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We write down what we build, break, and figure out.

Memo is the research site of Dwarves Foundation, a research-driven consulting firm. Every engagement leaves a record: what broke, how it was caught, what it cost. The public half is here.

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  • Guest writers on memo, keyed by the writer's own domain

    How memo.d.foundation publishes posts from writers' own blogs as native notes: domain-verified joins, semi-auto review with a human verdict, ICY rewards per post, and takedowns that follow the original.

    tieubao, 10 Oct 2026
  • Designing Out SNAP Fraud

    A taxonomy of SNAP trafficking, theft, and error, and a layered program and software architecture that designs fraud out.

    tieubao, 9 Oct 2026
  • Five layers to tune before you fork your agent

    What makes AI agentic, how to split a deterministic core from an agentic edge, and the five layers you can tune without rebuilding the harness. Real numbers from circle and Hermes.

    tieubao, 8 Oct 2026
  • DeepSeek Harness, dissected

    An architecture read of dsh, DeepSeek's new agent harness: the plugin tree, the patch-layer boot, the log-first session model, and what it means for a Claude Code shop.

    tieubao, 18 Aug 2026
  • What stays valuable when anyone can build anything

    As AI makes building cheap, value concentrates in judgment (inside) and trust (outside): the two inputs it cannot mass-produce. A lens on what to own in the AI era.

    tieubao, 14 Aug 2026
  • Modernizing complex financial systems through systematic transition

    Systematic transition and modernization of Kafi Securities' complex trading platform while maintaining critical daily operations

    nikkingtr, 9 Jul 2025

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