Sara Chrouf / Now
Now 今
Seven honest answers about the current season of work, refreshed every month or two.
July 2026 · updated monthlyResearching now
Long-term memory for Arabic agents on small Kuwain-family models, and how token fertility compounds inside long reasoning traces.
Reading
The DeepSeek-R1 report, a second pass with a red pen, and two books on the desk:
Reading-list update pending.
Building
This site itself: the animated glossary and the idea maps. At Misraj: turning Baseer into a real document pipeline.
The haunting question
Which is truly scarcer in 2026: Arabic tokens or Arabic evaluators? I am starting to think the latter.
Learning
SVG animation for scientific explanation: making a concept move without becoming a show.
Deprioritized
No authored update has been published yet.
Where the time goes
Roughly: half to Misraj ventures, a quarter to the MSc, the rest to the journal and this window.
The page follows the now-page tradition: an honest snapshot of one’s current intellectual life, a door for collaboration and professional serendipity.