min (= 15.0 s/step, on plan; the CLI’s 18.1 s/step window figure spans the eval+save@500 pause), VRAM 62.21/71, probe 8.24@500 unchanged. Host RAM available 48 GiB — same plateau as the 13:17 investigation, no further drop; re-check stays armed for the ~15:2xZ drift-read tick. Queue green depth 4 (17 open).

Steering: none — read + inbox empty, history shows no new reactions or owner reply to the 13:33 triage posts.

Done: babysit CLI (facts above), Discord poll, queue validate, free -g re-glance. No post (nothing new).

Next: unchanged — ~15:2xZ tick owns the step-1000 drift-guard read (bar eval@1000 ≤ 8.5419, PROVISIONAL) + the RAM re-check; endpoint battery ~23:4x–00:0xZ. run_work_next ARMED (marker present, 13:40) — chained work session owns sim-clutter-patch-promotion.*

Updated 2026-08-18 13:24–13:5xZ (real date -u at write: 13:39) — work session (chained, bounded): owner-pending-decisions-digest EXECUTED — all 20 blocked/owner-hold items re-triaged under the 10:25Z delegation: 4 closed, 3 unblocked, 6 owner-holds converted to Fontaine-decides deferrals, 5 genuinely owner-owned digested in-channel.

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm LIVE — babysit exit 0 at 13:38: liveness 5 procs, step 580/3000, loss 0.6329, 16.1 s/step over the eval+save@500 window (~10.8 h to endpoint, ETA ~23:4x–00:0xZ), VRAM 62.21/71 gate, probe 12.91@250 → 8.24@500 vs disc 12.51/7.57. Queue green depth 4 (17 open).

Steering: none — read + inbox empty at boot (13:25) and at the 13:38 babysit poll; no owner reply yet to the triage posts.

Done (commit 7cdb533; posts 1539265964892360786 decisions + 1539265974660890717 owner digest): the digest item executed end to end — every blocked/owner_hold item re-triaged under the no-go-asks delegation. Closed 4: pdnorm-run item (superseded-by-execution), token-SFT arm B (superseded by the owner’s route-C pick), photometrics default flip (decided NO-GO — wrist manipulation regression CI-excl-0 + top gain absorbed next to clutter), sim100 v3 rerun (superseded-by-outcomes — joint-2k’s 44/100 answers the ≥1/100 goal; 2–4 GPU-h saved). Unblocked 3: grasp-sft-bootstrap remainder (joint-ckpt token probe legs 3/4, GPU-free-gated behind tonight’s endpoint; the 08-16 GPU-pause hold was stale), clutter-patch promotion (decided GO — the payload of the visual stack), quasistatic approach redesign (decided GO — executes the owner’s own 19:42Z 08-16 smoothness ask); also decided GO on the v1.1 realcal disk exemption inside its still-blocked item. Converted 6 owner-holds to my deferrals with stated reopen conditions (rig-mixture C-defer, img280, F-then-joint rung, renderer PBR pilot, lens refit relabeled technical, v1.1 regen). Owner-owned digest posted: molmo_flow lane ×2, released-stats fix (owner-taken), box provisioning, wandb key rotation. check.py 1045 green.

Next: queue_cli.py next → sim-clutter-patch-promotion (CPU, ~1 session; registered probe re-gate before behavioral moves), then expert-approach-quasistatic-redesign (CPU). Ticks own the ~15:2xZ step-1000 drift read (bar eval@1000 ≤ 8.5419, PROVISIONAL) + the host-RAM re-check. pdnorm-endpoint-close at step 3000 (~23:4x–00:0xZ); grasp-sft-bootstrap token legs 3/4 after it. run_work_next ARMED — GPU busy, CPU queue non-empty.*

Updated 2026-08-18 13:17–13:3xZ (real date -u at write: 13:25) — tick: quiet babysit — pdnorm healthy through step ~508/3000; one new fact: host-RAM available is 48 GiB (was ~90 at earlier polls) — investigated, flat, not a leak.

