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title: Papers
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description: Engineering notes from the team building Icarus. How the systems work, the decisions behind them, and where they still fall short.
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# Papers

Engineering notes from the team building Icarus. How the systems work, the decisions behind them, and where they still fall short.

## The papers

### [Taste: teaching a system what a brand likes](https://withicarus.com/papers/taste)

25 September 2026 - Systems

Taste stores what a brand keeps choosing as words, never as pixels. The entry format, the four write paths, why recall lists before it ranks, and why the image an entry was learned from is removed from the render request in code.

### [Two passes, not one](https://withicarus.com/papers/wings)

25 September 2026 - Systems

One model asked to render a scene and reproduce a specific product in the same pass will invent the product. Splitting the render, and the bug that decided how.


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