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Field notes and long reads

Notes from the rabbit holes that produced something useful.

Data-rich visual essays, practical field notes, and enough detail to repeat the interesting parts.

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Essay · 2026

I tested 14 open models against Jev on my Mac. Two kept pace.

Jev tested through its API against fourteen open model builds on a 64 GB M4 Max. On my extraction check, the model I already run and Kev 9B couldn't be told apart from Jev on this sample.

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Essay · 2026

I tested Jev against a free local model. Ten lines of code beat both.

One narrow task, 300 synthetic statement lines: a short script that knows the line layout beat hosted Jev, which was accurate, and the open Laya model, fast and local but too flat to use.

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Essay · 2026

A 125B model runs at full speed on a stock 64GB Mac

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next holds 41 tokens a second to 64K context on a stock 64GB M4 Max, measured with DwarfStar's official benchmark, and what should change on other Macs.

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Essay · 2026

A 125B model became my daily assistant on a 64GB Mac

The settings that make Ivan Fioravanti's IQ2 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next a usable daily model for Hermes on 64GB, why they work, and what it costs per turn.

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Essay · 2026

The fastest local-LLM upgrade was remembering

Retesting Qwen3.8-27B on an M4 Max: an SSD prefix cache cut a 91-second wait to 1.09 seconds while several attractive optimizations lost.

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Essay · 2026

Tuning Qwen3.8-27B on a 64GB M4 Max

Benchmarks and practical settings for Qwen3.8-27B 4-bit, DFlash2, long context, compression, and Flash-Next on Apple Silicon.

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Essay · 2026

Wesley's Adventures

A visual companion to Ni Kuang's 145-book sci-fi series characters, relationships, four decades.

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Essay · 2026

Phantom × Les Miz

Two musicals, one stage door. Performers who crossed between The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables every credit sourced.

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Essay · 2026

杉田智和 - A Connections Map

Voice actor Sugita Tomokazu and the people he's specifically attached to the Magnet Combi, 12 years of Anigera, the juniors he keeps adopting. Sourced.

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Essay · 2026

Phantom - Productions & Cast

Every named principal across thirteen productions of The Phantom of the Opera, with year ranges and sources.