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A pre-flight checklist before domain continued pre-training

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Your team picked an open weight checkpoint and a corpus. The tempting move is to schedule GPUs and iterate on the mix later. Joel Hron at Thomson Reuters and Fergal Reid at Intercom both describe training as staged pipelines where evaluation sits beside the data, and Hron treats retained capabiliti…

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  1. 2026-10-24 20:30 · DEV Community — AI
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