docs(book): add DisTrO explainer chapter - #651
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Summary
Adds a new "Psyche in depth" chapter: DisTrO (
explain/distro.md).DisTrO was previously only referenced in passing — a box inside the decentralized training flow diagram in
general-workflow.mdand an optimizer stanza in the run-config docs — with no explanation of what it actually is or does. This chapter explains, from the Rust implementation inshared/modeling/src/distro.rs:compression_decay,compression_chunk,compression_topk, andquantize_1bitto their effect and their interaction withmax_round_train_time.Notes for reviewers
Distro::generate/Distro::apply/error_correctioninshared/modeling/src/distro.rs, theTransformDCT/CompressDCTencode/compress path, theDistrooptimizer definition inshared/core/src/definitions.rs, and the quantization path inshared/modeling/src/trainer.rs(quantize_1bit→quantize_nozeros_tensor_to_boolean_sign).