Engram Studio

David Pollock

I work on memory and retrieval for language models — what a model should be shown, how little of it is enough, and how to measure the difference honestly.

Projects

Technical report · October 2026

Engram Engine

A memory system for LLM conversations built on ACT-R, the cognitive architecture for human recall — then measured hard enough to find out that the cognitive science was not what made it work. Five findings, and the parts that contradicted my own design.

Benchmark
LoCoMo
Questions
1,531
Turns
5,882
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Elsewhere

Code on GitHub.