Contact — corrections, questions and work enquiries

I write here about running AI on hardware you own, retrieval that actually retrieves, and the Python that holds it together. If any of that is close to what you are working on, I would like to hear from you.

What is worth writing about

Something ran differently on your machine. This is the message I value most. Almost everything here was measured on one setup — an AMD Radeon PRO W7900 on Windows 11. Different card, different ROCm build, different driver, and the numbers move. Tell me what you saw and I will say so in the article.

Something is wrong. A command that no longer works, a flag that was renamed, a benchmark that looks too good. Corrections get made and credited.

You are stuck on something I have written about. Send the error and what you already tried. I answer these when I can, and they often turn into the next article.

Work. I build analytics and AI systems for small and medium companies — the kind that has to run on a budget and keep the data in house. If that is your problem, describe it and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person.

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If you are here by accident

Then you probably wanted one of these instead:

Local AI and LLMs — running models on your own hardware, from llama.cpp to Qwen
RAG and vector databases — chunking, embeddings, hybrid search
Python and data — pandas, plotting, reports that leave the notebook
AI tools and automation — transcription, image and video generation, locally
Software development and tools — Laravel, JavaScript, the things I still maintain

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