I Stopped Chatting and Started Filing Issues
Chat is a good scratchpad and a terrible filing cabinet. I moved the actual conversation into Gitea issues, and my projects stopped stalling.
The LLM Tax, Revisited: Cost, Latency, and Where to Run the Model
Quality, cost, and latency. You can usually have two. Here is the framework I use to pick which two on purpose, with a voice assistant, an RSS scorer, and a Frigate box as the worked examples.
Introducing Cruxwire: a personal news digest that runs on your own hardware
I read too much news, badly. A dozen RSS feeds, three "read it later" apps I never went back to, and the creeping sense that the algorithm-driven version of all this was optimizing for someone else's goals, not mine. So…
Can I teach AI to write MIDI?
This one was one of the most detailed tinkers to date. TLDR; once I got deep enough to understand how to do it, I decided I didn't have enough time or depth to pursue it. I can share some interesting…
Bring in the RTX4090
I've been long in the tooth with the 2080TI in my main machine for awhile. I've been doing a lot more work training and using large language models lately, so I decided it was time for a serious upgrade to…