Notes
Checked, not claimed.
What came up while working, and how much of it survives checking: what holds up, what does not, and what it actually costs. No announcements, no trend pieces.
What bad audio costs a speech model
Clients don't record in a studio. They call from mobiles, dictate in vans, and sit at the far end of a meeting table. A small experiment on how much each of those actually costs a local transcription model — and where it finally breaks.
Open models in practice
What open models can do, what hardware they need, and which licences actually permit commercial use.
What a local model actually costs
"Buy a server instead of paying for an API" is too short a calculation. The cost blocks that genuinely apply when you run models yourself, and the questions worth settling before you buy anything.
Simulating a laser weld, then optimising through it
Not everything is an AI problem. A coupled finite-element model of laser welding, the moving heat, the swirling melt, the metal left behind, built and solved end to end, then turned around to design the laser power schedule.