02Essay7 min
Local AI Hardware in 2026
An update to my 2024 hardware guide — the memory shortage, the RTX 50-series, the used RTX 3090 value king, and the new unified-memory challengers.
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02Essay7 min
An update to my 2024 hardware guide — the memory shortage, the RTX 50-series, the used RTX 3090 value king, and the new unified-memory challengers.
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03Essay8 min
LM Studio, quantization in plain language, the open models I'm actually running this year, and the system prompts that keep them on task.
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04Essay8 min
ComfyUI for images, video and voices — plus two new tricks: turning pictures into 3D-printable models, and bringing old family photos back to life.
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08White PaperVersion 3.0
A generic OS for capturing, modeling, and re-instantiating "virtual human beings" across successive generations of AI — the Virtual Human Operating System.
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09Essay11 min
Not a séance — a simulation. A VHOS modeled approximation of Turing, running locally on a 16GB card, on transformers, J-space, and the architecture he’d build for a real thinking machine.
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