# Thesis timeline

*Skeleton, 28/10/2026. Supervisor: "timeline up to me". Interim and final deadlines aren't
known yet, so get them from the handbook / supervisor, then fill in the dates.*

## Fixed dates (to find out)

| Milestone | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Interim report / review 1 | `[ ]` | |
| Interim report / review 2 | `[ ]` | |
| Thesis submission | `[ ]` | |
| Viva / presentation | `[ ]` | |

## Plan

| Phase | What "done" means | Status | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organise project | `thesis/` repo, git | ✅ 28/10 | |
| Lit: protocol | `02-literature/protocol.md` reviewed and owned | draft ✅ | `[ ]` |
| Lit: survey + snowball round 1 | screening decisions made in `screening.csv` | AI first pass ✅, your decisions pending | next meeting |
| Lit: snowball round 2 | from the `*` includes | not started | `[ ]` |
| Lit: extraction table | full-text read of includes, "how mine differs" for each `*` | not started | `[ ]` |
| Revisit research questions | after extraction | | `[ ]` |
| Tech spike | nanoGPT + TinyStories on MPS, run logging | ✅ 28/10 (smoke tests only) | |
| Pre-registration | `06-experiments/preregistration.md` decisions filled + committed | draft ✅ | `[ ]` before main runs |
| Pilot | time one full-size run; fix per-run budget | | `[ ]` |
| Mechanism logging | attention-logit / entropy / kurtosis hooks | | `[ ]` |
| Main sweep | QK on/off × LR grid × depth × seeds | | `[ ]` |
| Analysis + write-up | | | `[ ]` |

## Next meeting

- [ ] survey for lit done (screening decisions)
- [ ] started on snowball (round 1 done; show the flow table in protocol.md section 7)
- [ ] timeline (this file, with dates)
- [ ] tech spike: done early, discuss
- [ ] send anything for him to read **early**, e.g. `protocol.md`