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Domain-Driven Design for Data Scientists
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Data scientists should have domain-driven thinking and why understanding the problem domain still matters more than the model even in the rise of LLMs.
The State of Local and Affordable Inference in October 2025
·1379 words·7 mins
An overview of the current landscape of GPUs and AI compute for local inference as of October 2025 from Nvidia and AMD to Intel, Apple, and the cloud.
Testing DeepSeek-OCR: Vision Text Compression for LLMs
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Notes from testing DeepSeek-OCR as a local vision-language model for OCR and text compression on a large archive of screenshots. Includes observations on model performance, visual-token compression, and multilingual results.
Gemini Pro 2.5 in October 2025: decent text, shaky coding, tricky tradeoffs
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A brief look at Gemini Pro 2.5 compared with ChatGPT 5 and Claude Opus/Sonnet, plus notes on Gemini 2.5 variants, NotebookLM, and mobile privacy concerns.
Running My Home lab 24/7 for a Month, Lessons, Costs, and Optimization
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What I learned from keeping my self-hosted server online 24/7 for a month including real world power costs, hardware optimizations, and why not everything needs to be always-on.