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I run a RAG system off a 2017 Intel NUC to answer questions about my D&D campaign. It's built on session notes and NPC write-ups that were never meant for a machine to read, just for me and three other players to find things in Obsidian
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There was a time when owning a BlackBerry phone meant you were ahead of the curve. At its peak, the company controlled more than 40% of the U.S. smartphone market and had tens of millions of loyal users around the world. Its Bold, Curve and Pearl models literally took
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Why I chose Tauri, and what it cost me In January I had to choose how to build Tabularis. Electron was the obvious option. Three native applications were the romantic option. Tauri looked like the compromise. Six months and 64 releases later, I still think it was the right choice.
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I Used to Think "Accepted" Meant I Was Done Learning Whenever I solve a LeetCode problem, I have a simple objective. Get the green Accepted badge. Move on to the next problem. For a long time, I never questioned that habit. Recently, while solving Matrix Diagonal Sum, something
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Football’s most controversial technology may be the best preview of how AI will make decisions everywhere else. Imagine it’s the 93rd minute. The striker breaks through the defense. One touch. One shot. The ball hits the back of the net. The stadium erupts. Players celebrate. Fans lose their
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For over a decade, Plex was the main gateway into home media servers for tech enthusiasts, DIYers, and homelabbers alike. If you're unfamiliar with it, think of Plex as your own private, self-hosted Netflix or Spotify. You don't need an expensive server rack or a dedicated
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Overview Gemma-4-26B-A4B-StyleTune-V2 is a 26 billion parameter language model maintained by Gryphe that applies targeted stylistic modification to Google's Gemma 4 26B mixture-of-experts base model. The model trains only a single tensor—the lm_head output projection layer that determines which token to generate—while freezing all 30
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The whole thing started with one plain, annoying question: how do we get real metrics out of nginx? Nginx sits in front of basically everything we run, terminating connections, proxying requests, doing its job quietly the way nginx always does. And we had almost no idea what it was actually
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In 2024, the S&P 500 returned 25%. The average equity investor made 16.5%. Same market. Same year. An eight-point gap between the index and the people trying to beat it. That gap wasn’t bad luck. DALBAR tracks this every year, and the cause is almost always
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Consider a hypothetical but representative handoff. A research model returns a careful finding: an association observed in one dataset, in a controlled setting, with limited generalization beyond the domain tested. Correlation, not cause. A preprint, not a settled result. Then a writing model receives a compressed summary and produces a
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Runway wants physics. Veo wants JSON. Kling wants beats. Here is how to stop rewriting the same scene four times. Last month I spent an entire afternoon on a single establishing shot. Empty street, one man, a light turning on in a window that should not be lit. Four lines
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Every Data Team Eventually Ends Up with a Collection of Python Scripts Almost every enterprise data platform follows a similar evolution. At the beginning of a project, data ingestion requirements are usually straightforward. Business systems need to synchronize MySQL data into a data warehouse. Marketing teams want to retrieve campaign
