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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.
Community description: 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.
Dev.to | Oct 10, 2026 | Soumyadeep Dey
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The app asks NPS for alerts by park code only. Same model, same short prompt, same $0. 13 per thousand alerts. Every model, including the teacher, sees only title + description.
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