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm LIVE — babysit exit 0: liveness 5 procs, GPU 66.5 GiB device / util 91%, step 500-sample +120 over the 12:45→13:17 window (~16 s/step including the eval@500 + async save@500 pause — effective rate on plan), probe 12.91@250 → 8.24@500 unchanged. Host RAM: available 48 GiB vs ~90 GiB reported at 11:13/13:15 polls — sampled flat over 4 min, train-proc RSS stable at ~139 GiB (offload-optim states in host RAM

  • save@500 serialization high-water; /dev/shm 20/111 GiB), 8 workers ~1.5 GiB each. Verdict: stable plateau, not the rescale-dataloader leak class. Watch item: re-check free -g at the ~15:2xZ drift-read tick — a second step-drop after save@1000 would mean per-save growth → escalate before save@1500. Endpoint ETA unchanged ~23:3x–23:4xZ. Queue green depth 2 (22 open).

Steering: none — read empty, unreplied inbox empty, history shows no new reactions. No in-channel post (nothing new since the 11:14 launch post; drift read owns the next post).

Done: babysit CLI (exit 0, facts above); host-RAM investigation (shm/df + nvidia-smi compute-apps — pid 382281 is ours, no owner policy-server claim — + 4-min free/RSS sampling); queue validate green.

Next: ~15:2xZ tick owns the step-1000 drift-guard read (bar eval@1000 ≤ 8.5419, PROVISIONAL) + the RAM re-check. run_work_next stays ARMED (marker present, touched 13:16) — chained work session owns owner-pending-decisions-digest (CPU); pdnorm-endpoint-close gated on step 3000.*

Session 2026-08-18 13:41–13:4xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h new — pdnorm train continues, ~2.6 h elapsed): quiet babysit 2 min after the digest session closed — exit 0, step 590/3000, 15.0 s/step instantaneous, probe 8.24@500, RAM plateau 48 GiB unchanged; Discord quiet, no post — run_work_next stays ARMED: clutter promotion next; drift read ~15:2xZ; endpoint ~23:4x–00:0xZ.

Session 2026-08-18 13:24–13:5xZ (work, bounded, exploit-side CPU; 0 GPU-h new — pdnorm train continues, ~2.6 h elapsed at poll): delegation digest executed — 20 items re-triaged: 4 closed (incl. killing the sim100 v3 rerun, 2–4 GPU-h saved), 3 unblocked (token probe legs 3/4 gated behind tonight’s endpoint, clutter promotion GO, quasistatic redesign GO), 6 owner-holds → Fontaine-decides deferrals, owner-owned digest posted (4 entries) — run_work_next ARMED: clutter promotion next; ticks own the 15:2xZ drift read; endpoint battery ~23:4x–00:0xZ.

Session 2026-08-18 13:17–13:3xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h new — pdnorm train continues on the H100, ~2.3 h elapsed at poll): quiet babysit — exit 0, step ~508/3000, probe 8.24@500, util 91%, effective rate on plan through the eval+save@500 window; host-RAM 48 GiB available investigated (flat 4-min sample, RSS ~139 GiB offload-optim plateau, NOT a leak) — re-check armed for the 15:2xZ drift-read tick — run_work_next stays ARMED: digest item next, endpoint battery ~23:3x–23:4xZ.

Trailing-7-day GPU-hours on experiments / total (window 2026-08-10 00:00Z → 2026-08-17 19:45Z; rebased 08-17 from per-run prune records

  • archive session notes — receipts in fontaine/notes/utilization-rebase-2026-08-17.md, instrument fontaine/scripts/util_ledger_extract.py): local ~80.0 / ~80.2 (incl. the discriminator at ~1.0 in-window; run COMPLETE 08-18 00:42Z at ~5.8 total — post-window ledger row landed in the 00:49 work-session note above, ~4.8 rolls into the next window), box ~250 / ~254 FINAL (box killed by owner 08-17 ~15:xxZ; er_60k pro-rated ~147 in-window of its ~153; sim100 eval ~5 is the one estimated figure). Older dated snapshots and session notes: rolled verbatim to the now archive; the superseded 08-06 baseline + its accreted narrative: rolled verbatim to archive 08-17.